...at dinner time in the pilgrim house he (Abdul Baha) had himself a full serving of abgusht (a common Persian dish made of lamb, yellow split peas, beans, potatoes and tomatoes, with dried lemon) which he ate with great relish, and the next morning he felt no shame in putting away a good size breakfast either, after which he hastened to the darb-khanih....
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
a stew of vegetables and lamb
Khan was often present at meals, at the luncheons or dinners in ‘Akká or Haifa. Various dishes would be served the guests, but ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Himself would have a bowl of ábgúsht, a stew of vegetables and lamb, very simple, and this plain stew was often the diet reserved for Him alone.(Summon Up Remembrance, Marzieh Gail, p. 1...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
What is expansion?
Expansion means growth of the community: more individuals, more localities, more Assemblies. The major targets of this expansion are all strata of society; however, we must reach more people of capacity, specific minorities and the masses (middle-class America).(National Bahá’í Review, Issue 1...
Friday, April 18, 2025
Why Baha’is should know more about Christianity and other world religions?
‘Abdu’l-Bahá and the beloved Guardian state the followings on this matter: "The Holy Books of all religions—the Bible, the Qur’án, and others—are the foundation of divine education. Whosoever desireth to be a teacher of the Cause must be familiar with these Books, so that he may speak in accordance with their contents and prove the truth of this Cause...
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Baha'i growth!!!
Converting People, Entry by Troops, House of Justice (UHJ)
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The increased intensity with which programmes of growth around the world are being pursued tells an impressive story of its own. In this five-year span, we had called for growth to be accelerated in every one of the 5,000 clusters where it had begun. This imperative became the impetus for earnest endeavour throughout the world. As a result, the number...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
The first Bahá'í funeral
Lorol Schopflocher arrived back in Haifa from another trip to India and Persia on 8 May 1927 and told many stories of her adventures. She stayed until 28 May when she departed for Cairo, Alexandria and Paris. Another pilgrim asked the Guardian when he would come to America. His frank and very clear answer was, 'When you have learned to obey the National...
I drank seven drops of the blood of Imām Ḥusayn
The Bab describes his dream in his Ṣaḥīfa-yi ʿAdliyya as follows:Know that the appearance of these verses, prayers, and divine sciences is the result of a dream in which I saw the blessed head of the prince of martyrs [Imām Ḥusayn] severed from his sacred body, alongside the heads of his kindred. I drank seven drops of the blood of that martyred...
Quddus’s own claims to divine status for himself are reinforced by many of the Bab’s statements about him.
As in the case of claims of Qāʾimiyya, it seem to have been Muḥammad ʿAlī Bārfurūshī, Quddūs, who was the Bāb’s chief rival in respect of claims to some form of divinity. Abbas Effendi ʿAbd al-Bahāʾ, maintains that Quddūs’s commentary on the letter sād ̣ of the word al-samad ̣ (Qurʾān 112:2) which he “revealed” (nāzil farmūdand) at Shaykh Tabarsī,...
Tahirih was definitely somewhat of a cult leader
MacEoin's Messiah of Shiraz has details, my recollection of it is that since the Bab was almost immediately arrested the Babi community for the most part had no access to anything written by him. Because of this his disciples basically just invented their own religions, so Tahirih's Babi Faith was entirely different to Quddus's Babi Faith and arguably...
Monday, April 14, 2025
"For amid this turmoil opportunities will abound that must be exploited" and "winning of fresh recruits"
As humanity is tossed and tormented by the ravages inflicted upon it by a civilization gone out of control, let us keep our heads and hearts focused on the divine tasks set before us. For amid this turmoil opportunities will abound that must be exploited "for the purpose of spreading far and wide the knowledge of the redemptive power of the Faith of...
Saturday, April 12, 2025
the Seat of Guardianship
The Bahai World Administrative Center. The passage “Ere long will God sail His Ark upon thee” in Bahāʾ-Allāh’s Tablet of Carmel (Lawḥ-e Kārmel) (Bahāʾ Allāh, tr. Taherzadeh et al., p. 5) was later interpreted by Sho-ghi Effendi as an allusion to the future establishment of The Universal House of Justice on Mount Carmel. Sho-ghi Effendi designated the...
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Most of the village of al-Nuqayb was purchased by Bahá’u’lláh and sold by Shoghi Effendi to the Jewish National Fund.
In his book All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, the historian Walid Khalidi details the history of many of these Palestinian villages and how they were depopulated. For example, he notes that in the 1880s most of the village land of al-Nuqayb was purchased by Bahá’u’lláh, with the villagers continuing...
