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| ABU1788 | Address to the friends at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-03-05 | 170 | You are very welcomed. I am always glad to meet you and associate with you. But the weather of Paris did not agree with me and caused me this illness. | DAS.1913-03-05 | development of capacity and readiness; spiritual communication; connections of the heart; teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2888 | Words to Mms Bernard, Richard and Sanderson, spoken on 1913-03-05 | 60 | In the books of Bahá'u'lláh one finds the solution of every problem. For instance the Hidden Words contain the moral precepts | DAS.1913-03-05 | call to action; universality of the Cause | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2189 | Address to the friends at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-03-04 | 120 | You are most welcome. I have been sick for the last few days but I am always pleased to meet the friends. I beg from the favors of God to illumine each one | DAS.1913-03-04 | forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; spiritual transformation; transcending the material condition | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1948 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-04 | 150 | The more we thank Bahá'u'lláh for these bounties with which He has encircled us, the more numerous will they become. When Bahá'u'lláh in the early history of the Caused desired to test any one | DAS.1913-03-04 | conference of Badasht; goodly deeds; actions; scarcity of receptive souls; tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; thankfulness; gratitude | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2901 | Words to Mr Crewe of Newfoundland, spoken on 1913-03-03 | 60 | O Thou Kind God! We are Thy humble servants; endear us in Thy Kingdom! We are poor; enrich us through Thy heavenly Treasury! We are ignorant, suffer us to become informed | DAS.1913-03-03 | divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; love of God; mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; prayer for the spiritual progress of others; spiritual transformation; The Holy Spirit | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2660 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-03 | 80 | Last night a curious thing happened. Long after midnight I got out of my bed and was on the point of calling Siyyid Asadollah when suddenly | DAS.1913-03-03 | accounts of dreams and visions; stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1776 | Words to Mr Crewe of Newfoundland, spoken on 1913-03-02 | 170 | The physical body is accidental and the inherent quality of every accidental composition one of which is decomposition. For example, the inherent quality of a house | DAS.1913-03-02 | composition and decomposition; existence; immortality of the human soul; relationship of the soul to the body; the Kingdom of God [Malakut] | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2484 | Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-03-02 | 90 | Although my body is ill, my spirit is happy. My hope is for the illumination, the spiritual motion and rejuvenation of Paris. The world of materialism has engulfed these regions. | DAS.1913-03-02 | materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; spiritual transformation; transcending the material condition | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2618 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-01 | 80 | For the present, in Paris we are all engaged in mentioning the name of the True One. We are all beneath the protection of the Blessed Perfection. | DAS.1913-03-01 | development of capacity and readiness; greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; suffering and imprisonment | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3070 | Prayer spoken at children's dinner, Cannongate School in Edinburgh, ca. 1913-01-09 | 50 | O Thou Kind God! These beloved children are created by Thy Mighty Hand. They are the signs of Thy Omnipotence. | DAS.1913-02-27 | education of children; moral education; power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; prayer for children and youth; serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; symbolism | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1478 | Words to some visitors, spoken on 1913-02-27 | 220 | There was once a Sufi in Baghdad who on a hot summer day went to the Euphrates river with his water pitcher | DAS.1913-02-27 | empty learning; false spirituality; occult sciences; psychic phenomena; stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1636 | Words to some visitors, spoken on 1913-02-27 | 190 | There was once a Persian Bahá'í who was very hospitable and always entertained new guests. Although he was poor | DAS.1913-02-27 | humor; jokes; stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2022 | Words to some visitors, spoken on 1913-02-27 | 140 | A young man who was graduated from the college applied for a position of teaching in a village far away from civilization. | DAS.1913-02-27 | heedlessness and ignorance of the people; wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2027 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-02-27 | 140 | Several Baha'is lived in a hall room so small that one could hardly move in it. But they did not care for these outward comforts | DAS.1913-02-27 | banishment to; life in Baghdad; detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; hospitality; poems and quotation from poetry; spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0325 | Interview with president of Alliance