search results for 'DAS'

Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Proclamation to Jews; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

امروز روزیست که کرسی رب مابین شعب ندا میکند جمیع ساکنین ارض را و امر مینماید

This is the day whereon the Throne of God, established amidst the people, proclaimeth unto all the denizens of the world

BLIB_Or15719.101b, , BLIB_Or15722.189,

AVK2.242.15x, MAS4.097bx, KHAZ.026, ASAT1.250x, KASH.289-290

DAS.1913-10-04, BSC.116 #047, BSTW#141

BH00889

920

Days of Remembrance

لک الحمد یا الهی بما جمعت احبائک فی عیدک الاعظم الذی فیه تجلیت باسمائک الحسنی

Praise be to Thee, O my God, for having gathered together Thy loved ones to celebrate Thy Most Great Festival

AYT.313, ASAT4.401x, OOL.B202, AMB#17

DOR#17, DAS.1915-04-29n

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar; Hospitality; Martyrs and martyrdom; Praise and encouragement; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ROB3.053, LL#223

BH00855

960

طوبی از برای نفوسیکه در ظل سدره طوبی ماوی گرفته اند و نیکوست حال عبادیکه

Blessed are the souls who have taken a shelter under the shade of the Tree of Purity! Happy is the condition

NLAI_BH1.167-169x

LHKM1.183, GHA.035ax

DAS.1915-05-13x

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Law of fasting; Praise and encouragement; Rejection by the people of the Bayan; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

BH00436

1620

الحمد لله الذی فتح باب العلوم و الفنون بمفتاح اسمه الاقدس الاعظم الابهی الذی به نصب خباء

Praise be to God Who hath unlocked the gates of sciences and arts with the key of His Most Holy, Most Great and Most Glorious Name, whereby He hath raised the pavilion [3.5s]... ...O God! O God! I beg of Thee by Thy Radiant, Collective Name

BLIB_Or15695.210,

ABIE.362x, DAS.1913-09-27x

Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for forgiveness; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God

LL#475

ABU3760

Words spoken at Grand Hotel in Vienna, 1913-04-23

The thirsty one must run after the water; the fountain will not run after those who are thirsty

DAS.1913-04-23

Condition of search; Effort; striving; Living waters; water of life; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU3695

Words to two Theosophists spoken on 1913-04-23

120

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Unity; oneness of humanity

در ملکوت بهآء اللّٰه داخل شوید تا از هر جهت مؤیّد گردید در ایران نسآئی هستند

Enter into the Kingdom of Baha'u'llah, that you may be aided in every respect. In Persia, there are women who are entirely bereft of wealth

BDA2.253

DAS.1913-04-23, MHMD2.329

ABU3634

Words spoken on 1914-07-11

Devotion to and love for one's vocation accomplishes miracles.

DAS.1914-07-11, SW_v08#02 p.021

Excellence; distinction; Power of imagination; thought; right intention; Useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession; Work as worship

ABU3633

Words spoken on 1914-02-16

A cheerful countenance lends consolation to the beholder.

DAS.1914-02-16, SW_v07#18 p.186

Consolation and comfort; Courtesy; culture [adab]; Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU3629

Words spoken on 1914-07-26

What art thou reading? "A lecture on the coming world teacher, by Mrs. Besant." "The great world teacher has already come"

DAS.1914-07-26, SW_v09#01 p.006

Predictions and prophecies; Prophecy and fulfillment

ABU3622

Words spoken on board the SS Celtic at sea, 1912-12-09

Trustworthiness is the most brilliant jewel in the diadem which crowns man's heavenly attributes.

DAS.1912-12-09, SW_v08#02 p.025

Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU3613

Words to two mullahs, spoken on 1913-07-30

Our field of activity is Europe and America. I have come here to rest for a few months.

DAS.1913-07-30, ABIE.130, BLO_PN#007

ABU3605

Words spoken on 1914-04-20 in Haifa

I am afraid if I breathe Mirza Ahmad will write it down.

DAS.1914-04-20

ABU3600

Words spoken on 1914-07-13

The Cause of Baha'o'llah is in fulfillment of all the prophecies in all the books of the religions of the world.

DAS.1914-07-13, SW_v09#01 p.006

Oneness; unity of religion; Prophecy and fulfillment

ABU3590

Words spoken at Grand Hotel in Vienna, 1913-04-23

To enter in the Kingdom of God is the greatest and most important duty.

DAS.1913-04-23

The Kingdom of God [Malakut]

ABU3589

Words spoken on board the SS Celtic in New York, 1912-12-06

This (Covenant) is the Ark of Noah, its moving power is the fire of the love of God

DAS.1912-12-06, SW_v03#16 p.002, SW_v08#16 p.219

Love as fire; Love of God; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant

ABU3572

Words to a visitor, spoken on 1913-05-12

Changing and unchanging parts of religion; Christ; Christianity; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; The truth of past religions and sacred scriptures

معانی شرع قدیم را حضرت مسیح نشئهٴ واثر جدید داد

By this is meant that Christ imbued the meanings of the ancient law with new life and invested them with a fresh effect

AVK2.183.02, BDA2.297

DAS.1913-05-12, MHMD2.393

ABU3570

Words spoken on 1913-09-18 in Ramleh

It is necessary to joke now and then. Joking is the salt of conversation.

DAS.1913-09-18, ABIE.329, BLO_PN#007

Humor; jokes

ABU3560

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1914-10-19

You are writing a book. I have been reading all morning these letters. They are interesting.

DAS.1914-10-19

Review of publications

ABU3559

Words spoken on 1914-07-10 in Haifa

A material man lets himself be worried and harassed by little things but a spiritual man is always calm and serene under all circumstances

DAS.1914-07-10, SW_v07#16 p.154

Composure; tranquillity; serenity; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU3545

Words spoken on 1913-08-05 in Ramleh

The duty of the believers of God is to be servants to one another and to attend to his brother's wants

DAS.1913-08-05, SW_v08#12 p.143-144, ABIE.163, BLO_PN#007

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU3533

Words to a stranger, spoken on 1914-05-09

I do not like the word 'leader'. I am Abdul Baha. I am the servant of the world of humanity.

Station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha

ABU3524

Words spoken on 1913-07-02 in Port Said

The believers must cultivate a beautiful voice so that they may sing the Bahá'í songs or chant

DAS.1913-07-02, ABIE.010, BLO_PN#007

Music and singing; Power of prayer

ABU3521

Interview with five American teachers, Haifa, 1914-07-21

The teachings of His Holiness Bahá'u'lláh are the breaths of the Holy Spirit which create man anew. Personal purity, both in private and public, is emphasized and insisted upon.

DAS.1914-07-21, SW_v08#08 p.103x, SW_v12#01 p.014, SW_v13#10 p.260x, PN_1914 p005, PTF.137x, IHP.062x, BLO_PN#046x

Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU3520

Words to the Persian friends, spoken on 1913-01-26

If this Cause had appeared in America, today there would not have been a single soul in that country who would not be either a Bahá'í or a friend.

DAS.1913-01-26

Growth of the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU3517

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-05-07

When I was young they would light ten candles and at the range of a very long distance I would put out the lights one after another without missing one.

DAS.1913-05-07

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Excellence; distinction; Self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline; Youth and pre-ministry of Abdu'l-Baha

ABU3503

Words to a stranger, spoken on 1914-05-09

This is not only the golden age but the age of Diamond. This is the Century of Lights! This is the cycle of Love. This is the glorious Down of the Sun of Reality

Coming-of-age; maturity of mankind; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology

ABU3502

Words to an English friend, spoken on 1913-03-31

Whosoever with a contrite heart prays and begs from Bahá'u'lláh help and assistance will be aided, even if he is not a Bahá'í, only that he is sincere and whole-hearted in his prayers.

DAS.1913-03-31

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Power of prayer

ABU3494

Words spoken on 1914-07-24 in Haifa

Today the highest of all the degrees are the degrees of firmness and steadfastness in faith and certainty.

DAS.1914-07-24, SW_v08#16 p.219

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Kingdom of God [Malakut]; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU3493

Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-06

Before you teach others, teach yourself. Man must first test his knowledge in himself to see whether it is workable or theoretical.

DAS.1913-05-06

Knowledge of self; Self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline; Teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause

ABU3485

Words to a stranger, spoken on 1914-05-09

Is there a hell more direful than Ignorance? A hell worse than deprivation from the Divine Nearness? A hell lower than negligence and inadvertence?

Heedlessness and ignorance of the people

ABU3478

Words spoken on board the SS Cedric at sea, 1912-04-06

Consumption of meat; vegetarianism; diet; Material and spiritual existence; two books

ما مداخله در طعام جسمانی آنها نمی کنیم مداخلهٴ ما در طعام روحانی است

At the table on board the Cedric Abdu'l-Baha spoke about simple diet - how much better

BDA1.023.02

DAS.1913-07-20, SW_v08#02 p.018, MHMD1.031, ABIE.090, BLO_PN#007

ABU3462

Words spoken on 1913-10-26 in Ramleh

Mayst thou ever be in a prayerful attitude. In all the worlds [of existence] there is nothing more important than prayer. Prayer confers spirituality upon the heart.

DAS.1913-10-26, SW_v08#04 p.047, SW_v14#06 p.165+168

Importance of prayer; The state of prayer; dynamics of prayer

ABU3458

Words spoken at Haifa pilgrim house, 1914-10-12

اصل جوهر بیان اینست که انسان باید در فکر این باشد که دیگران را محافظه کند نه در فکر خود باشد

A man must ever think of the protection of others and not of himself.

DAS.1914-10-12, SW_v07#18 p.188

The golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others

ABU3457

Words spoken on 1914-04-08

In the world of humanity "good intentions" is the greatest means of personal development.

DAS.1914-04-06, SW_v07#19 p.195-196

Power of imagination; thought; right intention; Self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline

ABU3453

Words spoken on 1913-08-20 in Ramleh

...this Blessed Cause has such great power that it shall, ere long, vanquish all opposition. We must live and act in such manner as not to lower the station of the Cause

DAS.1913-08-20, ABIE.215, BLO_PN#007

Exalting the Word of God in teaching the Cause; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Growth of the Cause

ABU3452

Words to a believer, spoken on 1913-01-02

The fragrance of the rose leads man to the garden and faith and assurance are the fragrance of the rose which attract individual believing souls together.

DAS.1913-01-02

Degrees of faith; certitude; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Unity; oneness of humanity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU3448

Words spoken on 1913-12-21 in Haifa

Did you know what I was smiling for?... In either case he has not understood, he is just revealing the state of his own

DAS.1913-12-21, SW_v08#11 p.142

Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Humor; jokes; Rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU3443

Words spoken on 1914-02-24

Any undertaking by the believers of God and which directly helps the promotion

DAS.1914-02-24, SW_v07#15 p.140

East and West; communication between East and West; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU3442

Words spoken on 1913-08-02 in Ramleh

This is the day of teaching. This is the day of service. This is the day of the illumination of the world of humanity. Nothing else will give permanent result. This is our work.

DAS.1913-08-02, ABIE.143, BLO_PN#007

Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU3435

Words spoken on 1914-04-09

The world and its objects are transitory. Phenomena undergo change and transformation but God and his servants

DAS.1914-04-09, SW_v07#16 p.154

Law of transformation and change; Love of God; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU3432

Words spoken on 1914-07-01

When I leave the world I want my heart to be assured that the Blessed Beauty has self-sacrificing servants

DAS.1914-07-01, SW_v09#12 p.135

Confidence; courage; faith in teaching the Cause; Courage; Encouragement of individual understanding; interpretation; Praise and encouragement; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Power of faith; power of the spirit; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ABU3431

Words spoken on 1912-12-24 in London

Hands which have labored in the cause of education are ever blessed. I am pleased with your hands.

DAS.1912-12-24, SW_v09#08 p.089

Education of children; moral education; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world

ABU3421

Words spoken on 1914-03-07

Whosoever desires to know the history of this cause and its tenets must come to us and not go to those who are prejudiced and biased

DAS.1914-03-07, SW_v07#04 p.027x

Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Independent investigation of truth; reality

ABU3416

Interview with five American teachers, Haifa, 1914-07-21

Trust in God. Be kind to thy fellow-men, fill the world with the spirit of love.

DAS.1914-07-21, SW_v12#01 p.014, PN_1914 p005

Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; High station of the true believer; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times

ABU3415

Words spoken on 1912-12-23 in London

Every object in this world has the power of combustion. The objects by themselves and in themselves will not be ignited. A flame is necessary. I hope you will become that flame to enkindle the hearts.

DAS.1912-12-23

Being a source of light; guidance; Fire and light; fire and water; Power of faith; power of the spirit; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU3412

Words to Dr. Coles and Archdeacon Dowling, spoken on 1914-01-01

Imagine a little lamb surrounded by a hundred thousand wolves, threatening to tear it to pieces at every moment. Were it not for the eternal vigilance of the Divine Powers, man could not live for one second.

DAS.1914-01-01

Angels; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; The concourse on high

ABU3411

Words spoken on 1913-11-17 in Port Said

The believers of God must be alive with the sweet Fragrances of God. When you leave this land you must become the creational books

DAS.1913-11-17

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Radiant countenance; bearing the divine fragrance; Service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU3403

Words to some Arab visitors, spoken on 1913-11-10

The outer sacrifice of the sheep is a symbol of inner sacrifice. One must sacrifice his life, his identity, his being in the Path of God.

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Outward and inward meanings; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU3402

Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-08

I am always thinking how to carry the loads of others and not to put my own load on their shoulders. The Blessed Perfection has taught me this. We must prove this through deed and not by mere word.

DAS.1913-05-08, ABCC.391x

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Words vs deeds

ABU3399

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-05-18

Mr Hoar is a sincere, true, upright Bahá'í. I have tested him and have not found him wanting. I have a way of testing the people which always shows their real character. Mr Hoar is a righteous, just, honest man.

DAS.1913-05-18

Praise and encouragement; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU3395

Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1913-12-12

I have been crying at the top of my voice all these years. Now I prefer to choose silence and listen to the melodies of the nightingales of the Paradise of Abha

DAS.1913-12-12

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU3393

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1914-11-16

What art thou writing now? Art thou not satisfied with all that thou hast written? What dost thou do with them? No matter what I say thou art ready to make a note of it. Who has ordered thee to do this?

DAS.1914-11-16

Personal instructions; Stories; anecdotes

ABU3392

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-10-29

Before entering the Sacred Shrine every one should perform ablution and be clean and pure in body, soul, mind and even his outward apparel. His heart must be purified from all worldly feelings and his consciousness be cleansed from all unholy suggestions.

DAS.1914-10-29

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU3391

Words spoken on 1914-02-18

His aim [Andrew Carnegie's] is good and a service to the world of humanity

DAS.1914-02-18, SW_v09#03 p.035

Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Universal peace; world unity

ABU3390

Words to the secretary of Sepahdar Azam, spoken on 1913-04-20

When you return to Persia, give my greeting to the green mountains and rolling valleys, to the singing nightingales and the cooling springs, to the fragrant rose-gardens and the fresh breeze of Persia. I love them all. Remember me to them.

DAS.1913-04-20

ABU3383

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10

The best man is that person who cheers and gladdens the broken-hearted ones and the worst man is that soul who causes suffering and pain to one's heart.

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Compassion; kindness; Consolation and comfort; Saddening another soul; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU3382

Words to Dr. Coles, spoken on 1914-04-18

religion must ever become the cause of amity and love, otherwise irreligion is better; and science at the same time must be the means of human progress and enlightenment. If science creates deadly weapons for human slaughter and destruction it is worse than ignorance.

Harmony of science and religion; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; Religion as source of love and unity

ABU3381

Words to Haji Amin and Daniel Jenkyn, spoken on 1912-12-29

The language of the heart is more eloquent than the physical tongue. When two hearts are united astonishing results will be realized. But a perfect union is necessary.

DAS.1912-12-29

Divine attributes are within all things; every atom; Spiritual communication; connections of the heart

ABU3374

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-08-16

Faith is the centre of human virtues. Through the light of faith justice is established.

DAS.1914-08-16

Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Power of faith; power of the spirit; Spirit of faith [ruh-i-'iman]; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU3373

Words to visitors, spoken on 1913-04-05

Today if you teach one person it is as though you have resurrected a dead soul into life. It is as though you have changed the black stone into diamond. It is as though you have transmuted metal into gold, Satan into angel, animal into man.

DAS.1913-04-05

Metallurgical metaphors; Power; influence of a single soul in teaching the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transmutation of the soul by the divine elixir

ABU3368

Words to Esmael, spoken on 1914-12-09

The age of those ancient prophets as recorded in the Old Testament is symbolic. It has a spiritual interpretation.

DAS.1914-12-09, SW_v13#06 p.152x

Literal interpretation; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Transcending the material condition

ABU3367

Words to Mr. Wilkins, spoken on 1913-03-06

If such is the case the future of the French Republic is fraught with great danger. It cannot stand on such atheistic foundation.

DAS.1913-03-06

Critique of Western values; culture; Praise of Western values; culture

ABU3359

Words to Mr Remey, spoken on 1914-10-14

What is necessary is divine joy. Divine happiness is the speaker of the heart.

DAS.1914-10-14, SW_v13#04 p.102, PN_1914 p009, PN_1914 p082

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause

ABU3358

Words spoken on 1914-08-17

I cannot understand why people insist on the fact that one cannot give up a thing

DAS.1914-08-17, SW_v08#02 p.021

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline

ABU3357

Words spoken on 1914-05-26 in Tiberias

Concerning my power: it is one bestowal of the bestowals of His Holiness Baha'o'llah

DAS.1914-05-26, SW_v08#15 p.211

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity

ABU3356

Words spoken on 1912-12-15 in Liverpool

Water flowing from one spring has more force and energy than if the same water is divided between

DAS.1912-12-15, SW_v08#02 p.021

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Praise and encouragement; Service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU3347

Words spoken on 1913-08-24 in Ramleh

As regards free will. There are two distinct kinds of affairs, the first dominated by man, the second which is beyond his control

DAS.1913-08-24, ABIE.233, BLO_PN#007

Free will and predestination; fate

ABU3338

Words spoken on 1913-08-05 in Ramleh

it is necessary for the rich to think of the poor during the month of Ramadan. Those souls who prefer themselves to others are tied with selfish iron bands, while those who prefer others to themselves are the benefactors of the human race. Such was the conduct and the life of Baha-Ullah.

DAS.1913-08-05, ABIE.159, BLO_PN#007

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Business; financial; property matters; Law of fasting; The golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others

ABU3333

Words spoken on 1914-02-24

When a person's life is purely moral, when his daily actions are propelled by ethical forces he will influence

DAS.1914-02-24, SW_v07#18 p.184

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The power of example; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU3329

Words spoken on 1914-10-17 in Haifa

The best capital and the most profitable business is honesty in all things. Do thou continue to be honest in thy dealings

DAS.1914-10-17, SW_v08#02 p.025

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Conduct in finance and business; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness

ABU3328

Words spoken on 1914-06-21

In an Arabic poem the Blessed Perfection said about the calamities and allegations

DAS.1914-06-21, SW_v08#13 p.178

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for tests and difficulties; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU3327

Words spoken on 1914-01-27

We were commanded by Baha'o'llah to assist all the communities without the exclusion

DAS.1914-01-27, SW_v08#11 p.140

Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love; Rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU3326

Words spoken on 1913-07-30 in Ramleh

No one can imagine how many different issues must be met….I am now advanced in age. The reaction of this long journey has had a terrible effect upon my weakened constitution…

DAS.1913-07-30, ABIE.128, BLO_PN#007

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU3312

Words to Mr Newman, spoken on 1914-06-10

I pray that God may aid your journeys and that you may return to America with the utmost happiness and safety.

DAS.1914-06-10, SW_v09#10 p.110-111

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU3311

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-01

من از سن سی سالگی نبضم مطئی است هر کس دیگر باشد ٧٥ - ٨٠ خواهد بود

From the age of 30 I have had a slow pulse. All others have a pulse rate of about 75 to 80 and therefore greatly wonder about my pulse rate.

KHH1.269 (1.376)

KHHE.393, DAS.1914-12-01, BSR_v13 p.084

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha

ABU3306

Words spoken on 1913-10-16 in Ramleh

The Chinese civilization is very old, and hoary with age. Once they start on the right path, they will reach their destination very quickly.

DAS.1913-10-16

Praise of Eastern values; culture

ABU3289

Words spoken at Hotel Marquardt in Stuttgart, 1913-04-04

I was most happy to see the believers of Germany so holy, so pure and so united

DAS.1913-04-04, SW_v04#09 p.162

Praise and encouragement; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU3288

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-19

We must try to return very soon to Haifa. There upon the mountain all alone, pray and supplicate with God. There one finds the ecstasy of spiritual bliss. Supplication, invocation, prayer, inspiration.

DAS.1913-03-19

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Mystical themes; Shrines and Holy places; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU3286

Words to Counsel Schwartz, spoken on 1913-04-04

There will be a general war between the European powers and Germany of course will take a prominent part. Bahá'u'lláh has predicted a war between Germany and France and this will be fulfilled!

DAS.1913-04-04

Predictions and prophecies; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Prophecy and fulfillment; War and peace

ABU3278

Words spoken on 1913-08-10 in Ramleh

If these Tablets do not stir and move the hearts out of their sleep and do not spur them to insatiable activity, they are harder than stones

DAS.1913-08-10, ABIE.177, BLO_PN#007

Praise and encouragement; Suffering and imprisonment; The soul as soil; cultivation of the soul; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU3277

Words spoken on board the SS Baron Call at sea, 1913-12-03

If a soul is not severed, if he is not pure and holy, if he is not thoughtful of others.. No one can say he is a Bahá'í.

DAS.1913-12-03

Attaining the life of the spirit; Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; The golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others

ABU3256

Words spoken on 1913-08-24 in Ramleh

It has reached to such a point that if some of the friends want to cough or sneeze they write me to do it for them; thinking it too much trouble! I have repeatedly written that any feasible plan which has for its aim the spread of the Cause is agreeable.

DAS.1913-08-24, ABIE.231, BLO_PN#007

Humor; jokes

ABU3255

Words spoken on 1913-07-26 in Ramleh

I am not feeling well, even in Ramleh, but for the present I will not move to any other place, no matter what may happen. I have finished all my work. I have nothing else to do.

DAS.1913-07-26, ABIE.115, BLO_PN#007

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU3244

Words spoken on 1914-05-17 in Tiberias

The body of man is created for this world but his heart is made for the habitation of the Holy Spirit.

DAS.1914-05-17, SW_v08#08 p.103-104

Material and spiritual existence; two books; Mindfulness; concentration; focus; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Work as worship

ABU3243

Words spoken on 1914-03-07

The Bible and the Gospels are most honored in the estimation of all Bahais. One of the spiritual utterances

DAS.1914-03-07, SW_v07#04 p.027x, SW_v14#02 p.055x, BSTW#207b

Christ; Christianity; Importance of reading the Sacred Writings; Study; deepening

ABU3238

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-28

I never dreamed to buy land around the Lake of Galilee and by the river Jordan, but the Blessed Perfection commanded me to do so, in consideration of their biblical sacredness

DAS.1914-12-28

Business; financial; property matters; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Prophecy and fulfillment

ABU3235

Words to some Persian friends, spoken on 1913-03-18

Paris is like a very large, clean stable where many millions of horses are well-fed, well-kept and well-trained; but you do not expect to find spirituality.

DAS.1913-03-18

Critique of Western values; culture; Knowledge; recognition of God; Love of God; Material and spiritual existence; two books

ABU3229

Interview with five American teachers, Haifa, 1914-07-21

They believe that mankind must love mankind, that universal amity must be practiced; that dead dogmas must be thrown away

DAS.1914-07-21, SW_v12#01 p.014, PN_1914 p005

Lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU3213

Words spoken on 1914-03-17 in Haifa

Christ was known by the name of the Lamb. The only means of defense that a lamb possesses are his horns.

DAS.1914-03-17

Christ; Christianity; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU3211

Words to Mrs Hiscock, spoken on 1913-11-08

The greatest day in the life of a human soul is when as a thirsty one he arrives at the Fountain of the Water of Life

DAS.1913-11-08

Living waters; water of life; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Kingdom of God [Malakut]

ABU3210

Words spoken on 1913-11-08 in Ramleh

I have found a way to gain my living with the sweat of my brow and the labor of my hand. I now must be the candle of severance

DAS.1913-11-08

Agriculture; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Work as worship

ABU3201

Words to a Christian girl, spoken on 1913-02-23

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

ABU3195

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-03-30

The Western people think differently, argue differently, and reach the truth from a different standpoint. They are always looking for results.

DAS.1914-03-29

Praise of Western values; culture; Progress and the continual ascent of material civilization; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world

ABU3194

Words to the Eastern pilgrims, spoken on 1913-06-30

Well, what are we going to do next? Tell me what should be done? We have already travelled a good deal. We have crossed the seas

DAS.1913-06-30

Call to action; Growth of the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU3193

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-04-26

When Bahá'u'lláh was imprisoned in the barrack of Acca, he could see the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire under the despotic and fanatical rule of the Sultans

DAS.1913-04-26

Critique of Eastern values; culture

ABU3192

Words to Mrs Sanderson, spoken on 1913-01-28

Paris is like unto a green meadow, the people are like unto sheep, they are grazing in this meadow, they drink of the flowing streams. The materialists, cow-like, graze also with the rest.

DAS.1913-01-28

Critique of Western values; culture; Regarding the receptivity of the hearer in teaching the Cause; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light

ABU3175

Words to Badi Bushru'i and other students, Ramleh, 1913-09-19

...translate at least one page every day, either from English into Persian, or from Persian into English, thus they might acquire efficiency in this line of work. He recommended for the future that when the means are provided, a committee of translators be organized from both nationalities, who would know the two languages well, in addition to Arabic. Then the Tablets would be properly translated.

DAS.1913-09-19, ABIE.331, BLO_PN#007

Language and the structure of reality; Translation; publication of the Sacred Writings

ABU3164

Words spoken on 1913-07-28 in Ramleh

Up to the time I was 32 years [old], I never slept in bed, preferring always a piece of mat and as cushion I chose one or two books.

DAS.1913-07-28, ABIE.123, BLO_PN#007

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline

ABU3163

Words spoken on 1913-07-02 in Port Said

With the appearance of the Truth the point of opposition raises its head. The former gains signal victory; the other goes into crushing defeat.

DAS.1913-07-02, ABIE.011, BLO_PN#007

Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Things are known by their opposites; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures

ABU3145

Words spoken on board the SS Cedric at sea, 1912-04-09

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

فردای دیگر مسافر دریا هستیم واقعاً قوهٴ بخار چیز عجیبی است اگر این قوه نبود بحر محیط را

We shall be at sea for another day. Steam power is truly a wonderful thing.

BDA1.025.02

DAS.1913-07-20, MHMD1.033, ABIE.090, BLO_PN#007

ABU3140

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-06-22

دیشب خواب دیدم که روی شتری سوارم و این شتر مرا اذیت می کرد. از گردن او پیاده شدم. بعد این شتر پیراهن مرا دندان گرفته و بزمین می مالید و گمان می کرد من در پیراهن هستم و حال آنکه من ایستاده تماشا می کردم

Last night I dreamt I was riding on a dromedary, going fast through a desert. The animal became wild and beyond my control.

ZSM.1915-06-22

DAS.1915-06-22

Accounts of dreams and visions; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light

ABU3135

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-19

There was a Baktashi who passed by the door of a theological seminary. He saw the attendant beating a dog.

DAS.1913-03-19

Humor; jokes; Kindness to and rights of animals; Stories; anecdotes

ABU3133

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-13

حرص و طمع مخمر در طبیعت انسانی است ولکن تربیت الهی این صفات را تغییر میدهد

Greed and avarice are ingrained in human nature. However, divine teachings will change these attributes.

KHH1.215 (1.302)

KHHE.316, DAS.1915-04-13, BSR_v13 p.101

Greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world; Manifestation of God as educator; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU3117

Words to some friends, spoken on 1913-05-08

Man must never get satisfied. He must ever be thirsty. There is nothing worse in this world than 'satiety'. Man must drink from every fountain.

DAS.1913-05-08

Condition of search; Effort; striving; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU3113

Words spoken at dinner hosted by a Rajput prince in London, 1913-01-19

One universal law; attractive power of love; Power of love; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice

چون احبّای فارسی در بمبئی خبر شدند یکی از آنها که کیخسرو نام داشت با کمال شوق برخاست

When the Parsi believers of Bombay learned of Mr Sprague's illness, one of them--a man named Kay-Khusraw--arose with the utmost alacrity

BDA2.095

DAS.1913-01-18n, MHMD2.115, ABCC.371, STAB#137

ABU3105

Words spoken on 1914-01-24

We do not look at the evil deeds of the people. We do not consider the race, the religion, or nationality

DAS.1914-01-24, SW_v11#02 p.025

Assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick; Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all

ABU3104

Words spoken on 1912-12-23 in London

There are two kinds of music, divine and earthly music. Divine music exhilarates the spirit

DAS.1912-12-23, SW_v14#06 p.177

Connection between material and spiritual worlds; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Music and singing

ABU3095

Words to Persian students, spoken on 1913-09-03

You are very welcome. I was longing to see you... It is very strange that when a face is not illumined with the light of the love of God

DAS.1913-09-03, SW_v08#12 p.143x, ABIE.272x, BLO_PN#007

Alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium; Critique of Western values; culture; Education of children; moral education

ABU3084

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-07

It is the beholding of the beauty of this perfection in the reality of His own identity. It is from the entity of God to His Own Entity.

DAS.1913-02-07

Creation of the world; Love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion; One universal law; attractive power of love; Power of love; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God

ABU3079

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-03

Man must possess the religion of God which is the source of all valour, moral and intellectual. If he has not this, he may have at least, the simple 'natural religion' of humanity.

DAS.1914-12-03

Confidence; courage; faith in teaching the Cause; Courage; Encouragement of individual understanding; interpretation; Praise and encouragement; Religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization; Religion as reality; definitions of religion; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU3077

Words spoken on 1914-03-06 in Haifa

Formerly I was so accustomed that I slept in Acca in the same small room with 13 other souls, but now if there sleeps another person in my room I lie awake all night.

DAS.1914-03-06

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Disregarding bodily comfort

ABU3076

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-05-26

One must never feel superior to anyone else. This feeling of superiority destroys all vestiges of friendship and love. I give thee this rule to be remembered throughout all thy life

DAS.1913-05-26

Humility; meekness; lowliness; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge

ABU3075

Words to Horace Holley, spoken on 1913-05-11

I was thinking that during the days of Christ not one word was written about him. We have at the present time four Gospels, two of these were written 60 years after Christ

DAS.1913-05-11

Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Quotation from or interpretation of the Bible; Rational arguments; Review of publications; Suffering; rejection of Christ

ABU3074

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-05-06

I do not feel happy in Paris. I do not know whether it is its depressing atmosphere or the effect of the indifference of the people to spiritual things.

DAS.1913-05-06

Critique of Western values; culture; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU3073

Words spoken over lunch on 1913-04-03

I dreamed I was in Tiberias. Along the shore I was living alone in a small cottage which was built with mud bricks

DAS.1913-04-03

Accounts of dreams and visions; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU3072

Words to two actors, spoken on 1913-04-02

The plays should endeavor to elevate the ideals of humanity and not degrade them. The theatre is like unto a school and the playwrights must ever think how to educate his audience

DAS.1913-04-02

Literature; drama; humanities; the arts

ABU3071

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-07

Nineteen days are according to 19 Letters of the Living which is composed of the Báb and 18 disciples. The aim of this feast

DAS.1913-02-07

Letters of the Living; Nineteen-Day Feast; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

ABU3070

Prayer spoken at children's dinner, Cannongate School in Edinburgh, ca. 1913-01-09

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; Symbolism of color and light

ABU3061

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-12-30

If a man lives a thousand years or achieves the most wonderful service, this does not avail him. If he becomes the most famous man in the world

DAS.1913-12-30

Attaining good pleasure of God; Chastisement and requital; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU3057

Interview with five American teachers, Haifa, 1914-07-21

They teach that the internal, spiritual idea is the same in all the religions; that a unique general plan underlies the foundation of the past faiths

DAS.1914-07-21, SW_v12#01 p.014, PN_1914 p005

Changing and unchanging parts of religion; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Oneness; unity of religion; Priestcraft; Religion as reality; definitions of religion

ABU3056

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10

Consider with what knowledge His holiness Bahá'u'lláh hath favored the Bahá'ís, that if they are given the whole world they will not deny Christ. They love Christ better than their own lives.

Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering; rejection of Christ; The truth of past religions and sacred scriptures

ABU3053

Words spoken on 1914-02-27 in Haifa

The Kingdom of God is like into this garden. It contains many kind of trees. In due season the trees must not only produce leaves and blossoms

DAS.1914-02-27

Bringing forth results; fruit; Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light

ABU3052

Words to Madame Scaramuchi, spoken on 1913-02-20

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

ABU3049

Words to the ship's doctor, spoken on 1913-12-05

Divine civilization is peace, love and unity. The East has been the founder of divine civilization, but the West the spreader of material civilization.

DAS.1913-12-05

East and West; communication between East and West; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; Spiritualization of humanity in the future; a new race of men; Unity; oneness of humanity; Universal peace; world unity

ABU3039

Words to Mr. Lorge, London, 1912-12-20

Europe is steeped in a sea of materialism. People are either agnostics or full of religious superstitions

DAS.1912-12-20, SW_v03#19 p.006

Critique of Western values; culture; Independent investigation of truth; reality; Praise of Western values; culture

ABU3037

Words spoken on 1914-04-01

My happiness was complete in those dark days of imprisonment and vicissitude

DAS.1914-04-01, SW_v08#19 p.240

Acquiescence and resignation; contentment; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU3030

Words spoken on 1914-06-30

I am serving God. I am the servant of God. I give sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf

DAS.1914-06-30, SW_v08#15 p.210

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Living waters; water of life; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Power of the Manifestation of God; Station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha

ABU3023

Words to a visitor, spoken on 1913-05-17

Consumption of meat; vegetarianism; diet; Plenitude; the pervasiveness of life in the cosmos

وقتی بیان جمال مبارک این بود که اگر کسی حیوانات ذبح نکند و بنباتات قناعت نماید البته بهتر است ولی نهی نفرمودند

It is better not to eat meat if one can possibly abstain from it. However, it is impossible at the present stage of human evolution to ask people not to practice meat-eating.

AVK3.032.10x, BDA2.303

DAS.1913-05-17, MHMD2.400-401

ABU3019

Words to Sepahdar Azam, spoken on 1913-04-20

After the ascent of Bahá'u'lláh I was all alone. Enemies within and enemies without had attacked me and a thousand difficulties surrounded me.

