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| ABU1107 | Words spoken on 1904-04-18 | 290 | The people have not understood the meaning of baptism. In one place in the Gospels | SW_v09#09 p.103 | John the Baptist; literal interpretation; religious rituals minimized or eliminated; spiritual baptism; symbolism | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1108 | 290 | Endeavor and strive eagerly that you may progress and advance rapidly. You are born in this holy day | SW_v09#08 p.095-096 | bringing oneself to account each day; greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; humility; meekness; lowliness; idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others; self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline; spiritual transformation; teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU1109 | Words spoken on 1914-02-14 | 290 | The view from the Pilgrims Home is very attractive.... In the future the distance between Akka and Haifa will be built up, and the two cities will join and clasp hands | DAS.1914-02-14, SW_v16#01 p.381, BNE.250-251 | future of Haifa; of the Holy Land; predictions and prophecies; prophecy and fulfillment; Shrines and Holy places; spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1110 | Words spoken in Sep. 1913 in Ramleh | 290 | are they happy? If they are not happy, then, in this wide world, who could claim happiness? Happiness is the most natural possession and immanent attribute of every Bahá'í. | ABIE.383, BLO_PN#007 | composure; tranquillity; serenity; happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; spiritual transformation; steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1111 | Words spoken at Haifa Pilgrim House, 1920-11-15 | 290 | The remaining eight should elect one... The Blessed Beauty says that if two persons have differences both are wrong. | PN_1920 p043, PN_1920 p096, PN_1920 p110, PN_1920_heh_haifa p077 | elections; House of Justice; House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]; review of publications; unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1112 | Words to Florence Khan, spoken on 1906-06-13 | 290 | In this case, the fact that one had the desire and the intention of helping is enough for him. For 'God judges men's deeds according to the intention which actuated them.' | PN_1906 p036, SUR.233, BLO_PN#001 | assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick; goodly deeds; actions; power of imagination; thought; right intention; service to others; to the Cause of God | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1113 | Words spoken in Oct. 1911 in London to Mrs. Enthoven | 290 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | Abdu'l-Bahá sent his greetings to all, begging all to go on acquiring strength in their belief and courage… Let the light of truth and honesty shine in your faces | AIL.124, SW_v08#02 p.026x | corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others; praise of Western values; culture; serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha; unity; oneness of humanity; walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||||
| ABU1114 | Words spoken on 1914-03-01 | 290 | With what joy and transport they hastened toward the arena of martyrdom!... Bahá'u'lláh in one of his poems says: the mark of the chain | DAS.1914-03-01, SW_v08#13 p.161x | detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; martyrs and martyrdom; spiritual transformation; suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1115 | Words to Mr. Reed, spoken on 1912-10-08 | 290 | It is in fact considered as a necessity. The Baha'is have made a special study of other religions. | ECN.520+630+664+1023 | John the Baptist; multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1116 | Words to Mrs Narcissa Casad Purdon, spoken on 1912-10-09 | 290 | Your mother? Blessed!... You must be thankful to God for having such a daughter for she writes down everything I say…. There are some times when the favors of God descend without man asking for them, without request on the part of man. | ECN.609+1047 | differences in human capacity; divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; many are called but few are chosen; service to others; to the Cause of God | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1117 | Words spoken in Aug. 1915 | 280 | از اشیاء نفیسه بیت جمال مبارک یک تسبیح مروارید برای ما ماند | Prayer beads made of pearls - one of the most precious of the household possessions of the Blessed Beauty | RHQM2.0842-843 (257) (157) | STOB.014-015x #022, STAB#076 | banishment to; life in Baghdad; business; financial; property matters; Imam 'Ali | - | - | ||||||
