"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...
Saturday, September 28, 2024
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
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 Redm...
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....
Sunday, September 22, 2024
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....
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Former Baha'i, Payam Aryan exposes Baha'i belief about Baha'u'llah
https://www.youtube.com/live/osoVlbf3Uzk?si=i3G4GegNqHIGIOhp&t=941Starts at 15:40Baha'u'llah is the sender of the prophets.https://www.youtube.com/live/osoVlbf3Uzk?si=i3G4GegNqHIGIOhp&t=3180Starts at 58...
Monday, September 16, 2024
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....
Friday, September 6, 2024
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...
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, 19...
The history of this Mulla is very interesting.
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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...
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...
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&pag...