DAS.1913-04-20

Ascension of Baha'u'llah; Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU3018

Words to a newspaper publisher, spoken on 1912-04-04

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Growth of the Cause; The Adamic cycle and the Baha'i cycle; Unity; oneness of humanity; Universality of the Cause; Universal peace; world unity

من بر حسب دعوتهای محافل صلح بامریکا میروم زیرا اساس این امر بر صلح عمومیست و وحدت عالم

I am going to America at the invitation of peace congresses, as the fundamental principles of this Cause are universal peace

BDA1.022.06

DAS.1913-07-20, MHMD1.030, ABIE.089, BLO_PN#007

ABU3002

Words spoken on 1913-08-13 in Ramleh

One day a layman went to a Mullah and asked several questions. The Mullah did not answer him.

DAS.1913-08-13, ABIE.186, BLO_PN#007

Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Humor; jokes; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Stories; anecdotes

ABU2998

Words spoken at Rue Lauriston 97 in Paris, 1913-03-28

The science of aviation will make great progress in the immediate future and people will travel at ease from one city to another

DAS.1913-03-28, BSTW#093d

Predictions and prophecies; Present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology; Progress and the continual ascent of material civilization

ABU2984

Words to Miss Fraser, spoken on 1913-03-29

Yes! But His sadness did not come from anything belonging to Himself. He desired to make a man illumined, but man preferred darkness

DAS.1913-03-29, SW_v16#11 p.713, ADP.073-074

Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU2980

Words to a Persian student, spoken on 1914-06-24

Thou must strive day by day so that the fire of the Love of God may burn brighter and brighter upon the censer of thy heart

DAS.1914-06-24

Effort; striving; Love of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Study; deepening

ABU2967

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-10-30

Universal Peace is the best panacea for the diseases of the Islamic world

DAS.1913-10-30

Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Universal peace; world unity; War and peace

ABU2964

Words spoken on 1913-01-19 in London

The object of all the prophets has been the purification of the souls... Today we are standing before the illimitable sea; let us not deprive ourselves.

DAS.1913-01-19, SW_v09#14 p.162x

Knowledge; recognition of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2961

Words spoken on 1914-07-08 in Akka

Man must be tireless in his effort. Once his effort is directed in the proper channel, if he does not succeed today he shall succeed tomorrow.

DAS.1914-07-08, SW_v08#02 p.021

Chastisement and requital; Effort; striving; Fulfillment of true potential; Self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ABU2960

Words spoken on 1913-09-04 in Ramleh

Chastity and purity of life are the two divine standards of the spiritual and moral law.

DAS.1913-09-04, SW_v08#02 p.026, ABIE.277, BLO_PN#007

Chastity and purity; Courtesy; culture [adab]; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU2955

Words spoken on 1914-02-14

Indeed God's ways are most mysterious and unsearchable. What outward relation

DAS.1914-02-14, SW_v08#13 p.178-179

Banishments of Baha'u'llah; Banishment to; life in Adrianople; Prophecy and fulfillment; The truth of past religions and sacred scriptures

ABU2949

Words spoken on 1913-07-08 in Port Said

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

There is a power in this Cause, a mysterious power, far, far, far away from the ken of men and angels

DAS.1913-07-08, BSC.304 #622, SW_v07#05 p.034, SW_v11#14 p.243, ABIE.039, BLO_PN#007

ABU2943

Interview with five American teachers, Haifa, 1914-07-21

The true, liberal, religious spirit is more in evidence in America…. The Baha'is are a community of cooperative servants, they have no leader. Their only leader is God.

DAS.1914-07-21, SW_v12#01 p.013-014, PN_1914 p005

Praise of Western values; culture; Spiritual assemblies; administrative matters; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU2939

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-19

A person must be rapid in motion and not slow and tortoise-like. You see, I take always Khosro and Mirza Ahmad with me, because they move rapidly... Train yourselves to be always in time no matter where you are.

DAS.1914-12-19

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Courtesy; culture [adab]; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Effort; striving

ABU2938

Words spoken on 1914-07-08 in Akka

Man must be freed from every material tie... Praising one's self is the sign of selfishness. Commanding others is not the passport to the realm of spiritual progress

DAS.1914-07-08, SW_v07#18 p.185x, SW_v14#06 p.165x

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Words vs deeds

ABU2937

Words spoken on 1914-06-01 in Tiberias

All the believers of God must be teachers; each individual Bahá'í must know how to deliver the Message of the Kingdom.

DAS.1914-06-01

Confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2936

Words to Ibn-i-Asdaq, spoken on 1913-11-27

Tell me how is the condition of Teaching? Do the believers Teach? This is that which the Blessed Perfection has required

DAS.1913-11-27

Apostles; early disciples of Christ; Devotion; sacrifice; consecration in teaching the Cause; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Priority over other activities in teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Universality of the Cause

ABU2935

Words to Madame Laheebe Hashem, spoken on 1913-10-24

Be thou kind to all mankind. Try thy utmost to alleviate their burdens. Enlighten the minds with the light of knowledge.

DAS.1913-10-24

Education of children; moral education; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Role and station of women; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2934

Words spoken on 1913-10-02 in Ramleh

I consider him [Tolstoi] a Bahá'í, a real Bahá'í, because he lived and acted in accord with the good-pleasure of Bahá'u'lláh

DAS.1913-10-02

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i; Review of publications; Wealth inequality and its moderation

ABU2933

Words spoken on 1913-09-19 in Ramleh

When one goes out to teach he should think of all these things. He must be prepared at all times for whatever comes in the path of God.

DAS.1913-09-19, ABIE.338, PN_1913 p014, BLO_PN#007

Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2932

Words spoken on 1913-08-30 in Ramleh

I am trying to make amends for the past. I am devoting all my time to the Oriental friends.

DAS.1913-08-30, ABIE.256, BLO_PN#007

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Personal instructions; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU2931

Words to a visitor, spoken on 1913-05-09

Under all circumstances, I am happy and well. I am never unwell. The body of man is the result of the composition of the elements and these elements are constantly at war with each other.

DAS.1913-05-09

Composition and decomposition; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Relationship of the soul to the body

ABU2929

Words to Consul Schwartz and Dr Faber, spoken on 1913-04-29

The greatest need of Europe is the organization of a European congress in which the delegates of various powers may discuss seriously the possibility of immediate, concurrent disarmament

DAS.1913-04-29

Parliaments; constitutional government; Petitions to authorities; Status of kings; future of monarchy; The Lesser Peace and the Most Great Peace; True liberty; freedom

ABU2928

Words to the wife of Counsel Schwartz, spoken on 1913-04-04

You must let the children study that which they like best. If your daughter loves art, she can devote her time to it and surely she will succeed.

DAS.1913-04-04

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Creativity in art; Education of children; moral education; Humor; jokes

ABU2927

Words to Madame D'astre, spoken on 1913-01-29

When a person is a light sleeper, one single touch will awake him, if he sleeps heavily, then one must awake him by shaking him... if even this will not awake the sleeper we will then have to use dynamite.

DAS.1913-01-29

Call to action; Growth of the Cause; Predictions and prophecies; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU2912

Words spoken on 1912-12-23 in London

The Cause of God is like unto a house. As long as man has not entered therein he does not know what it contains.

DAS.1912-12-23

Love of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light

ABU2908

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10

Vanity is a form of egotism, an excessive desire for notice of approval of one's personal appearance or deeds. It is self-conceit and self-hypnotization.

Humility; meekness; lowliness; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Satan; the Evil One

ABU2907

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-02-28

A wise man must adapt himself as quickly as possible to every environment. If he is disgruntled and complains he will make his life miserable

DAS.1914-02-28

Acquiescence and resignation; contentment

ABU2903

Words spoken on 1914-07-01

One must always use the simplest and most direct words, that the meaning may be easily conveyed to the minds of the hearers. In writing, we must use the same style

DAS.1914-07-01

Methods of teaching the Cause; The power of words; of speech

ABU2902

Words spoken on 1914-06-04 in Tiberias

The Greek people are scattered all over the world. No matter where you go, you find a number of them engaged in divers lines of human activities.

DAS.1914-06-04

Excellence; distinction; Service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU2901

Words to Mr Crewe of Newfoundland, spoken on 1913-03-03

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; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause

ABU2899

Words spoken on 1913-11 ca. in Ramleh

This is not good. Why do they stop so suddenly the wheels of evolution? The body is composed of so many elements

DAS.1913-11-04

Composition and decomposition; Law of burial and cremation; Law of transformation and change

ABU2896

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-05-07

The believers of God must invite the people to the feast of the love of God. The result of such a feast is the spirituality of the souls and the upliftment of the minds

DAS.1915-05-07

Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU2895

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-01-29

There are some souls who have not any tie, they are completely detached from all else save God. How wonderful is this station! There are also a number of individuals who are detached as far as themselves are concerned

DAS.1915-01-29

Compassion; kindness; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Service to others; to the Cause of God; The golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others

ABU2894

Words spoken on board the SS Baron Call at sea, 1913-12-03

Trust thou wholly in God, and be entirely detached from this world. Then the comfort of this world also will be thine. All these men that thou art beholding

DAS.1913-12-03

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU2893

Words to three Baptist missionaries, spoken on 1913-06-27

The title of the Son is not as great as the title of the Word, because in the Old Testament all the Israelitish people are called sons of God

DAS.1913-06-27

Christ; Christianity; Muhammad; Islam; Oneness; unity of religion; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU2892

Words to a friend, spoken on 1913-06-07

The voices that she did hear from childhood were not outward, physical voices. They were spiritual revelations in her heart. It is very strange that the Popes

DAS.1913-06-07

Infallibility; sinlessness ['ismat]; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU2891

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-05-09

All the people are asleep. Why are they so negligent and neglectful of the glorious destiny which His Holiness Bahá'u'lláh has appointed for them?

DAS.1913-05-09

Call to action; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Manifestation of God as sun; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU2890

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-05-07

The wise man sees that another army with no cannons or rifles but with quite other armaments shall defeat this army.

DAS.1913-05-07

Growth of the Cause; Predictions and prophecies; Stories; anecdotes; War and peace

ABU2889

Words to Alma Knobloch and others, spoken on 1913-04-25

The love of Bahá'u'lláh is the essence of happiness. Any heart which will become the depository of this love is always happy.

DAS.1913-04-25

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Love of God

ABU2888

Words to Mms Bernard, Richard and Sanderson, spoken on 1913-03-05

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

ABU2882

Words spoken on 1912-12-23 in London

The Cause of God is like unto a rose-garden. As long as man is far from it, he cannot see how many kinds of flowers are planted therein

DAS.1912-12-23

Development of capacity and readiness; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU2866

Words to a painter, spoken on 1913-04-03

Can you paint upon the page of the world the ideal pictures of the Supreme Concourse?

DAS.1913-04-03, SW_v05#10 p.149, SW_v05#05 p.070, SW_v08#02 p.028, SW_v14#06 p.178

Connection between material and spiritual worlds; Literature; drama; humanities; the arts; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God

ABU2851

Words to some Arab Baha'is, spoken on 1913-12-03

Man must so adorn himself with good attributes, attractions and divine characteristics that he may become the cause of the illumination of the world of humanity

DAS.1913-12-03

Being a source of light; guidance; Bringing forth results; fruit; Goodly deeds; actions; Man's distinction from the animal; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU2842

Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-13

Contention and conflict; Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Empty learning; false spirituality; Secret societies

در امرالله محفل سری نباید باشد و لو امروز نفوسی بیغرض و خالص این محفل را تأسیس مینمایند

In this Cause of God there is no secret doctrine or secret society or club or gathering. I want you to be impressed with the importance of this fact that there is no secret doctrine in this Cause at all.

BDA2.298

DAS.1913-05-13, MHMD2.394

ABU2835

Words spoken on board the SS Baron Call at sea, 1913-12-03

You must sow seeds of the trees of which may yield fruits for all eternity. Praise be to God, you have entered in the path

DAS.1913-12-03

Bringing forth results; fruit; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Praise and encouragement; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2834

Words to two new Baha’ís, spoken on 1913-05-07

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; High station of teachers of the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

بعضی از نفوس مانند سراجی هستند که باید آنها را روشن کنند و بعضی خود روشنند ولی دیگران

Some souls are like unto the glass chimneys. They are pure and transparent but an outside light must come in and illumine them; there are others who are illumined but they do not confer illumination

BDA2.288-289

DAS.1913-05-07, MHMD2.380

ABU2820

Words spoken on 1913-08-06 in Ramleh

This is one of the wonders of this age, that an oriental and an occidental can meet on common ground

DAS.1913-08-06, SW_v08#10 p.136, ABIE.164, BLO_PN#007

Race unity; racial issues; Spiritual communication; connections of the heart; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Unity; oneness of humanity; Unity in diversity

ABU2818

Words to Latimer, Remey et al, spoken on 1914-10-18

از این مکاتب ثمری نیست اطفال در مکاتب الهی هم تحصیل علوم میکنند و هم آداب یاد میگیرند

The children must receive divine and material education at the same time, and be protected from temptations and vices.... In the scheme of human life

KHH1.113 (1.158)

KHHE.173fn, DAS.1914-10-18, SW_v09#08 p.089, SW_v07#15 p.137, SW_v07#15 p.144, PN_1914 p099

Education of children; moral education; Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2815

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-03-12

The religion of God reforms the moral side of the life of mankind. It is the spreader of the virtues of the world of humanity... In this garden you will find the flowers seen in others, and beside, there are other rare flowers here that are not extant anywhere else.

DAS.1914-03-12, SW_v08#02 p.028

Purpose of religion in the world (personal and social); Religion as reality; definitions of religion; Unity in diversity; Universality of the Cause

ABU2805

Words spoken on 1914-10-20

یک نفر مسلمان و یک نفر مسیحی و یک نفر یهودی در کشتی بودند مسلمان دعا کرد

It is said that once a Mohammadan, a Christian and a Jew were rowing in a boat. Suddenly a tempest arose

KHH1.133

KHHE.174, DAS.1913-02-10, DAS.1914-10-20, SW_v09#18 p.210, VLAB.133, STAB#104

Material and spiritual existence; two books; Religion as reality; definitions of religion; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Work as worship; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU2801

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-14

Material affairs are of two kinds. The first kind are those concerns which have no direct

DAS.1914-05-14, SW_v05#08 p.118, SW_v08#02 p.017

ABU2797

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-01-03

This globe with all the infinite forms of life teeming through its length and breadth is but a grain of poppy in comparison with this stupendous creation

DAS.1915-01-03

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Infinity and eternity; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge

ABU2796

Words spoken on 1914-06-14 in Tiberias

This is all very good! I hope many such useful articles will appear in the press of America and Europe. The mass of humanity must be informed

DAS.1914-06-14

Methods of teaching the Cause; Newspapers and the media; publications; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2791

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-04-22

Horticulture is one of the most fascinating arts. I love it and watch the growth of the trees and flowers as one watches the growth of the babes.

Agriculture; Creativity in art; Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator; Perfection; imperfection of nature

ABU2790

Words spoken at railway station in Akka, 1915-03-06

In all my daily works and movements I rely on the confirmations of the Blessed Perfection. Whenever I feel weak I turn my face to Him and He strengthens me.

DAS.1915-03-06

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Disregarding individual capacity; weakness; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Power of prayer; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times

ABU2789

Words to Esmael, spoken on 1914-12-09

It is generally understood that the seat of thought, consciousness and volition is the brain, it is the organ of intellection and understanding. The heart also displays a part through the central nervous system.

DAS.1914-12-09, SW_v13#06 p.152x

Meaning; importance of dreams and visions; The mind's power of discovery

ABU2788

Words to Esmael, spoken on 1914-12-07

Now tell me, Esmael, art thou sure that the Messiah will appear in two years?

DAS.1914-12-07, SW_v13#06 p.150-151x

Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people; Suffering; rejection of Christ; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2787

Words spoken on 1914-06-04 in Tiberias

This town [Tiberias] is very sacred in the estimation of the Jews, yet they seldom think of its improvement and cleanliness.

DAS.1914-06-04

Charitable associations; humanitarian activities; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past

ABU2786

Words to a stranger, spoken on 1914-05-09

There is no origin of evil. The origin of evil is non-existent. For example darkness is evil. It is the absence of light.

DAS.1914-05-09, PN_1914 p002, BSTW#318

Creation of the world; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Nonexistence of evil; relativity of good and evil; Quotation from or interpretation of the Bible

ABU2785

Words to Haji Mirza Haydar Ali, spoken on 1914-04-15

This Mirza Ahmad has become the 'recorder of my deeds'. As soon as I open my mouth he takes out his notebook. If I make a joke, it will be spread all over Europe.

DAS.1914-04-15

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Humor; jokes

ABU2784

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-03-11

This is the most important work. This is the light of the religion of God. This sea must ever be kept tempestuous. This fountain must always flow... The Cause is the cup, teaching is the ruby wine with which the souls are intoxicated.

DAS.1914-03-11

Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU2783

Words spoken on 1914-01-14

Unity is an ideal which is confirmed by the Almighty. When I hear the believers are united I am most happy. The Spirit of Baha'o'llah overshadows those souls

DAS.1914-01-14

Call to unity; prohibition of disunity; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU2782

Words to some of the friends, spoken on 1913-12-29

Under what tumultuous times the foundation of this divine structure was laid! Owing to the false reports

DAS.1913-12-29

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Ottoman commissions of investigation; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Sacred remains; burial of the Bab; Shrines and Holy places

ABU2781

Words to a lawyer, spoken on 1913-12-01

The more the rays of the sun of education are diffused, the less will be the darkness of crime and brutality

DAS.1913-12-01

Call to action; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU2780

Words to a journal editor who wrote against the Faith, spoken on 1913-05-21

If I knew that thou wouldst not think that I am afraid, I would have sent thee a gift for writing such a book against the Bahá'í movement. Thy example is like unto the ant who scaled a high, sturdy poplar tree

DAS.1913-05-21

Growth of the Cause; Humor; jokes; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Stories; anecdotes

ABU2779

Words spoken at Grand Hotel in Vienna, 1913-04-23

The greatest consolation for the heart is the Love of God. This is the balm for every wound and the remedy for every ailment.

DAS.1913-04-23

Consolation and comfort; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Love of God; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Kingdom of God [Malakut]

ABU2778

Words following address to theosophists, spoken on 1913-04-10

Our hearts like unto pure mirrors receive the impressions and these spiritual images are reflected from one mirror upon another without the medium of language.

DAS.1913-04-10

Human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within; Limits of language; Spiritual communication; connections of the heart; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; The power of words; of speech

ABU2777

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-15

110

The Cause of God will soon throw a great reverberation throughout the pillars of the world. It will embrace in its fold the East and the West. Its power will penetrate through every atom of creation.

DAS.1913-03-15

Consolation and comfort; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Growth of the Cause

ABU2776

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-11

Our pathway is supplication and invocation, severance from all else save Him and communion with the Source of all benediction.

DAS.1913-02-11

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Importance of prayer; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU2775

Words to a young man, spoken on 1913-01-22

Now that you are returning to America, pass through all the large cities on the way, meet the friends of God and associate with them.

DAS.1913-01-22

Call to action; Exhortations and counsels; Goodly deeds; actions; Personal instructions; Service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU2765

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-06

It is very strange how the possession of a few spans of earth blinds men to justice and fairness. He become neglectful and heedless

DAS.1914-05-06

Greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Piety; righteousness; fear of God [taqwa]

ABU2762

Words spoken on 1914-07-16

This wonderful Cause has not been properly introduced into China. It is very necessary that it should be done.

DAS.1914-07-16

Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Growth of the Cause; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2760

Words spoken on 1914-05-31 in Tiberias

Whenever a believer dies and leaves behind debt, the friends of God must exert themselves to pay it off. If he had left some property or real estate they may dispose of it

DAS.1914-05-31

Business; financial; property matters; Charitable associations; humanitarian activities; Conduct in finance and business; Service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU2757

Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-22

There are three kinds of light. The light of the sun has only one function and that is to make things manifest.... The second light is the light of the eye... The third light is the light of the intellect.

DAS.1913-05-22

Ether; the phenomenon of light; Intelligible vs. perceptible realities; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Mind as intermediary between soul and body; Symbolism of color and light

ABU2755

Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-19

Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Power of prayer; Preservation; transcription of the Sacred Writings; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

من عربی را تحصیل نکرده‌ام وقتی طفل بودم کتابی از مناجاتهای حضرت باب را بخط جمال مبارک

All the Baha'ís know that I have never studied Arabic.... I will tell you how I came to know Arabic. When I was very, very young, I found in our house in Tihran a large voluminous book containing many prayers in Arabic revealed by the Bab and copied by Baha'u'llah.

HHA.004x, BDA2.308

DAS.1913-05-19, MHMD2.407-408, STAB#093, KSHK#31

ABU2754

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-03-08

While in America I strove day and night to prepare a few holy sanctified souls to take up the burden of the Cause after my departure. A very few who have responded to this call have arisen

DAS.1913-03-08

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Exhortations and counsels; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU2753

Farewell words to some friends, spoken on 1913-06-11

Love of God; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Kingdom of God [Malakut]

من چندی در میان شما بودم نهایت محبت را بشماها داشته و دارم همیشه قلبم در محبت شما

I have been in your midst for a few months. Only God knows how much I have grown to love you. Your love beats in my heart like the artery of life.

BDA2.346-347x

DAS.1913-06-11, MHMD2.460x

ABU2752

Words spoken on 1913-07-01 in Port Said

I have great love for the believers of Baghdad. They are ever in My heart. Be not sad owing to the present ruin of the House.

DAS.1913-07-01

Christ; Christianity; Consolation and comfort; Growth of the Cause; Predictions and prophecies; Shrines and Holy places

ABU2741

Words to two Bahá’ís, spoken on 1913-03-30

You must become fully informed with these Teachings. It is good to be thoroughly informed with science or arts or literature. Likewise you must be established in the Kingdom of God.

DAS.1913-03-30

Material and spiritual existence; two books; Poems and quotation from poetry; Spiritual communication; connections of the heart; Study; deepening

ABU2737

Words spoken on 1913-08-13 in Ramleh

When we were in in Bagdad, there was a very prominent man who used to come often to see Bahá'u'lláh. He sat in His Presence with the greatest respect, and listened to the utterances

DAS.1913-08-13, ABIE.184, BLO_PN#007, STAB#083

Critique of Western values; culture; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU2733

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-20

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

ABU2730

Words spoken on 1914-06-22 in Haifa

The Bahá'í students in Beirut have so conducted themselves, both within and without the college

DAS.1914-06-22, SW_v09#11 p.122

Cleanliness and refinement; Praise and encouragement

ABU2729

Words spoken on 1913-10-26 in Ramleh

I desire that you may see the divine ships. These ships are the blessed sails who are traversing the sea of divine mercy

LOG#1997x, DAS.1913-10-26, SW_v08#08 p.104

Growth of the Cause; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause

ABU2718

Words to Mona DeBons, spoken on 1913-10-16

If the people ask you whether you are English or French, tell them you are a Bahá'í.

DAS.1913-10-16, SW_v09#18 p.203-204

Being a source of light; guidance; Definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i; Stories; anecdotes

ABU2706

Words spoken on 1914-06-24 in Haifa

The believers must be pleased to comply with my wish. If my first expresion in any matter is obeyed, it will lead to success and spiritual happiness.

DAS.1914-06-24

Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Personal instructions; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ABU2704

Words to two Theosophists spoken on 1913-04-23

Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; Spiritualization of humanity in the future; a new race of men

از برای انسان دو ترقیست ترقی جسمانی و ترقی روحانی ترقیات جسمانیه موقتیست

There are two kinds of progress, spiritual progress and material progress. Material progress is temporal and vanishing

BDA2.256x

DAS.1913-04-23, MHMD2.328x

ABU2699

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-21

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

ABU2695

Words spoken on 1914-07-24 in Haifa

Praise be to God, you are firm in the Covenant and steadfast in the Testament. Firmness and

DAS.1914-07-24, SW_v08#05 p.059

Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU2694

Words spoken on 1914-06-03 in Tiberias

Laughter is caused by the slackening or relaxation of the nerves. It is an ideal condition and not physical

DAS.1914-06-03, SW_v13#04 p.102, PN_1914 p009

Law of cause and effect; Material and spiritual existence; two books

ABU2693

Words spoken on 1914-06-05 in Tiberias

Rest assured in the protection of God. He will preserve his own children under all circumstances.

DAS.1914-06-05, SW_v08#19 p.241

Consolation and comfort; Cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds; Poems and quotation from poetry; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ABU2691

Words spoken on 1914-01-07 in Haifa

The world needs more happiness and illumination. The star of happiness is in every heart

DAS.1914-01-07, SW_v07#16 p.162-163, SW_v13#05 p.102, PN_1914 p009, SDW v12#10 p.115

Composure; tranquillity; serenity; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness

ABU2685

Words to Osman Bey and others, spoken on 1914-12-23

The citizens of a country are like the various members and organs of the body. So long as the brain

DAS.1914-12-23, SW_v13#10 p.271

Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Relationship between government and people; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty

ABU2680

Words spoken on 1914-03-07

The altar of sacrifice is the living heart of man, and not a few pieces of dead stones

DAS.1914-03-07, SW_v07#04 p.027

Love of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light

ABU2675

, spoken on 1912-03-30

جمیع موجودات در تحت تغیر و تبدیلند هر جوانی پیر و هر نهالی درخت کهن میشود

All the created phenomena are subject to the law of change and transmutation. Youth is

BDA1.018.06

DAS.1913-07-19, SW_v13#09 p.218, MHMD1.025, ABIE.086, BLO_PN#007

Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Law of transformation and change; The truth of past religions and sacred scriptures

ABU2671

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-05-26

The sandy desert along the beach is full of mystic stillness... If a person could disclose and bring into the light of day the real and secret qualities of the hearts, he would observe that although these people are human in outward form and shape

DAS.1915-05-26

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU2670

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1915-05-03

Whosoever I send to America must at first gain the regenerative power of the second birth, be baptized with the water of universal ideals and be a living torch of the Fire of the Love of God

DAS.1915-05-03

Love as fire; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; The power of words; of speech; The state of enkindlement in teaching; Words vs deeds

ABU2669

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-04-23

When I was a young man I wished to be entirely free, devoting my time to the service of the Cause. My first intention was not to marry. Four times the means of marriage were brought about by my family

DAS.1915-04-23

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU2668

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-03-31

The essence of Deity is unknown and will never be properly understood and defined. In every age different names are given to the same essence.

DAS.1915-03-31

Names and attributes of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ABU2667

Words spoken on 1914-07-21 in Haifa

I hope India will become the burning furnace of the Love of God. The people of that country are very receptive and their leaders are quick to perceive the need

DAS.1914-07-21

Call to action; Growth of the Cause; Praise and encouragement; Wisdom [hikmat]

ABU2666

Words spoken in Dec. 1913 in Akka

During the Dispensation of Muhammad, there lived two poets in Mecca. One composed a great eulogy praising Muhammad

DAS.1913-12-21

Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Humor; jokes; Praise and encouragement; Stories; anecdotes

ABU2665

Words to Mrs Cruttwell, spoken on 1913-05-27

O Thou Almighty! Direct Thou this traveller toward the pathway of Thy guidance! Suffer this thirsty one to reach to the fountainhead of Thy bestowal!

DAS.1913-05-27

Living waters; water of life; Prayer for nearness to God; Prayers (general or uncategorized); The Kingdom of God [Malakut]

ABU2664

Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-11

Bahá'u'lláh in one of his Tablets says: "Therefore I will explain for your benefit certain luminous and shining mysteries, whereby you will become so attracted

DAS.1913-05-11

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU2663

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-04-27

He [Bismark] was the most wonderful genius in statesmanship. He was a wise, shrewd and most intelligent diplomatist.

DAS.1913-04-27

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Praise and encouragement; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU2662

Words to some friends, spoken on 1913-03-29

I am under the protection and preservation of God. God looks after me. He guards me against any danger. Sometimes He comes and caresses me. He kisses my lips and touches my back.

DAS.1913-03-29

Consolation and comfort; Love of God; Spiritual communication; connections of the heart; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times

ABU2661

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-10

Today whosoever has arisen to teach the Cause and serve the believers, divine confirmations shall descend upon him; otherwise he is wasting his time.

DAS.1913-03-10

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Stories; anecdotes; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2660

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-03

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

ABU2659

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-14

When I was very young I was travelling with Bahá'u'lláh and my family. We reached the city of Kermanshahan. Here we took quarters in a Caravanserai.

DAS.1913-02-14

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Stories; anecdotes; Wealth inequality and its moderation

ABU2658

Words to three friends, spoken on 1913-01-26

Just as you are striving in [the] material sphere, work also in [the] spiritual sphere. Try to suffer the people to enter in the Kingdom of God... There is a vast difference whether you hear about the light, see the light or whether you live in the light.

DAS.1913-01-26

Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; The Kingdom of God [Malakut]; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU2641

The Sultan of Turkey had mastered a knowledge of Western music. One day all his ministers were present and a European artist was playing on the Piano the Western classics.

DAS.1913-11-20

Critique of Eastern values; culture; Hypocrisy; Stories; anecdotes

ABU2636

Words spoken en route in carriage in Haifa, 1915-04-18

We are living and moving in a Cause the likeness of which is like unto this ocean. We must immerse ourselves in this sea and reach its depths, so that we may gather the unseen, brilliant pearls of the mysteries of the Kingdom of God

DAS.1915-04-18

Call to action; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Prophecy and fulfillment; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU2635

Words to the governor of Akka and others, spoken on 1915-04-02

the Beloved gave a detailed and stirring account of the history of Akka from the time it was taken by the Crusaders in 1104 A.D... I have no doubt that had he the inclination and desire he could write a most instructive history of this ancient and sacred town.

DAS.1915-04-02

Historical episodes and the lessons of the past

ABU2634

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-02-22

It is very strange indeed how many particulars of my earliest childhood always stick to my memory. I remember when I was 4 or 5 years old there was a very poor old man in our street

DAS.1915-02-22

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Poems and quotation from poetry; Stories; anecdotes; Youth and pre-ministry of Abdu'l-Baha

ABU2633

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1915-01-30

This is the first German house built in Haifa by the leader of the colony, called Hirtik, who came here in 1870 with about 500 people

DAS.1915-01-30

Historical episodes and the lessons of the past

ABU2632

Words to Mirza Fazlollah Khan, spoken on 1915-01-29

All their theories and opinions have been useless and without result. They have made a trial of this, still they are not warned. They start in words and end in words. Their whole system of philosophy is based on speculations

DAS.1915-01-29

Empty learning; false spirituality; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU2631

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-05

The American women as a whole are better educated, more well-informed on classical as well as current subject and the spreaders of the right ideals of education.

DAS.1914-12-05

Divine philosophy and natural philosophy; Praise of Western values; culture; Role and station of women

ABU2630

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-18

This world is like unto a theatre on the stage of which all kinds of drama, plays, tragedies, comedies and operas are presented

DAS.1914-11-18

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; War and peace

ABU2629

Words spoken on 1914-07-27 in Haifa

What does a man lose if he should lose his self? His moral credit will be larger than his debit.

DAS.1914-07-27

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2628

Words spoken on 1914-07-27 in Haifa

The supreme concern of any government must be the establishment of equal justice and equal opportunity amongst its citizens.

DAS.1914-07-27

Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Progress and the continual ascent of material civilization; Relationship between government and people; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world

ABU2627

Interview with five American teachers, Haifa, 1914-07-21

The objective aims are: The oneness of the world of humanity

DAS.1914-07-21, SW_v12#01 p.014, PN_1914 p006

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Growth of the Cause; Lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Unity in diversity; Universal peace; world unity

ABU2626

Words spoken on 1913-10-24 in Ramleh

I hope you will read the newspaper of the Kingdom of Abha, the articles of which are the ideals of God. This newspaper will perish

DAS.1913-10-24

Angels; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The concourse on high

ABU2625

Words spoken on 1913-10-24 in Ramleh

...in every dispensation three persons are mentioned. In the Mosaic dispensation there was Jehovah, the burning bush and Moses.

DAS.1913-10-24

Angels; Presence of; reunion with God; The cross and the trinity; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU2624

Words spoken on 1913-08-17 in Ramleh

Some people are like unto the spiders. The more you tear to pieces their webs of imaginations and imitations, the greater will become their zeal to spin them again.

DAS.1913-08-17, ABIE.202, BLO_PN#007

Blind imitation [taqlid]; Empty learning; false spirituality; Humor; jokes

ABU2623

Farewell words to the friends, spoken on 1913-06-08

I love the believers of Paris, not the walls and the houses. The walls do not protect one from his ego. One must become the embodiment of divine love.

DAS.1913-06-08

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU2622

Words to a singer, spoken on 1913-05-26

Are you progressing in your art? The heavenly song is good. It is my hope that you may sing that song. When we left America on the steamer Celtic, there were several musicians and singers.

DAS.1913-05-26

Material and spiritual existence; two books; Music and singing; Nearness to God; Prayer for nearness to God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The concourse on high

ABU2621

Words to a woman questioner, spoken on 1913-04-22

You must enter in the Kingdom of Abha. In the Kingdom of Abha, there is light upon light. The darkness of sorrow and pain is banished forever

DAS.1913-04-22

Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The Kingdom of God [Malakut]

ABU2620

Words to Mr Eckstein, spoken on 1913-04-05

A thirsty man will run after every fountain, he may drink bitter and stagnant water but at last he will reach to the sweet spring.

DAS.1913-04-05

Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Oneness; unity of religion; Religion as reality; definitions of religion

ABU2619

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-03-15

There are three ancient Bibles. 1st the Jewish Bible. 2nd the Sanhedrin Bible which was translated by the seventy wisest Rabbis into Greek at the time of Ptolemy. 3rd the Samaritan Bible.

DAS.1913-03-15

Grammatical and other discrepancies in the Sacred Writings; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people

ABU2618

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-01

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

ABU2617

Words to Mrs. Henlay, spoken on 1913-02-18

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; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU2616

Public address given on 1913-02-17

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; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU2615

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-16

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

ABU2614

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-09

How pitiful it is that man is satisfied with material things and so regulates his life as to gain more and more!

DAS.1913-02-09

Human reality created in the image of God; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU2613

Words spoken on 1913-01-23 in Paris

The Parisian people are submerged in a sea of materialism. They are intoxicated with the wine of desire and selfish appetites. They think these material objects are permanent.