Spiritualiste, Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-26 | 710 | You must sow the seed of love. They destroy, you construct. They take life, you confer life. | DAS.1913-02-26 | forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; love of God; materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; rejection, opposition and persecution; service to others; to the Cause of God; the power of words; of speech; the Word of God; influence and centrality of; war and peace | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1775 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-25 | 170 | When His Holiness the Báb arrived in Isfahan, Manuchehr Khan who had been converted from Christianity to [the] Muhammadan religion was the governor of the city. | DAS.1913-02-25 | proofs of the Manifestations of God; rejection, opposition and persecution; stories; anecdotes; transcendence; unknowability of God | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0956 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-24 | 320 | In this Bahá’í Dispensation the question of deeds is most important. Confession and acknowledgement do not mean faith. Faith means deeds and deeds mean faith. | DAS.1913-02-24 | characteristics and conduct of true believers; definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i; goodly deeds; actions; love and unity; serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1340 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-24 | 240 | The inhabitants of one of the provinces of Persia desired to get rid of the burden of military conscription laid upon them by the minister of war. | DAS.1913-02-24 | humor; jokes; petitions to authorities; stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1675 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-24 | 180 | There were three persons who started to journey together. One was from the province of Tabriz, the other from the province of Isfahan and the third from the province of Kashan. | DAS.1913-02-24 | humor; jokes; stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2131 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-24 | 120 | When a person desires to destroy his house to build a new one on its site, first of all he must make the plan ready, then the bricks | DAS.1913-02-24 | corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; knowledge; recognition of God; love of God; unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1304 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-23 | 240 | Abdu'l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913 | چهل سال ما را در سجن عکا نگاه داشتند اگر آزاد بودیم در ممالک اخری چه قدر کار میدیدیم ... سلطان عبد الحمید مارا چهل سال در حبس نمود اگر چهل سال | Sultan Abdu'l-Hamid imprisoned me for forty years. Were I free during those forty years, soon this Cause would have been widespread in America and Europe | BDA2.155-156 | DAS.1913-02-23, MHMD2.194-195 | divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; growth of the Cause; non-participation in politics; suffering and imprisonment; the Word of God; influence and centrality of | - | - | |||||
| ABU3201 | Words to a Christian girl, spoken on 1913-02-23 | 40 | Christ and the Bible be for us; the Pope and all the priests be for you. We follow Christ and not the priests. | DAS.1913-02-23 | Christ; Christianity; the Christian clergy | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0254 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-22 | 810 | At the time that His Holiness Bahá'u'lláh was in the mountains of Suleymanieh one of the young rugged, illiterate Kurds living in the valley came to see Him... His name was Mullah Ali Mardan. | DAS.1913-02-22 | Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih; divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; love of God; praise and encouragement; stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0058 | Address to L'Alliance Spiritualiste on 1913-02-21 | 1500 | Abdu'l-Bahá on Divine Philosophy | We observe that every movement which establishes unity and amity brings in its train life | DAS.1913-02-21, ADP.175-184 | forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; oneness; unity of religion; rejection, opposition and persecution; teachings as spirit of the age; unity; oneness of humanity; unity in diversity; universal peace; world unity; war and peace | - | - | |||||||
| ABU2699 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-21 | 80 | Pride and haughtiness are the worst qualities. If a person becomes the possessor of the whole world he must not become proud. | DAS.1913-02-21 | consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; humility; meekness; lowliness; unity; oneness of humanity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0952 | Words to a Persian prince, spoken on 1913-02-21 | 320 | Mirza Taqi Khan was the ablest and most astute statesman that Persia had produced for a long time. Although he committed the greatest mistake of his life | DAS.1913-02-21 | forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; past, present and future of Iran; rejection, opposition and persecution; the economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1673 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-20 | 180 | Now Europe in reality is in the utmost beauty and adornment. Material civilization has advanced greatly. It is a body in the utmost of comeliness, but regrettable it is that it is not animated by the spirit. | DAS.1913-02-20 | call to action; critique of Western values; culture; forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; material and spiritual existence; two books; spiritualization of humanity