Monday, 30 November 2015

Blessed is he who cometh to the Mashriqu’l-Adhkar...


Blessed is he who cometh to the Mashriqu’l-Adhkar (rising- place of commemoration) in the early morning to glorify and praise God and ask forgiveness, and as he entereth in, he should sit down in silence and listen to the chanting of the scripture of God, the King, the Mighty, the Glorified.

Bahá'u'lláh in Kitab-i-Aqdas (“Most Holy Book”)

To the people of Baha, glory is in knowledge, good deeds, good morals and wisdom...


To the people of Baha, glory is in knowledge, good deeds, good morals and wisdom—not in one’s native land or station.

Bahá'u'lláh in Kalimat-i-Firdawsiyyih (“Words of Paradise”). Ibid., pp. 52-53.

Sunday, 29 November 2015

No one should glorify himself over the other


O children of man! Do ye know why We have created you from one clay, that no one should glorify himself over the other? Be ye ever mindful of how ye were created. Since We created you all from the same substance, ye must be as one soul, walking with the same feet, eating with one mouth, and living in one land, that ye may manifest with your being, and by your deeds and actions, the signs of unity and the spirit of oneness. This is My counsel to you, O people of light. Therefore follow it, that ye may attain the fruits of holiness from the Tree of Might and Power.

Bahá'u'lláh in The Hidden Words, Arabic #68

O people of Baha, ye have been and are the rising-places of love and the dawning-places of the grace of God


O people of Baha, ye have been and are the rising-places of love and the dawning-places of the grace of God. Pollute not the tongue with execration and reviling anyone, and protect the eye from that which is unseemly. Show what ye possess; if it is accepted, the aim is attained. If otherwise, opposition would be futile; leave him to himself and face God, the Protector, the Eternal. Be not the cause of grief and much less the cause of corruption and strife. It is hoped that ye be brought up under the protection of the tree of Divine Grace and do that which God hath wished. Ye are all the leaves of one tree and the drops of one sea.

Bahá'u'lláh in Lawh-i-Ishraqat (“Tablet of Splendors”), Eighth Ishraq