DAS.1913-01-23

Existence; immortality of the human soul; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU2612

Words to the minister of the New Congregational Church, spoken on 1913-01-13

I am only a servant of God. The station of servitude is very great. It is very difficult for any one to live in accord with the requirements of servitude

DAS.1913-01-13

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Knowledge; recognition of God; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU2599

Words to Stanwood Cobb, spoken on 1913-03-28

No. In this movement there will never be any paid ministers, no appointed clergy, no bishops, no cardinals, no popes, no ceremonies.

DAS.1913-03-28, BSTW#093c

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Priestcraft; Spirit and form in the administration

ABU2597

Words spoken on 1913-10-25 in Ramleh

When I was in America and Europe I went through some of the Zoological gardens... My grandfather had many colored maids and servants. When the Blessed Perfection became the head of the family

DAS.1913-10-25, SW_v09#03 p.038-039x

Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Race unity; racial issues; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Stories; anecdotes

ABU2595

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-25

I have set a conflagration throughout America. Its results will become known later. Wait for a few years and you will behold the appearance of many traces.

DAS.1913-03-25

Christ; Christianity; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Growth of the Cause; Predictions and prophecies

ABU2593

Words to a Unitarian woman, spoken on 1912-03-26

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion; Man's distinction from the animal; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

مژده مژده که علم ملکوت بلند شد مژده مژده بهار الهی ظاهر گردید مژده مژده ابر رحمت ببارید

The most important of all intentions is to spread the love of God.... Glad tidings, glad tidings, the Sun of love has dawned

BDA1.011.12

DAS.1913-07-15, SW_v14#05 p.129, MHMD1.016-017, ABIE.066, BLO_PN#007

ABU2586

Words spoken at Rue Lauriston 97 in Paris, 1913-03-27

Fifty years ago Bahá'u'lláh prophesied: 'Adrianople shall go out of the hand of the Sultan' and today that prophecy is fulfilled.... It is evident that negligence from God brings a nation to this path; lack of sound administration

DAS.1913-03-27

Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Prophecy and fulfillment

ABU2583

Words spoken on 1913-10-16 in Ramleh

You must give your daughter a Bahai education so that she may become an excellent

DAS.1913-10-16, SW_v09#08 p.096

Education of children; moral education; Religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2576

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1912-03-27

Buddhism and Hinduism; religions of the East; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Idolatry; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God

چه قدر تفاوتست بین نفوس شخصی چنان خود را پست مینماید که پرستش جماد و اشکال

What a great difference exists between men. One person degrades himself to such a degree that he idolizes and worships stones

BDA1.013.17

DAS.1913-07-19, MHMD1.020, ABIE.086, BLO_PN#007

ABU2572

Words to Latimer, Remey et al, spoken on 1914-10-18

چقدر اینها مضطربند ابدا سکون ندارند این علامات عدم ایمان است در قران میفرماید

These people who called on us today were in a state of fright. They are expecting daily

KHH1.113 (1.157-158)

KHHE.172-173fn, DAS.1914-10-18, SW_v08#19 p.241, PN_1914 p098

Composure; tranquillity; serenity; Degrees of faith; certitude; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ABU2570

Words spoken on 1913-10-16 in Ramleh

The future of Germany is very bright. The German people on the whole are religious. They are very noble and progressive. The Cause of God will advance

DAS.1913-10-16

Growth of the Cause; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Praise of Western values; culture; Predictions and prophecies

ABU2568

Words to two Zoroastrian pilgrims, spoken on 1914-05-31

It is a mathematical impossibility that a soul may comprehend the purport of the Teachings of Baha-ollah and then arise to oppose them.

DAS.1914-05-31

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Manifestation of God as divine physician; Rejection, opposition and persecution; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU2553

Words spoken on 1914-06-12 in Tiberias

Man must be qualified with the attributes of the Kingdom. Man must characterize himself with the characteristics of the Kingdom.

DAS.1914-06-12, SW_v09#10 p.112

Self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; The golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU2552

Words spoken at Rue Lauriston 97 in Paris, 1913-05-30

One must eat in moderation. Man is not created for food. He must not indulge in eating too much. Overeating is the cause of many diseases.

DAS.1913-05-30

Education and the development of capacity; Knowledge; recognition of God; Love of God; Moderation; frugality; simplicity; Transcending the material condition; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures

ABU2550

Words to some American friends, spoken on 1913-05-24

America has the capacity of becoming the standard-bearer of international peace. Geographically it is a vast continent, far away from the jealous eyes of the envious neighbors

DAS.1913-05-24

Prayer for peace and unity; Unity of governments; political unity; Universal peace; world unity

ABU2544

Words to visitors, spoken on 1913-04-19

Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Unity in diversity; Universal language

از کنار نهر گنگا از هند بایران رفتند و پس از کهرت و تعد و قبائل بعضی رو

The Persians, the Austrians, the Germans, the French, the Italian and the English people belong to one common stock of Aryan race…

BDA2.247

DAS.1913-04-19, MHMD2.320

ABU2538

Words spoken at table on 1914-10-30

Consider how the people bear testimony to the fact that this Religion is universal and its principles are conducive to the welfare of humanity

DAS.1914-10-30

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Rejection of Muhammad; Suffering; rejection of Christ; Unity; oneness of humanity; Universality of the Cause; Universal peace; world unity

ABU2536

Words spoken on 1913-07-29 in Ramleh

Glad tidings of the Kingdom of Abha! We announce to you Glad-tidings of great Joy!... Similar words were spoken almost two thousand years ago.

DAS.1913-07-29, SW_v08#13 p.157-158, ABIE.125, BLO_PN#007

He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Oneness; unity of religion; Prophecy and fulfillment; The Adamic cycle and the Baha'i cycle; Universal language; Universal peace; world unity

ABU2533

Words spoken on 1913-09-01 in Ramleh

No matter how scientific a man may be, yet at times, 'imagination' gains an ascendancy over his mind. For example, while a man is alive he is able to strike

DAS.1913-09-01, ABIE.263, BLO_PN#007

Power of imagination; thought; right intention; Existence; immortality of the human soul; The human soul; The human soul at midpoint of creation; the isthmus [barzakh]; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures

ABU2532

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-04

وقتی سلمان ایوذر را مهمانی کرد نان خالی حاضر کرده بود

Once upon a time, Salman called on Abouzar. When the lunch time came around

MUH1.0126-0127

DAS.1914-05-04, SW_v09#18 p.206-207, STAB#031

Acquiescence and resignation; contentment; Hospitality; Humor; jokes; Stories; anecdotes

ABU2527

Words spoken on 1914-10-17 in Haifa

Praise be to God that his holiness Baha'o'llah, has spread before us the heavenly table

DAS.1914-10-17, SW_v07#16 p.154

Spiritual foundations of true knowledge; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU2526

Words spoken on 1914-06-18

If the fruit of the existence of man is not servitude at the threshold of the Almighty I declare by the living, self-subsistent God

DAS.1914-06-18, SW_v07#16 p.151

Effort; striving; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; The Kingdom of God [Malakut]; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU2515

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-09

He was caught sleeping by our enemies and they deceived him. He thought after writing and publishing this book all the Persians will honor and respect him

DAS.1914-05-09

Chastisement and requital; Power of the Manifestation of God; Predictions and prophecies; Prophecy and fulfillment

ABU2508

Words to H.E.H et al, spoken on 1913-11-01

It is well. For example when we enter a rose-garden we think how through the heat and the rays of the material sun such wonderful

DAS.1913-11-01, PN_1913-14_heh p009

Manifestation of God as educator; Manifestation of God as sun; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU2507

Words spoken on 1914-06-05 in Tiberias

Just as the created things of this world are infinite, so as a necessity the Essence of God must also be infinite. We confess that we do not know the essence of electricity and ether

DAS.1914-06-05

Creation of the world; God as immanent vs. transcendent reality; Knowledge; recognition of God; Proofs for the existence of God; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ABU2506

Words to a Frenchman, spoken on 1914-06-03

Does this philosopher mean that there is no 'motion' whatever in Nature? For as we know there are several kinds of motion

DAS.1914-06-03

All things are in motion; kinds of motion; Evolution; human evolution; Heat and motion; Law of transformation and change; Passage of elementary matter through degrees of existence

ABU2505

Words spoken on 1914-06-01 in Tiberias

You pray for us and we shall pray for you, so that God may assist us in the performance of good deeds.

DAS.1914-06-01

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Words vs deeds

ABU2504

Words to Isabel Fraser, spoken on 1913-09-28

I desire that thou mayst be filled with Bahá'u'lláh. Thou must concentrate all thy ideas and thoughts around the promotion

DAS.1913-09-28, ABIE.365, BLO_PN#007

Confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Love of God; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2497

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-05-21

Yes. We must wait and see how the results of the mighty events which are taking place in these days will shape themselves into concrete facts

DAS.1915-05-21

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology; Unity; oneness of humanity; Unity of governments; political unity

ABU2496

Words to some Zoroastrian farmers, spoken on 1915-02-26

Giving is a divine quality. Blessed are those who give! When we were in Baghdad we had an Arab Bahá'í who lived nine miles out of the city.

DAS.1915-02-26

Being a source of light; guidance; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Stories; anecdotes

ABU2495

Words spoken on 1914-12-16

I know thou art exerting thyself in the instruction of the children. The life of man must be productive of some results

DAS.1914-12-16, SW_v13#07 p.172

Education of children; moral education; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2494

Words to some Druze friends, spoken on 1914-11-02

In America the houses are decorated with costly portraits and pictures of men and women. They pay fabulous prices for these works of art

DAS.1914-11-02

Critique of Eastern values; culture; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Literature; drama; humanities; the arts

ABU2493

Words to Mr. N. R. Vakil, spoken on 1914-04-18

They contain many inspired utterances, but through the lapse of time human ideas have crept in and afterward men have come to believe that they are all, in their totality, the revealed words of God.

Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture

ABU2492

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1914-03-15

I am not saying anything, but every week I receive great news about the progress of the Cause in Persia... The Spirit of God is using these instruments in all parts of the world to create a mighty synthesis of all that which is best in the past religions

DAS.1914-03-15

Growth of the Cause; Oneness; unity of religion; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Wisdom [hikmat]

ABU2491

Words to Dr Faber, spoken on 1913-04-26

One of the kings of Persia once got sick. This king was very proud and despotic. All the people at the court feared him and cowered before him.

DAS.1913-04-26

Humor; jokes; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Stories; anecdotes

ABU2490

Words to four ladies from London, spoken on 1913-03-29

Any soul entering the Kingdom of Bahá'u'lláh will enjoy an eternal communion with God. It is my hope that each one of you may enter this Kingdom!

DAS.1913-03-29

Knowledge; recognition of God; Purpose; goal of creation; Quotation from or interpretation of the Bible; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU2489

Words spoken at Rue Lauriston 97 in Paris, 1913-03-28

There are two relations between man and wife, one real, the other unreal. The real relation which is based upon spiritual love... When there exists incompatibility of temper

DAS.1913-03-28, BSTW#093d

Law of divorce; Laws of marriage and dowry; Marriage as means of spiritual progress

ABU2488

Words to Miss Fraser and Miss Hodgeson, spoken on 1913-03-24

You are two good sisters. Bahá'í sisterhood is very precious. It is not like material sisterhood. Material sisterhood is forgotten and often changed into hatred.

DAS.1913-03-24, ADP.112-113

Spiritual communication; connections of the heart; The Kingdom of God [Malakut]

ABU2487

Words to a patriotic youth, spoken on 1913-03-23

Once upon a time the king of a certain country got hold of an owl and put it in a large golden cage hanging it in his royal Park. The King observed that the owl was not happy in his wonderful park

DAS.1913-03-23

Humor; jokes; Nationalism; love of country; Stories; anecdotes

ABU2486

Words to Entezam-es-Saltaneh, spoken on 1913-03-17

There was a Mirza Fazlollah who was looking for a government appointment. He came one day to the Blessed Perfection

DAS.1913-03-17

Past, present and future of Iran; Stories; anecdotes

ABU2485

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-14

It is evident that the five books which are generally attributed to Moses were written by Ezra the high priest. Only the Tablets and the commandments belong to Moses.

DAS.1913-03-14

Apostles; early disciples of Christ; Christian doctrine and practice; Criticism and its limits; Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people

ABU2484

Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-03-02

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; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transcending the material condition

ABU2483

Words to Mrs. Henlay, spoken on 1913-02-18

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

ABU2474

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-21

The realization of these two opposite attitudes in a single individual is very rare. In the Bahá'í Cause it is taught... I went out to return the morning call of the German officer.

DAS.1914-12-21, SW_v13#10 p.270

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU2472

Words spoken on 1913-11-21 in Ramleh

The Hosts of the Kingdom of Abha are at all times gaining fresh victories... When I dictate a supplication my whole being is absorbed in the mercy and tenderness of God.

DAS.1913-11-21

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Growth of the Cause; Power of prayer; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2456

Words to the American friends, spoken on 1912-04-02

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

سابق طی بحر محیط باین سهولت ممکن نبود و تا کنون این نحو مسافر هم از ایران بامریکا نرفته

In past ages crossing the ocean was not as easy as it is now. Up to the present time no one has traveled, with a purpose like ours, from Persia to America.

BDA1.020.15

DAS.1913-07-20, MHMD1.028, ABIE.089, BLO_PN#007

ABU2453

Words to Miss Fraser, spoken on 1912-12-16

You have written excellent articles in the papers in regard to the Cause, I will never forget

DAS.1912-12-16, SW_v03#19 p.003

Critique of Western values; culture; Newspapers and the media; publications; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2445

Words spoken on 1913-11-17 in Port Said

His Holiness Mohamad lived 23 years and all his writings are put together in the form of the Book you have in your hands. Once an Arab went to Him

DAS.1913-11-17

Muhammad; Islam

ABU2442

Words spoken at Bahji, 1913-12-18

I have seen many meadows in Europe and America, but seldom have I seen a place more spiritual, more divine, more inspirational.

DAS.1913-12-18

Shrines and Holy places

ABU2438

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-14

The people of Paris are of two kinds. First, the followers of a dogmatic religion; second, the free-thinkers. The former follow blindly the priests; the latter does not like to hear the word of religion mentioned.

DAS.1913-02-14

Critique of Western values; culture; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU2428

Words to Mr Lee and Miss Hodgson, spoken on 1913-05-09

Development of capacity and readiness; Devotion; sacrifice; consecration in teaching the Cause; Methods of teaching the Cause; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

انسان اول باید خود را تبلیغ نماید خود منجذب و منقطع باشد تا نفس او در دیگران تأثیر کند

Every soul must first teach himself; he must be severed, attracted, enkindled; he must be living the life -- then his words will have effect... This Cause has cost us very dear. We have not received it cheaply.

BDA2.293

DAS.1913-05-09, MHMD2.386

ABU2420

Words spoken on 1913-07-17 in Ismailia

100

When I was in Paris one of the believers brought me a soft cushion and urged

DAS.1913-07-17, SW_v08#02 p.020-021, ABIE.077, BLO_PN#007

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Moderation; frugality; simplicity; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU2408

Words spoken on 1913-10-25 in Ramleh

100

Man must live in contentment with the conditions of his time. He must not make

DAS.1913-10-25, SW_v08#02 p.017

Acquiescence and resignation; contentment; Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Moderation; frugality; simplicity; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty

ABU2407

Words spoken on board the SS Celtic at sea, 1912-12-10

100

Do you see that brilliant star? I declare... that it is my fondest hope

DAS.1912-12-08, SW_v07#12 p.115, SW_v09#14 p.162

Being a source of light; guidance; Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence

ABU2398

Words spoken on 1914-04-17

100

You must become the shining candles of moral precepts and spiritual ideas

COC#0796x, LOG#0717x, DAS.1914-04-17, SW_v09#09 p.098

Being a source of light; guidance; Excellence; distinction; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU2397

Words spoken on 1914-06-25

100

If the friends of God listen to my first word, they will find the success.... Thou shouldst strive day and night, so that the fire of the love of God

DAS.1914-06-24, SW_v09#11 p.123

Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God

ABU2394

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-07 ca.

100

Man is liable to forget things very quickly, but the animals remember longer. If you have been kind to a dog once in your lifetime

DAS.1914-05-08

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Compassion; kindness; Kindness to and rights of animals; Stories; anecdotes

ABU2392

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1914-03-15

100

The spiritual life postulates simplicity and contemplation combined with usefulness and well-guided activity. When we were living in Baghdad according to the custom of that country we slept on the roof

DAS.1914-03-15, SW_v07#18 p.177-178x, SW_v08#13 p.167x

Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Contemplation; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU2391

Words to a young believer, spoken on 1914-03-12

100

A wise young man ever thinks of and studies those means which are conducive to his progress - mental, intellectual and spiritual. He lets all amusements and recreations go and applies himself

DAS.1914-03-12

Education of children; moral education; Exhortations and counsels; High station of learning; Useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession

ABU2390

Words to a pilgrim, spoken on 1914-03-05

100

Be thou occupied in guiding the souls. If you want to educate a person you must strive for many years

DAS.1914-03-05

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Manifestation of God as educator; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause

ABU2389

Words to assembled guests, spoken on 1913-12-10

100

Yes, I know every one of you, and I love all of you. I have lived forty years in this city, and so you all are my children.

DAS.1913-12-10

Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times

ABU2388

Words to Edward Getsinger, spoken on 1913-11-10

100

Greater love has no man for another than I have demonstrated toward thee. I have sent for thee and am sending both of you to India

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Disregarding bodily comfort; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Personal instructions; Praise and encouragement; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2387

Words spoken on 1913-09-05 in Ramleh

100

The program of such fete days must be so prepared as to yield a permanent result. As they are the days of freedom from work

DAS.1913-09-05, ABIE.282, BLO_PN#007

Consultation; Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

ABU2386

Words to Persian students, spoken on 1913-09-05

100

The people of this country are not interested to read these articles and addresses and if you ask from those few

DAS.1913-09-05, ABIE.281, BLO_PN#007

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU2385

Words to two Persians, spoken on 1913-05-18

100

The dawning-point of these lights have been always in the East.... There is an ineffable something in the atmosphere of the Orient that causes the increase of spiritual susceptibilities.

DAS.1913-05-18

Critique of Western values; culture; Human reality created in the image of God; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; Praise of Eastern values; culture; Purpose; goal of creation; Two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization

ABU2384

Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-11

100

Different things are considered by us as of absolute importance, while in reality they have a relative importance at various stages of our development

DAS.1913-05-11

Martyrs and martyrdom; Relativity of religious truth

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; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause

ABU2382

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-12

100

When I was very young, I was present in a meeting in which people discussed astronomy according to the theories of the old school of Ptolemy.

DAS.1913-02-12

Celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy; Infinity and eternity; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU2381

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-01-29

100

We have come to Paris striking the first note. But we find Paris is very cold. I was anticipating that in this trip I shall behold in this city the luminous torch of the love of God. Now having arrived I find that the inhabitants are steeped deeper in the darkness of materialism.

DAS.1913-01-29

Critique of Western values; culture; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU2371

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-07 ca.

100

If a friend dies and leaves behind some debt, the believers must do their utmost to pay it off to the very last cent.

DAS.1914-05-08

Business; financial; property matters; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause

ABU2360

Words spoken on 1914-01-29

100

God has prepared for us all the convenient ways of voyage, so that we may travel far and wide and spread the Case. The American civilization has done much toward the progress

DAS.1914-01-29

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Methods of teaching the Cause; Power; influence of a single soul in teaching the Cause; Praise of Western values; culture; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2359

Words to an Indian Muslim prince, spoken on 1914-01-18

100

India needs these principles of tolerance and liberalism more than nay other country.... The cohorts of the Kingdom of Abha are engaged in uninterrupted conquest

DAS.1914-01-18, SW_v05#02 p.019

Prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction; Religious rituals minimized or eliminated; Unity in diversity

ABU2358

Words spoken on board the SS Baron Call at sea, 1913-12-03

100

Education is the bedrock of the modern civilization of Europe and America. From childhood the mothers train the minds of their children with noble ideals

DAS.1913-12-03

Educational curricula; Education of children; moral education

ABU2357

Words to Mr and Mrs Stark and Mr Moore, spoken on 1913-04-15

100

The Cause will be spread very much in this country. Blessed souls shall arise to serve the Bahá'í revelation... Translate the Hidden Words, the Words of Paradise, Tajalleyat, Tarazat, the Bahá'í Proofs and other small pamphlets

DAS.1913-04-15

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Growth of the Cause; Methods of teaching the Cause; Predictions and prophecies; Translation; publication of the Sacred Writings

ABU2356

Words to a woman from Holland, spoken on 1913-01-19

100

When you return to Holland, summon the people to the Kingdom of God and cry out: Glad tidings! Glad tidings! The Sun of Reality hath dawned

DAS.1913-01-19

Call to action; The concourse on high

ABU2352

Words to a Mohammedan Sheikh, spoken on 1913-12-16

100

My friends! How long, how long these prejudices? How long this dogmatic superiority? How long this fanatical attitude?

DAS.1913-12-16, BSTW#095

Blind imitation [taqlid]; Fanaticism and hatred; Prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction; Religious rituals minimized or eliminated; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU2351

Words spoken on board the SS Baron Call at sea, 1913-12-02

100

Let us all remember, we have travelled over many countries and upraised the Flag of Truth over many climes. People everywhere listened to the word

DAS.1913-12-02

Growth of the Cause; Praise and encouragement; Prayer for the spiritual progress of others; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Universal peace; world unity

ABU2350

Words to the minister of the New Congregational Church, spoken on 1913-01-13

100

Why did Christ come into this world? People think he came in order that they might believe in him as the Word of God

DAS.1913-01-13

Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering; rejection of Christ

ABU2349

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-05-02

100

The individuals of the world of humanity are in different degrees. They are like unto candlesticks.... Similarly there are some enkindled souls whose very presence in a meeting changes its atmosphere

DAS.1915-05-02

Being a source of light; guidance; Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; The state of enkindlement in teaching; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU2348

Words spoken on 1913-08-14 in Ramleh

100

The difference between me and the rest is that I wish the welfare of the people for their own sake, and without any ulterior motive.

DAS.1913-08-14, ABIE.192-193, BLO_PN#007, BSTW#194

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Education of children; moral education; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others

ABU2342

Words to a musician, spoken on 1913-04-30

100

Christ; Christianity; East and West; communication between East and West; Power; influence of a single soul in teaching the Cause; Purpose of religion in the world (personal and social); Suffering and imprisonment

موسیقی آیتی از آیات الهی است چنانچه آن موسیقی اجسام را بحرکت و هیجان آرد موسیقی الهی

Music is one of the signs of God. Even as your kind of music stirs the bodies to motion and rouses them to excitement

BDA2.275

DAS.1913-04-30, MHMD2.360

Music and singing

ABU2338

Words to Mr Newman, spoken on 1914-06-09

100

The principal aim of this Movement is to investigate reality and promote the underlying unity of the world's religions. His Holiness Baha'o'llah suffered imprisonment

DAS.1914-06-09, SW_v09#10 p.109

ABU2336

Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-04-30

100

East and West; communication between East and West; Unity; oneness of humanity; Unity in diversity

فردا ما از استتکارت حرکت خواهیم کرد الحمدلله باینجا آمدیم شماها را ملاقات نمودیم

I will leave Stuttgart tomorrow. Praised be God that we came here and met with you all, and that sentiments of the utmost spiritual affection

BDA2.272

DAS.1913-04-30, MHMD2.356-357

ABU2332

Words spoken at Rue Lauriston 97 in Paris, 1913-06-11

100

Bahá'u'lláh says, when the soul has travelled through many valleys, it reaches to the city of Love. That city contains four pillars. And whenever I find a hearing ear I shall explain what are these four pillars. During the life of Bahá'u'lláh no one asked the explanation of this matter

DAS.1913-06-11

Four pillars; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU2327

Words to an Indian scholar, spoken on 1914-03-19

100

It is self-evident that God is the source of confirmation. Were it not for His confirmation man could accomplish nothing. Help must come from Him.

DAS.1914-03-19

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Justice and mercy; Law of cause and effect; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ABU2326

Words to a Christian minister, spoken on 1914-06-09

100

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion; One universal law; attractive power of love; Power of love; Quotation from or interpretation of the Bible

His holiness Christ came for the promulgation of the law of love; all the prophets were sent… Hast thou love?...

DAS.1914-06-09, BSC.454 #832x, SW_v07#17 p.171, SW_v08#11 p.139-140, SW_v09#10 p.110

ABU2322

Words spoken on 1913-09-18 in Ramleh

100

Write to him to go and teach the Cause, spread the coming of the Kingdom and herald the dawn of the Sun of Reality... in this movement there are no regular salaried teachers.

DAS.1913-09-18, ABIE.328, BLO_PN#007

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2318

Words spoken on 1913-07-01 in Port Said

100

The inhabitants of Persia are yet asleep, although God has demonstrated to them His Cause in so many ways.

DAS.1913-07-01

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Martyrs and martyrdom; Past, present and future of Iran

ABU2312

Words to Mr And Mrs Holbach, spoken on 1914-01-19

100

The leaders of religion must be the means of binding the hearts together, establishing good-fellowship between the members of the human family

DAS.1914-01-19

Religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Unity; oneness of humanity; Universal peace; world unity

ABU2308

Words spoken on 1913-07-04 in Port Said

110

It is related that an aged and decrepit man became the guest of his holiness Abraham

DAS.1913-07-04, SW_v08#12 p.143, ABIE.025, BLO_PN#007, STAB#051

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Idolatry; Stories; anecdotes

ABU2302

Words spoken on 1914-08-20

110

The object of the dawn of the Morn of Guidance and the effulgence of the Sun of

DAS.1914-08-20, SW_v08#10 p.135

Being a source of light; guidance; Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Love of God; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU2301

Words spoken on 1914-01-13

110

When these institutions, colleges, hospital, hospice and establishments for the incurables

LOG#2055x, DAS.1914-01-13, SW_v05#05 p.071, BW_v01p061

Charitable associations; humanitarian activities; Harmony of science and religion; House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]; Unity in diversity

ABU2286

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-22

110

There are certain forms of work which are beyond human endurance and others which are within it

DAS.1914-12-22, SW_v13#10 p.270-271

Self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU2280

Words to some pilgrims, spoken on 1914-02-23

110

Tell me, what voice is heard in thy city? Is it the voice of an earthly singer or the voice of the Cause of God?... The charm and beauty of the voice of Truth attract the hearts and spiritualize the thoughts

DAS.1914-02-23

Music and singing; Superiority; incomparability of the Word of God; The power of words; of speech; Word of God and human limitations

ABU2278

Words to a French-speaking Hungarian, spoken on 1913-04-11

110

If you desire to love God, love thy fellow man. If them you can see the image and likeness of God. If you are eager to serve God, serve mankind.

DAS.1913-04-11, SW_v08#11 p.138

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Love of God; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU2277

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-01-31

110

The duties and the responsibilities of the Bahá'í are these: They must be kind to all the religions. They must love humankind with all their hearts and souls. They must work for the public welfare.

DAS.1913-01-31

Call to action; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Unity; oneness of humanity; Universal peace; world unity

ABU2276

Public address given on 1913-01-28

110

There are certain trees which grow and develop quickly, other trees may take a long time before they put forth leaves and blossoms. It is evident that Paris is one of those trees which may take a long time to grow.

DAS.1913-01-28

Growth of the Cause; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization

ABU2275

Words spoken on 1913-01-01 in London

110

Civilization is like unto a moving hill of sands: Today it is here, tomorrow it is many thousand miles away. It is subject to constant transferences.

DAS.1913-01-01

Means of establishment of future civilization; Praise of Eastern values; culture; Progress and the continual ascent of material civilization

ABU2271

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-07-18

110

Tonight they are holding the Feast of Elijah on the top of Mount Carmel, in memory of his ascent to heaven in a chariot of fire.

DAS.1914-07-18

Empty learning; false spirituality; Mount Carmel; Oneness; unity of religion

ABU2268

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10

110

This is self-evident and is in no need of proof. For example the hand corresponds with another hand. No sooner thou takest hold of the hand of thy beloved than a world of feelings and emotions are conveyed

Need for an educator; Spiritual communication; connections of the heart; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God

ABU2265

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1915-04-22

110

Wait till the end of this war. The new ideals of peace which I have nurtured in my mind will be promoted. God willing we shall take another journey

Coming-of-age; maturity of mankind; Means of establishment of future civilization; Present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology; Universal peace; world unity

ABU2264

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-03-14

110

How important is the cleanliness of the body! It is well-expressed that cleanliness is godliness: because this body is the spiritual temple of the Almighty, it must be kept clean and pure.

DAS.1915-03-14

Chastity and purity; Cleanliness and refinement; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU2263

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-02-24

110

When Aqa Abdu'r-Rahim came to Baghdad he was a young man with a heavy black moustache. He has grown old in this Cause.

DAS.1915-02-24

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Stories; anecdotes; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU2262

Words to Persian students, spoken on 1913-09-29

110

Praise be to God that you have come. For many days you have been here and with perfect joy and fragrance we associated

DAS.1913-09-29, ABIE.371, BLO_PN#007

Being a source of light; guidance; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU2261

Words to a friend from England, spoken on 1913-03-29

110

You say you are from England? In reality we are all one nation: England, France, Germany, Persia, America, they are all one country. However, this much can be said

DAS.1913-03-29

Growth of the Cause; Praise of Western values; culture; Unity in diversity

ABU2258

Words spoken on 1913-11-11 in Port Said

110

How fervently I long to go on Mount Carmel, the Garden of the Lord! How inspiring is the matchless panorama

DAS.1913-11-11

Future of Haifa; of the Holy Land; Mount Carmel; Shrines and Holy places

ABU2257

Words to Mrs Noel, spoken on 1913-05-19

110

First we must make ourselves receptive, then the bounties of God descend upon us. The mirror must become clear from rust first, then the sun with all its glory will be reflected therein.

DAS.1913-05-19

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU2256

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-11

110

The greatest attainment in the world of humanity is love, for it is through love that man is attracted toward God. It is love that establishes communication

DAS.1913-02-11

Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion; One universal law; attractive power of love; Power of love; Progress only takes place within its own degree; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Spiritual communication; connections of the heart; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU2251

Words spoken on 1914-04-06

110

Although the Western nations have perfected the machinery of natural civilization, yet they are left behind in divine civilization. My object in taking that long journey

DAS.1914-04-06

Critique of Western values; culture; Exhortations and counsels; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha; Two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU2250

Words to Prof. Enayat Khan and others, spoken on 1913-05-29

110

To attain to Nirvana means to reach to perfection. This is made possible through the bestowals of God....

DAS.1913-05-29

Being a source of light; guidance; Buddhism and Hinduism; religions of the East; Fulfillment of true potential; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

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

ABU2236

Words spoken on 1914-07-19 in Haifa

110

You are the angels of the kingdom of Abha; guide the people. You are the rays

DAS.1914-07-19, SW_v07#04 p.027

Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; Call to action; Confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause; Methods of teaching the Cause; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2226

Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-05-01

110

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Growth of the Cause; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization

جمیع اهل غرب غرق ظلمات طبیعتند انوار الهیه غروب نموده هر چند در جسمانیات بمنتهی درجهٴ

The darkness of materialism has enveloped Europe. Natural civilization has advanced tremendously and progress is magical and by leaps and bounds

BDA2.277

DAS.1913-05-01, MHMD2.363

ABU2225

Words spoken en route in Abu Sinan, 1914-11-01

110

جمال مبارک سه مرتبه به یرکه تشریف آوردند دفعه اول من تا نزدیکهای ابوسنان پیاده

The Blessed Beauty journeyed to the village of Yirkih three times. On the first visit, I walked at the side

KHH1.131-132 (1.181-182)

KHHE.197, DAS.1914-11-01, BSR_v13 p.082

Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Shrines and Holy places

ABU2220

Words to a Baha'í from Holland, spoken on 1913-02-10

110

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

بناپارت در عالم ملک یکی از نفوس عظیمه بود ولی فتوحاتش محدود بود منتهی شد

[Napoleon] Bonaparte was a powerful person in this earthly dominion. His conquests, however, were limited.

BDA2.129

DAS.1913-02-10, MHMD2.160-161

ABU2204

Words spoken on 1913-01-22 in Paris

120

Faithfulness is a good attribute. There is nothing better than faithfulness. Although the faithfulness of the dog is natural

DAS.1913-01-22

Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Free will and predestination; fate; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Thankfulness; gratitude

ABU2198

Words to Mr. Lorge, London, 1912-12-20

120

Yes, it is possible. Often people speak together without the mediary of the tongue. There are two methods of intercourse

DAS.1912-12-20, SW_v14#07 p.209-210, SW_v03#19 p.006

ABU2197

Words spoken on 1913-10-25 in Ramleh

120

This power is not verbal. It must be actual, demonstrative, dynamic. This power has gone out of the body of Islam.

DAS.1913-10-25, SW_v08#08 p.102

Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Praise of Western values; culture; Progress and the continual ascent of material civilization

ABU2196

Words spoken on 1914-07-20

120

That soul is alone who is negligent of God. But if he knows God, although he may live in an interminable desert

DAS.1914-07-20, SW_v08#18 p.236

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Nearness and remoteness; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU2191

Words spoken on 1913-10-23 in Ramleh

120

Once there was a man who had a negro servant. His name was Kafour. Having decided to make a journey

DAS.1913-10-23, SW_v09#18 p.209-210, STAB#008

Humor; jokes

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; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transcending the material condition

ABU2185

Words to Mirza Fazlollah Khan, spoken on 1915-02-10

120

The confirmations of God are with those sanctified teachers who are calling mankind to the Cause of the Blessed Beauty. Through teaching the hidden forces of the hearts and the minds are unfolded.

DAS.1915-02-10

Praise and encouragement; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The state of enkindlement in teaching; Zeal and fervor in teaching the Cause

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

ABU2181

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-05-21

120

It is now demonstrated that all their existent powers have contributed something toward the realization of this world war

DAS.1915-05-21

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Growth of the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Universal peace; world unity

ABU2180

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-05-06

120

One of the most necessary and at the same time difficult things in this Cause is amicable association with the outsiders. Only through the constant widening of the circle of one's acquaintances and friends the Truth will be made known

DAS.1915-05-06

Being a source of light; guidance; Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Methods of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2179

Words spoken on 1914-06-01 in Tiberias

120

No matter how small a room is, and how simply it is furnished, when a candle is ignited therein... The heart must of necessity be spiritual. A tree must be fruitful; it may be very tall, very verdant

DAS.1914-06-01, SW_v07#16 p.151x

Bringing forth results; fruit; Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU2178

Words to a visitor, spoken on 1913-05-16

120

Fellowship with the wayward and ungodly; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

آن نفوس بر چند قسمند اشخاصی هستند آلودگی آنها بدرجه ا‌ی است که شر با آنها غیر مفید

There are various grades of evil habits. There are certain souls whose moral lives are petrified and immersed in a sea of sensuality.