Superlative character of Baha'u'llah's Revelation
Stressing the superlative character of His Revelation as compared with the Dispensation preceding it, Bahá’u’lláh makes the following affirmation: “If all the peoples of the world be invested with the powers and attributes destined for the Letters of the Living, the Báb’s chosen disciples, whose station is ten thousand times more glorious than any...
one of the first acts of the Guardian
Dissimulation, Guardianship, Islam, Palestine, Shoghi Effendi
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He beheld a widely diversified, loosely organized community, scattered in various parts of the globe, and with members in about twenty countries. These people, loyal, devoted and sincere though they were, were still, to a great extent, living in their parent religion’s house, so to speak; there were Christian Bahá’ís, Jewish Bahá’ís, Muhammadan Bahá’ís...
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Shoghi Effendi on Palestine
We are assured that the Jews will get all of Palestine; Abdu'l-Bahá mentioned this in "Some answered Questions"; also, the British Secretary Balfour in his declaration mentioned it. The Jews are establishing their home in Palestine. The word "Israel" means "Hastening to God." "Isra" means "hastening" and "el" means "God." The Jews suffered for 2,000...
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Building of the new World Order... there is nothing in the old world to compare with the work which we are doing.
House of Justice (UHJ), New World Order (NWO), Personal Observations
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In reference to the building of the new World Order, Mr. Taherzadeh said there is nothing in the old world to compare with the work which we are doing. Do we build our Assemblies according to our own ideas? No! For then they would be dry and old, and with no spirit, like the old world that we came from. We get our building materials from the Creative...
What is the key to success?
Adib Taherzadeh said that the key to success is to acquire unshakeable faith in Bahá’u’lláh and then turn to The Universal House of Justice for guidance.(Bahá’í News, August 1976)https://bahai.works/Bahá’í_News/Issue_545/T...
Encouraging Baha'is to...
Huququllah is the equivalent of tithing. It is less demanding than a lot of religions as it is a requirement to donate 19% of ones excess wealth to the UHJ (excess wealth is defined in a somewhat complicated way from memory, there's manuals on how to calculate it iirc but essentially it's meant to not touch any finances required for day to day living),...
Baha'u'llah's last will and testament includes a passage about Mirza Aqa Jan which 'Abdu'l-Baha removed
Baha'u'llah's last will and testament includes a passage about Mirza Aqa Jan which 'Abdu'l-Baha removed and it has never been released in full. The UHJ has admitted this in a letter to a Baha'i academic and stated it will never release the full Will and Testament.Quoted in this article https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316833019_The_1893_Ru...
Severe punishment for those who fail to turn towards Baha'u'llah
Baha'u'llah said:“We have a fixed time for you, O peoples. If ye fail, at the appointed hour, to turn towards God, He, verily, will lay violent hold on you, and will cause grievous afflictions to assail you from every direction. How severe, indeed, is the chastisement with which your Lord will then chastise you!”(The World Order of Bahá’ú’lláh)htt...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Shoghi’s critics must have thought he had betrayed his grandfather’s legacy.
Covenant-Breakers, Dissimulation, Personal Observations, Shoghi Effendi
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As time went on, the pressures from the Covenant-breakers increased. At the same time, there were some whom Abdu’l-Bahá had befriended, but who did not take Shoghi Effendi’s leadership seriously because they thought he could never manage to govern the affairs of the Faith after Abdu’l-Bahá. These people created an uneasy situation within the Family...
Monday, February 24, 2025
Bahá’u’lláh expelled Mírzá Áqá Ján from His presence
Shortly before His ascension Bahá’u’lláh expelled Mírzá Áqá Ján from His presence due to his exorbitant financial demands, and reluctance to explain to the believers that Tablets revealed in his handwriting were dictated to him by Bahá’u’lláh, and that he played no role in the composition of Tablets. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá reportedly interceded on his behalf...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Abdul Baha telling women to tolerate their husband’s cruel actions and ill treatment.
“Hold thy husband dear and always show forth an amiable temper towards him, no matter how ill tempered he may be. Even if thy kindness maketh him more bitter, manifest thou more kindliness, more tenderness, be more loving and tolerate his cruel actions and ill-treatment”.‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Lights of Guidance, p. 226Also this.Now that you realize that your...
Justin Baldoni
Adultery, Converting People, Personal Observations
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One ex-Baha'i says: I was raised as a Baha’i and let me tell ya they are all about converting people. They have books and a whole program dedicated to it but they call it “teaching.” Also, just fyi Baldoni presents himself as super progressive but Bahais believe being gay is a spiritual illness that can be cured and will kick you out if you have a...