| ABU1118 | Words spoken at Thornburgh-Cropper home, 1911-09-12 | 280 | Abdu'l-Bahá in London | الحمد لله خوب جمعیتی است بسیار بسیار نورانی است روحانی است | Thanks be to God, this is a good meeting. It is very enlightened; it is spiritual | MSHR3.061x, KHAB.055 (064), KHTB1.021, NJB_v02#14-16 p.012 | AIL.046, SW_v02#12 p.004-005, ABS#07 | microcosm and macrocosm ['alam-i-akbar and 'alam-i-asghar]; spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; true liberty; freedom; unity; oneness of humanity; worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | |||||
| ABU1119 | Words spoken on 1915-07-24 in Haifa | 280 | اولاً اینکه این بجهت نسبت است. مثلاً نقطه[ای از] خاک منسوب بحق شد، این مطاف جمیع نفوس واقع شد | First, know that this is by virtue of its connection. For example, when a particle of dust became associated with Truth, it became the point of circumambulation for all souls [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-07-24 | Manifestation of God as mirror; pilgrimage [Hajj] in Islam; symbolism | - | - | |||||||
| ABU1120 | Words spoken at City Temple in London, 1911-09-10 | 280 | Bahá'í Scriptures; Abdu'l-Bahá in London | ای جمع محترم و ای طالبان خدا الحمد لله نور حقیقت درخشید و نسیم گلشن عنایت وزید | O noble friends, seekers after God, praise be to God! Today the light of truth.... This is a new cycle of human power | BRL_DAK#1056, AMK.174-174a, KHAB.053 (062), KHTB1.019 | BSC.273 #561, AIL.019, SW_v02#11 p.008, SW_v08#01 p.009, ABS#06 | competition vs. cooperation; the struggle for existence; justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; oneness; unity of religion; race unity; racial issues; The Holy Spirit; unity; oneness of humanity; universal peace; world unity | - | - | |||||
| ABU1121 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-04-28 | 280 | Persia has unlimited possibilities for the development of its material resources, but there must be civilizing influences and untiring efforts. | DAS.1914-04-28 | call to acquire knowledge; sciences; past, present and future of Iran; progress and the continual ascent of material civilization; suffering and imprisonment; two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization; universal peace; world unity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1122 | Address to the Baha'is at Kinney home in New York, 1912-12-02 | 280 | Promulgation of Universal Peace, The | These are the days of my farewell to you, for I am sailing on the fifth of the month… let each one of you be as a lamp shining forth with the light of the virtues | BRL_DAK#1240 | PUP#134 (p.452-453), SW_v05#01 p.007+010, PN_1912 p019 | The Joburg Baha'i Choir | being a source of light; guidance; exhortations and counsels; forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | - | - | |||||
| ABU1123 | Words spoken on 1914-07-05 in Akka | 280 | Military rules are far worse than prison rules. These soldiers are in reality prisoners. They are restricted in all their affairs. They cannot deviate | DAS.1914-07-05 | humor; jokes; martyrs and martyrdom; sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; war and peace | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1124 | 280 | پیش عقلا و اصحاب افکار و ارباب معرف مسلم است که عالم انسانی در پراکندگی یعنی تفرق سبب ذلشان است سبب بی سر و سامانیشان است سبب نادانیشان است | Before all those possessed of intellect, the bearers of thought and the lords of wisdom, manifest it is that the world of humanity in its dispersion - that is to say, its disunity - is the cause of its abasement, the cause of its disarray, the cause of its ignorance [3.5s] | justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; religion as reality; definitions of religion; religion as source of love and unity; unity; oneness of humanity; unity in diversity | - | - | |||||||||
| ABU1125 | Words to Habib Mu'ayyad around Dec. 1907 | 280 | تمامش مسکن و ماوای انبیاء است تمامش موطی اقدام انبیاءاست انبیاء الهی شبها تا صبح بمناجات | All of these were the dwelling-places of the Prophets of old. All of them were blessed by the footsteps of the Divine Manifestations | KHH1.014 (1.019) | KHHE.031 | future of Haifa; of the Holy Land; Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people; prophecy and fulfillment; Shrines and Holy places | - | - | ||||||
| ABU1126 | Words spoken ca. 1914 | 280 | جمیع اینها زواجر است از جانب خداست تا سبب تذکر و تنبه ناس شود ولی این مردم مانند اطفال | These are God-sent calamities for man so that people will grow repentant and contrite. However, these people are like children in the cradle, the more you rock them, the sleepier they get. | KHH1.290-291 (1.404-405) | KHHE.418-419 | greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world; heedlessness and ignorance of the people; idle fancies; lust and passion; Manifestation of God as divine physician; present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering | - | - | ||||||