BDA2.303

DAS.1913-05-17, MHMD2.401

ABU2177

Words spoken at Hotel Marquardt in Stuttgart, 1913-04-04

120

I hope that each one of you may become a divine farmer and each one may cultivate a large blessed farm. The real Bahá'í farming is through deeds.

DAS.1913-04-04

Being a source of light; guidance; Bringing forth results; fruit; Goodly deeds; actions; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU2175

Words spoken on 1914-06-05 in Tiberias

120

Man, as an individual unit of human society must not base his deeds according to the law of retaliation.

DAS.1914-06-05, SW_v07#18 p.187x

Civil courts; Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Justice and mercy; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice

ABU2174

Public address given on 1913-04-12

120

O Thou compassionate Lord! Illumine these hearts with the light of the Most Great Guidance! Confer life upon these spirits through thy divine glad tidings!

BBBD.206, DAS.1913-04-12

Mindfulness; concentration; focus; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause

ABU2171

Words to Mrs A. Burks, spoken on 1914-04-14

120

The book of Ighan revealed by Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdad and translated in America is one of the most fundamental Bahá'í works. Then the Hidden Words, likewise Tajalliyat, Ishraqat, Tarazat, etc, also the books of Mirza Abdu'l-Fadl.

DAS.1914-04-14

Importance of reading the Sacred Writings; Study; deepening

ABU2165

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-27

120

محبت دو نوع است یکی محبتی است عن علیه و یک محبتی بلا علیه مثلا این مردم بسیار

There are two kinds of love. The first love is based on a motive; the second love is motiveless. People, as a general rule love each other, show kindness towards each other but such manifestations of kindliness are based upon ulterior motives

KHH1.260 (1.363)

KHHE.380, DAS.1914-11-27

Love of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Praise and encouragement; Two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization

ABU2156

Words spoken on 1914-06-15 in Tiberias

120

In the religion of God constitutional government is a religious and binding principle. Every nation must diligently walk in this path and form a government of justice and fairness

DAS.1914-06-15, SW_v09#10 p.116

Chastisement and requital; Parliaments; constitutional government; Past, present and future of Iran; Relationship between government and people; Status of kings; future of monarchy

ABU2150

Words to the Persian friends, spoken on 1912-04-01

120

Hands of the Cause; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Priestcraft; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

جمال مبارک ریشهٴ اوهام را کسند ایادی امر در اینظهور باسم و لقب و ارث نیستند

The Blessed Perfection has extirpated superstitions, root and branch. The Hands of the Cause in this dispensation are not heirs to any name or title; rather, they are sanctified souls

BDA1.019.06

LOG#1079x, DAS.1913-07-19, MHMD1.026, ABIE.087, BLO_PN#007

ABU2149

Words spoken on 1913-10-02 in Ramleh

120

His [al-Afghani's] admirers have written to me that the traces of his tomb are almost effaced, owing to neglect.

DAS.1913-10-02

Predictions and prophecies; Rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU2144

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-14

120

Contention and conflict; Corruption; misinterpretation of the Word of God; Importance of prayer; Role of the Covenant in preserving unity; Work as worship

بلی در آیات بدیعه نازل که کار و شغل حکم عبادت دارد ولی این دلیل بر آن نیست که عبادات و اذکار

Religion without prayer is no religion; but in this Movement work and worship must go hand in hand; one must inspire the other.

BDA2.181

DAS.1913-03-14, MHMD2.230

ABU2141

Words to a writer of a Beirut daily, spoken on 1914-03-16

120

The editor of a newspaper or a magazine must ever take the side of Truth. Every fact before its publication must be thoroughly investigated.

DAS.1914-03-16

Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Newspapers and the media; publications; Service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU2136

Words spoken on 1914-06-15 in Tiberias

120

The Cause appeared in Persia. The blood of so many martyrs was shed in Persia that, unquestionably, signs will appear.

DAS.1914-06-14, SW_v09#10 p.116

Critique of Eastern values; culture; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Growth of the Cause; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution

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

ABU2126

Words spoken on 1913-10-27 in Ramleh

120

My spiritual health is always perfect. I enjoy an eternal health of the spirit. I hope

DAS.1913-10-27, SW_v08#18 p.230-231

Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Manifestation of God as divine physician; Quotation from or interpretation of the Bible; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU2118

Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1913-12-11

130

My work is done. The tree of my life has yielded its fruits. I have set a fire in the world

DAS.1913-12-11, SW_v05#01 p.010

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2111

Words spoken on 1914-05-17 in Tiberias

130

Praise be to God that you have come into this desert and exalted the name of God

DAS.1914-05-17, SW_v08#02 p.021

Critique of Eastern values; culture; Development of capacity and readiness; Mindfulness; concentration; focus; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transcending the material condition; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU2109

Words to a young believer, spoken on 1914-03-10

130

Humility; meekness; lowliness; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Spiritual assemblies; administrative matters

Were it not for the favors of the Blessed Perfection, no one would have given us any importance. There are some who become proud and haughty... Meekness and humility are the hallmarks of faith.... There are no officers in this Cause... The foundation of this Cause is pure, spiritual democracy and not a theocracy.

DAS.1914-03-10, BSC.449 #820, SW_v08#09 p.116x, PN_various p009, BSTW#096

ABU2104

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-12-20

130

All the people are sacrificing their lives for the sake of the worthless (valueless) earth.

DAS.1914-12-20, SW_v13#10 p.269

Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Martyrs and martyrdom; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Unity of governments; political unity; War and peace

ABU2099

Words spoken on 1913-08-08 in Ramleh

130

When we left Bagdad, a Darvish came to me and begged to be a member of the party. I told him the trip would be most difficult.

DAS.1913-08-08, ABIE.169, BLO_PN#007, STAB#084

Banishment to; life in Adrianople; Banishment to; life in Constantinople; Humor; jokes; Stories; anecdotes

ABU2098

Words spoken on 1913-07-06 in Port Said

130

we must ever think of the education of the public and try our utmost to improve the conditions of the submerged classes

DAS.1913-07-06, ABIE.030, BLO_PN#007

Call to action; Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction; Purpose of religion in the world (personal and social); Unity; oneness of humanity; Universal education

ABU2097

Words to Mr Herrigel, spoken on 1913-04-15

130

Gather once a week in a public meeting. Before the meeting begins, one must read a prayer, afterward they may sing together an anthem or a song. This is optional.... Crystallization of forms will kill the spirit...

DAS.1913-04-15

Spirit and form in the administration; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity of thought and belief

ABU2093

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-04-22

130

Under all circumstances man must turn his face toward God and overlook the shortcomings of others, so that he may prosper in his affairs. There are some people who would go any length

Apostles; early disciples of Christ; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU2092

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-09-02

130

When His holiness Christ appeared the Jews said the same thing. They thought that after Moses no other divine man must appear in the world

DAS.1914-09-02

Christian doctrine and practice; Crucifixion; ascension of Christ; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Rejection of Muhammad; Seal of the Prophets

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

ABU2088

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-05-10

130

Consider the power of the Covenant! Where is Acca and where is Los Angeles! Yet the power of the Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh has united these two distant points!... In order to preserve the unity of the Cause and to spread the religion of God, Baha'o'llah has established this Covenant and Testament

DAS.1913-05-10, SW_v08#13 p.183x, SW_v09#13 p.139x

East and West; communication between East and West; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Growth of the Cause; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Role of the Covenant in preserving unity; Station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha

ABU2087

Closing prayer of public address, spoken on 1913-04-23

130

O Thou King of existence! O Thou king beloved! The members of this meeting are the lovers of Thy face. They seek after Thee and long to converse with Thee.

DAS.1913-04-23

Prayer for forgiveness; Prayer for nearness to God; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU2082

Words to Mahmud Zarqani, spoken on 1914-06-18

130

You have worked very diligently over the compilation of these two volumes. During the first journey to Europe no one was thinking to do this work. Now and then Mirza Baqir Khan

DAS.1914-06-18

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Growth of the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU2081

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-02-08

130

Most of these girls come from Europe and dedicate their lives entirely to prayer and worship. They are known as the brides of Christ.

DAS.1914-02-08

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Monasticism; asceticism; Religion as reality; definitions of religion

ABU2065

Words to the friends, spoken around 1914-09-10

130

I am humble. I am meek. The Blessed Perfection has trained and educated me with the power of humility and renunciation.

DAS.1914-09-11

Attaining good pleasure of God; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU2062

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-02-02

130

ما مبلغ خیای لازم داریم باید جمیع احباء مبلغ باشند و تبلیغ بزبان تنها نیست ... هر یکی از احبای الهی باید در سال اقلا یکی را تبلیغ کنند

We are sorely in need of many teachers. But all the believers of God must be teachers of the Cause. Teaching the Cause is not only through the tongue...Every one of the believers of God must, at the very least, teach one new soul in a year.

AVK3.496.18x, MAS5.163

DAS.1914-02-02

Confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause; Methods of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2061

Words to some students, spoken on 1914-07-15

130

God be praised! How wonderful are these students! I am looking forward with

DAS.1914-07-15, SW_v09#09 p.100, SW_v13#05 p.104

Humility; meekness; lowliness; Praise and encouragement; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU2057

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-05-06

130

It is strange that the people put aside my many Tablets written on this matter and go by their own feelings. Write to Mr Hannen to make public my explicit texts concerning the Society and its future.

DAS.1913-05-06

Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Call to action; East and West; communication between East and West; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU2054

Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-04-29

130

Educational curricula; Education of children; moral education; Excellence; distinction; Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator

در میان این اطفال نفوس مبارکی مبعوث خواهد شد نهالهائی که بدست تربیت باغبان کامل افتد

Among the children many blessed souls will arise, if they be trained according to the Bahai Teaching.

BDA2.271

COC#0696, LOG#0490x, DAS.1913-04-28, SW_v07#15 p.142, SW_v09#08 p.090-091, MHMD2.354, PN_1913 p006, PN_1913 p013, BW_v09p543

ABU2053

Words to a minister, spoken on 1913-04-28

130

Disregarding individual capacity; weakness; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Saint Peter and Saint Paul; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; The Christian clergy; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; The soul as soil; cultivation of the soul

در عالم کشیش بسیار است اما کشیش موفق کم است در زمان مسیح رؤسای روحانی خیلی بودند

Ordained ministers are many, confirmed ministers are few. During the days of Christ there were many Rabbis and high-priests but none of them was confirmed except Paul.

BDA2.268

DAS.1913-04-29, MHMD2.350-351

ABU2052

Words spoken on 1913-07-09 in Port Said

130

I have written in many Tablets that the friends must speak in the meetings... We must encourage the believers in public-speaking and especially encourage those who can do so.

DAS.1913-07-09, ABIE.047, BLO_PN#007

Methods of teaching the Cause; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; The power of words; of speech

ABU2049

Words spoken at Hotel Marquardt in Stuttgart, 1913-04-04

130

Predictions and prophecies; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; The Kingdom of God [Malakut]; Theosophy

حال معلوم نیست که چه موهبتی دربارهٴ استتکارت مبذول شده بعد معلوم خواهد

It is not known as yet what a vast measure of celestial grace hath been bestowed upon Stuttgart.

BDA2.214

BBBD.630, DAS.1913-04-04, MHMD2.276

ABU2044

Words spoken on 1914-06-16 in Haifa

130

We are waiting to see that perchance, God willing, a new breeze may waft over India, a new spirituality may be obtained

DAS.1914-06-16

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Growth of the Cause; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU2040

Words to departing pilgrims, spoken on 1914-06-09

130

May you be ever under the protection of the Merciful One!... After His Holiness Christ, His Apostles did not rest for one moment.

DAS.1914-06-08

Apostles; early disciples of Christ; Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Praise and encouragement; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ABU2039

Words spoken on 1913-07-07 in Port Said

130

the Cause has many enemies! The Baha'is must be very happy. The priests and the Ulemas, the Rabbis and the Mobeds are attacking the Cause

DAS.1913-07-07, ABIE.032, BLO_PN#007

Apostles; early disciples of Christ; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Growth of the Cause; Love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion; Rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU2037

Words spoken on 1912-12-22 in London

140

We also have a theatre... Our theatre is built in a country where there is eternal springtime. The streets of that city

DAS.1912-12-22, SW_v14#06 p.177

Literature; drama; humanities; the arts; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

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

ABU2025

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-05

140

When I reached Los Angeles, I realized how far I was from Acca and my people, the people whom I loved with passionate earnestness. On the second night of my arrival

DAS.1914-12-05

Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Shrines and Holy places

ABU2024

Words to Remey and Latimer, spoken on 1914-10-14

140

There are two kinds of standing within: the first is as the standing or continuing, as water in an earthen bowl

DAS.1914-10-14, PN_1914 p010, PN_1914 p015, PN_1914 p081, BSTW#368

God as immanent vs. transcendent reality; Human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity

ABU2023

Words to pilgrims, spoken on 1914-06-10

140

This is the lake around which His Holiness Christ often walked, over which He often sailed. The site wherein He called His apostles into active service is very near.

DAS.1914-06-10

Growth of the Cause; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Stories; anecdotes; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

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]

ABU2020

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-01-29

140

There was once a Jewish merchant in Constantinople who bought many bales of drapery and worsted goods to be shipped to Persia for sale. Each bale was of a different color

DAS.1915-01-29

Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Suffering and imprisonment; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU2019

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-28

140

Association of ideas is a deep psychological phenomenon. Nowhere does my heart truly rest save in this room where the Blessed Beauty spent His days and nights for many years.

DAS.1914-12-28

ABU2018

Words to Edward Getsinger, spoken on 1913-11-11

140

When we were in Bagdad, Constantinople and Adrianople, we were bothered to death by these insects--fleas, mosquitoes and bed-bugs.

DAS.1913-11-11

Stories; anecdotes

ABU2017

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-04-25

140

The believers of Persia made the greatest self-sacrifice and the trip was made possible. They made large and small contributions

DAS.1913-04-25

Assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Work as worship

ABU2016

Words spoken at Grand Hotel in Vienna, 1913-04-23

140

Definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Love as fire; Second birth; Spiritual baptism; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

و دیگر آنکه امر حضرت بهآءاللّٰه را قیاس بامری ننمائید زیرا این امر جامع جمیع امور است

The Cause of Baha'u'llah is incomparable to any other Cause, because it is the Collective Center of this age. This Cause regenerates the souls; everyone receives a new baptism and attains to the station of the new birth.

BDA2.253-254

DAS.1913-04-23, MHMD2.329-330

ABU2012

Words to a stranger, spoken on 1914-05-09

140

My objects are the establishment of the Cause of international arbitration, the promotion of the oneness of the world of humanity, the conformity of religion with science and reason

Harmony of science and religion; Labor and management; labor relations; profit sharing; Lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles; Oneness; unity of religion; Unity; oneness of humanity; Universal language; Universal peace; world unity

ABU2011

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10

140

The first Cause of my happiness is to see your faces radiant with the light of reality and your hearts cleansed and purified with the Water of knowledge. There are two kinds of happiness.

Differences in human capacity; Human reality created in the image of God; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transcending the material condition; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU2009

Words spoken on 1915-04-17 in Abu Sinan

140

Mankind are naturally heedless and prone to commit injustice and excess. They do not turn their faces toward God and do not let their hearts be swayed by ideal emotions. Like unto the beasts they wallow in the mire of materialism

DAS.1915-04-17

Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU2008

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-13

140

Napoleon the great conquered Germany and brought under his control its domain but to what result! It was only a temporary victory.

DAS.1914-11-13

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Unity; oneness of humanity; War and peace

ABU2007

Words spoken on 1914-06-02 in Tiberias

140

His Holiness the Blessed Perfection has raised the station of woman and hath glorified her before the eyes of all the world.

DAS.1914-06-02

Equality of men and women; Role and station of women; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU2006

Words spoken on 1913-11-09 in Port Said

140

These old veterans of the Cause have been with Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdad, Constantinople, Adrianople and Acca.

DAS.1913-11-09

Banishment to; life in Constantinople; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU2005

Words to some pilgrims, spoken on 1913-06-21

140

When Bahá'u'lláh left Baghdad and without the knowledge of the friends went to Suleymaniyyih, one day He met a boy in the street weeping.

DAS.1913-06-21

Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih; Education of children; moral education; Power of the Manifestation of God; Stories; anecdotes

ABU2004

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-05-11

140

If you have the perceptive power, as soon as you look in the faces of the people, you can observe what ideals are reigning in their hearts.

DAS.1913-05-11

Praise of Western values; culture; Progress and the continual ascent of material civilization; Radiant countenance; bearing the divine fragrance; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world

ABU2003

Words to Mr Herrigel, spoken on 1913-04-20

140

Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Theosophy

شماها باید از استتکارت باین حدود بیائید و بنشر نفحات اللّٰه بپردازید

The city of Vienna will become a center for the Cause of God: only after my departure the friends must not remain inactive. They must work with greater zeal

BDA2.249

DAS.1913-04-20, MHMD2.324

ABU2002

Words spoken en route in carriage in Budapest, 1913-04-13

140

For nine years He [Bahá'u'lláh] did not see a green leaf. He loved nature. His sensibilities and powers of observation were miraculous. The tips of His fingers were the most sensitive parts of His holy temple.

DAS.1913-04-13

Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Power of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU2001

Words to Latimer and Remey, spoken on 1914-10-14

140

The best method is to bury the body. Just as systematically as the body has grown into its present form, it has to be disintegrated.

DAS.1914-10-14, PN_1914 p079

Existence; immortality of the human soul; Law of burial and cremation; Law of transformation and change; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU1998

Words to some Persian Baha'is, spoken on 1913-10-23

140

We summon the people to severance and enkindlement. We call their attention to spirituality. We have nothing to do with political tricks and chicaneries.

DAS.1913-10-23

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Non-participation in politics; Realms of being; three realms; five realms; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU1997

Words to some Theosophists, spoken on 1913-04-20

150

Call to action; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; Theosophy

من بسیار مسرُورم از اینکه در این انجمن حاضر شدم این انجمنیست که اعضایش معتقد بروحانیّاتند

I was most pleased to present myself in your midst and speak with you; a meeting which believes in the spiritual power

BDA2.248-249

DAS.1913-04-20, MHMD2.322-323

ABU1996

Words to someone who asked for money, spoken on 1913-05-31

140

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Moderation; frugality; simplicity; Self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ولی وِل خرجی مکن زیرا اسراف همیشه انسان را ملول و سرگردان نماید من اگر می‌بینید بعضی تعارفات

Never be a spendthrift. Do not be extravagant in thy expenses. An extravagant person comes always to a sad end and feels the pinch of want and misery.

BDA2.324

DAS.1913-05-30, MHMD2.430

ABU1991

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-01

140

من در اروپا همیشه میگفتم که امر حضرت بهاٌالله جامع جمیع ادیان قبل است و دارای جمیع فواید

While in Europe, I always proclaimed, ‘The Cause of Baha'u'llah embraces all the past Dispensations and manifests all their benefits to human society. It is like a tree that has many strong branches.

KHH1.268 (1.374-375)

KHHE.392, DAS.1914-12-01

Definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i; Lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles; Religion as reality; definitions of religion; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The truth of past religions and sacred scriptures; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha; War and peace

ABU1985

Words spoken on 1914-11-02 in Abu Sinan

140

شما طوفان بلایا ندیده اید اگر دیده بودید این وقائع بشما چندان تاثیری نمیکرد ما شب دارای عمارت

You have not experienced genuinely difficult times, for if you had, such occurrences would not perturb you.

KHH1.137 (1.189-190)

KHHE.206-207, DAS.1914-11-02, BSR_v13 p.082

Consolation and comfort; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU1981

Words spoken on 1913-08-13 in Ramleh

140

It is very strange that up to this time not one Persian has come here just to pay a social call

DAS.1913-08-13, ABIE.186, BLO_PN#007

Selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Universality of the Cause

ABU1978

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-02-02

140

The cohorts of the Abha Kingdom are engaged in uninterrupted conquest. They are gaining victory after victory. God willing, Mrs. Stannard shall win many signal triumphs in India.

DAS.1914-02-02, SW_v05#02 p.019

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Growth of the Cause; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1970

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-10-28

140

این محل مطبخ بود دود جمال مبارک را صدمه میزد من تغییر دادم بیست سال

In the time of the Blessed Beauty the kitchen was in the opposite corner and as the hole of the chimney was torturous, the house was always filled with smoke. This high ceiling was black with soot.

KHH1.122 (1.170)

KHHE.184-185, DAS.1914-10-28

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Growth of the Cause; Predictions and prophecies; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU1966

Words spoken on 1913-10-28 in Ramleh

140

If you are sincere in your love for me, then love and serve the believers of God, then love and serve your fellow-men.

DAS.1913-10-28, SW_v04#15 p.250

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU1960

Words to Remey, Latimer, et al, spoken on 1914-10-16

150

There was a man by the name of Haji Mohammad Taki Shirazi, who had joined our company.

DAS.1914-10-16, SW_v09#18 p.205-206, PN_1914 p092

Kindness to and rights of animals; Personal instructions; Stories; anecdotes; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU1958

Words spoken on 1913-07-02 in Port Said

150

It is not my duty to command particular persons to arise and teach the Cause

DAS.1913-07-02, SW_v04#15 p.251, ABIE.009, BLO_PN#007

Confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause; Priority over other activities in teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU1949

Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-11

150

There are three paths through which man attains spiritual happiness. The first path is the path of ordeals, trials and difficulties.

DAS.1913-05-11

Attaining the life of the spirit; Attainment to faith in the twinkling of an eye; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The Kingdom of God [Malakut]; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

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

ABU1947

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-02-15

150

During our stay in Baghdad there lived in that city one of the Ameers of Afghanistan. He was reputed to be very wealthy and cultured. He used to frequent our house

DAS.1915-02-15

Composure; tranquillity; serenity; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world; Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU1946

Words spoken on 1913-10-26 in Ramleh

150

There are some people who make this short span of life miserable to themselves and others because they harbor envy in their hearts

DAS.1913-10-26, SW_v07#18 p.185x

ABU1944

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1915-02-15

150

When I go to bed I lie awake for one or two hours, then I sleep well for four hours. The sleep before twilight is also very invigorating. Taki Menshadi often spoke during the hours of sleep.

DAS.1915-02-15

Composure; tranquillity; serenity; Contemplation; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1943

Words to Mr Herrigel, spoken on 1913-04-26

150

The future of the Cause in Germany is very bright. Likewise Budapest and Vienna will become Bahá'í Centers.

DAS.1913-04-26

Growth of the Cause; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual springtime; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU1941

Words spoken on 1914-01-27

150

Consider the influence of the Word of God... If you take bars of iron and tie them together, no matter how closely, they will not become one. But when a metallurgist comes on the scene

DAS.1914-01-27, SW_v15#07 p.208x

Metallurgical metaphors; Oneness; unity of religion; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity in diversity

ABU1940

Words to the Eastern pilgrims, spoken on 1913-06-30

150

We must let loose the divine forces so that those souls who are standing still at the turnpike may move along the path of progress... We must ever strive to find out the subject which is of interest to the other party and speak with him from that standpoint.

DAS.1913-06-30

Development of capacity and readiness; Manifestation of God as divine physician; Methods of teaching the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU1939

Words to Mr and Mrs Scott, spoken on 1913-05-07

150

You are the flowers of Paris and the cause of my happiness. All the inhabitants of this city are either thinking of industry or wealth or they are chasing after the worldly pleasures

DAS.1913-05-07

Growth of the Cause; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU1937

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-14

150

The condition of faith requires that man may ascend to and abide in the station of sacrifice. Without this attainment one's faith is not perfect.

DAS.1914-05-14, SW_v05#08 p.118

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Martyrs and martyrdom; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU1935

Words to Mrs DeBons, spoken on 1913-10-16

150

You must live and conduct yourself in Cairo in such a manner and characterize yourself with such attributes

DAS.1913-10-17

Being a source of light; guidance; Music and singing; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Words vs deeds

ABU1934

Words to the wife of a professor, spoken on 1913-01-19

150

You must thank God that, although I am a person from the East and you are a revered lady from the West, yet we are gathered in this place with the utmost of spiritual affection.

DAS.1913-01-19

East and West; communication between East and West; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Kingdom of God [Malakut]; Unity; oneness of humanity; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU1931

Words spoken en route in carriage in Akka, 1915-04-17

150

Doest thou see the farmers furrowing the fields for the sowing of new seeds? Are they not working with tireless exertion?

DAS.1915-04-17

Effort; striving; Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Words vs deeds

ABU1927

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-10-11

150

Praise be to God you had a spiritual time in Germany... Paris is the jungle of nature... The German people are religious.

DAS.1914-10-11, PN_1914 p060

Critique of Western values; culture; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; War and peace; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU1924

Words to a visitor, spoken on 1913-05-21

150

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Knowledge of self; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering; rejection of Christ; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

همیشه ملتفت حال خود باش بهبین چه نقصی داری کوشِش نما تا آن را اصلاح کنی چشم انسان

Thou must look to thyself and within thyself and find thine own errors and weaknesses. If thou hast any imperfection thyself, try to improve it.

BDA2.310

DAS.1913-05-21, SW_v08#11 p.138, MHMD2.410-411, BSTW#338

ABU1920

Words spoken on 1913-09-21 in Ramleh

150

How complex is the life of the present age and how much more complex we

DAS.1913-09-21, SW_v08#02 p.017-018, ABIE.343, BLO_PN#007

Composure; tranquillity; serenity; Critique of Western values; culture; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; Moderation; frugality; simplicity; Praise of Eastern values; culture

ABU1917

Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-04-29

150

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Spiritual communication; connections of the heart; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity; oneness of humanity

خیلی خوب است بین دوستان آلمان و امریکا مکاتبه شود تا مزید الفت و ارتباط قلوب گردد

It will be very beneficial to the Cause if a tie of correspondence is established between the German and the American Baha'ís. Spiritual correspondence must be continued

BDA2.271

DAS.1913-04-28x, MHMD2.355

ABU1900

Words spoken on 1914-06-18

160

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Importance of prayer; Meditation; The state of prayer; dynamics of prayer

Prayer and supplication are two wings whereby man soars toward the heavenly mansion of the True One.

DAS.1914-06-18, BSC.438 #796x, SW_v09#10 p.113, SW_v08#04 p.041-042, SW_v14#06 p.166

ABU1889

Words spoken on 1913-08-23 in Ramleh

160

The stories of the prophets recorded in the Koran are not for the sake of recording history. They are as warnings to future generations after Mohammed

DAS.1913-08-23, ABIE.225, BLO_PN#007

Crucifixion; ascension of Christ; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Growth of the Cause; Power of the Manifestation of God; Predictions and prophecies; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU1883

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-04-03

160

These [locusts] are the armies of God. They are countless in number. Look at them how they fly. How high they are ascending in the air. They must also be fed.

DAS.1915-04-03

Stories; anecdotes; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU1882

Words spoken on 1913-09-02 in Ramleh

160

Once there was a theologian who took a sea trip. While he was walking on the deck and watching the calm sea... By these remarks I do not mean that religious study must be entirely neglected

DAS.1913-09-02, SW_v09#18 p.210x, ABIE.269x, BLO_PN#007, STAB#154

Empty learning; false spirituality; Humor; jokes

ABU1880

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-03-09

160

The good deeds of man are like unto the sweet fragrances emanated from the musk... As his deeds have been performed with no reference to the applause and commendation of men he enjoys them more than any one else.

DAS.1914-03-09

Chastisement and requital; Goodly deeds; actions; Recompense; reward for belief; right action; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU1876

Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1914-12-01

160

Those persons who are firm in the Faith during these days shine like unto the brilliant sun and are the cause of the tranquility of the hearts; but those whose hearts are not set aglow

DAS.1914-12-01

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; 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

ABU1870

Words to Mr Frosell and his brother, spoken on 1913-04-11 in Budapest

160

I have come here to see men and not piles of stones and clay. These buildings you can find everywhere; for my part I am searching for men.

DAS.1913-04-11

Goodly deeds; actions; Human reality created in the image of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The ephemeral and the eternal; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU1865

Words spoken on 1914-06-08 in Tiberias

160

God willing, ye shall be always under the protection of the Truth. In your behalf, I seek favor and bounty from the Blessed Beauty. Rest ye assured.

DAS.1914-06-08, SW_v09#10 p.109

Apostles; early disciples of Christ; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU1864

Words spoken at House of the Master in Haifa, 1914-07-23

160

Having then realized how these holy, spiritual, luminous Manifestations sacrificed their lives, teaching us with deeds and not words... then if we have one grain of loyalty how can we stand by idle

DAS.1914-07-23

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1863

Words to a stranger, spoken on 1914-05-09

160

Authenticity of prayer "O God! Refresh and gladden my spirit"; Historical Context for the Prayer 'O God! Refresh and Gladden My Spirit...'; Bahá'í Prayers [2002]

There are two kinds of understanding; objective and subjective... O God! Refresh and gladden my spirit.... Beg everything thou desirest from Baha'o'llah. If thou art asking faith, ask of Him.

BPRY.174-175x, DAS.1914-05-09, SW_v07#18 p.179x, SW_v09#09 p.104x, SW_v13#09 p.251-252x, DWN_v3#05 p.031x, PN_1914 p002, BSTW#318

The Badasht Project, D. Gundry, A. Youssefi, P. Escobar, L. Slott, M. Sparrow, A. Bryan, N. Chiang, K. Bartlett, L. Ghiami, Dechen & Michael, M. Benedetti, E. Lilian, MANA, W. Heath, Soulrise Melodies, M. Levine [track 4], J. Marks and S. Engle, L. Dely & M. Congo, A. & M. Zemke [track 6], Do'a [track 4], T. Ellis, G. and M. Smith, Ladjamaya [track 5]

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

For comments on authenticity see https://bahailibrary.com/uhj_authenticity_refresh_spirit.

ABU1860

Words to some Druze friends, spoken on 1914-11-03

160

I read in a newspaper the other day a story concerning the present conflict raging between the European Powers

DAS.1914-11-03

Justice and wrath of God; War and peace

ABU1859

Words spoken on 1914-04-07

160

My God ever assist and confirm you. Whenever you go to visit the Holy Tomb you must implore and supplicate that God may surround you with His invisible confirmations.

DAS.1914-04-07

Disregarding individual capacity; weakness; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Need for an educator; Power of prayer; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU1855

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-28

160

A crow was perched on the lofty branch of a tall tree. In its beak it carried a piece of cheese. It so chanced that two jackals passed by under the tree.

DAS.1914-11-28

Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1846

Words to Otto Häfner, spoken on 1913-04-04

160

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Regarding the receptivity of the hearer in teaching the Cause; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause

مبلغی در طفولیت خوبست من باین سن که بودم تبلیغ می‌کردم شخصی از احباب برادری داشت

It is good to be a spreader of the Teachings of God in childhood. I was a teacher

BDA2.218

DAS.1913-04-05, SW_v09#18 p.201, MHMD2.281, VLAB.103, STAB#114

ABU1843

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-05-08

160

فقر از هر جهت بر ناس غلبه نموده ما هم امور مان وضعی است که نمیتوانیم

Poverty has become widespread amongst all the inhabitants of Syria and our affairs are in such a confused state... the station of such a wealthy man is greater than the poor who is patient

KHH1.233 (1.325-326)

KHHE.342-343, DAS.1915-05-08

Assistance to the poor and lowly; the orphan; the sick; Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih; Charitable associations; humanitarian activities; Christ; Christianity; Wealth inequality and its moderation

ABU1838

Words to Tirandaz, spoken on 1914-10-29

160

در بغداد کارپرداز ایران بقدری عداوت داشت که وقتی که ذکر جمال مبارک می شد چشمهایش تغییر می کرد. من طفل بودم از من پرسید تیر می اندازی

Is this wee bit of an animal your donkey? Your name has just brought to my mind a story of my childhood. At the time of our arrival in Bagdad

ZSM.1914-10-29

DAS.1914-10-29

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Stories; anecdotes; Youth and pre-ministry of Abdu'l-Baha

ABU1824

Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-04-30

160

Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Spiritual communication; connections of the heart; Status of kings; future of monarchy

این چه محبتی است که بقوهٴ حضرت بهآءالله در میان ما احداث شده پادشاه ایران دو مرتبه

Consider what wonderful love is this that has been established between us through the power of His Holiness Baha'u'llah! The Shah of Persia came twice to Stuttgart.

BDA2.276

DAS.1913-04-30, MHMD2.361-362

ABU1823

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-22

160

In these days the most important affair is to render a worthy service at the Holy Divine Threshold and this is no other but the guidance of the people of the earth.

DAS.1914-11-22

Buddhism and Hinduism; religions of the East; Confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause; Idolatry; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU1820

Words to a French poet, spoken on 1913-03-28

160

Man must spend his talent in a cause the result of which is eternal. If we spend our talent in the Cause of God its outcome will be everlasting, but if we waste it over worldly affairs, it is like drawing pictures over the surface of the water.

DAS.1913-03-28, BSTW#093b

Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The ephemeral and the eternal; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU1806

Words spoken in Apr. 1913 in Stuttgart

170

They are ready to fight for their fatherland. How barbarous it seems to send men, who do not even know each other

DAS.1913-05-23, SW_v04#04 p.072, SW_v07#16 p.157

Crucifixion; ascension of Christ; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Spiritual warfare; struggle; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The concourse on high; The power of words; of speech; War and peace

ABU1803

Words spoken on 1913-07-05 in Port Said

170

Whether we live in the East or in the West, the invisible Power of Baha'o'llah

DAS.1913-07-05, SW_v04#15 p.252, ABIE.026, BLO_PN#007

Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; Unity in diversity

ABU1797

Words spoken on 1914-02-14

170

A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul

DAS.1914-02-14, SW_v07#18 p.186-187

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Thankfulness; gratitude; Words vs deeds

ABU1795

Words spoken on 1914-10-13

170

But now after the lapse of many centuries, his highness, the Almighty, has again looked upon them

DAS.1914-10-13, SW_v09#01 p.007+010

Growth of the Cause; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Manifestation of God as sun; Martyrs and martyrdom; Past, present and future of Iran; Rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU1793

Words to departing pilgrims, spoken on 1915-04-26

170

Intoxicated with the wine of the love of God and the service of man, you must go forth with intensified faith and focalized attraction. Each one of you must become a storm center of spiritual influence and a whirling vortex of divine stimuli.