Saturday, January 11, 2025
Shoghi Effendi did not translate that part in the Gleanings
Abuse, Azali, Baha'u'llah, Censorship, Covenant-Breakers
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Bahá'u'lláh writes in a tablet called Lawh-i-‘Abdu’r-Razzáq [1]:O people of Bahá, drink this wine of everlasting life openly in the name of the Beloved, the Most Glorious, despite the enmity of the adversaries. Leave these artificial, dung-beetle-like forms to occupy themselves with the impurities of their own loathsome, foul insinuations. By My life,...
Friday, January 10, 2025
Splits, divisions among the Babis and nominating Azal as a head, and receiving contributions in Azal’s name from believers.
Baha'u'llah, Dissimulation, Juan Cole, Subh-i-Azal
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The millenarian Bābī movement roiled Iran (1844–1850) under the leadership of Sayyid ‘Alī Muhammad Shīrāzī, the “Bāb” or supernatural gateway to God (Amanat 1989). After the Bāb was executed in 1850, the leadership of the movement became extremely fragmented, with many claimants to Bābī leadership and to divinity putting themselves forward (MacEoin...
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Azal was an idolater but Baha'u'llah helped build Azal up for a “secret reason” (hikmat).
Baha'u'llah, Covenant-Breakers, Juan Cole, Subh-i-Azal
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...he does insist that the bonds with any loved ones (such as a brother) who rejected Bahā’u’llāh’s cause in favor of Azal had from that moment been severed. He defines Azal as having previously been the embodiment of only one of God’s names, and to prefer one of the divine names over God himself would be a form of idolatry. He redefines religious...
Use of dark psychology and manipulations by Baha'i leaders.
Abuse, Censorship, Independent Investigation of Truth, Personal Observations
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It's all documented in books and online by Bahá'u'lláh's family:• "The Religion Of The Bayan And The Claims Of The Baha'is" is an analysis of the manipulations of Bahá'u'lláh and some of his sons, by Jalal Azal, grandson of Bahá'u'lláh's brother Subh-i-Azal and husband of Bahá'u'lláh's granddaughter Ismat.• "A Lost History of the Bahá'í Faith" is...
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Apocalyptic concerns and the Baha'i faith
‘Abdu’l-Bahá had predicted World War I and called it “Armageddon,”…a number of Baha’is in the 1950s evidently had apocalyptic concerns (Piff 2000, 122–30;Piff and Warburg 2003), the extent of these beliefs is unknown, and there is no evidence that such concerns dominated the community as a whole (Collins 2002b, 10–11). By contrast, the small (mostly...
Saturday, January 4, 2025
Abdul Baha's association with corrupt officers and keeping notorious prostitute girl in his own house
In his memoir, Baha'u'llah's youngest son, Badiullah states:This officer was a staff Colonel and associated with military & civil functionaries. He had a beautiful step daughter, the child of his wife by former marriage, who gathered young men around her.Colonel Badri Beg hired a house at Haifa to spend the summer season there. He attended evening...
Abdul Baha's allegation of ‘European Prostitutes at the Bahja Mansion’
Abdul-Baha, Adultery, Muhammed Ali (Ghusn), Women
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In his memoir, Baha'u'llah's youngest son, Badiullah states:I came from Haifa to Acre. I called on the Most Great Branch Sir Abbas Effendi. He inquired after my health and displayed the utmost love towards me. He then said: "The Most Mighty Branch Mirza Muhammad Ali took three European prostitutes to the Bahja mansion and put them there for the night....
When Bahá'u'lláh was imprisoned in Tihran, the Russian Ambassador went about twenty times to the Shah to plead in His behalf.
January 4. On this date in 1908, Helen Mirrell Goodall, later named a Disciples of 'Abdu’l-Bahá, and her daughter Ella Goodall Cooper arrived in Acre to visit 'Abdu’l-Bahá. They would later write a book about this visit, titled Daily Lessons Received at Akka: January 1908, which among other things chronicles Haji Mirza Haydar-Ali's description of Bahá'u'lláh's...
One disenchanted Baha'i explains the relationship between Baha'is and Israel
I learned a lot about the history of the Baha'i faith in that region. The Guardian of the Baha'i faith once wrote a letter to the United Nations as a Palestinian. However, today, the only Palestinian Baha'is are labeled as "covenant breakers." It seems that the Baha'i community has taken a side in this conflict. I encourage you to read more about the...
The Huquq was supposed to be a wealth tax to be used to reduce wealth inequality.
One non-denominational Baha'i states:The Huquq was supposed to be a wealth tax to be used to reduce wealth inequality.The UHJ has Huquq'u'llah entirely wrong. The first thing is Baha'u'llah ordained Houses of Justice in every city, not a single worldwide version. Secondly, they are to be the ones who receive the Huquq payment. When Baha'u'llah was...