| ABU1128 | Words to a friend, spoken on 1913-05-08 | 280 | Abdu'l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913 | خدا استعدادی را که بشما عنایت فرموده برای اینست که در خدمت ملکوتش صرف نمائید | God has created in you a great capacity. You must expend this capacity in the Cause of the Kingdom. If you consecrate it to any other cause except the promotion of the virtues of the world of humanity, its results will be finite. | BDA2.290-291 | DAS.1913-05-08, MHMD2.383-384 | love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Mary Magdalene; Saint Peter and Saint Paul; spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | |||||
| ABU1129 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-04-28 | 280 | Abdu'l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913 | دیروز با آنکه هیچ حالت نداشتم محض خاطر شما بمجلس آمدم زیرا که مجمع احباء محفل روحانیان است | Your meeting yesterday afternoon was very good. I did not feel well but for your sake I came. The gathering of the believers is the assembly of the spiritual ones. | BDA2.268-269 | DAS.1913-04-28, MHMD2.351-352 | Christ; Christianity; purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; race unity; racial issues; spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; transcending the material condition | - | - | |||||
| ABU1130 | Words spoken on 1912-12-21 in London | 280 | Abdu'l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913 | دیشب از محبت و اخوت صحبت مینمودیم محبت بر چند قسم است یک قسم محبت عائله ای است | Last night, we discussed the subjects of love and brotherhood. Love is of several kinds. One of these is the love a person feels for his immediate family | BDA2.035 | MHMD2.041 | call to unity; prohibition of disunity; love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; The Holy Spirit; transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | |||||
| ABU1131 | Words to Miss Boylan, spoken around 1911-08-25 | 280 | One day she [Tahirih] was sitting with our Lord (Abbas Effendi, who was five years old) in her arms, behind a curtain | PN_unsorted p093 | conference of Badasht; stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1132 | 280 | لهذا انسان هر چیزی را باید بعین خودش نظر کند نه بدیده دیگران باید خودش تحری حقیقت نماید تا | For this reason must every soul regard all things with his own eyes and not through the eyes of others, and must himself search after truth, until [3.5s] | NJB_v05#14 p.004 | historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Imam Husayn; independent investigation of truth; reality | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1133 | Words spoken on 1915-09-12 in Haifa | 280 | من دعا می کنم و برای خلق گشایش می طلبم اما خلق خودشان سبب تنگی می شوند. مثل اینست که | I prithee and do seek relief for all creation, yet the people themselves become the cause of their own constraint. It is as though [3.5s] | ZSM.1915-09-12 | historical episodes and the lessons of the past; past, present and future of Iran | - | - | |||||||
| ABU1134 | Words spoken on 1915-03-02 in Abu Sinan | 280 | من زوفا میخورم در طب جدید هم استعمال میکنید ... مدراست و باین واسطه مفید است از برای تنگ نفس خیلی مفید است | I use hyssop. Is it used in modern medicine?... It has a diuretic effect, and therefore it is beneficial. | KHH1.186 (1.261-262) | KHHE.272-273, BSR_v13 p.093 | divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; spiritual communication; connections of the heart | - | - | ||||||
| ABU1135 | Words to some Baha'is, spoken on 1913-12-09 | 280 | As long as a person is not separated from the sacred surroundings of the Threshold of Bahá'u'lláh, he does not realize the magnitude of his loss | DAS.1913-12-09 | presence of; reunion with God; Shrines and Holy places; two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1136 | Words to E.J. Rosenberg et al, spoken around Feb. 1901 | 280 | Jesus Christ had two bodies - one spiritual and one material. The material body is of no importance. It changes and changes always. | PN_1901 p003, PN_unsorted p065, NRMM.206 | Ascension of Baha'u'llah; crucifixion; ascension of Christ; forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Mary Magdalene; material and spiritual existence; two books; reincarnation; resurrection of Christ | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1137 | Words to Charles and Mariam Haney spoken in Feb. 1909 | 280 | Conveying the Message is accomplished today by the confirmation of the Holy Spirit, and