DAS.1915-04-26

Love of God; Methods of teaching the Cause; One universal law; attractive power of love; Power of love; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause

ABU1791

Words spoken on 1915-04-24 in Haifa

170

Now that sacred tent which belonged to the Manifestation of God, the tent under which the Suratu'l-Haykal, the Kitab-i-Aqdas and other glorious Tablets were revealed... is given by the violators of the Covenant to Jamal Pasha

DAS.1915-04-24

Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Prophecy and fulfillment; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Universal peace; world unity

ABU1790

Words to a Persian visitor, spoken on 1913-05-17

170

Be patient. Overlook the shortcomings of others. Don't mind the criticisms of anyone. Let thy heart be like unto a sea.

DAS.1913-05-17

Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha

ABU1789

Words to Mr Herrigel, spoken on 1913-04-20

170

See to it that it is also published in a German newspaper and later in a pamphlet. This address is very useful for the Christians

DAS.1913-04-20

Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

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

ABU1787

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-01-29

170

Be free from every tie. Do not attach thy heart to anything. Open thy wings and soar toward the infinite space of God. A bird whose wings are tied cannot fly.

DAS.1913-01-29

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Study; deepening; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU1786

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-01-22

170

Once Muhammad Ali thought in a public way [to] show his superiority over ‘Abdu'l-Bahá. In those days the Blessed Perfection lived in the Palace of Bahji

DAS.1913-01-22

Humility; meekness; lowliness; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis

ABU1784

Words to M. R. Shirazi, spoken on 1914-04-07

170

It is really very sad to see how Buddha and Christ are fallen into the hands of the bad people of their respective followers... At the very utmost photographs are for remembrance and not for worship.

DAS.1914-04-07, TDAB.04-05

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Birth of Christ; purity; virginity of Mary; Buddhism and Hinduism; religions of the East; Idolatry; Photographs and recordings; Travels to Egypt by Abdu'l-Baha; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU1783

Words to Mr Diebold and Miss Wieland, spoken on 1913-04-28

170

I have heard you are engaged to get married. It will be a blessed union. A marriage performed according to the religion of God will be very blessed.

DAS.1913-04-28

Chastity and purity; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Marriage as means of spiritual progress

ABU1782

Words spoken on 1915-05-01 in Haifa

170

How the children love the small, innocent lambs... I remember an incident of my childhood... I was then very, very young, probably 3 or 4 years. At the time the Blessed Perfection lived in Tihran.

DAS.1915-05-01

Stories; anecdotes; Youth and pre-ministry of Abdu'l-Baha

ABU1780

Words to the friends, spoken around 1914-09-07

170

The star of the fortune of some people is always on the ascendant. They are chosen by God to perform certain services in the world of humanity.

DAS.1914-09-08

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Thankfulness; gratitude; Theodicy; the mystery of evil; of suffering

ABU1779

Words to the women believers, spoken on 1915-04-21

170

I hope that this feast of Ridvan will be blessed to all the lovers of Baha! It was an hour like unto this and on such a day that Bahá'u'lláh was bidding farewell to the friends in Baghdad

DAS.1915-04-21

Declaration of Baha'u'llah; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1778

Words spoken on 1914-06-01 in Tiberias

170

Thy present condition is transitory... Dissatisfaction with one's self is a sign of progress. The soul who is satisfied with himself is the manifestation of Satan

DAS.1914-06-01, SW_v07#18 p.184-185x, BNE.084x

Perfection; imperfection of nature; Self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ABU1777

Words to a group of American students, spoken on 1913-03-25

170

I am likewise most pleased to meet you. This cause has become world-wide. In a short space of time it has permeated throughout all the regions, for it has a magnetic power

DAS.1913-03-25, BSC.443 #809x, DWN_v5#01 p.006x

Definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Growth of the Cause; Harmony of science and religion; Purpose; goal of creation; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Unity; oneness of humanity; Unity in diversity; Universal peace; world unity

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]

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

ABU1774

Words spoken in Jan. 1913

170

Reincarnation is a very abstruse question. If one desires to give a satisfactory explanation, one must write a book

DAS.1913-01-02n

Divine philosophy and natural philosophy; Elementary matter cannot be annihilated; Evolution; human evolution; Passage of elementary matter through degrees of existence; Reincarnation

ABU1772

Words to Esmael, spoken on 1914-12-09

170

Let me tell you a story about a Mohammadan Judge in Tiberias. This judge had two rooms which communicated to each other by the means of a ladder

DAS.1914-12-09

Stories; anecdotes

ABU1771

Words to departing pilgrims, spoken on 1914-01-20

170

Do ye not weep! The Lord is your comfort. The glory of the King of Kings shall rest upon you. Abide eternally in the realm of joy

DAS.1914-01-20

Call to action; Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Consolation and comfort; Praise and encouragement; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Unity; oneness of humanity; Unity in diversity

ABU1766

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1915-06-23

170

I have repeated on various occasions that the foundation of the progress of the Bahá'í Cause consists in the spread of the message... This is the time for laying the foundation and raising the walls. This is not the time to think of the interior decoration and furniture.

DAS.1915-06-23

Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1765

Words to Remey, Latimer, et al, spoken on 1914-10-16

170

When we were in Salmani-Pak, an Indian prince, Iqbalu'd-Dawlih, accompanied by one student, came there. There were between thirty and forty souls with Bahá'u'lláh.

DAS.1914-10-16, PN_1914 p093

Business; financial; property matters; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1761

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-03-23

170

My highest desire in this world is to be confirmed in the service of the Threshold of the Blessed Perfection. No other title or station is pleasing to me. Bahá'u'lláh Himself crowned my head

DAS.1915-03-23

Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual foundations of true knowledge; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU1757

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-05-07

170

هر امری که قوه دارد خودش کار میکند حال ما اینجا هستیم جمیع ابواب مسدود و طرق مقطوع است

The Cause which is endued [with] dynamic, spiritual energy will advance and develop in spite of all obstacles.... It has taken possession of the subterranean layers of human consciousness…

KHH1.228 (1.317)

KHHE.334-335, DAS.1915-05-07

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Growth of the Cause; Rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU1740

Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-05-01

170

Bringing forth results; fruit; Spiritual communication; connections of the heart; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

امروز من با شما وداع می‌کنم لکن وداع دو قسم است یکی آنست که نفوس بعد از وداع بمرور یکدیگر را فراموش میکنند

This is the day of farewell with you. Farewell is of two kinds. The first kind of farewell is followed by forgetfulness.

BDA2.276-277

DAS.1913-05-01, MHMD2.362

ABU1739

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-15

170

Humility; meekness; lowliness; Priority over other activities in teaching the Cause; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

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

ABU1738

Words to the Persian friends, spoken on 1912-12-28

170

If the believers of God had lived in accord with the good pleasure of the Blessed Perfection, all the people of the world would have been Baha'is by now

DAS.1912-12-28

Growth of the Cause; Love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion; Manifestation of God as sun; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU1737

Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-11

170

The greatest prison is the material world. Prison is the antithesis of freedom. Now man is a prisoner of food, of sleep

DAS.1913-05-11

ABU1726

Words spoken on 1914-06-01 in Tiberias

180

Live thou in accord with the teachings of Bahá'u'lláh. Do not only read them. There is a vast difference

COC#0423x, DAS.1914-06-01, SW_v07#18 p.178, BSTW#402

Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Words vs deeds

ABU1719

Words spoken on 1914-03-26 in Haifa

180

Regarding Family Life and Marriage

Are not men really childish? The life of men is but a few days; then death overtakes them... My home is the home of peace

COC#0859x, DAS.1914-03-26, SW_v09#03 p.039-040, SW_v12#12 p.204x, ABCC.405, VLAB.151

B. Weber, S. Sunderland

Contention and conflict; Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Hospitality; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU1718

Words spoken on 1914-06-16

180

Think of God, and let thy thought be of God, and let thy brother be trained according to

DAS.1914-06-16, SW_v07#15 p.143, SW_v09#07 p.088

Education of children; moral education; Love of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU1717

Words to Eric Julihn, spoken on 1913-01-22

180

We were in San Francisco less than a month.... The friends of God must sacrifice their lives for the sake of each other.

DAS.1913-01-22

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion; Praise and encouragement; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1716

Words spoken at 97 Cadogan Gardens in London, 1913-01-16

180

Methods of teaching the Cause; Priority over other activities in teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

All the meetings must be for teaching the Cause and spreading the Message, and suffering the souls

LOG#0157x, DAS.1913-01-16, BSC.502 #967, SW_v04#15 p.256, SW_v09#14 p.161, CHH.177-178, BLO_PN#022

ABU1715

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-14

180

I remember that during my childhood we had a colored servant whose name was Mubarak. He was big and strong. At that time I was six or seven years old

DAS.1913-03-14

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Humor; jokes; Stories; anecdotes; Youth and pre-ministry of Abdu'l-Baha

ABU1713

Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-05-23

180

One day in Baghdad Bahá'u'lláh was walking beside the bank of the Euphrates. A learned man of that city who had never seen him passed and was greatly impressed

DAS.1913-05-23

Humor; jokes; Knowledge; recognition of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1712

Words to Frau and Frauline Consul, spoken on 1913-04-29

180

Complete physical health is enjoyed by the animals. Consider when the animal possesses perfect health, it brays, it rolls on the grass

DAS.1913-04-29

Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU1709

Words spoken en route in carriage in Haifa, 1915-04-25

180

These warring, Christian nations call themselves the followers of the Nazarene but do not live in accord with his teachings... Do we Bahá'ís live according to the principles of His Holiness Bahá'u'lláh? We must be just.

DAS.1915-04-25

Criticism and its limits; Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Words vs deeds

ABU1707

Words to Mrs Rosenberg, Cropper, and Heron, spoken on 1913-01-20

180

Although this globe of ours is very small, yet it has all these living beings. Can it be imagined that those tremendous bodies hanging in a limitless atmosphere are without inhabitants!

DAS.1913-01-20

Celestial spheres [aflak]; planets; astronomy; Infinity and eternity; Limits of the intellect; Plenitude; the pervasiveness of life in the cosmos; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God

ABU1705

Words spoken on 1914-01-05

180

The winds were blowing from every direction. Some requested me not to come, but I said: 'This is the feast of the believers of God...'

DAS.1914-01-05

Education of children; moral education; Power of faith; power of the spirit; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU1700

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10

180

Praise be to God that thou art wealthy through the treasury of the Kingdom. True wealth is the wealth of the Kingdom of God. The heart of man must be rich.

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; High station of the true believer; Lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU1698

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-02-24

180

The progress and adornment of a country depends upon the qualities and perceptions of its people and not upon its monuments, parks... In the beginning we were all shut up in the military barrack

DAS.1915-02-24

Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Suffering and imprisonment; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times

ABU1682

Words spoken on 1913-11-06 in Ramleh

180

Indeed the East is the world of lights, the world of illumination, the world of enlightenment.... Once I was feeling very sick and at the invitation

DAS.1913-11-06

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Moderation; frugality; simplicity

ABU1678

Words to Mr and Mrs Hollback, spoken on 1914-04-10

180

My happiness comes from the Kingdom of Abha! My joy is from the Delectable Paradise!

DAS.1914-04-10, SW_v13#04 p.102x, PN_1914 p009

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Love as fire; Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU1676

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-03-29

180

There lived in Isfahan a merchant who was very rich but practiced parsimony to the utmost degree. Because he had many boys and girls

DAS.1915-03-29

Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Moderation; frugality; simplicity; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty

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

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

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

ABU1665

Words to a Frenchman, spoken on 1913-03-30

180

Just at this time I was thinking of you. You are most welcomed. Be thou happy for thou hast heard the Call of the Kingdom of Abha.

DAS.1913-03-30

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Growth of the Cause; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1661

Words spoken at Ritz Hotel in Budapest, 1913-04-09

180

Declaration of Baha'u'llah; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Love of God; Prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Unity; oneness of humanity

امید واریم کل بخدمت عالم انسانی موفق شویم زیرا امروز خدمتی اعظم از تروج وحدت

I hope that we shall all be confirmed to serve the world of humanity, because no service is greater today than promoting the oneness of mankind

BDA2.226-227

DAS.1913-04-09, MHMD2.292-293, ABCC.384-385x

ABU1650

Words spoken on 1914-02-15

190

In this age the college which is dominated by a denominational spirit is an anomaly.... The universities and colleges of the world must hold fast to three cardinal principles

LOG#0716x, DAS.1914-02-15, SW_v09#09 p.098, SW_v14#01 p.007, SW_v18#06 p.181, SW_v19#02 p.058

Call to acquire knowledge; sciences; Educational curricula; Education of children; moral education; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Unity; oneness of humanity; Universal education; Universal peace; world unity

ABU1649

Words spoken on 1914-03-05

190

There are many kinds of roses, but this kind is the most fragrant. The extract of rose is

DAS.1914-03-05, SW_v08#13 p.177-178

Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Physical limitations of the Manifestation of God; Special knowledge of the Manifestation of God

ABU1648

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-10

190

These objections are always raised against the truth but the truth will march toward its ultimate goal of triumph. When we were exiled from Teheran to Bagdad

DAS.1913-03-10

Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Growth of the Cause; Rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU1647

Words spoken on 1913-11-04 in Ramleh

190

There was in Acca a Greek merchant who had grown very wealthy. He had a dog which followed him everywhere

DAS.1913-11-04

Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1644

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-01-14

190

The constitution of some people is kneaded with the water of loyalty. They are like unto a pure soil in which the seeds of loyalty are planted

DAS.1915-01-14

Stories; anecdotes; The soul as soil; cultivation of the soul

ABU1643

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-04-26

190

Many blessed and holy souls have appeared in this Cause who have been the essence of essences. That is why the Cause is wonderfully spread all over the world.

DAS.1913-04-26

Being a source of light; guidance; Growth of the Cause; High station of teachers of the Cause; Power; influence of a single soul in teaching the Cause; The state of enkindlement in teaching

ABU1640

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-10-29

190

In these days the people of the world are in the bondage of a thousand trials and sufferings but they bear all these things without a murmur

DAS.1914-10-29

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU1639

Words to departing pilgrims, spoken on 1914-04-28

190

In this century the voices of peace must drown the clamors for battle, and the principle of arbitration must gain sway

DAS.1914-04-28

Call to action; Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Education of children; moral education; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; War and peace

ABU1637

Words spoken at Bahji, 1914-01-03

190

A fair and impartial observer perceives the signs of the power and intelligence of God in all the atoms of existence. Before leaving Haifa, I felt very ill... Then I reached Stuttgart. There I found wonderful Baha'is.

DAS.1914-01-03

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Praise and encouragement; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

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

Being a source of light; guidance; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU1633

Words to Baha'is from Esslingen, spoken on 1913-04-06

190

You are welcome. You must thank God and I must thank God that a meeting like unto this is being held; for this meeting cannot be compared with other meetings.

DAS.1913-04-06

ABU1631

Words to an Indian scholar, spoken on 1914-03-25

190

They appear and disappear. They have no importance whatsoever in the religious world... The course of this stupendous creation is not changed through their blind, dogmatic assertions.

DAS.1914-03-25

Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Independent investigation of truth; reality; Manifestation of God as educator; Need for an educator; Religion as reality; definitions of religion

ABU1630

Address to the friends at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-03-07

190

You are welcome! I constantly pray for you and beg for each the divine Confirmations, so that the eye of your insight may be opened to see those objects

DAS.1913-03-07

Call to action; Development of capacity and readiness; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Knowledge; recognition of God; Realms of being; three realms; five realms

ABU1626

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-20

190

Association with outsiders is like unto a 'knife-edge file'. It wears and cuts away the spirit. One does not hear from them one joy-creating word. From noon till now I have been speaking

DAS.1915-04-20

Fellowship with the wayward and ungodly; Prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Service to others; to the Cause of God; War and peace

ABU1620

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-09-02

190

One man is so sensitive that gentlest breeze racing over his face may become awakened

DAS.1914-09-02

Blind imitation [taqlid]; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Suffering; rejection of Christ

ABU1618

Words to visitors, spoken on 1913-05-12

190

There is a story attributed to Christ in the oriental literature that is not found in any of the four Gospels. It is reported that one day a number of people saw Christ flying away with great haste.

DAS.1913-05-12

Miracles and their interpretation; Stories; anecdotes; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause

ABU1616

Words to newspaper reporters, spoken on 1912-04-11

190

Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity; oneness of humanity; Universal education; War and peace

مقصد ما صلح عمومی و وحدت انسانی است سفری در پاریس و لندن بودم

Our object is universal peace and the unity of humankind. I have traveled to Paris and London and now I have come to America... One of these ills is the people's restlessness and discontent under the yoke of the war expenditures of the world's governments.... It is the war which is today the cause of all trouble.

BDA1.027.02

DAS.1913-07-20, MHMD1.035-036, ABIE.091, BLO_PN#007

ABU1613

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-12

190

مردم از قول حق خاضع نمیشوند ولی اگر عمل حق ببینند خاضع میشوند

People do not become submissive because of virtuous dictums; but rather, when they observe righteous deeds, they grow submissive. (DAS: Generally the people are not impressed by the words of the Divine Manifestation but if they hear about His actions they will humble themselves immediately.)

KHH1.212 (1.297)

KHHE.310-311, DAS.1915-04-12, BSR_v13 p.100

Martyrs and martyrdom; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Words vs deeds

ABU1608

Words spoken on 1914-06-20 in Haifa

190

Dr. Ardasheer has learned osteopathy very well. He desires to give you a massage.... They investigate every question.... They go to self-interested strangers

DAS.1914-06-19, SW_v09#10 p.119-120

Methods of teaching the Cause; Power; influence of a single soul in teaching the Cause; Praise of Western values; culture; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU1606

Words to a visitor, spoken on 1913-05-12

190

Call to action; Manifestation of God as mediator; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause

خود مسیح میفرماید منم نان حیات پس آن مائدهٴ کمالات و یوضات آسمانی بود و آن طبقها

His Holiness Christ said: I am the bread which has come down from heaven. Again he said: Whosoever eats of this bread, he shall find a new life. The heavenly food is the divine virtues of the world of humanity

BDA2.297x

DAS.1913-05-12, MHMD2.392-393x

ABU1595

Words to the Falah family, spoken on 1914-06-06

190

The firm and steadfast believers living in a city will become the means of its ultimate illumination and will assist the inhabitants

DAS.1914-06-06, SW_v09#10 p.107-108x

Growth of the Cause; Muhammad; Islam; Religion as source; stimulus of knowledge and science; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU1592

Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-06-07

200

In Tiberias the missionaries have built a modern hospital and pharmacy. The doctor

DAS.1913-06-07, SW_v09#03 p.040

Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; Christian doctrine and practice; Christian rejection of Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i Faith; Early Christian persecutions; the Pharisees; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause

ABU1591

Words spoken on 1913-08-05 in Ramleh

200

It is said that at one time a king went out traveling incognito. He put on an humble suit of clothes

DAS.1913-08-05, SW_v09#18 p.211-212, ABIE.161, BLO_PN#007, STAB#146

Alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium; Humor; jokes; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1588

Words spoken on 1913-09-19 in Ramleh

200

There was a time when Persian was like a fragrant Bouquet, perfuming all nostrils. She was the center of the glory and honor of the world of humanity.

DAS.1913-09-19, ABIE.332, BLO_PN#007

Call to action; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Past, present and future of Iran; Two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization

ABU1582

Words to Lua Getsinger, Ramleh, 1913-08-21

200

In the election of the members of the House of Spirituality no political tactics should enter. They must be free from self

DAS.1913-08-21, ABIE.216, BLO_PN#007

Consultation; Elections; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Non-participation in politics; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1580

Words spoken on 1913-04-23

200

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Service to others; to the Cause of God

امّا اعانت و حمایت نفوس آن نیز در عالم جسمانی و روحانی هر دو لازمست

Assistance is of two kinds: Material assistance and spiritual assistance. Material assistance is limited to one locality and place but spiritual assistance is measureless.

BDA2.256x

DAS.1913-04-23, MHMD2.328-329x

ABU1578

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-01-11

200

Today we call on Sheik Ibrahim Akki. As you know his two merchant steamers are sunk by the Russian warship in Beirut harbor.

DAS.1915-01-11

Composure; tranquillity; serenity; Conduct in finance and business; Moderation; frugality; simplicity; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1573

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-04-21

200

Look at these white lilies - how fragrant and pure they are! An emblem of the spotless heart... Praise be to God that we are enjoying the benefits of the material and spiritual Ridvan... The message of Ridvan is love, love and still more love

DAS.1915-04-21

Love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU1571

Words to the Turkish Consul General, spoken on 1913-04-14

200

Critique of Eastern values; culture; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Unity; oneness of humanity; Universal language

امروز شرق بهیچوجه مقابلی یا غرب نتواند و با هیچ قوّهٴئ‌ی نه برابری بلکه محافظهٴ خود

Today the armies of Europe, well-drilled, well-provisioned, phalanx-like, are similar unto the waves of the ocean pounding against the shores of Asia…. The East today cannot compete with the West in any way…

BDA2.238

DAS.1913-04-14, MHMD2.308x

ABU1566

Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-05-23

200

The real enjoyment of the world of humanity consists in the fact that every individual may think of the well-being of others... During the lifetime of Muhammad one day his son-in-law, Ali, his wife and two sons kept fast.

DAS.1913-05-23

Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam; Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Stories; anecdotes; The golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others

ABU1562

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-14

200

I hope that whosoever hears your words, sees your deeds and beholds your manners and behaviors may declare that these people are real Bahá'ís

DAS.1914-05-14, SW_v05#08 p.118

Call to action; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Growth of the Cause; Prophecy and fulfillment; Sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world; Service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU1561

Words to a stranger, spoken on 1914-05-09

200

The Bahá'ís must be the servants of universal Peace, the workers for the Cause of the Oneness of the world of humanity, the spreaders of heavenly Love amongst the children of men

DAS.1914-05-09, SW_v16#01 p.385x, PN_1914 p002, PN_1914 p004, BSTW#318

Call to action; Compassion; kindness; Equality of men and women; Harmony of science and religion; Lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Oneness; unity of religion; Prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction; Religion as reality; definitions of religion; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Unity; oneness of humanity; Unity in diversity; Universal peace; world unity

ABU1560

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-10

200

God hath made all the phenomena for the sake of man and created man for Himself. We consider that the sun is shining, the clouds are pouring down rain

Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Human reality created in the image of God; Man is the sum; pinnacle; fruit of creation; Purpose; goal of creation

ABU1554

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-03-12

200

All the efforts of these people in this or other direction are like unto the vanishing traceries made on the mirror-like surface of water.

DAS.1915-03-12

Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Idle fancies; lust and passion; Manifestation of God as divine physician; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Wisdom [hikmat]

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

ABU1551

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-13

200

When Bahá'u'lláh returned from His pilgrimage to Karbila, the brother of the Grand Vizir Abbas Quli Khan

DAS.1913-02-13

Ascension of Baha'u'llah; Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih; Baha'u'llah; Christian rejection of Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i Faith; Declaration of Baha'u'llah; He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Banishments of Baha'u'llah; Early years; early ministry of Baha'u'llah; Incarceration of Baha'u'llah in Siyah Chal; Early years; early ministry of Baha'u'llah; Power of the Manifestation of God; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1549

Words spoken at House of the Master in Haifa, 1914-07-23

200

For the time being the proposed delegates to such a Conference must lay aside the discussion of dogmas and Apostles Creeds... If the churches are anxious to win the souls back to Christ they must interpret these 'seven great mysteries' of Christianity according to science and reason

DAS.1914-07-23

Christian doctrine and practice; Harmony of science and religion; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Unity in diversity

ABU1548

Words spoken on 1915-02-08 in Abu Sinan

200

کثبف طالب کثیف است پاکی تاثیر کلی در روح دارد و لو خود پاکیزگی عرض است

Cleanliness has a profound effect upon the spirit. Even though cleanliness is related to worldly affairs, yet its effect is manifested in the soul.

KHH1.169-170 (1.237-238)

KHHE.249-250, DAS.1915-02-08, BSR_v13 p.090

Cleanliness and refinement

ABU1546

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-05-06

200

Accounts of dreams and visions; Jabulqa and Jabarsa; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; The concourse on high; Universal language

دیشب جمال مبارک را در خواب دیدم که بلسانی غیر از السن موجوده تکلم میفرمایند

Last night I had a dream. In this dream I saw the Blessed Perfection standing before a large gathering. I was also amongst these people.

BDA2.290x

DAS.1913-05-06, MHMD2.382

ABU1538

Words to the Russian Consul-General of Beirut, spoken on 1913-11-09

200

A ruler must consider himself the real father of all the people. Just as the father is solicitous about the education of his sons

DAS.1913-11-09

Relationship between government and people

ABU1535

Words to H.E.H et al, spoken on 1913-11-01

200

بسیار خوش آمدید ماندن ما در اینجا مانند عبادت است امید وارم که نتائج عظیمه حاصل نماید جمیع نفوس خوابند

You must feel very happy because you are here with me and we are associating together with the utmost kindness.

NJB_v04#14 p.002

DAS.1913-11-01, PN_1913-14_heh p007

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Many are called but few are chosen; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1534

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-01

200

این دنیا عالم کون و فساد است عالم خسته نمیشود

The world is the plane of creation and disintegration. The process never stops: on one hand it creates new people

KHH1.266 (1.372-375)

KHHE.389-392, DAS.1914-12-01, BSR_v13 p.084

Composition and decomposition; Continual renewal of creation; Creation of the world

ABU1533

Words to the resident friends, spoken on 1914-04-29

200

This is a blessed day, a happy and joyful day. The beauty, the holiness and the significance of these days of Rizvan are not known now.

DAS.1914-04-29, SW_v08#13 p.169-170

Declaration of Baha'u'llah; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Power of the Manifestation of God; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU1531

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-18

200

Education of children; moral education; Parents and children; youth; families

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

ABU1528

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-21

210

May thy body be at peace... The name of this old man is Rustam Effendi... This man is Asaad Bey.

DAS.1914-12-21, SW_v13#10 p.269-270

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1523

Words spoken to Baha'is of the World at Bahji, 1913-12-25

210

You are all welcome. How are you? It is part of the Divine Wisdom that I should keep silent for a time! All that was required of me

DAS.1913-12-25, SW_v05#01 p.003, BSTW#344

Bringing forth results; fruit; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator; Radiant countenance; bearing the divine fragrance; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1519

Words spoken on 1914-07-03

210

It is recorded in one of the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh that at one time His Holiness Christ was in the wilderness. It was night, and impenetrably dark. It was very cold

DAS.1914-07-03

Christ; Christianity; Suffering and imprisonment; Thankfulness; gratitude

ABU1518

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-04-26

210

When I was in Baghdad, one day I was walking through the poor quarter of the city. I saw an old Arab standing in front of a store. He had neither hat nor shoes

DAS.1913-04-26

Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Stories; anecdotes; Thankfulness; gratitude

ABU1515

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1914-10-23

210

America is the home of the ideals of Peace; its people are peace-loving and its democratic leaders the spreaders of the seeds of Peace.

DAS.1914-10-23, SW_v13#11 p.293

Call to action; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Parliaments; constitutional government; Praise of Western values; culture; Universal peace; world unity

ABU1513

Words spoken on 1914-02-27 in Haifa

210

The true aspect of the religion of Islam is not only misunderstood by the European missionaries and scholars, but even by the Mohamadans themselves

DAS.1914-02-27

Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Multiple meanings; interpretations in scripture; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation

ABU1512

Interview with five American teachers, Haifa, 1914-07-21

210

The doors of colleges and universities must be wide open

DAS.1914-07-21, SW_v12#01 p.014-015

Nationalism; love of country; Nonexistence of evil; relativity of good and evil; Oneness; unity of religion; The Christian clergy; Unity; oneness of humanity; Unity in diversity; Universal education

ABU1507

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-03-15

210

The inhabitants of the world will not become mindful and aware of the bounties and favors of the glorious God; nay rather when these bestowals pour upon them uninterruptedly, their negligence increases in equal ratio.

DAS.1915-03-15

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Manifestation of God as divine physician; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU1505

Words spoken on 1914-04-15

210

I hope that while you are studying in this college you may so excel all other students

COC#0797x, LOG#0718x, DAS.1914-04-15, SW_v09#09 p.098-099

Excellence; distinction; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU1503

Words to the friends over lunch, spoken on 1913-01-10

210

The most important food is spiritual food. This material food must be eaten three times a day, but whosoever eats of the spiritual food shall never hunger.

DAS.1913-01-10

Material and spiritual existence; two books; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Stories; anecdotes; The power of words; of speech

ABU1502

Words to a pilgrim, spoken on 1914-03-28

210

Now the old believers should be satisfied with what they have... Some years ago there lived in New York a good believer by the name, Mrs. Helen Cole

DAS.1914-03-28

Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Eulogies; reminiscences; Personal instructions

ABU1498

Words to a vistor, spoken on 1913-04-20

210

Greek philosophers; Greek civilization; High station of learning; Manifestation of God as educator; Manifestation of God as mirror; Manifestation of God speaking in the voice of Divinity

معلم یعنی مربی حقیقی که مظهر صفات الهیه است و یکی از صفات او صفت ربوبیت است

By Father we mean the Educator. Just as the Father is tender to his children, likewise the instructor teaches them.... Generally, there are three kinds of teachers

BDA2.249

DAS.1913-04-20, MHMD2.323

ABU1495

Words spoken on 1913-10-25 in Ramleh

210

The Arabs are a hardy race. Their physical constitutions are like iron. The Arabs of the interior of the Peninsula still preserve

DAS.1913-10-25

Courtesy; culture [adab]; Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance

ABU1490

Words spoken on 1914-04-02

210

ای یاران عنقریب یومی اید که دیگر مرا نخواهید دید آنچه تکلیف من بود بجا آوردم

Friends! The time is coming when I shall be no longer with you. I have done all that could be done

DWNP_v1#03-4 p.005-006, DWNP_v3#03-4 p.025a

GPB.309x, DAS.1914-04-02, SW_v05#07 p.104, SW_v06#06 p.046, DWN_v6#11 p.001, PN_unsorted p025, PAB.026-027, ABCC.405-406, VLAB.027-028, BSTW#052v

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Call to action; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Unity; oneness of humanity

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

ABU1477

Words to Mrs. von Lilenthal, spoken on 1913-11-22

220

There are souls who are capable of becoming quickened by the Divine Fragrance and the statement of His Holiness Christ in regard to the second birth applies to them

DAS.1913-11-12, PN_1913-14_heh p117, PN_unsorted p048, PN_unsorted p090

Attaining the life of the spirit; Knowledge; recognition of God; Soul; spirit after death; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; Existence; immortality of the human soul; The human soul; The human soul at midpoint of creation; the isthmus [barzakh]; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures

ABU1476

Public address given on 1913-04-21

220

The glory of the world of humanity is not through the body. This is the honor of the animal world; but the glory of man comes through the spirit.

DAS.1913-04-21

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; East and West; communication between East and West; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Power of faith; power of the spirit; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1468

Words to departing Indian pilgrims, spoken on 1914-05-29

220

I shall expect to receive the results of your appearance on the soil of India, to see what services you are rendering, what fragrances shall waft those regions.

DAS.1914-05-29

Being a source of living waters in teaching the Cause; Confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause; Creativity in art; Prayer for the spiritual progress of others; Spiritual communication; connections of the heart

ABU1467

Words to Arab villagers from Adasiyyah, spoken on 1914-05-07

220

Consider that Abdu'r-Rahman Pasha receives one forth of the entire crop and produce from the farmers in his village

DAS.1914-05-07

Agriculture; Education of children; moral education; Excellence; distinction; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Thankfulness; gratitude; Work as worship

ABU1466

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-05-07

220

When the Blessed Perfection was in Constantinople He sent a message to Mirza Hossein Khan, the Persian Ambassador

DAS.1915-05-07

Banishment to; life in Constantinople; Growth of the Cause; Martyrdom of the Bab; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU1465

Words spoken on 1913-06-30 in Port Said

220

The Bahá'í Cause is like unto the great ocean, or rather the great ocean is a symbol of the Cause of God. Its mountainous waves are within itself and by itself.

DAS.1913-06-30

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Growth of the Cause; Imagery in the Qur'an; Rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU1463

Words spoken on 1914-06-23

220

Today we have received a newspaper from London containing the photograph of a Bahá'í girl who has given a most dramatic speech before the King and Queen of England

DAS.1914-06-23

Equality of men and women; Means of establishment of future civilization; Role and station of women

ABU1459

Words to Remey, Latimer, et al, spoken on 1914-10-16

220

Did you hear the cooing of the doves? Just now some one fired a gun and they

DAS.1914-10-16, SW_v09#18 p.205, PN_1914 p090

Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Kindness to and rights of animals; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1455

Words to a number of visitors, spoken on 1914-03-28

220

In the material world perfect composure and tranquility are not destined for man. Somehow, somewhere he is attacked by the depressing condition of the times.

DAS.1914-03-28

Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Law of transformation and change; The Kingdom of God [Malakut]; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU1452

Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1914-12-12

220

یک ترتیبی از برای تربیت اطفال در ذهن من هست که هنوز اسبابش فراهم نشده که آن را مجری دارم

When people invite me alone to their houses I ask them to prepare only one dish... I have carried in my mind for some time an educational system

ZSM.1914-12-12

LOG#0483x, DAS.1914-12-12, SW_v13#07 p.171-173, SW_v14#01 p.006

Educational curricula; Education of children; moral education; Moderation; frugality; simplicity; Order; organization; tact; deliberation [tadbir]; Service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU1449

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-04-25

220

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Rejection, opposition and persecution

من در هیچ مدرسه ای داخل نشدم معهذا در ایام طفولیت وقتی در بغداد برای جمعی صحبت میکردم

I was only fifteen. One day in the Mosque of Baghdad I was surrounded by a number of Mohammadan clergy. They were asking many questions about jurisprudence

BDA2.260

DAS.1913-04-25, MHMD2.338-339

ABU1448

Words to Mirza Fazlollah and his wife, spoken on 1913-05-12

220

I am most pleased with your marriage. For this is a marriage between the East and the West. The more intermarriage between the Europeans, Americans and Persians the better

DAS.1913-05-12

Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Stories; anecdotes; Unity in diversity

ABU1447

Words to Ethel Fraser, spoken on 1913-05-06

220

Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Relationship of the soul to the body; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Existence; immortality of the human soul; The human soul; The human soul at midpoint of creation; the isthmus [barzakh]; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures; The mind's power of discovery

من بصحت جسمانی اهمیت نمیدهم همین قدر باشد که انسان در بستر نخوابد

I do not give any importance to physical health. The real health is spiritual and that is eternal. The spirit of man must become reinforced.

