A large percentage of seekers who join study circles go on to accept the Faith.

"The process of the Baha'i communities opening their activities has been slow but successful. About 70 to 80 per cent of the participants in Baha'i classes for children are from non-Baha'i families and 50 to 60 per cent of seekers participate in the devotional meetings. A large percentage of seekers who join study circles go on to accept the Faith."

(The Five Year Plan 2001-2006 - Summary of Achievements and Learning)

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Governor-General Sir Stewart Symes

... the Governor-General Sir Stewart Symes was an old acquaintance and invited them [Shoghi Effendi and Ruhiyyih Khanum] to lunch at the Palace on 1 October [1929].

(Shoghi Effendi Through the Pilgrim's Eye, Volume 1, Building the Administrative Order, 1922-1952 by Earl Redman)

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Shoghi Effendi and Rúhíyyih Khánum entered the Congo

Shoghi Effendi and Rúhíyyih Khánum entered the Congo at Lubumbashi, a major copper mining centre, where the Guardian admired beautiful green malachite carved into various objects. While in the Congo, their car broke down on an isolated jungle track. While it was being repaired, Rúhíyyih Khánum asked Shoghi Effendi if she could stretch her legs a bit. With his assent and a caution about lions, she walked off down the lonesome road, 'drinking in the beauty of untouched nature', and completely oblivious of the passing time. All of a sudden, a man on a bicycle appeared and told her that 'the gentleman in the car was very worried over her'. That is when she realized that she had been gone for almost two hours. She borrowed the man's bicycle and raced back to her worried husband.

(Shoghi Effendi Through the Pilgrim's Eye, Volume 1, Building the Administrative Order, 1922-1952 by Earl Redman)

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There is an artificial hill which the Guardian made from the houses of the covenant breakers who had been occupying the Mansion.

The gardens at Bahjí are places where pilgrims and others are to be found slowly walking and trying to absorb and retain that spiritual fragrance. There is an artificial hill which the Guardian made from the houses of the covenant breakers who had been occupying the Mansion. He destroyed those houses and then made them into a terraced hill of gardens. Those who try to resist the Will of God are thus reduced to dust. All that they strove so hard for is now beneath the believers' feet.

(The Baha'i Communities of Iran - 1851-1921 - Volume 1: The North of Iran by Moojan Momen)

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Former Baha'i, Payam Aryan exposes Baha'i belief about Baha'u'llah

https://www.youtube.com/live/osoVlbf3Uzk?si=i3G4GegNqHIGIOhp&t=941

Starts at 15:40

Baha'u'llah is the sender of the prophets.

https://www.youtube.com/live/osoVlbf3Uzk?si=i3G4GegNqHIGIOhp&t=3180

Starts at 58:00

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You know, before 'Abdu'l-Bahá passing away, it was on a Friday, we went visit the mosque in Haifa, Friday morning.

You know, before 'Abdu'l-Bahá passing away, it was on a Friday, we went visit the mosque in Haifa, Friday morning. That day return from mosque, He had to walk up the step. He says "I am tired," went into the room. Then Friday, Saturday, Sunday! Three days. Sunday night, He passed away. Those days we had many American pilgrims there. That Mr. and Mrs. Hoagg, Boschs were there. I heard the cry, deafening noise. So immediately I went up this gate, there's many collected and mourning, the Eastern believers very demonstrative, you know. I said "What is it?" "It's 'Abdu'l-Bahá has passed." So immediately I come back to Pilgrim House, informed them. And some of them come out, come now. That day. It's one o'clock, and all the family are all together there. Can't help. Doctor just left, Dr. Habib, that Christian Arab, that's their family doctor. Then from that room we had after few days, the day in Mount Carmel. I went there myself, making a place. ( ) called, ah, Ramatullah, he's very strong man, he carried casket way down. Ramatullah lived a long time ago, he was caretaker, gardener, very nice man. He had a big family, but years ago.

All the notables from Haifa and Jerusalem, all were collected here, ah, for funeral. Even Herbert Samuel, walked right up, passing Master.

(Interview of Sachiro Fujita by Sylvia Ioas, 1975)

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Dr Mirza Muhammad-Mihdi Khan visited Baha'u'llah and his sons and followers at ‘Akka, and Subh-i-Azal at Famagusta in Cyprus

This is how Browne evaluates the work of Dr Mirza Muhammad-Mihdi Khan (the Persian journalist, the Za‘imu’d-Dawlih. He was the author of Miftahu Babi’l Abwab, or the Key to the Gate of Gates, a purported history of the Babi and Baha’i Faiths):

The author, though a determined antagonist of the Babis, writes with some appearance of moderation. Though often inaccurate, he adds fresh materials derived orally from his father Muhammad Taqi, who saw the Bab at Tabriz, and from other eyewitnesses, He also visited Baha'u'llah and his sons and followers at ‘Akka, and Subh-i-Azal at Famagusta in Cyprus, and made a collection of Babi and Baha'i books, from which he quotes lengthy extracts in this work, and which he subsequently deposited in the library of the Mosque and University of al-Azhar in Cairo. (Browne, Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion, p. 191.)

(Edward Granville Browne and the Baha'i Faith, by H. M. Balyuzi)

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India will become a beautiful garden of believers.

Abdul-Baha has said that Bombay will surely advance and that India will become a beautiful garden of believers.

(Star of the West - Oct. 16, 1910)

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The history of this Mulla is very interesting.

For the time being we have employed a Mulla, who has just accepted the Faith under somewhat mysterious circumstances, to teach Burmese and Arabic.

The history of this Mulla is very interesting. He was one of the staunchest Mullas prior to when the Message came to be delivered in the village of Kunjangoon, in which place, as you have seen, the Bahai movement is progressing wonderfully.

This Mulla, immediately after the advent of the Bahai spirit in the village, became dumb, and remained so for the last three years. But during the last week when our Brother Hazrat Syed Mustafa had been staying there and looking after the construction of the school building, this man in one night while he was by himself in his booth in the paddy field, saw a sudden glow of Light before himself and at once, most wonderfully, regained his lost power of speech―his first utterance being, "The Manifestation is a true one for it has enabled me to speak!" and for two or three days continuously was like one possessed, delivering talks in the praise of God. He embraced the Faith himself on the spot and induced his father, 70 years old, and his grandfather, aged about 90 years, to do the same. * * * Such is the history of this Mulla who is now a Bahai and whom our friend Syed Mustafa chose to teach the children there.

(THE BAHAI ASSEMBLY OF RANGOON)

https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:SW_Vol1_No12.pdf&page=4

(Star of the West - Oct. 16, 1910)

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Among mankind money is the greatest thing.

This tithe giving is a blessed privilege. Among mankind money is the greatest thing. This giving will confirm the people. With this money many great works will be done. In Hamadan in Persia, the Jewish believers raised much money in this way. At first I did not accept this money, but later on I directed that it should be used in their own town for the Bahai school. This giving was a great spiritual blessing to those believers. Everyone knows how the Jews love money.

-Abdul Baha

(Star of the West - Oct. 16, 1910)

https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:SW_Vol1_No12.pdf&page=2

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Baha'u'llah was not a descendant from the Prophet Zoroaster

Baha'u'llah was not a descendant from the Prophet Zoroaster.

-Abdul Baha

(Star of the West, Oct. 16, 1910)

https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:SW_Vol1_No12.pdf&page=3

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