not by any fund of knowledge or by the possession of facts. | AHF.028-029 | being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; methods of teaching the Cause; spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause; teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Holy Spirit | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1138 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-10-07 | 280 | The friends have brought good news from Germany... The Blessed Beauty in all circumstances has given us the way to behave | PN_1914 p040 | banishment to; life in Baghdad; praise and encouragement | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1139 | Words to Myron Phelps and Madame Canavarro in Dec. 1902 | 280 | We come now to the subject of transformation in the nature of matter; and we wish to show you that that which is temporal is essentially different from that which is eternal | AELT.158-159 | elementary matter cannot be annihilated; law of transformation and change; passage of elementary matter through degrees of existence; the ephemeral and the eternal | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1140 | Message to the Baha'is of New York from Thonon-les-Bains, 1911-08-26 | 280 | In this Cause, hundreds of families have sacrificed themselves. There have been more than twenty thousand martyrs. | AIF.1911-08-26, PN_1909B p032, DJT.181-183, BLO_PN#027 | contention and conflict; love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; teaching the Cause; call to teach; unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1141 | Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-05 | 280 | For three years I was away from the fanatical prejudices of the East and breathed in the Western clime the air of the freedom of conscience, and the broad catholicity of human and divine principles was much to my liking. | DAS.1914-12-05 | corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; progress and the continual ascent of material civilization; second birth | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1142 | Words to Julia Grundy spoken around Jan. 1905 | 280 | Ten Days in the Light of Akka | The House of Justice must be obeyed in all things because it has been established by the Blessed Perfection. The Council of Constantine decided many things wisely | TDLA.025-026, BLO_PN#104 | House of Justice; justice and mercy; means of establishment of future civilization; spiritual transformation; war and peace | - | - | |||||||
| ABU1143 | Words to Wilson, Engelhorn, Stewart, Brittingham, spoken around 1909-10-23 | 280 | In the day of every Universal Dispensation two great events occur; one is collection and the other is separation. | PN_1909 p091 | creation of the world; forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; suffering; rejection of Christ; the Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1144 | Words to some Bahá'í youth, spoken on 1912-10-22 | 280 | About teaching. You may teach in two ways. One way is limited teaching; another way is the unlimited teaching. | MAB.066-067, ECN.190x | methods of teaching the Cause; power of the Manifestation of God; spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; spiritual transformation; teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1145 | Words to True, Esslemont, spoken on 1919-11-20 | 280 | Bahá'u'lláh frequently predicted that there would be a period when irreligion and consequent anarchy would prevail; the chaos would be due to too great liberty among people who were not fit for self-government. | PN_1919 p034, PN_1919 p034 | corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; justice and wrath of God; nationalism; love of country; power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1146 | Words to Alma Albertson et al, spoken on 1900-11-27 | 280 | The essence of prophethood is one, just as the effect of one or more lights is that of one. If you want to see the light | PN_1900_heh p008, PN_1900 p022, PN_1900 p049, BSTW#169e | Manifestation of God as sun; oneness or innumerability of the Manifestations of God; prophecy and fulfillment; rejection of Muhammad; suffering; rejection of Christ | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1147 | Words to Florence Khan spoken in June 1906 | 280 | If by punishing is meant striking, no, this is very bad for the child. Children should be trained through love. But if parents show them the utmost love without requiring of them good behavior | PN_1906 p083, SUR.238, BLO_PN#001 | education of children; moral education; parents and children; youth; families; spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; spiritual transformation | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1148 | Words spoken on 1914-01-13 | 280 | The very names of these people will be forgotten... In Baghdad I was a child nine years old. There and then he (Baha'o'llah) announced to me the Word, and I believed him. | DAS.1914-01-13, SW_v08#13 p.169x, SW_v09#18 p.203x | autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; devotion; sacrifice; consecration in teaching the Cause; sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1149 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-05-03 | 280 | There are various degrees of sensitiveness in all the kingdoms of creation. Often, one word may reform a man | DAS.1913-05-03 | degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence; differences in human capacity; stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1150 | Words to Mrs MacNutt in Jan. 1905 | 280 | Soon shall we see the signs of the coming of the spring upon the mountains and on the plains... You shall know the tree by its fruits, be they good or bad. | PN_1905 p009 | second birth; spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; spiritual springtime; spiritual transformation; words vs deeds | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1151 | Words spoken ca. 1900 | 280 | One other proof which tends to convince people of this Truth is the uprightness and steadfastness of the First Point. | PN_1900_heh p029, PN_1900 p096 | power of the Manifestation of God; proofs of the Manifestations of God; rejection, opposition and persecution; steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1152 | Words spoken on 1913-04-01 in Stuttgart | 280 | Praise be to God! that I have come to Stuttgart, that I could meet with you. Praise be to God! | SW_v04#04 p.067 | being a source of light; guidance; praise and encouragement; present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; spiritual transformation; the Kingdom of God [Malakut]; unity; oneness of humanity; walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1153 | Address to the Baha'is at Temple site in Chicago, 1912-05-01 | 280 | Promulgation of Universal Peace, The; Mahmúd's Diary | The power which has gathered you here today notwithstanding the cold and windy weather | BDA1.063n | PUP#030 (p.071-072), SW_v03#04 p.008-009, SW_v06#17 p.145-146, PN_1912 p079 | charitable associations; humanitarian activities; House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]; power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts | - | - | MHMD1.072 | |||||
| ABU1154 | Words spoken on 1913-08-24 in Ramleh | 280 | If we look upon creation from a remote outlook, we see symmetry and harmony; the apparent differences and anomalies blending into one harmonious whole | DAS.1913-08-24, ABIE.232, BLO_PN#007 | competition vs. cooperation; the struggle for existence; composition and decomposition; connection between material and spiritual worlds; interconnectedness; all things involved in all things; chain of being; the lower is unable to comprehend the higher | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1155 | 280 | Abdu'l-Bahá on Divine Philosophy | Regard this globe. Its divisions are mineral, vegetable and animal. Man is the result of all these; therefore man is the result of all existence here. | ADP.122-124 | degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence; material and spiritual existence; two books; purpose; goal of creation; realms of being; three realms; five realms; soul; spirit after death; teleology; goal-directed motion; The Holy Spirit; the lower is unable to comprehend the higher; transcending the material condition; transience; worthlessness of the physical world | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1156 | Words spoken on 1913-12-06 in Haifa | 280 | What a beautiful gathering! In all the places I went.... According to the blessed command, it is not permitted to fall on the knees.... A certain Kurd was awakened in the morning to say his prayers | SW_v09#02 p.017-018, STAB#106 | greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Shrines and Holy places; stories; anecdotes; travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1157 | Words to two prominent Persians, spoken on 1913-01-25 | 280 | It is natural in man to oppress. When two individuals fight, they go before the civil court and settle their differences but there is no law or court whereby the nations may resort thereto | DAS.1913-01-25 | competition vs. cooperation; the struggle for existence; past, present and future of Iran; service to others; to the Cause of God; the Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - |
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