BDA2.287

DAS.1913-05-06, MHMD2.378

ABU1439

Words spoken on 1913-09-19 in Ramleh

220

Outside of Teheran we had a great park planted by the father of the Blessed perfection

DAS.1913-09-19, SW_v09#16 p.184, ABIE.334, BLO_PN#007

Banishment to; life in Constantinople; Early years; early ministry of Baha'u'llah; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1433

Words to some friends, spoken on 1913-05-04

220

Christ; Christianity; Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The soul as soil; cultivation of the soul

باز ما مراجعت بپاریس نمودیم به‌بینیم احباب چه کرده‌اند... تخمی افشاندیم و برگشتیم حال شما میتوانید بروید آبیاری کنید؟

We have returned to Paris to see what the believers have done… We have come to Paris and are sowing the seeds. Can you arise and irrigate them? When the divine farmer ploughs the ground and scatters the seeds

BDA2.283

DAS.1913-05-04, MHMD2.373-374

ABU1430

Words spoken on 1914-09-06

220

Mount Carmel is enveloped with the white mantle of spirituality.... The divine, holy prophets have two stations.

DAS.1914-09-06, SW_v09#09 p.104

Contemplation; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Mount Carmel; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ABU1428

Words spoken on 1913-10-02 in Ramleh

220

God, through His Grace, in the course of the life of every man opens a wide door of golden opportunity before his face.

DAS.1913-10-02

Attaining good pleasure of God; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU1424

Words spoken on 1913-12-31 in Haifa

220

اگر ماها جمیع احباء که در ظل سدره منتهی هستیم در تبلیغ قیام کنیم حق جل جلاله

If we--all the Baha'is--who are beneath the shade of the Sadrat-ul-Montaha, arise to teach the Cause of God, unquestionably the Almighty will confirm us.

RRT.037, MAS5.078

DAS.1913-12-31

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1422

Words to visitors, spoken on 1914-03-28

230

The biographies of such blessed souls must be written in detail – thus the children of the next generation may try to imitate the virtues of their fathers

DAS.1914-03-28

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Eulogies; reminiscences; Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Spiritual foundations of true knowledge

ABU1408

Words to Mirza Ali Akbar

230

Thou hast been with me for a long time, and I have grown to love thee very much. When I love people

DAS.1913-10-31, SW_v05#01 p.006-007, SW_v07#10 p.095-096

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Exhortations and counsels; High station of teachers of the Cause; Methods of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1405

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-05-23

230

A Bahá'í must conform all his great and small affairs in accord with the good-pleasure of the Blessed Perfection. This is the unerring criterion.

DAS.1915-05-23

Attaining good pleasure of God; Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Service to others; to the Cause of God; The golden rule; regard for one's neighbor; doing unto others

ABU1404

Words to Latimer, Remey and students, spoken on 1914-10-15

230

Confidence is the cornerstone of all of life's activities. In the early days after our arrival in Acca

DAS.1914-10-15, PN_1914 p084

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Conduct in finance and business; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times

ABU1403

Words to some American visitors, spoken on 1913-11-08

230

Today I leave for Port-Said. I am leaving you here for 3 to 5 days. During my absence speak only of divine subjects.

DAS.1913-11-08

Call to action; Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

ABU1402

Words to a delegation of Theosophists, spoken on 1913-04-11

230

Bahá'í Scriptures; Abdu'l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913

الحمدللّٰه که اسباب ملاقات فراهم آمد دیشب خوب مجلسی بود احساسات روحانی قلوب را احاطه نموده بود

Praise be to God that means were brought about that I may come to Budapest and associate with you... As to the coming of the Great Master. His appearance is dependent upon the realization of certain conditions. Investigate the reality

BDA2.230x

DAS.1913-04-11, BSC.300 #608x, MHMD2.298x, BSTW#146, BSTW#327

Innateness; early self-awareness of the Manifestations of God; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Power of the Manifestation of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Special knowledge of the Manifestation of God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU1399

Words to Doctor Finkelstein, spoken on 1915-05-03

230

Buy a piece of land on the top of the mountain and build for yourself a lovely summer house. Then marry a strong, vigorous, athletic girl like thyself.

DAS.1915-05-03

Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Laws of marriage and dowry; Marriage as means of spiritual progress; Parents and children; youth; families

ABU1398

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-26

230

The signatory powers of the Hague Convention did not abide by their own agreement. They violated in this last outburst of savagery every article of those carefully drawn, long-debated conventions.

DAS.1915-04-26

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures; War and peace

ABU1397

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-23

230

As much as possible we must make our lives simple and reduce its accumulated complexities. Our necessary wants were originally very few

DAS.1915-04-23

Call to acquire knowledge; sciences; Critique of Western values; culture; Moderation; frugality; simplicity; Self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline

ABU1394

Words to visitors, spoken on 1913-03-23

230

Ignorance and prejudice have encircled the nations of the earth and they are attacking each other with weapons of death instead of love.

DAS.1913-03-23

Fanaticism and hatred; Oneness; unity of religion; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Unity; oneness of humanity; War and peace

ABU1393

Public address given on 1913-01-28

230

Now praise be to God that his holiness Bahá'u'lláh hath appeared. He has upraised the flag of divine civilization, He has opened the doors of the Kingdom of God

DAS.1913-01-28

Call to action; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Praise and encouragement; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU1392

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-01-28

230

Man cannot comprehend the essence of God. He is the limited and God's essence is the unlimited. All the attributes referable to God, such as omnipotent, Omniscient, merciful are only qualifying attributes

DAS.1913-01-28

Identity; relationship of Manifestation of God to God; Manifestation of God as mediator; Manifestation of God as mirror; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ABU1390

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-03-30

230

From 8am to 6pm I was speaking to them. They asked many questions peculiar to their sects... Now the answer must be given in such a manner as to establish a conciliation between these two schools

DAS.1914-03-29

Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.; Modes; manner; speed; size of divine revelation; Realms of being; three realms; five realms

ABU1389

Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1913-12-14

230

In reality the German Baha'is are the embodiment of attraction and enthusiasm. They are Baha'is by deeds and actions.

DAS.1913-12-14

Praise and encouragement; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1388

Words to a group of friends, spoken on 1913-04-26

230

What did the people say last night? Were they not dissatisfied?... This morning looking down from the window I saw a regiment of soldiers passing by in fine shape.

DAS.1913-04-26

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Nationalism; love of country; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Sacrifice of the Manifestation of God redeems the world; Spiritual warfare; struggle; War and peace

ABU1386

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-05-21

230

Yes. It would have had a marked effect. God willing this excellent idea will become realized, for such representatives and senators would concentrate all their energies

DAS.1915-05-21

Promotion of commerce and industry; Unity of governments; political unity; Universality of the Cause; Universal peace; world unity; War and peace

ABU1382

230

O ye friends of God! The morn of guidance is radiant and the hearts of the people of faithfulness are like unto a garden

DAS.1914-06-25, SW_v13#07 p.186-187

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God

ABU1378

Words spoken on 1915-05-05 in Abu Sinan

230

من شما را بجهت خدمت امرالله میخواهم میخواهم شما در جمیع آنچه میبینید و تجربه کرده اید

I wish for you consecrated services to the Cause of God. I wish for you to manifest radiant attributes under all conditions and to raise the Word of God.

KHH1.221-222 (1.309-310)

KHHE.324, DAS.1915-05-05, BSR_v13 p.102

Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; War and peace

ABU1376

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-16

230

Alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Ottoman commissions of investigation; Rejection, opposition and persecution

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

ABU1374

Words to Mrs Holley, spoken on 1913-05-04

230

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Power of prayer; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

شفا دو قسم است جسمانی و روحانی خدا دوا را بی سبب خلق نکرده... چون در اجزآء بدن مانند جزء شکری یا نشوی

For healing, prayer and medicine both are necessary. God has created the herbs and the plants with their useful properties.... We have been talking about healing

BDA2.284-285x

DAS.1913-05-04, MHMD2.374x

ABU1371

Words to a group of friends, spoken on 1913-04-26

230

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice

دیشب با آنکه حالت قدم برداشتن نبود با وجود این بمجلس رفتیم گفتیم میرویم ولو خطر باشد

Although I could not walk one step last night and it was quite dangerous to go out, I said, I will go. The utmost is that I will become a sacrifice to the friends of God.

BDA2.262x

DAS.1913-04-26, MHMD2.342

ABU1370

Words spoken on 1913-05-16 in Paris

230

Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Justice and wrath of God; Selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence

در مازندران شب حضرت باب الباب چون حضرت قدوس را دید و بیانات فضل و حکمت از لسان ایشان

One night in Mazandaran, when Mulla Husayn saw Quddus and heard his utterances of wisdom and knowledge, he arose at once

BDA2.302

DAS.1913-05-16, MHMD2.399

ABU1369

Words spoken on 1913-11-26 in Ramleh

230

His name [the father of Ibn-i-Asdaq] was Mollah Salek Mogaddass. He was one of the learned men of Persia, and when he became a believer

DAS.1913-11-26

Eulogies; reminiscences; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU1364

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-14

230

Early years; early ministry of Baha'u'llah; Family of Muhammad; early figures in Islam

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

ABU1363

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-05-22

230

The physical body has also a share. When I was in America a number of Christians came to me and asked a most subtle and difficult question.

DAS.1915-05-22

Connection between material and spiritual worlds; Crucifixion; ascension of Christ; Martyrs and martyrdom; Physical limitations of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment; The Christian clergy

ABU1359

Words spoken on 1914-05-19 in Tiberias

230

How long are you Jews going to wait for the coming of Messiah? Day and night you are praying

DAS.1914-05-19, SW_v05#08 p.122

Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Suffering; rejection of Christ

ABU1354

Words spoken on 1914-07-25

240

It is related that Saboktakeen, one of the renowned ancient kings of Persia, lived

DAS.1914-07-25, SW_v09#18 p.204-205, STAB#041

Charitable associations; humanitarian activities; Stories; anecdotes; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU1353

Words to Bishop Birch, spoken on 1912-04-17

240

Praise be to God, that stupendous material developments are obtained in this country

DAS.1913-07-15, SW_v07#17 p.175-176, ABIE.067, BLO_PN#007

East and West; communication between East and West; Harmony of science and religion; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; Praise of Western values; culture; Prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU1352

Words spoken on 1913-08-22 in Ramleh

240

When we were living in Adrianople there was a Baktashi who lived close by us. Professionally he was a wood-chopper, socially he was a wit.

DAS.1913-08-22, ABIE.217, BLO_PN#007, STAB#033

Banishment to; life in Adrianople; Humor; jokes; Stories; anecdotes; Work as worship

ABU1347

Words to students of Beirut College, 1914-04-15

240

From now on you must strive to beautify the moral aspect of your lives. Advise each other with the utmost consideration

DAS.1914-04-15, SW_v07#18 p.183-184

Attaining good pleasure of God; Compassion; kindness; Excellence; distinction; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Man is the sum; pinnacle; fruit of creation; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

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

ABU1338

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-10

240

One hears nowadays so much about the high-handed ways of the censors. With every opportunity they distort the truth; even the inhabitants of their own countries know very little

DAS.1914-11-10

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Newspapers and the media; publications

ABU1337

Words spoken at home of Aqa Siyyid Ali Afnan in Akka, 1914-04-22

240

In the neighborhood of Baghdad there lived a man and a Bahá'í by the name of Mohamad, the 'thorn-picker'. He lived about 21 miles away from the city.

DAS.1914-04-22

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1336

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-13

240

Last night it rained very hard and I could not sleep more than two hours. I saw many dreams but most of them were short.. I one of the dreams I saw myself in Baghdad living in the same house

DAS.1914-12-13

Accounts of dreams and visions; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU1335

Words spoken on 1913-11-05 in Ramleh

240

It is most strange how some people are utterly ungrateful and have not in them a vestige of humanity. There have been some young men who have been educated through my solicitude

DAS.1913-11-05

Education of children; moral education; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1332

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-06-20

240

A few days before His departure Bahá'u'lláh called me into His bedroom and commanded me to gather together all His writings and Tablets... After the ascension, Mohamad Ali stole all the writings which were entrusted to me

DAS.1913-06-20

Ascension of Baha'u'llah; Authentication; disposition of the Sacred Writings; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha

ABU1329

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-05-06

240

I am tired with the inactivity of these days. Our precious time has become unprofitable and valueless... The constant presentation of reiteration of worldly talk wears away the sharp edge of the spiritual susceptibilities

DAS.1915-05-06

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Call to action; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Stories; anecdotes; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU1328

Words to Jinab-i-Sina, spoken on 1913-10-23

240

I have written the Tablets for all the persons thou hast asked. But thou art a manifest book. Like unto a speaking book thou must return.

DAS.1913-10-23

Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The power of words; of speech

ABU1323

Words to Latimer, Remey et al, spoken on 1914-10-18

240

Truly I say I am well satisfied with both of you... There are many heralds in this world. Here is a herald who summons the people to the love and defense of his country

DAS.1914-10-18, SW_v05#14 p.216-217, SW_v08#16 p.217-218, PN_1914 p100

Call to action; Growth of the Cause; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1322

Words spoken on 1913-11-03 in Ramleh

240

The law of Peace has come to stay. We are living in the radiant age of Peace. The Angels of Peace are hovering above our heads.

DAS.1913-11-03, PN_1913-14_heh p013

Call to action; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; High station of the true believer; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Unity of governments; political unity; Universal peace; world unity

ABU1315

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1915-03-19

240

Ah! Thou art carrying in thy hand a rosary! With the Mohamadans it has become a habit to play with the rosary all the time.

DAS.1915-03-19

Empty learning; false spirituality; Independent investigation of truth; reality; Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.; Religious rituals minimized or eliminated

ABU1304

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-23

240

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

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

ABU1296

Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-05-20

240

Composure; tranquillity; serenity; Differences in human capacity; Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Knowledge; recognition of God; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

اکثر نفوس مانند اطفالند بامور جزئیه محزون یا مسرُور بشوند اما امور عظیمه را اهمیت نمید‌هند

Some people are like unto the children. The most unimportant event gives them happiness and the most trifling incident saddens their hearts. For example, if you give one Franc to a child

BDA2.309x

DAS.1913-05-20, MHMD2.409x

ABU1295

Words spoken on 1914-07-28 in Haifa

240

Profitless discussions fatigue and weary a person. People who call on me almost every day carry on a stream of profitless, unspiritual talk.... Man's speech is the revealer of his heart…. There are persons with whom we associate and converse whose utterances are life-imparting

LOG#1139x, DAS.1914-07-28, SW_v08#02 p.024-025

Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Fellowship with the wayward and ungodly; Idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; The power of words; of speech

ABU1292

Words spoken on 1913-08-22 in Ramleh

250

There was another Baktashi who, in his younger days, was an officer in the Turkish government. This man became very sick, and the members of his family had summoned a Mullah to his bed.

DAS.1913-08-22, ABIE.218, BLO_PN#007, STAB#124

Empty learning; false spirituality; Prayer for forgiveness; Religious rituals minimized or eliminated; Servitude; submission to God; repentance

ABU1286

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-28

250

Once a servant went to a rich man and asked for a position. He had many certificates from his former masters regarding his conduct and manners.

DAS.1914-11-28

Courtesy; culture [adab]; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Humor; jokes; Stories; anecdotes; Wisdom [hikmat]

ABU1281

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-03-28

250

The teaching of the Cause is through the heat of the Love of God, attraction and enkindlement. Every active headquarter must send Bahá'í teachers to different parts.

DAS.1915-03-28

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; One universal law; attractive power of love; Power of love; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1277

Words spoken on 1914-05-20 in Tiberias

250

It has been reported many years ago that a young Moslem fell desperately in love with a beautiful Jewish girl. Of course it is forbidden in the laws of Moses to intermarry with strangers

DAS.1914-05-20

Humor; jokes; Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people; Quotation from or interpretation of the Bible; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1275

Words to an army commander, spoken on 1914-05-12

250

The editors of the Newspapers are the guardians of the rights of man. They are the champions of the poor and the protectors of the Wronged ones.

DAS.1914-05-12

Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Newspapers and the media; publications; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU1272

Words spoken on 1914-01-10

250

The rain does not stop. I have been intending every day to go up the mountain... The Blessed Perfection has explicitly promised me with his own tongue that he will assist me.

DAS.1914-01-10, SW_v08#19 p.239x, SW_v08#15 p.211x

S. Forouhi

Cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Growth of the Cause; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU1269

Words spoken on 1913-08-05 in Ramleh

250

When we were imprisoned in the military barracks of Acca there was a small primitive bath

DAS.1913-08-05, SW_v08#13 p.174, ABIE.160, BLO_PN#007

Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Business; financial; property matters

ABU1261

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-03-21

250

در سال دو نقطه اعتدال است که آفتاب از افق آن طلوع مینماید

May this Naw-Ruz be a blessing to all the friends! In the year there are two equinoxes in which the hours of the day and the height are equal.

AYT.347-348, KHH1.196-197 (1.275-276)

KHHE.286-287, DAS.1915-03-21

Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar; Spiritual springtime

ABU1259

Words to some Eastern pilgrims, spoken on 1914-01-19

250

You are a good party! God willing, you shall have good weather on your journey! May you expend your days in the utmost joy and fragrance!

DAS.1914-01-19, PN_1914 p016

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Call to action; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Power of prayer; Prayer for the spiritual progress of others; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU1257

Words spoken on 1914-04-08

250

China, China, China, China-ward the Cause of Bahá'u'lláh must march! Where is that holy, sanctified Bahá'í

DAS.1914-04-08, SW_v08#03 p.037

Growth of the Cause; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Wisdom [hikmat]

ABU1256

Words spoken on 1914-08-08

250

These dreadful events are as warnings on the part of God:--so that they may quicken the people

DAS.1914-08-08, SW_v05#12 p.177+186

Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Prayer for peace and unity; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU1255

Words spoken on 1913-08-04 in Ramleh

250

Last Friday I went to the Mosque of Sidi Jahar. There were many Mullahs. One of them started to pray while another began to chant the verses of the Koran.

DAS.1913-08-04, ABIE.155, BLO_PN#007

Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1253

Words spoken on 1915-05-24

250

DAS.1915-05-25

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Consolation and comfort; Eulogies; reminiscences; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU1250

Conversation with Hans Springer, Haifa, 1914-06-30

250

آیا تو همیشه روی زمین سفر مینمائی در فکر آن نیستی که سفری بآسمان کنی

Thou art welcome. Where didst thou come from?... Dost thou travel always on the surface of the earth?

ZSM.1914-06-30

DAS.1914-06-30, SW_v07#03 p.020-022, SW_v07#18 p.178, PN_unsorted p024

Christ; Christianity; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Love of God; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Universal language

ABU1247

Words to the believers, spoken on 1914-07-15

250

The Holy Spirit is the only power which will ultimately unite and harmonize the races and nations of the world.

DAS.1914-07-15, SW_v08#08 p.101

Power; influence of a single soul in teaching the Cause; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; Unity; oneness of humanity; Universal peace; world unity

ABU1242

Words spoken on 1913-07-03 in Port Said

260

The soul of man must be happy, no matter where he is. One must attain to that condition of inward beatitude and peace

DAS.1913-07-03, SW_v07#16 p.161-162, ABIE.014, PN_1914 p009x, BLO_PN#007

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Study; deepening; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU1240

Words spoken on 1913-08-25 in Ramleh

260

The thoughts of the statesmen of the East are atrophied, and their hearts devoid of desire for the progress of the nation. Their ideas are petty

DAS.1913-08-25, ABIE.237, BLO_PN#007

Critique of Eastern values; culture; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1234

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-04-30

260

I am leaving tomorrow for Tiberias. I am leaving because you have persisted so much... In the Cause we must give up all pleasures and recreation for the sake of service

DAS.1914-04-30

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Devotion; sacrifice; consecration in teaching the Cause; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha; Words vs deeds

ABU1233

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1915-05-19

260

All the Bahá'í books are being preserved in boxes and in these days I have no inclination of opening them. In former years month after month I worked from sunrise till midnight

DAS.1915-05-19

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Growth of the Cause; Martyrs and martyrdom; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1232

Words spoken at House of the Master in Haifa, 1914-02-12

260

The Bible and the Holy Books of other religions must always be studied and be read in the Bahá'í meetings. Their study will widen the circle of one's information

DAS.1914-02-12

Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Importance of reading the Sacred Writings; Methods of teaching the Cause; Review of publications; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU1231

Words to Lua Getsinger, spoken on 1913-11-15

260

Now that thou art departing for India I desire that thou mayest become like unto a rose garden to perfume the nostrils of al the people.

DAS.1913-11-15

Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; The state of prayer; dynamics of prayer; Two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU1230

Words spoken on 1913-11-12 in Port Said

260

Belief without the test is not worth having.... Give your children a manual profession, something by which they may be able to

DAS.1913-11-12, SW_v09#09 p.097x, SW_v07#15 p.144x

Critique of Eastern values; culture; Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Empty learning; false spirituality; Oneness; unity of religion; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU1228

Words to pilgrims, spoken on 1914-04-23

260

I have often repeated that kissing the hands, the feet and kneeling and bowing are strictly forbidden in the Bahá'í Dispensation. These are old, archaic customs of the religious East

DAS.1914-04-23

Human reality created in the image of God; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Satan; the Evil One; Servitude; submission to God; repentance

ABU1227

Words to Zoroastrian pilgrims, spoken on 1913-11-10

260

Persia will become luminous. Her future grandeur shall by far eclipse her past recorded glory.

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator; Past, present and future of Iran

ABU1224

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-01-30

260

We are hedged in from all directions. The roads of correspondence are all blocked and it is impossible to receive or send any news.

DAS.1915-01-30

Being a source of light; guidance; East and West; communication between East and West; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; Power; influence of a single soul in teaching the Cause; Spiritual communication; connections of the heart; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1223

Words to a young girl from Scotland studying painting, spoken on 1913-05-07

260

His Holiness Bahá'u'lláh has commanded the study of arts and crafts; that when we undertake the study of any branch of arts we must perfect ourselves in it

DAS.1913-05-07

Bringing oneself to account each day; High station of the arts and sciences; Literature; drama; humanities; the arts; Martyrs and martyrdom; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU1222

Words to President of the Touranian Society, Ritz Hotel in Budapest, 1913-04-12

260

Your aim, of course, is the realization of Universal Peace, but with what power or with what executive force will you be able to bring it about? In the matter of universal peace a great, universal Power is necessary, which we may name a "Universal Collective Center"

DAS.1913-04-12

Nationalism; love of country; Unity; oneness of humanity; Unity of governments; political unity; Universal peace; world unity

ABU1219

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-08-13

260

There are many people who enter this Cause with some preconceived ideas and finding that their ideas cannot be engrafted

DAS.1914-08-13, PN_1914 p018, BSTW#295

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Love of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU1218

Words spoken on 1914-10-12 in Haifa

260

The present condition of the Baha'i Cause in Germany is most satisfactory... Some of the German friends have asked that victory be given to Germany. We are not interfering with either party... May they attain to such heights of altruism as to be ready to sacrifice their lives for each other!

DAS.1914-10-12, SW_v07#18 p.188x

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Growth of the Cause; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; War and peace

ABU1217

Words to Mr Michel and others, spoken on 1915-05-10

260

When I was travelling in Europe and America I attended some concerts and oratorios and was delighted with the progress of the vocal and instrumental art in those parts... At one time I was walking along the shores of the Euphrates. Absorbed in my thought I suddenly heard

DAS.1915-05-10

Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Banishment to; life in Constantinople; Excellence; distinction; Music and singing; Predictions and prophecies; Service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU1210

Words to some Persians living in Paris, spoken on 1913-05-05

260

Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Work as worship

حیات انسان خیلی عزیز است انسان باید این حیات عزیز را در امری عظیم صرف نماید

The life of man is very precious; so he must spend it in a precious cause. To study the sciences of commerce, agriculture and medicine is very praiseworthy but to concentrate all our time on such things is not good.

BDA2.285

DAS.1913-05-05, MHMD2.375-376

ABU1209

Words to Mr Remey and Mr Latimer, spoken on 1914-10-15

260

ای را بدانید که هر کسی در آمریکا به اسم من بخواهد پول جمع کند ابدا تعلقی به ما ندارد

When you return to America say to all the believers in my behalf that whenever a person comes to that country

KHH1.112 (1.157)

KHHE.171-172fn, DAS.1914-10-15, SW_v07#13 p.122, PN_1914 p085

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU1207

Public address given on 1913-02-19

260

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

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

ABU1205

Words spoken on 1914-09-03

270

In reality the air of Mount Carmel is most energizing... Man is eternally in a state of communion and prayer with the source of all good. The highest and most elevating state is the state of prayer

DAS.1914-09-03, SW_v08#04 p.045x, PN_1914 p007

Mount Carmel; Prayer for evening; night; Shrines and Holy places; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The state of prayer; dynamics of prayer

ABU1204

Words spoken on 1913-08-25 in Ramleh

270

While I was in Adrianople Khorsheed Pasha the Vali asked me one day about the future possibilities of the country... During the war against a foreign nation one of the soldiers was stricken with a severe sickness.

DAS.1913-08-25, SW_v09#18 p.206, ABIE.239, BLO_PN#007, STAB#152

Relationship between government and people; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1198

Words to Dr. Getsinger, spoken on 1914-08-24

270

Acquiescence and resignation; contentment; Begging; mendicancy; idleness and sloth; Composure; tranquillity; serenity; Conduct in finance and business; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Wealth inequality and its moderation; Work as worship

Economy is the foundation of human prosperity. The spendthrift is always in trouble

DAS.1914-08-24, BSC.453 #829x, SW_v08#02 p.018, BSTW#303

ABU1196

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-05-17

270

There are two kinds of afflictions, the first is human, the second is divine. Human affliction can be coped with and eradicated by human agencies and methods

DAS.1915-05-17

Chastisement and requital; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Justice and wrath of God; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Theodicy; the mystery of evil; of suffering

ABU1195

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-26

270

The influence of the Word of God is all-penetrative. One must simply arise and engage in the service of the Cause... The armies of the Supreme Concourse are drawn in battle-array on the plain of the Kingdom... The Zoroastrians must be very enkindled

DAS.1914-04-26

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Zoroastrianism; Mahabad and Zoroaster

ABU1193

Words to a telegraph officer, spoken on 1913-10-29

270

When I was in America, I was most busy... Once upon a time, there was a poor fellah (farmer) who cultivated a patch of ground with cotton.

DAS.1913-10-29, SW_v09#18 p.210x, STAB#120

Growth of the Cause; Stories; anecdotes; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU1191

Words to a believer, spoken on 1913-05-04

270

When I sense the love and unity of the friends I gain health and fresh strength. I have heard that thou art speaking in the meetings

DAS.1913-05-04

Power of prayer; Praise and encouragement; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Stories; anecdotes; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1189

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-10

270

The staff of life is bread. All other things are comparatively non-essential. Let us pray that the wheat fields may be saved

DAS.1915-04-10

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Moderation; frugality; simplicity; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times

ABU1187

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-27

270

Beneath the shade of the Blessed Perfection there must occur in a Baha'i life a complete regeneration! If he continues to live in accord with the old standards and habits, then what has he gained by the change of a name!

DAS.1915-04-27

Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU1186

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1914-03-06

270

Consider and reflect over the Favors and Bounties of the Blessed Perfection!.. I will send thee to America

DAS.1914-03-06

Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Power of the Manifestation of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU1179

Words spoken on 1913-08-20 in Ramleh

270

In this day the greatness of the Cause is acknowledged by all the people, even the outsiders. This last time one of the Sardars of Persia

DAS.1913-08-20, ABIE.214, BLO_PN#007

Greatest Name; Law of repetition; recitation of the Greatest Name; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU1178

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-18

270

When the prophetic light of Muhammad dawned from the horizon of Hijaz the Persians and the Greeks were engaged in a severe battle.

DAS.1914-11-18

Predictions and prophecies; Prophecy and fulfillment; Rejection of Muhammad; Unity; oneness of humanity; War and peace

ABU1177

Words spoken on 1913-12-19 in Akka

270

Translation List

واقعا چه قدر مردم بی انصافند از روزیکه حضرت مسیح ظاهر شده تا یومنا هذا نفسی

How very unjust the people are! From the day of the appearance of his holiness, Christ

KHF.197, KHAB.450 (450), KHTB3.082, NJB_v05#11 p.001

DAS.1913-12-19, SW_v09#02 p.018-019, ADMS#065i08x

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Power of prayer; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU1176

Words to an Indian scholar, spoken on 1914-03-19

270

Just as you are a servant of God I am also the servant of God. I am the absolute servant of the Almighty without implication or interpretation.

DAS.1914-03-19

Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Independent investigation of truth; reality; Knowledge; recognition of God; Oneness; unity of religion; Religious rituals minimized or eliminated; Servitude; submission to God; repentance

ABU1174

Words spoken on 1914-01-08 in Haifa

270

Praise be to God that the believers of the Merciful are living in the slope of Mount Carmel in the Pilgrims' Home. Every morning they face the Tomb of Baha'o'llah and the Tomb of the Báb is in close proximity.

DAS.1914-01-08

Prophecy and fulfillment; Shrines and Holy places; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; The Adamic cycle and the Baha'i cycle; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU1165

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1915-04-15

270

While surrounded with all these innumerable sufferings and calamities my mind and spirit have been working day and night gathering brilliant pearls of new Ideals... If it is in accord with the Will of God we shall take another journey into the outside world

DAS.1915-04-15

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; East and West; communication between East and West; Martyrs and martyrdom; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Mystical themes; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Universal peace; world unity

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

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

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

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

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

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

ABU1129

Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-04-28

280

Christ; Christianity; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Race unity; racial issues; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Transcending the material condition

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

ABU1128

Words to a friend, spoken on 1913-05-08

280

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

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

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

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

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; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering and imprisonment

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

ABU1106

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-05

290

The life of the Arabs in the interior is most simple. Their principal food consists of

DAS.1914-05-05, SW_v08#02 p.018-019

Critique of Western values; culture; Praise of Eastern values; culture; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1103

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1914-05-02

290

How cool is thy areesheh! Is this not better than the palace of the kings?... All the companions of our trips in different parts of the world have departed and only you and I are left!

DAS.1914-05-02

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Growth of the Cause; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Trust and reliance in God; turning to Him at all times

ABU1102

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-14

290

In the world of humanity, every person is stimulated by a certain objective-point

DAS.1914-05-14, SW_v05#08 p.117-118

Call to action; Idle fancies; lust and passion; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU1101

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1915-04-24

290

The inner, spiritual life of man is like unto this well. He must allay the thirst of the travellers on the path of Truth with the water of significances... I hope thou wilt become the boiling, gushing, flowing well of the Love of Bahá'u'lláh, irrigating the parched ground of the hearts

DAS.1915-04-24

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Living waters; water of life; Love of God; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1100

Words to Mrs Lilianthal, spoken on 1913-05-09

290

My sweet-singing birds are your hearts, for they sing the songs of the Kingdom. Through this I am made very happy. The twittering of the birds is good for some people

DAS.1913-05-09

Being a source of light; guidance; Christ; Christianity; Mysteries and their discovery; the mystical vision; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; The power of words; of speech

ABU1099

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1914-12-11

290

Only in America such brilliant ideas are born. This will be a most effective token of America's attitude in the matter of brotherhood... The axis around which the consolation of the hearts revolves is Faith in God.

DAS.1914-12-11

Consolation and comfort; God as personal vs. impersonal reality; Nationalism; love of country; Praise of Western values; culture; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU1098

Words to some Druze friends, spoken around Nov. 1914

290

The life of a judge in the Turkish Empire is the subject of constant satire and the ineffectiveness of Turkish laws and their inadequacy the source of much amusement and diversion.

DAS.1914-11-04

Civil courts; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1094

Words spoken on 1914-06-03 in Tiberias

290

Man must be known through his deeds and actions. Mere words have no weight. The Persian Nationalists have loved to theorize on certain Democratic principles

DAS.1914-06-03

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Criticism and its limits; Idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Stories; anecdotes; Unity; oneness of humanity; Words vs deeds

ABU1093

Words to some Arabs, spoken on 1914-02-09

290

Reason works through the instrumentality of the five senses. The faculty of hearing is more important than the faculty of seeing... The throne of reason is the brain.

DAS.1914-02-09

Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Mind as intermediary between soul and body; Mind as principle emanation; activity of the human spirit; Power of the mind over nature; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; The power of words; of speech; Two kinds of knowledge [ilm and irfan]; sight and insight

ABU1089

Words to Saidol Molk, spoken on 1913-12-04

290

In the coming of every prophet and messenger of God, this objection was uttered by the people of negation. Even Pharaoh

DAS.1913-12-04

Cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds; Definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i; Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator; Power of the Manifestation of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Religion as reality; definitions of religion; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU1088

Words to Consul and Madame Schwarz, spoken on 1913-06-03

170

Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Growth of the Cause; Mary Magdalene; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause

حضرت مسیح فرمود از شرق و غرب نفوس آمده داخل ملکوت اللّٰه میشوند ولی ابناء ملکوت خارج میگردند

Jesus Christ Proclaimed: 'People shall come from the East and the West and enter the Kingdom of God…'… Through her [Mary Magdalene's] faith and service to the Cause of Jesus Christ, she has become the pride of all men

BDA2.331

BBBD.221-223, DAS.1913-06-03, MHMD2.439-440

ABU1087

Words to pilgrims from India, spoken on 1914-04-22

290

Praise be to God, the news received from all parts indicate the fact that the believers of God are striving in the promulgation of the Cause of God.

DAS.1914-04-22

Methods of teaching the Cause; Power; influence of a single soul in teaching the Cause; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1086

Words to some Arab Muslims, spoken on 1915-03-15

290

We do not teach these truths here because the inhabitants are still very remote from understanding these problems, but your questions led me into these unexpected domains of ideal mysteries.

DAS.1915-03-15

Empty learning; false spirituality; Limits of the intellect; Manifestation of God as mediator; Transcendence; unknowability of God

ABU1084

Words spoken on 1914-03-02 in Haifa

290

His Holiness the Báb says: 'We have put mankind in the alembic…" These souls are quickened through the Breath of the Blessed Perfection... The Holy, divine Manifestations have appeared in this world to instruct mankind in the school of morality... The foundation of praiseworthy virtues is faith.

DAS.1914-03-02, SW_v08#05 p.058x, PN_various p017

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Religion as basis of morality; of divine civilization; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU1083

Words spoken on 1914-02-08

290

All days of his (Abul Fazl's) life were spent in the service of the Cause of God. His will and desire

DAS.1914-02-08, SW_v08#06 p.066

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU1076

Words to Nawabzade Mohammad Yousof, spoken on 1913-06-14

290

Call to action; Chastisement and requital; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion; Progress and the continual ascent of material civilization; Unity; oneness of humanity

امروز جمیع عالم علی الخصوص امم شرق بچنین قوّهٴ نافذهئ‌ی محتاجند تا از مضائب اختلاف

As long as these antiquated social customs and religious ceremonies hold sway in India, complete progress will not be obtained. This age is the age of light.

