This course on The Hidden Words is dedicated with great love and gratitude to the
Universal House of Justice and its Four-Year Plan--may my life become a ransom for its
complete success--for which this course was created in response to and in obedience to its call
for training institutes. This course has passed review from the Review Office of the U.S.
Bahá'í National Center, and can therefore be freely distributed. The author can be
contacted at d-bradford@juno.com.
[Deepening Project, presented as a homework assignment for the "Revelation of
Bahá'u'lláh" Course, year one: January 1998.]
SYLLABUS
Course Title: Some Lessons from the Hidden Words
Required Text: The Hidden Words by Bahá'u'lláh
Weekly Assignments: Read and Study the Hidden Words assigned for the
upcoming class, with the topic in mind and
Memorize one of them
Recommended Class Length: 8 weeks of classes at 4 hours./week. Recommended
is to allow appr. 2 hours. for each topic.
Click on any "Week" to jump to that chapter
- Week 1: Introduction
- Reading Assignment:
- From the Arabic: Introduction
- Topics:
(1) Justice
- Reading Assignment:
- From the Arabic: # 2, 28
- From the Persian: # 64
- (2) Backbiting & Faultfinding
- Reading Assignment:
- From the Arabic: # 26, 27, 29
- From the Persian: # 44, 66
- Week 2: Topics:
- (1) God's Love & Our Relationship to Him
- Reading Assignment:
- From the Arabic: # 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20,
40, 58, 59, 60, 64, 65, 69, 70, 71
- (2) Our Relationship to Each Other
- Reading Assignment:
- From the Arabic: # 30, 68
- From the Persian: # 3, 5, 43, 44, 48, 49, 54, 56
- Week 3: Topics:
- (1) Death & Eternal Life
- Reading Assignment:
- From the Arabic: # 6, 14, 18, 23, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 63, 64
- From the Persian: # 7, 39, 44, 58, 70
- (2) Martyrdom
- Reading Assignment:
- From the Arabic: # 45, 46, 47, 71
- From the Persian: # 17
- Week 4: Topics:
- (1) Teaching
- Reading Assignment:
- From the Arabic: # 41, 42, 43
- From the Persian: # 36
- (2) Deeds Not Words
- Reading Assignment:
- From the Arabic: # 31, 68,
- From the Persian: # 5, 35, 59, 60, 65, 67, 69, 76
- Week 5: Topics:
- (1) Poverty & Wealth
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- From the Arabic: # 25, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 68
- From the Persian: # 11, 49, 51, 53, 54, 55, 80, 81, 82
- (2) Contentment & Detachment
- Reading Assignment:
- From the Arabic: # 8, 17, 18, 38, 49, 55
- From the Persian: # 10, 12, 55, Epilogue
- Week 6: Topics:
- (1) Choices
- Reading Assignment:
- From the Arabic: # 13, 21, 22, 23, 37, 62
- From the Persian: # 2, 21, 22, 29, 79
- (2) Virtues
- Reading Assignment:
- From the Arabic: # Introduction, 27, 42
- From the Persian: # 3, 6, 38, 42, 47, 49, 50, 55, 77
- Week 7: Topics:
- (1) Tests & Difficulties
- Reading Assignment:
- From the Arabic: # 48, 49, 50, 51, 55
- From the Persian: # 25, 35, 69
- (2) Idle Fancies & Vain Imaginings
- Reading Assignment:
- From the Arabic: # 56, 62, 63
- From the Persian: # 23, 29, 45, 79
Week 8: Topics:
- (1) The Purging of Self
- Reading Assignment:
- From the Arabic: # 38, 39, 40, 42
- From the Persian: # 22, 32, 38, 40, 69, 72
(2) Purity of Heart
- Reading Assignment:
- From the Arabic: # 1, 59
- From the Persian: # 8, 10, 17, 25, 26, 27, 31, 33, 35, 41, 42, 44,
45, 52, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 78
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