in the future; a new race of men | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2238 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-20 | 110 | The greatness of the American journey is not now known. Erelong its glories shall fill all the books and pamphlets of the world. | DAS.1913-02-20 | greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2733 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-20 | 70 | How dead to all spiritual emotions are the people of Paris! The inhabitants of this city are engrossed in the whirlpool of pleasure and self-gratification. | DAS.1913-02-20 | critique of Western values; culture; spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU3052 | Words to Madame Scaramuchi, spoken on 1913-02-20 | 50 | The Cause of Bahá'u'lláh is the same as the Cause of Christ. For example this room is now lighted, but someone comes in and turns off the light | DAS.1913-02-20 | changing and unchanging parts of religion; definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i; oneness; unity of religion; progressive revelation; renewal of religion | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0481 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-20 | 550 | Abdu'l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913 | در ایام لکورغه اولاد خود را بقانون و ترتیب مخصوصی تربیت میکردند اولاً در وقت ازدواج | Lycurgus was well-versed in laws and he wished to treat his subjects justly. As he looked over the Spartans, he observed that they were divided into three classes… One day in the company of the Governor | BDA2.149-150x | DAS.1913-02-19, MHMD2.187-188x, STAB#098x | monasticism; asceticism; serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession | - | - | |||||
| ABU1207 | Public address given on 1913-02-19 | 260 | Abdu'l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913 | انبیای الهی و عقلا و فلاسفهٴ عالم در هر حال تربیترا از برای عالم خلقت اهم امورو اعظم شئون گفتند | The prophets of God are the real Instructors and Educators, so that the morality of the people is improved, the ignorant become wise, the blind receive sight | BDA2.147x | DAS.1913-02-19, MHMD2.184x | autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Manifestation of God as educator; station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha; teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||
| ABU1553 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-19 | 200 | Once upon a time I was invited to a garden party outside of the fortress of Akka. There were about seventy guests including the governor | DAS.1913-02-19 | exhortations and counsels; service to others; to the Cause of God; stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1875 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-19 | 160 | It so happened that while in Baghdad, during the season that the pilgrims arrived from all over the Islamic world to visit the Holy Shrines | DAS.1913-02-19 | humor; jokes; pilgrimage [Hajj] in Islam; stories; anecdotes | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0598 | Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-02-19 | 470 | While we were in Baghdad this Mirza Javad was with us. He had a melancholic and disconsolate disposition | DAS.1913-02-19 | Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar; humor; jokes; stories; anecdotes; wisdom [hikmat] | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1531 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-18 | 200 | Abdu'l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913 | اطفال خیلی مایهٴ سُرور و تسلی هستند من طفلی داشتم حسین افندی سه چهار ساله بود وقتی خواب بودم | Children give to a person the greatest consolation. No matter how much the father is sad or cross, as soon as his darling child laughs or speaks, he is made happy. | BDA2.149x | DAS.1913-02-18, MHMD2.187x | education of children; moral education; parents and children; youth; families | - | - | |||||
| ABU2383 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-18 | 100 | Man cannot attain to the highest summit of human progress without the assistance of the Breaths of the Holy Spirit. A man intellectually may become enabled | DAS.1913-02-18 | education of children; moral education; spiritual foundations of true knowledge; The Holy Spirit | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2483 | Words to Mrs. Henlay, spoken on 1913-02-18 | 90 | By attaching no importance to material things. According to the laws which bind us to this planet, everyone is tied to the gratification of self... Even the theatrical world would not prevent you from becoming what I desire you to become. | DAS.1913-02-18 | detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; excellence; distinction; transcending the material condition; useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession; walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2617 | Words to Mrs. Henlay, spoken on 1913-02-18 | 80 | Whenever you feel depressed, go alone into the secret chamber, read one of the Hidden Words and with the utmost supplication | DAS.1913-02-18 | divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; importance of prayer; prayer for spiritual recognition; spiritual transformation | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2616 | Public address given on 1913-02-17 | 80 | This is the work. All else save this has no result. Humanity must become illumined with the light of the Kingdom, otherwise all our efforts will remain fruitless. | DAS.1913-02-17 | attaining the life of the spirit; spiritual transformation; transience; worthlessness of the physical world; worldliness vs. other-worldliness | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU0271 | Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-02-17 | 780 | I have certain things that attract the confirmations of God. They are so wonderful and extraordinary that if I tell them, some people may not accept them as facts. | DAS.1913-02-17 | autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; power of prayer; prayers (general or uncategorized); rejection, opposition and persecution; Shrines and Holy places; spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1376 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-16 | 230 | Abdu'l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913 | مطران کشیش نصاری پیش من آمد و گفت که میرزا محمد علی مرا ملاقات کرد | He related the story of a judge of Acca, a priest of an Orthodox sect and Muhammad 'Ali. The judge was the Master's friend | BDA2.142-143 | DAS.1913-02-16, MHMD2.177-178 | alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Ottoman commissions of investigation; rejection, opposition and persecution | - | - | |||||
| ABU0018 | Interview with Pasteur Monnier at his theological seminary in Paris, 1913-02-17 | 2180 | Abdu'l-Bahá on Christ and Christianity; Abdu'l-Bahá on Divine Philosophy | احوال حضرات را بپرس اسقوف عرض کرد الحمد لله سلامتیم و مسرور از تشریف | How are you?... I am likewise most happy... One endowed with the gift of hearing gets the mysteries of God from all things | AVK2.172.02x, AVK4.331x, KHF.148, KHAB.418 (421), KHTB3.061 | DAS.1913-02-16, SW_v04#03 p.051-055, ADP.147-158, BLO_PT#002, STAB#062 | Christ; Christianity; Manifestation of God as mirror; oneness; unity of religion; purpose of religion in the world (personal and social); the cross and the trinity | - | - | question and answer session. | ||||
| ABU2615 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-16 | 80 | How large is the creation of God! How stupendous His machinery! How infinite His dominion!... Were it possible to construct an aeroplane and establish communication between the various planets many marvellous discoveries would have been achieved! | DAS.1913-02-16 | celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy; infinity and eternity; plenitude; the pervasiveness of life in the cosmos; present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2091 | Words spoken on 1913-02-16 in Paris | 130 | The race problem in America is very intense. Its non-solution will end in danger and war. The colored people in the United States have advanced much intellectually. | DAS.1913-02-16 | prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction; race unity; racial issues; teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU1739 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-15 | 170 | Abdu'l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913 | امروز اعظم امور مسئلهٴ تبلیغ امر الله است که نفوس را نجاح و فلاح بخشد حیات ابدیه مبذول دارد رضای جمال مبارک | The question of teaching the Cause is the most important affair. Regardless of all the other matters, we must spread the message of the Kingdom. | BDA2.140-141 | DAS.1913-02-15, MHMD2.175-176 | humility; meekness; lowliness; priority over other activities in teaching the Cause; spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; teaching the Cause; call to teach | - | - | |||||
| ABU1364 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-14 | 230 | Abdu'l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913 | جمال مبارک در عننوان جوانی روزی در قصبهٴیالرود وارد منزل میرزا محمد تقی مجتهد | The Blessed Perfection was very young and at that time He was going to Mazindaran. As He was travelling from stage to stage, He arrived at a town called "Yall-Roud" | BDA2.139 | DAS.1913-02-14, MHMD2.173-174 | early years; early ministry of Baha'u'llah; family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam | - | - | |||||
| ABU0384 | Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-14 | 630 | Abdu'l-Bahá on Divine Philosophy; Abdu'l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913 | انسان دو قسم استعداد دارد فطری و اکتسابی مانند سایر کائنات که هر یک استعداد و خاصیت | Personality is of two kinds. One is the natural or God-given personality which the western thinkers call individuality | BDA2.138x | DAS.1913-02-14, SW_v04#02 p.038-040, MHMD2.172x, ADP.130-134 | differences in human capacity; education and the development of capacity; human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within; spiritual transformation; the soul as soil; cultivation of the soul; two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures; walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life | - | - | |||||
| ABU0046 | Address at weekly meeting, 15 Rue de Greuze in Paris, 1913-02-14 | 1600 | Whenever the Holy Manifestations of God appear in this world they establish their validity with certain proofs. One of their proofs is the prophecies | DAS.1913-02-14, BSTW#147 | miracles and their interpretation; power of the Manifestation of God; proclamation to kings; rulers; prominent individuals; proofs of the Manifestations of God; prophecy and fulfillment; suffering and imprisonment; teachings as spirit of the age; universal peace; world unity | - | - | ||||||||
| ABU2184 | Closing prayer of weekly meeting, spoken on 1913-02-14 | 120 | I beg of Thee, O my God! My Lord! My Hope! And my utmost Desire! Verily Thou knowest my humility, my contrition, my poverty, my indigence, my agitation | DAS.1913-02-14 | prayer for firmness in the Covenant; prayer for nearness to God; prayer for spiritual recognition; servitude; submission to God; repentance; spiritual emotions and susceptibilities | - | - |
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