Tag: "Movement of the left"

tag name	Movement of the left	type:	Miscellaneous
web link	bahai-library.com/tags/Movement_of_the_left
variations or mis-spellings	ḥarikat-i-shimálíyyih ( حرکت شمالیّه )
related tags	Communism
notes	Reference to communism in writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi. See also: – The Challenge of Baha'u'llah by Gary L. Matthews, pp. 65-66.
selected quotations (authoritative sources)	These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts: "... today nothing short of these divine teachings can assure peace and tranquillity to mankind. But for these teachings, this darkness shall never vanish, these chronic diseases shall never be healed; nay, they shall grow fiercer from day to day. The Balkans will remain discontented. Its restlessness will increase. The vanquished Powers will continue to agitate. They will resort to every measure that may rekindle the flame of war. Movements, newly born and worldwide in their range, will exert their utmost effort for the advancement of their designs. The Movement of the Left will acquire great importance. Its influence will spread..." – Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Bahá, #202 (January 1920; AB00197) "... In one of the most remarkable Tablets revealed by ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá, passages of which have already been quoted on previous occasions, written in the evening of His life, soon after the termination of the first World War, He anticipates, in succinct and ominous sentences, the successive ebullitions which must afflict humanity, and whose full force the American nation must, if her destiny is to be accomplished, inevitably experience. “The ills from which the world now suffers,” He wrote, “will multiply; the gloom which envelops it will deepen. The Balkans will remain discontented. Its restlessness will increase. The vanquished powers will continue to agitate. They will resort to every measure that may rekindle the flame of war. Movements, newly born and world-wide in their range, will exert their utmost effort for the advancement of their designs. The Movement of the Left will acquire great importance. Its influence will spread. The agitation in the Balkan Peninsula; the feverish activity in which Germany and Italy played a disastrous role, culminating in the outbreak of the second World War; the rise of the Fascist and Nazi movements, which spread their ramifications to distant parts of the globe; the spread of communism which, as a result of the victory of Soviet Russia in that same war, has been greatly accelerated—all these happenings, some unequivocally, others in veiled language, have been forecast in this Tablet, the full force of whose implications are as yet undisclosed, and which, we may well anticipate, the American nation, as yet insufficiently schooled by adversity, must sooner or later experience..." – from Shoghi Effendi, letter dated 5 June, 1947, in: Citadel of Faith
references	www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q="movement of the left"

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