The word here translated Vicegerency is, in the original Arabic, vilayat, which has a range of meanings including vicegerency, guardianship, protectorship and successorship. It is...
Baha'u'llah invests 'Abdu'l-Baha with the right of interpreting His holy Writ (see also note 145).
In His Tablet addressed to Him Who will be made manifest, the Bab characterizes the Bayan as an offering from Him to Baha'u'llah. See Selections from the Writings of the Bab.
September, 1911. These are wonderful days! We see an Eastern guest received with love and courtesy in the West. I have been drawn here, in spite of indisposition, by the magnet of...
Glory be to Thee, O my God! Thou hearest Thine ardent lovers lamenting in their separation from Thee, and such as have recognized Thee wailing because of their remoteness from Thy...
Lauded be Thy name, O Lord my God! I testify that Thou wast a hidden Treasure wrapped within Thine immemorial Being and an impenetrable Mystery enshrined in Thine own Essence. Wish...
Lauded be Thy name, O my God! I am so carried away by the breezes blowing from Thy presence that I have forgotten my self and all that I possess. This is but a sign of the wonders...
Magnified be Thy name, O Lord my God, inasmuch as Thou hast inclined mine ear to Thy voice, and called me to Thyself, and opened mine eyes to gaze on Thy beauty, and illumined my h...
Magnified be Thy name, O Thou in Whose grasp are the reins of the souls of all them that have recognized Thee, and in Whose right hand are the destinies of all that are in heaven a...
'Abdu'l-Baha's interest in women's work and progress is well known, and among the notable leaders who came to see him, may be mentioned Mrs. Annie Besant, President of the Theosoph...
In My Name, which standeth supreme above all names PRAISE and glory beseem the Lord of Names and the Creator of the heavens, He, the waves of Whose ocean of Revelation surge before...
This is the Epistle of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting He is God, exalted is He, the Lord of wisdom and utterance. PRAISE be unto God, incomparable in majesty, power an...
This is the Call of the All-Glorious which is proclaimed from the Supreme Horizon in the Prison of Akka He is the Expounder, the All-Knowing, the All-Informed. GOD, the True One, t...
This is the Epistle of God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting He is the One Who heareth from His Realm of Glory. GOD testifieth that there is none other God but Him and that H...
GOD testifieth that there is none other God but... GOD testifieth that there is none other God but Him and that He Who hath come from the heaven of divine revelation is the Hidden...
_This Tablet was addressed to Aqa Muhammad, a distinguished believer from the town of Qa'in, who was surnamed Nabil-i-Akbar (see Memorials of the Faithful pages 1-5). Another disti...
ALL glory be to this Day, the Day in which the fragrances of mercy have been wafted over all created things, a Day so blest that past ages and centuries can never hope to rival it,...
_Out of respect, the Baha'is, rather than addressing Baha'u'llah directly, would write to His amanuensis, Mirza Aqa Jan, surnamed 'Servant of God' and 'Servant-in-Attendance'. The...
In My Name, calling aloud in the Kingdom of Utterance PRAISE and thanksgiving beseem the Lord of manifest dominion Who hath adorned the mighty prison with the presence of their hon...
He is the All-Knowing O VAFA! Render thanks unto thy Lord for having aided thee to embrace His Cause, enabled thee to recognize the Manifestation of His Own Self and raised thee up...
ALTHOUGH the Realm of Glory hath none of the vanities of the world, yet within the treasury of trust and resignation We have bequeathed to Our heirs an excellent and priceless heri...
_This Tablet was revealed after the martyrdom of the King of Martyrs and the Beloved of Martyrs (see God Passes By pages 200-201) and was addressed to Shaykh Muhammad Baqir, denoun...
In the Name of God, the Exalted, the Most High THE source of all good is trust in God, submission unto His command, and contentment with His holy will and pleasure. The essence of...
This is the Most Holy Tablet sent down from the holy kingdom unto the one who hath set his face towards the Object of the adoration of the world, He Who hath come from the heaven o...
He is the One Who speaketh through the power of Truth in the Kingdom of Utterance O YE the embodiments of justice and equity and the manifestations of uprightness and of heavenly b...
PRAISE be to Him Who hath honoured the Land of Ba(86) through the presence of Him round Whom all names revolve. All the atoms of the earth have announced unto all created things th...
He is the Most Holy, the Most Great, the Most Exalted, the Most High O MY Name!(64) Yield thou praise unto God for having graciously chosen thee to be a shower of bounty for that w...
O SON OF SPIRIT! The best beloved of all things in My sight is Justice; turn not away therefrom if thou desirest Me, and neglect it not that I may confide in thee. By its aid thou...
A Book sent down in truth unto men of insight! It biddeth the people to observe justice and to work righteousness, and forbiddeth them to follow their corrupt inclinations and carn...
By the righteousness of God, my Well-Beloved! I have never aspired after worldly leadership. My sole purpose hath been to hand down unto men that which I was bidden to deliver by G...