Tajalliyat – Radiant Lights and the Spirit of Truth
Tajalliyat is a work written by Bahá’u’lláh to one of his followers. It starts with a preamble in Arabic and then switches to Persian so …
Specific Teachings
Water Restored to Akka and Service to the Community
As time went on the people of Akka began to see the true character of Bahá’u’lláh and his followers. The initial contempt and hatred with which …
The Universal House of Justice and an ever changing world
The writings of Bahá’u’lláh are a very considerable religious corpus. Yet within those writings Bahá’u’lláh provides for the guidance and unfoldment of the Baha’i community …
The Word of God
Words are in some sense like seeds. They germinate as thoughts in the minds of readers or hearers. The exact form that the thought takes …
Render unto Caesar …
The phrase is famous and the story well-known. When the religious scholars of his day were seeking to entrap Jesus they asked him whether it …
The Kitab-i-Aqdas: A New Paradigm
The term “paradigm” is used in a way now familiar in everyday speech – such as in the phrase “a new paradigm” or “paradigm shift”. …
The Kitab-i-Aqdas: A Spiritual Life
In previous articles, we have considered what we mean by law, and we have looked at the process of law reform in the context of …
What is Law?
Bahá’u’lláh’s purpose throughout his mission was to promote the oneness of humankind but, he notes, that “At one time We spoke in the language of …
Workers’ Rights
As we have seen in previous articles, Bahá’u’lláh was concerned with the extremes of wealth and poverty he saw in society. He was concerned when …