BDA2.349x

DAS.1913-06-14, MHMD2.463x, PN_unsorted p075

ABU1066

Words to Baroness Bertha Von Suttner, spoken on 1913-04-23

300

One of the greatest teachings of Bahá'u'lláh is in regard to international peace. We must not lose our hope and courage. The beginning of a downpour of rain is only a few drops.

DAS.1913-04-23

Growth and progress is gradual and according to capacity; Nationalism; love of country; Progress and the continual ascent of material civilization; Unity; oneness of humanity; Universal peace; world unity

ABU1064

Words spoken on board the Himalaya at sea, 1913-06-14

300

There was a man in Bagdad who was the chief of a thousand warriors. These men were not in the regular army

DAS.1913-06-14, SW_v09#18 p.209

Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Stories; anecdotes; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU1061

Words spoken at 97 Cadogan Gardens in London, 1913-01-16

300

The Cause has become very great. Many souls are entering it--souls with different mentalities... Teach the Cause to those who do not know

DAS.1913-01-16, SW_v04#01 p.016, CHH.177, VLAB.141x, BLO_PN#022

Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Growth of the Cause; Priority over other activities in teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity in diversity

ABU1060

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-05-06

300

These sad events which are transpiring in the East are the results of thoughtlessness. Thoughtlessness is the worst calamity of the human race. When constitution was declared in Turkey

DAS.1913-05-06

Constitutional revolution in Iran; Mindfulness; concentration; focus; Present and future expansion of arts and sciences; of technology; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Relationship between government and people; Two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization

ABU1053

Words spoken on 1914-02-22

300

The friends in Bushruyah are very old. They have suffered all manner of persecutions... A large number of them were martyred in the fortress of Tabarsi.

DAS.1914-02-22

Martyrs and martyrdom; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Stories; anecdotes; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU1051

Words to some Druze friends, spoken on 1914-11-03

300

there were in the past ages many temperance societies and as a result of their activities teetotalers became very numerous.

DAS.1914-11-03

Alcohol and drugs; tobacco; opium; Humor; jokes; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1050

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-04-25

300

During the first year of our arrival in Baghdad, one day Mirza Javad asked me to go out with him to an outlying district. At this time, Arabian robbers frequented the roads

DAS.1913-04-25

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Humor; jokes; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1045

Words to a Persian friend, spoken on 1914-05-27

300

This century is the century of Truth. We must relinquish all the rituals and forms which have accumulated for the past ages around the Immortal Image of Truth

DAS.1914-05-27

Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Empty learning; false spirituality; Fanaticism and hatred; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Oneness; unity of religion; Prejudice; racial prejudice; class distinction; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Stories; anecdotes; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU1044

Words to Latimer, Remey et al, spoken on 1914-10-19

300

One of the things that Dr. Farid has circulated in London is that 'I have grown old and weak...' My power consists of the Bestowals of the Blessed Beauty.

DAS.1914-10-19, SW_v05#14 p.217-218, PN_1914 p104

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Firmness in the Covenant; Prayer for firmness in the Covenant; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha; The power of words; of speech

ABU1037

Address to the friends at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-03-17

300

My general health is well but my nerves are weak. My physical body is not afflicted with any ailment, but having lived forty years in the prison of Acca

DAS.1913-03-17

Station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU1035

Words to pilgrims, spoken on 1914-06-29

300

عشق اباد محال خوب مرکزی است مرو در زمان قدیم مرکز خراسان بود

Ishkabad is now a good center. In the past, Merv was the center

AVK4.434.06x

DAS.1914-06-29, SW_v09#12 p.133-134

Education of children; moral education; Growth of the Cause; House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

ABU1029

Words spoken at a wedding on 1914-06-18

300

It is more than one month and a half that I have not had the pleasure of being present in the meetings of the believers. Now the means have been brought about

DAS.1914-06-18, SW_v09#10 p.118-119

Fulfillment of true potential; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU1028

Address to the friends at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-03-09

300

O God! This [city of] Paris is a lamp in the utmost transparency but it is in need of the light. It is a body in the greatest of comeliness but it is in need of the spirit.

DAS.1913-03-09

Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Manifestation of God as divine physician; Prayer for spiritual recognition; Prayers (general or uncategorized); Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU1026

Words spoken on 1914-06-18

300

During the days of youth, man sees the pictures of life in all things.... During the lifetime of the king-of-the-martyrs, the heart of the Blessed Beauty.... On day, one of the opposers hit a dog with a stone.... There was a great commotion in the souls upon hearing my address....

DAS.1914-06-18, SW_v09#10 p.118

Evolution; human evolution; Kindness to and rights of animals

ABU1025

Words spoken on 1914-01-22 in Haifa

300

امروز یک خبر بسیار محزنی رسید خلیل محزن فی الحقیقه بسیار شخص جلیلی بود از جمیع جهات نادر بود

Today very sad news has been received. He [Mirza Abu'l-Fazl] was indeed a very glorious personage... How humble and meek he was! We tried our best to persuade him to keep a servant

MSBH2.349-350x, YHA2.911-912, NJB_v05#01 p.004

DAS.1914-01-22, SW_v09#03 p.025x, SW_v08#06 p.066x

Eulogies; reminiscences; High station of learning; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ABU1024

Words to pilgrims, spoken on 1914-06-29

300

O let me weep like unto the vernal showers of the Spring!... This day is the day of parting. The farewell hour is most difficult to bear.

DAS.1914-06-29, SW_v09#12 p.134-135

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Prayer for the spiritual progress of others; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual communication; connections of the heart

ABU1022

Words spoken on 1913-03-28 in Paris

300

Although outwardly cataclysms are hard to understand and to endure, yet there lies a great wisdom behind them which appears later.

DAS.1913-03-28, ADP.116-116x, BSTW#093

Cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Wisdom [hikmat]

ABU1021

Words spoken on 1914-06-26

300

Most of the Persian ulama (clergymen) became the cause of destruction and the casting of Persia to the winds.

DAS.1914-06-25, SW_v09#11 p.123-125

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ABU1007

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-01-12

310

I spent the first years of my childhood in Mazandaran. At the time Bahá'u'lláh was in Teheran. After a while He sent for us. I started with one of my uncles.

DAS.1915-01-12

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Humor; jokes; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1006

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-28

310

In this Cause I had many wishes, none of which are realized. My first and greatest wish was that I may become confirmed in the service of the Holy Threshold.

DAS.1914-11-28

Ascension of Baha'u'llah; Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Shrines and Holy places; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU1005

Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-16

310

Whosoever schemes in this Cause will come to no good end. Above all other things we must be honest to our consciences and not dissimulate. We must not speak against each other

DAS.1913-05-16

Courtesy; culture [adab]; Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others; Martyrs and martyrdom; Stories; anecdotes; The power of words; of speech

ABU1003

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-03-29

310

These [locusts] are also the servants of God. They are not created by the devil. They are in need of food. They will not eat very much. They are the guests of the people.

DAS.1915-03-29

Belief and denial; Stories; anecdotes

ABU1001

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-07

310

Although some of the simple folks believe that these ancient monuments of civilization are built by Solomon yet there is no foundation for it.

DAS.1914-05-07

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Predictions and prophecies; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU0999

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-04

310

The body of man is built with various material constituents and therefore it is a prisoner of nature, it is dominated and ruled by nature. It is a philosophic theory that the part is attracted to the whole.

DAS.1914-12-04

Human soul as mirror; divine light, attributes within; Man's distinction from the animal; Power of the mind over nature; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transcending the material condition; Two aspects of the human soul; the higher and lower natures

ABU0998

Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-08

310

During the lifetime of Bahá'u'lláh the inhabitants of the village, Mokeiss, were most anxious that I may buy half of their real estate

DAS.1914-05-08

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Business; financial; property matters; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Personal instructions

ABU0996

Words to pilgrims, spoken on 1914-04-22

310

In reality all my movements are fraught with danger. The Favors and Graces of the Blessed Perfection have been always with me.

DAS.1914-04-24

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Ottoman commissions of investigation; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU0995

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1914-12-19

310

His Holiness Christ on account of the avocation of His disciples called them the fisher of men but the Blessed Perfection designated

DAS.1914-12-19, SW_v13#07 p.172-173

Apostles; early disciples of Christ; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0994

Conversation with Dr Finkelstein, Abu Sinan, 1915-03-01

310

من در جمیع کنائس و مجامع بصوت بلند فریاد میزدم که ای قوم عالم انسانی در خطر است

In the loudest voice, I cried out in all the synagogues, and churches: O people! The world of humanity is in peril

AVK4.464.08, KHH1.178-179 (1.249-251)

KHHE.259-260, DAS.1915-03-01, BSR_v13 p.091

Equality of men and women; Harmony of science and religion; Nationalism; love of country; Unity; oneness of humanity; Unity in diversity; Universal peace; world unity; War and peace

ABU0990

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-03-10

310

The mention of the Cause makes the faith of men firm and strong. Those souls who accept this revelation and then do not engage in teaching and conveying it to others will remain stationary

DAS.1915-03-10

Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; Music and singing; Power of prayer; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The state of enkindlement in teaching

ABU0989

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-03-16

310

The test of existence is motion. An object which has in itself the power of motion lives. If motion is withheld growth ceases.

DAS.1913-03-16x, ADP.124-126

All things are in motion; kinds of motion; Education and the development of capacity; Heat and motion; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU0985

Words to a mother, spoken on 1913-05-15

310

Education of children; moral education; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; Moderation; frugality; simplicity; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization

بتربیت الهی تربیت شوند نه مثل اینکه حالا مادران از بدایت عمر به پسران میگویند

How are your children? Are they well? Do you give them an ideal education? The children of today are the citizens of tomorrow.

BDA2.301x

DAS.1913-05-15, MHMD2.398x

ABU0979

Interview with Stanwood Cobb, Rue Lauriston 97 in Paris, 1913-03-23

320

Hope is made possible through turning one's face toward God. If all the benefits of the world are made possible for man and he has no hope, he will not enjoy them.

DAS.1913-03-23

Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The power of words; of speech

ABU0978

Words spoken at House of the Master in Haifa, 1914-02-12

320

The air here at Mount Carmel is fragrant and the earth is sweet... Syria is a most wonderful country. It is a world in miniature.

DAS.1914-02-12, SW_v14#05 p.148

Mount Carmel

ABU0976

Conversation with "Mr. F", Ritz Hotel in Budapest, 1913-04-11

320

Now that you have seen many parts of the world, I hope you will also make a voyage to the country of Baha.

DAS.1913-04-11

Being a source of light; guidance; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Universal language

ABU0973

Words spoken on 1913-09-02 in Ramleh

320

The fathers, and especially the mothers, must always think how they can best educate their children

DAS.1913-09-02, SW_v09#07 p.087-088, SW_v07#15 p.143-144, ABIE.267, BLO_PN#007

Education of children; moral education; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity

ABU0969

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-09-02

320

God does not change. He is the unchangeable, the immutable. True religion also does not change.

DAS.1914-09-02

Absolute freedom; independence of God; Changing and unchanging parts of religion; Interconnectedness of the teachings; Oneness; unity of religion; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Religion as reality; definitions of religion; The truth of past religions and sacred scriptures

ABU0968

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-22

320

When I was a very little child in Teheran it became necessary and urgent that I should carry a message of great importance to the General of the army

DAS.1914-12-22

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Stories; anecdotes; Youth and pre-ministry of Abdu'l-Baha

ABU0967

Words to English and American tourists, spoken on 1914-02-23

320

We must be just: The American college at Beirut is carrying on a sacred mission of education and enlightenment... Years ago I went to Beirut and visited the college in its infancy

DAS.1914-02-23

Oneness; unity of religion; Praise of Western values; culture; Religion as reality; definitions of religion

ABU0963

Words spoken on 1913-08-14 in Ramleh

320

I have brought thee with me that I may educate thee according to my own standard. As soon as I observe that thou hast attained to that standard, I shall send thee away.

DAS.1913-08-14, ABIE.190-191, BLO_PN#007

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritualization of humanity in the future; a new race of men; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0962

Words spoken on 1914-05-25 in Tiberias

320

From the beginning of the Cause or more definitely from the time that the Blessed Perfection was exiled... All this diffusion of the fragrances of the Cause of God, throughout the Orient

DAS.1914-05-25, SW_v08#13 p.178x, SW_v08#13 p.179x

Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Banishment to; life in Constantinople; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Growth of the Cause; Love of God; Prophecy and fulfillment

ABU0959

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-03-14

320

When we were in Baghdad there was amongst the believers a young man by the name Jinab-i-Munib. He was one of the most spiritual youths that I have known in the Bahá'í revelation.

DAS.1915-03-14

Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Eulogies; reminiscences; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Martyrs and martyrdom; Radiant countenance; bearing the divine fragrance

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; Religion as source of love and unity; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world

ABU0953

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-05-22

320

I found the Jews very crestfallen today, because on slight excuses the government has exiled eight of their prominent leaders. The new rigorous laws of naturalization wear heavily on them.

DAS.1915-05-22

Judaism; the Torah; the Jewish people; Literal interpretation; Predictions and prophecies; Rejection, opposition and persecution

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

ABU0944

Words spoken on final evening of Western trip on 1913-06-16

320

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Travels to Egypt by Abdu'l-Baha; Zeal and fervor in teaching the Cause

اعظم و اقدم امور تبلیغ امرالله است این کار مؤید است از جمیع نفوس بیشتر من

Today the greatest of all affairs is to teach the Cause of God and to promote the glad-tidings of the appearance of the Lord of Hosts

BDA2.352x

DAS.1913-06-16, MHMD2.468x

ABU0940

Interview with Sir William Crookes, 97 Cadogan Gardens in London, 1913-01-18

330

People are running after dogmas... The teachings of Bahá'u'lláh are the spirit of this age; for although material civilization has advanced

DAS.1913-01-18

Blind imitation [taqlid]; East and West; communication between East and West; Growth of the Cause; Suffering; rejection of Christ; Two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization; War and peace

ABU0932

Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1914-12-08

330

Once upon a time there was a merchant in the city of Balsora

DAS.1914-12-08, SW_v13#06 p.152x, STAB#007

Selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence; Stories; anecdotes

ABU0929

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-02-02

330

The glorious maturity of this world depends upon the realization of two things: The establishment of the era of universal Peace and the discovery or appearance of the hidden science which shall renovate all the conditions of existence.

DAS.1915-02-02

Alchemy; the elixir; Call to action; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Progress and the continual ascent of material civilization; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Universal peace; world unity

ABU0928

Words to a French Bahá’í, spoken on 1913-05-14

330

The world of matter is full of vices and the people of these regions are engaged too much in chasing material things. They are thinking too much of money and the tinsels and playthings they can buy with it.

DAS.1913-05-14

Call to action; Fulfillment of true potential; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU0925

Words to Mrs Moore, spoken on 1913-05-18

330

How is Green Acre? When will the season be opened? Green Acre is a most delightful spot. I enjoyed my visit to that charming place… In Green Acre you must concentrate your forces around the one all important fact--the investigation of reality.

DAS.1913-05-18, SW_v08#05 p.050-051x

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Independent investigation of truth; reality; Oneness; unity of religion; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity in diversity; Universal peace; world unity

ABU0921

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-11

330

فی الحقیقه این مدت بیفایده گذشت باز در امریکا که بودیم مشغول بودیم

How spiritual and glorious were those divine days spent amongst the believers of God in the Western world!... Truly, this period has not been productive. At least when we were in America, we were busy and constantly met with people

KHH1.209-210 (1.293-295)

KHHE.307-308, DAS.1915-04-11, BSR_v13 p.099

Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU0920

Words to pilgrims, spoken on 1914-10-28

330

زیارت باید در نهایت تضرع و ابتهال باشد والا زیارت نیست تماشا است اینهمه نفوس

The pilgrimage to the Holy Tomb must be done with spiritual concentration, attention and humility; it must not be like the automaton pilgrimage of Mohamedans or Christians

KHH1.122-123 (1.171-172)

KHHE.185-186, DAS.1914-10-28

Development of capacity and readiness; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU0911

Words to Indian pilgrims, spoken on 1914-05-28

330

Today whosoever arises to promote the Word of God the powers of the world of existence will assist him from all directions. Teaching the Cause is the Magnet which attracts unto man Divine Confirmations

DAS.1914-05-28

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Imam Husayn; Love as fire; Love of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU0908

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-23

330

He [Sheikh ar-Ra'is] is one of the noblest men of Persia. Learned and eloquent and as a former representative of the people

DAS.1914-11-24

Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Justice and mercy; Praise and encouragement

ABU0897

Words to several Arabs, spoken on 1914-03-29

340

While I was living in Baghdad one day I was walking beside the river Euphrates... Suddenly my attention was attracted to wild-eyed girl who was running fast toward the river... Every soul must strive to impart that joy and happiness to mankind the nature of which is permanent.

DAS.1914-03-29, PN_1914 p009x

Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Stories; anecdotes; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU0896

Words spoken at Ritz Hotel in Budapest, 1913-04-13

340

If the speaker's intention be pure, if his heart be transparent, no matter through how many translators the words may go, the audience will be touched.

DAS.1913-04-13

Empty learning; false spirituality; Islamic rituals; holy days; practices; etc.; Purity of heart; sincerity of intention; sanctity; Stories; anecdotes; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The power of words; of speech

ABU0891

Words spoken on 1914-05-25 in Tiberias

340

The first opposers and enemies of His holiness Christ were the Pharisees and Sadducees. They were the ones who sentenced Him to death. Why? Because their belief in Christ would have closed their Talmudic shops

DAS.1914-05-25

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Suffering; rejection of Christ; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU0889

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-03-20

340

A teacher must never ask for money for any of his personal needs but the believers must by themselves in a voluntary spirit provide him with his travelling expenses

DAS.1914-03-20

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spirit and form in the administration; Teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause

ABU0886

Words to Horace Holley, spoken on 1913-05-11

340

Martyrs and martyrdom; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Moderation; frugality; simplicity; Soul; spirit after death; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Transcending the material condition; Word of God sanctified from time and place

در آئینهٴ ثانی انوار فضائل و کمالات عالم انسانی جلوه نماید و چنانکه در عالم طبیعت

In the spiritual mirror, the virtues of the world of humanity are visible. Just as the intellectual law unravels the mysteries of phenomena

BDA2.295-296

DAS.1913-05-11x, MHMD2.389-390

ABU0878

Interview with reporter from "Die Leit", Grand Hotel in Vienna, 1913-04-22

350

We are Bahá'ís but on certain questions we find ourselves in agreement with the Theosophists....

DAS.1913-04-22

Definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i; Lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles; Praise of Western values; culture; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU0877

Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-04-06

350

What did the Esperantists say last night? I delivered an address to them according to their conception of truth. They were the beginners, therefore I spoke to them with gentleness.

DAS.1913-04-06

Development of capacity and readiness; High station of the true believer; Literal interpretation; Relativity of religious truth; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0871

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-04-26

350

There were 60 stages from Bagdad to Samsun and the trip was made under the most difficult circumstances. It was a time of famine

DAS.1913-04-26

Banishment to; life in Constantinople; Business; financial; property matters; Personal instructions; Service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU0870

Words to Mon. Richard, spoken on 1913-05-10

350

the Persian Bahá'í women ... are being educated and new ideals spread amongst them. Their hearts and consciences are free.

DAS.1913-05-10, BSTW#360

Critique of Eastern values; culture; Equality of men and women; Law of transformation and change; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Light and darkness; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Role and station of women; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU0868

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-11-09

350

If these governments were endowed with deep insight they could see clearly that already all their ships are sunk and disappeared from the surface of [the] water.

DAS.1914-11-09

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Spiritualization of humanity in the future; a new race of men; Universal peace; world unity; War and peace

ABU0867

Words spoken on 1914-01-12

350

Most wonderful! Mirza Mahmoud Foroughi has a marvellous memory. He has memorized so many Tablets! Every faculty of the faculties of man

DAS.1914-01-12

Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU0866

Words to H.E. Warmeke, spoken on 1913-05-01

350

The American people are not satisfied with their present day civilization. It is true that they have built a marvellous civilization of their own through giant-like forces

DAS.1913-05-01

Independent investigation of truth; reality; Man's distinction from the animal; Need for cooperation; solitary existence not possible; Praise of Western values; culture; Progress and the continual ascent of material civilization

ABU0864

Words spoken on 1913-08-13 in Ramleh

350

At another time there were fifteen celebrated thieves in Bagdad. They raided many houses during the night... Amongst the robbers there was one whose name was Haydar.

DAS.1913-08-13, ABIE.184-186, BLO_PN#007

Stories; anecdotes

ABU0863

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-03-15

350

They seem to be all alive but are they not dead? They all see, but are they not blind? They appear to hear but are they not deaf?

DAS.1915-03-15

Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Knowledge; recognition of God; Man's distinction from the animal; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU0862

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-11-21

350

Last night I slept five hours. I passed a cheerful night. One of the greatest gifts in the world of humanity is sleep.

DAS.1913-11-21

Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Health and healing; material and spiritual healing

ABU0861

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-10-11

350

در طول حیات و قصر حیات اهمیتی نیست انسان صد سال در این دنیا بماند

The tragic passing of Bashir was indeed sudden.... The length and shortness of life is not considered important. Whether man lives a few years or a hundred years

KHH1.106-107 (1.148-150)

KHHE.160-162, DAS.1914-10-11, SW_v08#02 p.027x, PN_1914 p062

Eulogies; reminiscences; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU0855

Words to Habib Mu'ayyad, spoken on 1915-05-08

350

این سفر شما بسیار سفر مبارکی است چراکه سالهای سال در این صفحات در اراضی مقدسه بوده اید

Your journey is indeed a blessed one because, for many years, you were in Holy Land and its vicinity

KHH1.231-232 (1.323-325)

KHHE.340-342, DAS.1915-05-08

Monasticism; asceticism; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU0851

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-18

350

Although in this Cause there are no nuns and nunneries, yet truly some of these nuns serve most faithfully the world of humanity.

DAS.1913-03-18

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Monasticism; asceticism; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU0847

Words spoken on 1913-07-17 in Ismailia

360

When two years had passed a regiment of soldiers was assigned to Acca. Of course there was only once place

DAS.1913-07-17, SW_v08#13 p.173-174, ABIE.078, BLO_PN#007

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Stories; anecdotes; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU0844

Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-05-23

360

We know things by their opposites... When we were travelling from Baghdad toward Constantinople, one day, we thought to go ahead of the family

DAS.1913-05-23

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Banishment to; life in Constantinople; Stories; anecdotes; Things are known by their opposites

ABU0843

Words to Mr and Mrs Holback, spoken on 1914-02-12

360

Some of the materialists have always endeavored to refute the wholesome influence exerted by the power of religion over the members of a community.

DAS.1914-02-12

Christ; Christianity; Christian rejection of Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i Faith; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Miracles and their interpretation; War and peace

ABU0842

Words spoken on 1914-01-06

360

Praise be to God that you have come and blessed your foreheads at the Court of Sanctification. You obtained the inestimable privilege of access to worship

DAS.1914-01-06

Humility; meekness; lowliness; Praise and encouragement; Station; mission; authority of Abdu'l-Baha; Station of the Manifestation of God; Twofold; threefold station of the Manifestation of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The Bab; the Primal Point; station and claims of the Bab; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0839

Words spoken on 1914-02-01

360

I have read in a recent number of the Christian Commonwealth that there will be held a world Conference of faith and Order

DAS.1914-02-01

Harmony of science and religion; Literal interpretation; Love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion; Oneness; unity of religion; Unity of thought and belief

ABU0837

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-02-06

360

The pilgrims were at Acca yesterday. I am now planning to go there myself to visit the Holy Tomb of the Blessed Perfection. Such a holy visit depends however upon the condition of the heart.

DAS.1914-02-06

Predictions and prophecies; Shrines and Holy places; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU0836

Words to Mrs Stannard, spoken on 1913-10-11

360

The Principles of the Bahá'í Cause are the pure seeds which we are sowing in the fertile ground.

DAS.1913-10-11

Lack of formal education of the Manifestation of God; Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator; Non-participation in politics; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Theosophy; Unity; oneness of humanity; Zoroastrianism; Mahabad and Zoroaster

ABU0834

Words spoken on 1914-04-18 in Haifa

360

Generally the people of the past have forgotten the foundation of their religions and have clung to some superficial doctrines... All the civic affairs and the legislation of material laws for the increasing needs of the enlightened humanity belong to the House of Justice... The Universal House of Justice has only the legislative function

Contention and conflict; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; House of Justice; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0833

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-02-10

360

This world is like unto a vast theatrical stage. The audience is composed of the whole human race. The range and variety of the plays acted upon this stage are as numerous

DAS.1915-02-10

Effort; striving; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU0828

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-25

360

Notwithstanding these clear texts the Shiites do not believe in the 'meeting with God'; but they say in the end of the time so many extraordinary events will transpire

DAS.1914-11-25

Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Proofs of the Manifestations of God

ABU0827

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-01-25

360

In the world of genesis every power or energy has a focal center. For example the center of intelligence is the brain. The center of vision is the eye.

DAS.1913-01-25

All things are in motion; kinds of motion; Manifestation of God as sun; Progress and the continual ascent of material civilization; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU0823

Words to Abdu'l-Ghaffar, spoken on 1915-04-08

360

این را بدانید جمال مبارک امر اکید برجوع بحکیم فر موده انسان باید جزئیاترا هم از حکیم سئوال نماید

You must clearly understand that the Blessed Perfection has commanded most emphatically that in case of sickness, one must refer to the skilled physician and abide by his prescription

KHH1.205-206 (1.287-288)

KHHE.300-302, DAS.1915-04-08

Critique of Eastern values; culture; Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Praise of Western values; culture; Stories; anecdotes

ABU0814

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-04-22

370

In past ages, every night from this Mount Carmel the voices of the invocations of the saints ascended... A few nights ago I had a lovely dream the memory of which has uplifted my soul... That [Western] voyage was epochal in the history of the Bahá'í Cause.... To what an astounding degree people are attached to their digestive organ!

Accounts of dreams and visions; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Importance of prayer; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Shrines and Holy places; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0812

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-02-05

370

May God bestow a little pity and compassion to these artful, deceiving kings and emperors who style themselves lords and masters of the world

DAS.1915-02-05

Greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world; Human reality created in the image of God; Nationalism; love of country; War and peace

ABU0806

Words spoken on 1914-04-18 in Haifa

370

Compared with the ancient history of the world the invention of writing is of quite recent date - only a number of thousands of years.

Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Literature; drama; humanities; the arts; Seven stages of creation

ABU0805

Words to Ahmad Sohrab and others, spoken on 1914-11-29

370

Those who are endued with spiritual insight see in the small chapter a typical portrayal of the present upheaval in all parts of the world

DAS.1914-11-29

Apocalyptic imagery; Chastisement and requital; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Justice and mercy; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; War and peace

ABU0804

Words to the Eastern pilgrims, spoken on 1913-06-28

370

Praise be to God that you have crossed the mountains and deserts, the lands and the seas and attained to the visit of the Holy Tomb with joy and fragrance.

DAS.1913-06-28

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar; Law of pilgrimage; Radiant countenance; bearing the divine fragrance; Shrines and Holy places; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU0802

Words to some students, spoken on 1914-10-12

370

مقصود اینست که الحمد الله تلامذه بهائی در بیروت بحسن اخلاق بحسن اطوار

Praise be to God, that the Bahai students in Beirut are well known for the beauty

NSS.161x, KHH1.110-111 (1.155)

COC#0798x, LOG#0719x, KHHE.168fn, DAS.1914-10-12, SW_v09#09 p.099-100x, PN_1914 p072, SEIO.011x

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; High station of learning

ABU0801

Words to Habib Mu'ayyad, spoken on 1915-05-08

370

فی الحقیقه شما امسال در ابوسنان خیلی زحمت کشیدید هیچ مقصودی جز رضای الهی نداشتید

You truly worked hard in Abú-Sínan this year. You had no other purpose save the good-pleasure of God

KHH1.230-231 (1.321-323)

KHHE.338-339, DAS.1915-05-08

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Methods of teaching the Cause; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0794

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-17

370

The tests of God have encircled the world of humanity from all directions. From one direction the horrors of war have laid waste millions of homes

DAS.1915-04-17

Heedlessness and ignorance of the people; Justice and wrath of God; Prayer for peace and unity; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU0793

Words to Shaykh Salman, spoken on 1915-01-10

370

این مسئله مسلم عموم است که شر قویتر از خیر است شر شر سریع التاثیر است

It is universally recognized that evil is stronger than good. Evil has a rapid effect, whereas good is slow in its impact.

KHH1.145-147 (1.202-203)

KHHE.217-218, DAS.1915-01-10, BSR_v13 p.087

Education of children; moral education; Fellowship with the wayward and ungodly; Nonexistence of evil; relativity of good and evil

ABU0787

Words spoken on 1914-02-03

380

During the first years of our stay in Baghdad, Baha'o'llah suddenly departed for the

DAS.1914-02-03, SW_v08#13 p.165-166

Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis

ABU0782

Words to some Druze friends, spoken on 1914-11-03

380

Azrael, the Angel of death, is well-known in the Muhammadan world for his heartlessness in the face of misery and sorrow

DAS.1914-11-03

Angels; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Stories; anecdotes; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The concourse on high

ABU0781

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-11

380

Happiness is the ambrosia of the spirit and the nectar of the souls. It confers upon man the boon of immortality

DAS.1914-12-11, SW_v13#06 p.153x

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Power; greatness; centrality of the Covenant; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0779

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1914-12-29

380

The friends must be the wise physicians of the world of humanity but they must be graduated from the university of the Manifestations of God. They must first master the science of the spiritual materia-medica

DAS.1914-12-29

Material and spiritual existence; two books; Purpose of religion in the world (personal and social); Spiritual foundations of true knowledge; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause

ABU0778

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-08-23

380

Every meeting which is held for the purpose of teaching the Cause of God and the people

DAS.1914-08-23

Chastisement and requital; False claims to divine revelation or spiritual stations; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

ABU0776

Words to an army commander, spoken on 1914-05-11

380

The ideals of Peace must be nurtured and spread amongst the inhabitants of the world, they must be instructed in the school of Peace

DAS.1914-05-11, SW_v05#08 p.116-117, SW_v07#06 p.043+048, SW_v15#02 p.037, PN_1914 p013

Nationalism; love of country; Supreme tribunal; The economic problem and its solution; voluntary giving; Universal peace; world unity; War and peace

ABU0775

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-13

200

Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih; Incarceration of Baha'u'llah in Siyah Chal; Power of the Manifestation of God; Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Suffering and imprisonment

وقتی جمال مبارک از سلیمانیه ببغداد تشریف آوردند در را گشودند و صلای

At the time that Baha'u'llah was in Baghdad, Mirza Yahya being afraid of his life, was seldom seen amongst the people. He had changed his clothes

BDA2.134

DAS.1913-02-13, MHMD2.168

ABU0772

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1914-11-19

380

Art thou happy with me? In thee I place my utmost trust. Because all my correspondence passes through thy hand and all my letters are read and transcribed and translated by thee, thou art the custodian of my secrets.

DAS.1914-11-19

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU0765

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-02-09

390

Mirza Anayatullah has brought us some very interesting news from Acca. He says Mirza Badi'u'llah has circulated a wild report that I am going to be arrested

DAS.1915-02-09

Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Spiritualization of humanity in the future; a new race of men; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU0764

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-06-22

390

How I long to be far away from people for two months, somewhere where I have not to read letters, answer questions and always associate with men.... One of the oriental kings going to hunt

DAS.1913-06-22

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Humor; jokes; Personal instructions; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Stories; anecdotes; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering; The power of words; of speech

ABU0763

Words to a vistor, spoken on 1913-04-20

390

Well said. You have brought up a good point.... The Bahá'í movement is not an organization. You can never organize the Bahá'í Cause.... The Bahá'í Revelation is the spirit of this age.

DAS.1913-04-20, SW_v05#05 p.067x, SW_v06#15 p.118x

Definitions of a Baha'i; qualities of a Baha'i; Executive government; power of execution; Oneness; unity of religion; The Holy Spirit; Being a channel for the Holy Spirit in teaching the Cause; Universality of the Cause; Words vs deeds

ABU0761

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-02-01

390

We were speaking today about the religion of the Druzes. All along they have been most kind to us and how appropriate it would have been if the Fragrances of the Merciful reach also their nostrils! The Blessed Perfection visited Abu Sinan

DAS.1915-02-01

Empty learning; false spirituality; Harmony of science and religion; Methods of teaching the Cause; Priestcraft

ABU0754

Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-05-01

390

Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Role of the Covenant in preserving unity; Spiritual communication; connections of the heart; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

این روز آخر اقامت ماست در اسستتکارت و اول روز ورود شما در ملکوت ابهی

Praise be to God that you have attained. This is our last day in Stuttgart and the first day of your entrance into the Kingdom... It is easy to enter into the Kingdom but it is difficult to remain in it firm and steadfast.

BDA2.278-279

DAS.1913-05-01, MHMD2.364-365

ABU0752

400

Every plan is in need of a power for its execution. Today the penetrative power in the world of existence is the confirmation of the Kingdom of Abha… Teaching the Cause of God does not depend on scientific attainment

DAS.1914-10-29?, SW_v13#06 p.132

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU0743

Words spoken on 1914-01-18

400

Truly I say if at every moment we praise Baha'o'llah a hundred thousand times for His bounties and gifts, we shall be unable to express adequately

DAS.1914-01-18

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Praise of Western values; culture; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Thankfulness; gratitude; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU0742

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-02-15

400

In Europe and America music plays an important part in the national and individual life of the nations inhabiting those regions.... Music is a divine art and capable of unlimited progress

DAS.1915-02-15

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Education of children; moral education; Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Music and singing; Mystical themes; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU0741

Words to Ahmad Sohrab and others, spoken on 1914-11-28

400

In this Dispensation all the ties of physical relationship are broken and should play no part in passing judgment over one's character. Not the one who is related to me but the one who doeth the will of Bahá'u'lláh is of me and related to me.

DAS.1914-11-28

Humility; meekness; lowliness; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU0737

Words to a friend from Scotland, spoken on 1913-05-12

400

We have many friends in Scotland, many devoted friends; amongst them is Mrs Whyte.... There are certain souls whose thirst is never allayed, while others are satisfied with one drop.

DAS.1913-05-12

Christian rejection of Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i Faith; Development of capacity and readiness; East and West; communication between East and West; Knowledge; recognition of God

ABU0734

Words to a Russian princess, spoken on 1913-10-30

400

A Bahá'í is at the same time a Christian, a Jew, a Zoroastrian and a Mohammadan. The Bahá'í Cause is like unto a tree... Every moment in this world has a center.

DAS.1913-10-30, SW_v08#14 p.188x

Manifestation of God as sun; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Unity; oneness of humanity; Unity in diversity; Universality of the Cause; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU0731

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-03-21

400

Our feasts are very wonderful. They are unique and peerless. During the days of the Blessed Perfection we celebrated this national New year's Day with great festivities

DAS.1914-03-21, PN_1914 p017

Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Consultation; Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar; Importance of community building; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Wealth inequality and its moderation

ABU0730

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-08-23

400

Real feasts were held during the days of the Blessed Perfection, for then we used to get up early mornings with the utmost joy

DAS.1914-08-24

Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Eulogies; reminiscences; Holy Days and the Baha'i calendar; Humor; jokes; Law of fasting

ABU0728

Words spoken on 1912-12-17 in London

410

God willing! If I go to America another time I will go differently; but it is very difficult

DAS.1912-12-17, SW_v03#19 p.003-004

Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Praise of Western values; culture; Review of publications; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU0727

Words to Mirza Lotfullah, spoken on 1914-01-23

410

Now that thou hast decided to live in Aleppo, thou must act, speak and conduct thyself

DAS.1914-01-23, SW_v07#17 p.168-169

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Cleanliness and refinement; Goodly deeds; actions; Material world a reflection of the spiritual; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU0722

Words spoken on 1914-05-23 in Tiberias

410

Life, life--let us have more life! Let us have the life of the spirit, a life which is a collective center of the beneficial forces

DAS.1914-05-23, SW_v07#18 p.179-180

Equality of men and women; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Loving one's enemies; returning hatred with love; Priestcraft; Purpose of religion in the world (personal and social); Service to others; to the Cause of God; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU0711

Words to a Persian tailor, spoken on 1913-03-23

410

There are some people who study for dress, work for dress, live for dress, walk for dress, eat for dress, in brief their lives are spent for the dress, the clothes, the style, fashion and mode.

DAS.1913-03-23

Baha'u'llah in Sulaymaniyyih; Eulogies; reminiscences; Humor; jokes; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Stories; anecdotes

ABU0710

Words spoken on 1914-07-11

410

I greatly hope the students are enjoying their vacation on the slope of Mount Carmel. The surrounding country is most entrancing, the sweeping panorama of land and sea

DAS.1914-07-11

Development of capacity and readiness; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities

ABU0702

Address at Nineteen-day Feast, home of Mrs Robinson in London, 1912-12-29

820

These delegates who have gathered in the Peace Conference are like merchants. Each strives to compete for victory with his rival…. The Nineteen Day Feast was inaugurated by the Báb and ratified by Bahá'u'lláh, in His holy Book, the Akdas

BDA2.049n

COC#0934, DAS.1912-12-30n, BNEW#33 pp.1-2 Jul 1929, BSTW#032x

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0700

Words spoken on 1914-02-24

420

Wealth becomes the cause of heedlessness to many souls with the exception

DAS.1914-02-24, SW_v08#02 p.019-020

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Status of material wealth; wealth and poverty

ABU0692

Words to H.E.H et al, spoken on 1913-11-05

420

The other day we touched upon the subject concerning the object of the appearance of the Prophets. For what purpose did God send Moses?

DAS.1913-11-05

Limits of the intellect; Manifestation of God as educator; Moses; Power of the Manifestation of God; Purpose of religion in the world (personal and social); Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU0686

Words to Mrs Stannard

430

Consecrate all thy time to the service of the Kingdom of God and the propagation of its principles

DAS.1913-10-29, SW_v05#01 p.005-006, SW_v07#11 p.104-106

Call to action; Human reality created in the image of God; Idle talk; backbiting; speaking ill of others; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0684

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-27

430

Amongst the believers of God there must exist the utmost cooperation, equality and the solidarity of rights. Through their deeds and lives

DAS.1915-04-27

Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha; Unity; oneness of humanity; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU0682

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-28

430

Tonight the weather is very cool. It conduces one to sleep. Sleep is one of the greatest gifts of God... The gift is not noticed as long as it exists but when it disappears

DAS.1914-12-28

Stories; anecdotes; Things are known by their opposites

ABU0678

Address to the friends at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-03-08

430

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Mystical themes; Personal instructions; Theodicy; the mystery of evil; of suffering; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha; Youth and pre-ministry of Abdu'l-Baha

من خیلی میخواهم با شماها صحبت بدارم لکن صحتم مساعد نیست دعا کنید صحت تامه ای حاصل شود

I wish very much to speak with you all, but I am not feeling well… I have been travelling for two years and a half. Nowhere was I ill except here.

BDA2.172-173

DAS.1913-03-08x, MHMD2.217-218, ABCC.012x, STAB#092x

ABU0673

Words to Mr Briggs, spoken on 1914-03-09

440

The humane principles of Bahá'u'lláh have enlightened the East. They have laid waste to the foundation of prejudices.

DAS.1914-03-09

Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Oneness; unity of religion; Stories; anecdotes; Teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause; Unity; oneness of humanity; Unity in diversity; Universality of the Cause

ABU0672

Conversation with Shaykh Muhammad at House of Abbud in Akka, 1915-02-27

440

Didst thou not hear that I went to America? France in comparison to America is very near...

DAS.1915-02-27

Accounts of dreams and visions; Humor; jokes; Travels to the West by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU0651

The Four Kinds of Love: Words spoken at 97 Cadogan Gardens in London, 1913-01-04

450

Paris Talks

What a power is love! It is the most wonderful, the greatest of all living powers.... There are four kinds of love

PT#58 p.192, DAS.1913-01-04x

Baha'i Youth of Japan, S. & C. Zein

Four; five pathways of love; God's love for His own Essence; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Love as fundamental; spiritual foundations of religion; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; The divine emanation; the all-pervading bounty of God

ABU0646

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-02-03

450

Truly I say this is the most prodigious catastrophe and the most ill-boding calamity which has ever taken place on this globe. According to a number of reports already more than 2 million souls are killed or wounded.

DAS.1915-02-03

Call to action; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Universal peace; world unity; War and peace

ABU0645

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-02-10

450

When the believers gather in a meeting and are engaged in the mention of God my heart is there... During our stay in Adrianople, Aqa Jamal and Mirza Ali Akbar Boroujerdy and his brother arrived from a long journey.

DAS.1914-02-10

Christ; Christianity; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Presence [liqa'] of Manifestation of God is presence of God; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU0641

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1913-03-08

450

Bahá'í Scriptures; Abdu'l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913

و وقتی بمناسبت سئوالات حاضرین فرق مابین مطالب و اقوال انبیا و متصوفین بیان می‌نمودند ... شخصی پرسید فرق این امر و صوفیه چیست فرمودند من آنرا بیان کردم حضرات صوفیه به دو مقام مومنند مقام حق و مقام خلق

I have explained the philosophical aspect of this subject. It is this: In Sufism there are only two stations... Do you know in what Day you are living? Do you realize in what Dispensation you are alive?

BDA2.174x

DAS.1913-03-08, BSC.266 #551x, SW_v04#06 p.098x, SW_v06#15 p.118-119x, SW_v13#01 p.006x, SW_v08#14 p.191x, DWN_v3#01 p.002x, MHMD2.219, ADP.038-039x

Call to action; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Prophecy and fulfillment; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; The Word of God; influence and centrality of; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0639

Words to Shaykh Salih, spoken on 1915-04-05

450

طبیعیون هم منتظرند ولی انتظار شان نه بمثل الهیو نست که از شهر غیر معلوم بیاید و باخیل و حشم

The adherents of all the religions of the world are expecting the coming of a Promised One and they pray for his advent.... In principle they agree with the religionists, but in the mode of expression and phraseology they differ from each other. (KHH: Even the naturalists [are expectant]. However, their expectation is not like the religionists who claim, ‘He will come from some unknown city,,,')

KHH1.200-203 (1.280-282)

KHHE.293-298, DAS.1915-04-05, SW_v13#06 p.145-146

Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Eternality vs. origination; creation from nothingness; Interpretation of words and passages in scripture; Prophecy and fulfillment

ABU0638

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-03-09

450

When you, who are the believers of God, gather together in a meeting, let all your conversation be about the Cause. Review the proofs that uphold it

DAS.1915-03-09

He Whom God Shall Make Manifest; the Bab and Baha'u'llah; Muhammad; Islam; Rejection of Muhammad; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Study; deepening; Suffering; rejection of Christ; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU0632

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-03-15

450

These are the days of Bahá'í fasting but the Blessed Perfection has commanded us not to keep it in Turkey... The sweetest thing in this world is to obey strictly the commands of God... There is nothing sweeter in the world of existence than prayer…. What is prayer? It is conversation with God.

DAS.1914-03-15, SW_v08#04 p.041x, SW_v09#09 p.103-104x

MANA

Law of fasting; Obedience to; authority of the Manifestations of God; Prayer for spiritual recognition; The state of prayer; dynamics of prayer; Wisdom [hikmat]

ABU0631

Address to the friends at Dreyfus home in Paris, 1913-05-30

450

This is a blessed night because Consul Schwarz and his respected wife have come from Germany with the greatest of longing so that they may associate with you.

DAS.1913-05-30

East and West; communication between East and West; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Unity; oneness of humanity; Unity in diversity

ABU0624

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1915-05-15

460

The Cause of God is in need of many active, efficient workers and the time is soon coming... As thou knowest it is very easy for us to teach and spread the Cause in this country but the government will rise immediately against us and the Blessed Tombs of Baha'u'llah and the Bab will be demolished by the hands of a fanatical mob

DAS.1915-05-15

Future of Haifa; of the Holy Land; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0623

Words spoken on 1914-06-16

460

At the time we were living in Adrianople we had a woman as our neighbor who was probably 95 or a hundred years old. She had seven sons... I am pleased with you and glad that you are going back to America

DAS.1914-06-16

Education of children; moral education; Humor; jokes; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ABU0621

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-02-27

460

This century is pregnant with the most mighty and world-reforming events. Now it is going through the painful throes of a new birth. The body of the world must go through these tortures

DAS.1915-02-27

Banishment to; life in 'Akka; Banishment to; life in Adrianople; Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Spiritual springtime

ABU0620

Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1914-12-01

460

When we were in Baghdad several believers including myself started with a large caravan for Kazemayn. Each one of us was riding on a fine horse.

DAS.1914-12-01

Humor; jokes; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Stories; anecdotes

ABU0617

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-06-23

460

بسیار خوش رفتار بود. از روزی که باین امر اقبال کرد خدمت کرد تا نفس اخیر، یعنی فی الحقیقه دقیقه ای فتور نداشت

His holiness [Muhammad Taqi] Afnan was a man of delightful character and sociability. He came to Baghdad when we lived there and visited the Blessed Perfection.

ZSM.1915-06-23

DAS.1915-06-24

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; House of Worship [Mashriqu'l-Adhkar]; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life

ABU0615

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1915-03-07

460

During the last two years the world has gone through a terrific earthquake. Bloodthirstiness and ferocity have become widespread.

DAS.1915-03-07

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Material and spiritual existence; two books; Present and future calamities; war; universal convulsion; Service to others; to the Cause of God; War and peace

ABU0611

Words spoken on 1913-08-22 in Ramleh

470

In Adrianople, vis-à-vis of our house, there was a café. Here sat every day a retired officer from the Turkish Army belonging to the Baktashi's sect.

DAS.1913-08-22, ABIE.220, BLO_PN#007, STAB#002

Happiness; joyfulness; joy and sorrow; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Humor; jokes; Stories; anecdotes; Thankfulness; gratitude

ABU0606

Words spoken on board the SS Baron Call at sea, 1913-12-03

470

The managers of these steamship companies must in a degree look after the comfort and well-being of these men [the coal-carriers]

DAS.1913-12-03

Banishment to; life in Baghdad; Labor and management; labor relations; profit sharing; Spiritual emotions and susceptibilities; Wealth inequality and its moderation

ABU0605

Words to H.E.H et al, spoken on 1913-11-03

470

Today I am going to speak to you on the object of the appearance of the prophets. It is evident that the world of humanity is in need of educators.

DAS.1913-11-03

Degrees of spirit and the kingdoms of existence; Education of children; moral education; Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator; Need for an educator; The lower is unable to comprehend the higher

ABU0604

Words spoken on 1914-06-26

470

During the autocratic reign of Abdul Hamid, while I was closely incarcerated in the town of Acca, a man with a suspicious character called on me.

DAS.1914-06-26, SW_v09#11 p.125x

Banishment to; life in Constantinople; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Proofs of the Manifestations of God; Rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU0603

Words to some Zoroastrian Bahá’ís, spoken on 1914-05-06

470

The more union and agreement appear amongst the believers of God the greater will be the divine Confirmations, the more uninterrupted will be the descent ... The cause of God is like unto a college. The believers are like unto the students.

COC#0424x, DAS.1914-05-06, SW_v07#18 p.178-179x, BSTW#052X

Bringing forth results; fruit; Love, unity, and fellowship among the friends; in the Cause; Materialism; material vs. spiritual civilization; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Walking the spiritual path; spiritual wayfaring; the virtuous life; Worldliness vs. other-worldliness

ABU0600

Words to an army commander, spoken on 1914-05-12

470

Today in the world of humanity the most important matter is the question of Universal Peace. The realization of this principle is the crying need...

COC#1604x, LOG#1419x, DAS.1914-05-12, SW_v05#08 p.115-117, SW_v07#06 p.041-042, DWN_v1#12 p.007bx, PN_1914 p011

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Means of establishment of future civilization; Relationship between government and people; Universal peace; world unity; War and peace

ABU0599

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-18

470

In the seventy fourth chapter of the Koran called 'The Greeks' the following verse occurs significant of the present situation: 'Destruction hath appeared by land and by sea

DAS.1914-11-18

Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Manifestation of God as gardener; cultivator; Mission of the Manifestation of God in the world; Qur'an and Hadith quotation and interpretation; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Two kinds of civilization; material and spiritual civilization

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]

ABU0594

Words spoken on 1914-01-24

470

فی الحقیقه مصیب جناب ابو الفضائل مصیب عظیمه است هر چند انسان میخواهد

The calamity of his honor, Mirza Abul-Fazl is indeed great. No matter how much

MSBH2.351-353, NJB_v05#01 p.004-005

DAS.1914-01-24, SW_v09#03 p.026, ABCC.404x

Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Eulogies; reminiscences; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Humor; jokes

ABU0592

Words to the believers, spoken on 1913-12-29

470

بسیار خوب است که در مقام حضرت اعلی در ظل عنایت جمال مبارک همه جمعیم ابدا

It is most significant that we are all gathered here in the Tomb of His Holiness the Bab and beneath the protection of the Blessed Perfection.

KHH1.248 (1.347-349)

KHHE.364-366, DAS.1913-12-29

Christian rejection of Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i Faith; Praise and encouragement; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Thankfulness; gratitude

ABU0591

Words to the friends, spoken on 1913-02-09

470

Composition and decomposition; Creation of the world; Elementary matter cannot be annihilated; Existence and nonexistence; preexistence; Law of cause and effect; Proofs for the existence of God

امروز شخصی از وجود الوهیت سوال کرد که چه برهان بر وجود الوهیت دارید چه که ناس

Today some one asked a question regarding the existence of God

AMK.274-276, KHF.029, KHAB.410 (414), KHTB3.026, NJB_v04#16 p.002

DAS.1913-02-09, BSC.290 #594-597, SW_v06#08 p.062-064, ADP.103-106, PN_1913 p009

ABU0582

Words to some friends, spoken around 1914-11-10

480

In the battle of Khandag the enemy hordes rushed forward and besieged the city of Medina. Mohamad and his companions were in the town and had no other recourse but to defend it.

DAS.1914-11-11

Episodes from the early history of Islam; Prophecy and fulfillment

ABU0580

Words spoken on 1914-06-15 in Haifa

480

من رفتم بطبریه این دفعه رفتن خیلی طول کشید طبریه نقطه ئی است که در کوشه ئی واقع شده

I went to Tiberias, but I stayed there longer than I expected. Tiberias is situated in an out-of-the-way place.

NJB_v05#17 p.003x

DAS.1914-06-15, SW_v09#10 p.116-117

Christ; Christianity; Independent investigation of truth; reality; Quotation from or interpretation of the Bible; Shrines and Holy places; Suffering; rejection of Christ; The Word of God; influence and centrality of

ABU0575

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1914-02-28

490

Pray from thy heart that my health continue to be well, so that I may attend to all the affairs.

DAS.1914-02-28

Expressions of grief; lamentation; sadness; Love and unity; Religion as source of love and unity; Presence of; reunion with God; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU0571

Words spoken on 1914-02-22

490

In every dispensation a number of sanctified souls have become manifest who were self-sacrificing

DAS.1914-02-22, SW_v08#13 p.162-163, SW_v09#18 p.202x

Incarceration of Baha'u'llah in Siyah Chal; Martyrs and martyrdom; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU0568

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-10

490

It will be capital accomplishment if a school conducted on Bahá'í lines could be built. In the Bahá'í movement a system of education is outlined, whose value is not for the present appreciated.... Every little child will have a slate before him on his small desk.

DAS.1914-11-10

Educational curricula; Education of children; moral education; Excellence; distinction; Methods of teaching the Cause

ABU0567

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-03-10

490

My sole aim in the education of these boys amounted to this: I hoped that after their graduation these boys would arise with the utmost severance... but none of them fulfilled my desire

DAS.1915-03-10

Being a source of light; guidance; Call to action; Devotion; sacrifice; consecration in teaching the Cause; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; The state of enkindlement in teaching

ABU0566

Words to an army commander, spoken on 1914-05-11

490

By a general agreement all the governments of the world must disarm simultaneously. It will

DAS.1914-05-11, SW_v05#08 p.116, SW_v07#06 p.042-043, SW_v08#12 p.155-156, PN_1914 p012, STAB#151

Call to action; Stories; anecdotes; The Lesser Peace and the Most Great Peace; Universal peace; world unity; War and peace

ABU0564

Words to the friends, spoken on 1915-04-18

490

The Blessed Perfection educated us in this most great Prison. If we consider this fact with the sight of justice we will realize that He instructed us with the tears of His eyes.

DAS.1915-04-18

Rebellion and misdeeds of Mirza Yahya; the Azalis; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0562

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1915-05-18

490

I have sent for thee this morning to speak to thee on a confidential matter. The covenant-breakers have again concocted another device, whereby they may terminate my life

DAS.1915-05-18

Love of God; Martyrs and martyrdom; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0556

Words to a musician, spoken on 1913-05-08

500

Music was an ancient art in Persia. The old people of Persia loved music very much and their artists contributed to its development. When the Arabs conquered Persia

DAS.1913-05-08

Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Meanings of letters and numbers; jafr (gematria); Music and singing; Past, present and future of Iran; Stories; anecdotes

ABU0553

Words spoken on 1914-02-19

500

In Teheran I spoke with a scholarly gentleman and gave him the divine Message.... My happiness is in these glad tidings and victories... While we were living in Bagdad one of the most honorable men in Persian came there. He called

LOG#1981x, DAS.1914-02-19, SW_v07#16 p.155, SW_v09#03 p.035-036, STAB#109, STAB#113

Confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause; Power of the Manifestation of God; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0549

Words to Mon. Richard, spoken on 1913-05-10

500

حق را بحر و موجودات را امواج و اشباح گویند اما انبیای الهی حق را مقدس از حلول و حدود دانند

He quoted the philosophic apothegms of the Sufi leaders stating that the Sufi idea about God is pantheistic

DAS.1913-05-10

God as immanent vs. transcendent reality; Manifestation of God as mediator; Pantheism; Symbolism; Symbolism of color and light; Transcendence; unknowability of God; Unity of existence [wahdatu'l-wujud]

ABU0546

Talk to pilgrims at Haifa pilgrim house, 1914-10-23

500

باید شام بعد از غروب حاضر باشد هر وقت میل دارند بخورند بهترین اوقات

The best hour to eat supper is right after sunset... During the life of my grandfather, the Ministers of State had an established custom

KHH1.117 (1.163-164)

KHHE.178-179, DAS.1914-10-23

Principle of balance; moderation; equilibrium; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Stories; anecdotes

ABU0542

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-24

510

When I was in Mazandaran I was a wee bit of a child and enjoyed all the fun and play belonging to that age.

DAS.1914-12-24, SW_v13#10 p.271-272, STAB#004

ABU0538

Words to pilgrims departing for India, spoken on 1914-04-18

510

Although the religions of God undergo change and transformation yet the primal objects are immutable... The prevalent notion that the religions of the past have set aside and abolished each other is a great mistake.

Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Oneness; unity of religion; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause

ABU0536

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-12

510

Nadir Shah was one of the great rulers of Persia and during his military career he conquered India and many other countries. He was a resourceful leader

DAS.1914-11-12

Call to action; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Stories; anecdotes; Wisdom [hikmat]

ABU0535

Words to Mrs Bernard, spoken on 1913-03-18

510

Acting according to the exigencies of the day; pragmatism; Critique of Eastern values; culture; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Excellence; distinction; Honesty; truthfulness; trustworthiness; Justice ['adl]; social justice and divine justice; Spiritual transformation; Wine as symbol of spiritual transformation

ولی انقطاع بعدم اسباب نیست بلکه بعدم تعلق قلب است ما در طهران شب دارای هر چیز

You have travelled through India... When the Persian government imprisoned Baha'u'llah in Teheran... Detachment does not imply lack of means; it is marked by the freedom of the heart. In Tihran, we possessed everything… There were once two friends, one rich but free of heart

BDA2.187

DAS.1913-03-18, MHMD2.238-239, ABCC.009x, BW_v13p1187-1188x, VLAB.144x, STAB#028x

ABU0533

Words to some students, spoken on 1914-10-12

510

گفتند شما ها امروز میخواهید بروید گفتم پس بروم وداع کنم علی العجاله در تابستان

I have been informed that you are leaving today... When the Commission of Inquiry came [in 1904], they made matters difficult for us.

KHH1.108-110 (1.151-154)

KHHE.164-169, DAS.1914-10-12, PN_1914 p068

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Mystery of the great reversal; Ottoman commissions of investigation; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU0526

Words to Archie Bell spoken in June 1914

520

I am pleased, very pleased to meet one from far away America… Baha'ism is simply a message, its prophecies are readily explained by all religions… I find gems of truth in what Mrs. [Mary Baker] Eddy said and these things I include and accept. But there are many exaggerations...

DAS.1914-10-30x, SHL.307-317

Corruption and renewal; abandoning religious dogmas; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Health and healing; material and spiritual healing; Miracles and their interpretation; Oneness; unity of religion; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU0515

Words to some Zoroastrian friends, spoken on 1915-04-18

530

The Blessed Perfection expressed always great love for the Parsee friends. When Manikchi came to Baghdad and stood in His spiritual Presence he related many stories concerning the humiliation of the Parsees

DAS.1915-04-18

Acknowledgment of gift; of monetary contribution; Charitable associations; humanitarian activities; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Praise of Eastern values; culture; Predictions and prophecies; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU0512

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-21

530

Syria has an important position strategically. Ancient nations conquering this country extended the boundary of their empire to all the then known parts of the world.

DAS.1914-11-21

Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Prophecy and fulfillment; Shrines and Holy places

ABU0510

Words to some young Bahá’ís, spoken on 1915-05-02

530

All the Bahá'í children must learn a trade or manual profession. This must be aside from their literary education... Do not be satisfied with a superficial smattering of a language

DAS.1915-05-02

Education of children; moral education; Excellence; distinction; High station of learning; Self-improvement; self-perfection; discipline; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession

ABU0509

Words spoken at House of Abbud in Akka, 1915-01-04

530

These childish demonstrations are most shallow in their motives, because they are based on the conquest of the earth which in itself is not permanent.

DAS.1915-01-04

Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Power and sovereignty of God; omnipotence of God; Stories; anecdotes; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU0504

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-03-18

530

I am straining my ears toward the city of Shiraz--the sacred birthplace of the Báb--that perchance I may hear the sweet rapturous songs of its inhabitants.

DAS.1915-03-18

Forces of light and darkness; integration and disintegration; Literature; drama; humanities; the arts; Praise of Eastern values; culture; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU0496

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-02-11

540

This afternoon we passed by the nunnery and entered into its garden. The government forced the nuns to leave the country

DAS.1915-02-11

Consorting with all; being kind; loving to all; Critique of Western values; culture; Monasticism; asceticism; Religion as source of love and unity; Service to others; to the Cause of God

ABU0488

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-12-10

550

What dost thou want with a room of stone and clay! I have prepared for thee such glorious rooms the walls, the roofs, the floors and the furniture of which are of purest deeds

DAS.1914-12-10, SW_v13#06 p.152x

Critique of Eastern values; culture; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Praise of Western values; culture; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Work as worship

ABU0487

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1914-11-08

550

The tempest in the Atlantic ocean is very spectacular. It is a world of water.... When I was a very young child in Tihran, there was a man by the name of Abbas Quli Khan

DAS.1914-11-08

Historical episodes and the lessons of the past; Progress and the continual ascent of material civilization; Stories; anecdotes

ABU0485

Words spoken on 1914-02-17

550

When the Blessed Perfection and his family were exiled from Persia, all along our way... In this Cause there is no relationship save the relationship of service

DAS.1914-02-17, SW_v08#13 p.164x, BSTW#096

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Growth of the Cause; Non-participation in politics; Pride; vanity; laying claim to inner knowledge; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world

ABU0481

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-20

550

Monasticism; asceticism; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Useful occupation; acquisition of a craft; trade; profession

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

ABU0480

Words spoken on 1914-08-10

550

They are informed too late. The matter is now beyond their criticism and rebuke... Mohammed Ali Pasha had a big, fat camel. When the Hajis started on their long pilgrimage to Mecca

DAS.1914-08-10, SW_v09#18 p.210-211x, STAB#119

Defending the Faith; protecting the Cause; apologetics; Growth of the Cause; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Stories; anecdotes

ABU0469

Words to Zoroastrian pilgrims, spoken on 1913-11-15

560

This is the last day that I am meeting you, but in reality this is the first day. Although physically it is the last day, yet spiritually

DAS.1913-11-15

Infinity and eternity; Law of pilgrimage; Servitude; submission to God; repentance; Soul; spirit after death; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Travels to Egypt by Abdu'l-Baha

ABU0450

Words to the friends, spoken around 1915-01-30

580

Mullah Jami writes in his book: 'When I completed my education in the University of Bokhara and gained mastery over the various branches of philosophy

DAS.1915-01-31

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Greed; envy; covetousness; attachment to the world; Law of pilgrimage; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Stories; anecdotes

ABU0449

Words spoken on 1913-11-24 in Ramleh

580

Before the regular stage-post was established in Persia, there were many swift-footed letter-carriers and messengers

DAS.1913-11-24

Banishment to; life in Constantinople; Justice and wrath of God; Stories; anecdotes

ABU0444

Words spoken on 1914-02-13

580

فی الحقیقه صعود حضرت ابی الفضائل بلیه ای بود از برای اهل بها در جمیع ممالک دنیا

Truly I say the departure of Mirza Abdu'l-Fazl is an irretrievable loss for the people of Baha.

NJB_v05#01 p.005

DAS.1914-02-13

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Eulogies; reminiscences; High station of learning; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness

ABU0442

Talk to pilgrims at Haifa pilgrim house, 1914-10-22

580

حال من بسیار خوبست در جمیع جاها گردیدم هوا باین خوبی ندیدم اگر اهالی اینجا منهمک

I am always well, especially in these days. Here the air is paradisiacal. The weather of Mount Carmel at this season is most healthful... Before we were exiled from Tihran all our properties and possessions were pillaged

KHH1.114-116 (1.159-162)

KHHE.174, DAS.1914-10-22

Degrees of faith; certitude; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Suffering and imprisonment; Tests and trials; sacrifice and suffering

ABU0441

Words to Shaykh Yousef and others, spoken on 1915-02-21

580

This world of ours is very, very old, subject to periodic revolutions and cyclic fluctuations. Motion and change are its two fixed rules. These two laws are inseparable from each other.

DAS.1915-02-21

Composition and decomposition; Elementary matter cannot be annihilated; Forgiveness; grace; bounty; mercy; compassion of God; Law of transformation and change; Passage of elementary matter through degrees of existence; Plenitude; the pervasiveness of life in the cosmos; Progress only takes place within its own degree

ABU0438

Words spoken on 1914-06-20 in Haifa

580

Naraq is one of the Provinces of Persian wherein the Cause made its appearance from the beginning, and many people embraced the Teachings.... ...Haji Kamaleddin was one of God's own servants, severed from aught else save him, enkindled

DAS.1914-06-21, SW_v08#19 p.242x, SW_v09#11 p.121x

Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Martyrs and martyrdom; Radiant countenance; bearing the divine fragrance; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Steadfastness; perseverance; faithfulness; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU0434

Words spoken on 1913-11-10 in Port Said

590

About 38 years ago a few Hajis who were natives of Yazd came to Acca. On their way they were stripped clean

Goodly deeds; actions; Past, present and future of Iran; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU0426

Words to some Christians, spoken on 1914-12-26

600

The deeds which are perpetrated by the present civilized Christian nations of Europe are opposite to the commandments of Christ. He shuns their association

DAS.1914-12-26

Call to action; Christian doctrine and practice; Critique of Western values; culture; Justice and wrath of God; Selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world; War and peace

ABU0424

Words spoken at Rue Lauriston 97 in Paris, 1913-03-21

600

I pray that this Fete [Naw-Ruz] be blessed to all the friends in America! May each one of them become a mighty teacher... When I was in Bagdad I had a coat

DAS.1913-03-21

Autobiographical account; narrative of Abdu'l-Baha; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts

ABU0422

Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-04-08

600

من حالم خوبست مرضی در کار نیست فقط اعصاب است ... امیدوارم خاتمه حیاتم چون مشک معطر

Of what use is good health to me? I want to wholly sacrifice myself... I wish the end of my life to be musk-laden. That is, I wish to drink from the chalice of martyrdom

KHH1.206-208 (1.289-291)

KHHE.302-305, DAS.1915-04-08, BSR_v13 p.097

Covenant-breaking and Covenant-breakers; Detachment; severance; renunciation; patience; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Transience; worthlessness of the physical world

ABU0420

Words to students of Beirut university, spoken on 1914-08-31

600

خوب مجلسی است بسیار محفل روحانی است مجلسی است مرتب و منظم در اینعالم مجمعهای

This is a delightful gathering. It is very spiritual and is well-organized and orderly. Many gatherings are held in the world

MAS5.135, KHF.279, KHAB.452 (453), KHTB3.105, KHH1.282-284 (1.393-396)

KHHE.407-409, DAS.1914-08-31, STAB#057

Christ; Christianity; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence; Spiritual meetings; gatherings; devotional gatherings; feasts; Unity of thought and belief

ABU0418

Words spoken on 1914-07-09 in Haifa

600

The quintessence of the matter is that under the protection of the Blessed Perfection we have spent our days in this Most Great Prison.

DAS.1914-07-09

Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Growth of the Cause; Humility; meekness; lowliness; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Sacrifice of self; mystery of sacrifice; Service to others; to the Cause of God; Suffering and imprisonment

ABU0409

Words to some friends, spoken on 1914-11-22

610

Much that is written or said about Muhammad is pure fabrication. The reality is not stated, because it is misunderstood. The origin of the current opinion

DAS.1914-11-22

Corruption and decline of Islam; of the Shi'ih; Episodes from the early history of Islam; Rejection of Muhammad; Stories; anecdotes; Suffering; rejection of Christ

ABU0406

Words spoken on 1913-11-15 in Port Said

610

Pray that God may lighten his [Prof. Cheyne's] lamp day by day, cause His Kingdom to be established in the hearts

DAS.1913-11-15

Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Growth of the Cause; Stories; anecdotes; Suffering and imprisonment; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0397

Words spoken on 1914-01-30

620

Praise be to God that you have come to this Divine Spot... Now that you are returning to your respective homes you must be like unto ignited candles

DAS.1914-01-30, SW_v08#05 p.049x

Being a source of light; guidance; Confirmations and rewards in teaching the Cause; Divine grace, bounty, confirmations; spiritual capacity; Shrines and Holy places; Spiritual prerequisites of teaching the Cause; Teaching one's self first in teaching the Cause; Teaching the Cause; call to teach

ABU0396

Words to Ahmad Sohrab, spoken on 1915-05-09

620

این چاه را بسته اند که مبادا سایرین از آبش استعمال کنند سبحان الله از مضرت بدیگران چه نتیجه

Many years ago this was a public well and the native women every morning and evening drew water. After a while the Germans made up their minds to take possession of it.

KHH1.233-234 (1.327)x

KHHE.344x, DAS.1915-05-09

Selfishness; self-love; egotism; self-indulgence; Stories; anecdotes

ABU0393

Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-07-20

630

There was a Motasarraf by the name of Abdu'r-Rahman Pasha. In some ways he became most inimical against us. He did his best to find a pretext

DAS.1914-07-20

Forgiveness; a sin-covering eye; patience and forbearance; Rejection, opposition and persecution

ABU0391

Words spoken ca. 1914-11 in Abu Sinan

630

There was an important man in Acca who had many cases pending in the court; but the judge postponed the settlement of his affairs from day to day.

DAS.1914-11-05

Bribery and corruption; Humor; jokes

ABU0390

Words to Lua Getsinger, spoken on 1913-11-10

630

When thou dost enter a city in India, associate with the people in the beginning as a tourist, as a person interested in India

Constitutional revolution in Iran; Greatness and influence of the Cause; of this Day; Lists; enumerations of Baha'i principles; Methods of teaching the Cause; Rejection, opposition and persecution; Teaching the Cause; call to teach; Unity; oneness of humanity

ABU0389

Words spoken en route in carriage in Haifa, 1915-02-07

630

من ابدا سبب فصل نشدم خودشان خود را از یکدیگر جدا کردند جمال مبارک عهدی گرفتند

I never caused their separation. They separated themselves. The Blessed Beauty established a Covenant

KHH1.166 (1.228)x

KHHE.240-241x, DAS.1915-02-07, BSR_v13 p.089x

Characteristics and conduct of true believers; Creativity in art; Goodly deeds; actions; Methods of teaching the Cause; Serving humanity; working for progress, betterment of the world; Unity; oneness of humanity; Unity in diversity

ABU0384

Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-14

630