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  • most great house

    The House the Prince Wanted to Build

    After Bahá’u’lláh had returned to Baghdad from his two years of withdrawal to the mountains of Kurdistan, he lived in a house close to the western bank of the Tigris River. This was the period when increasingly the Babi community began to turn to Bahá’u’lláh. Although he had not announced his mission, his writings and presence attracted the remnants of the followers of the Bab to him. During this period Bahá’u’lláh wrote works such as the Hidden Words and the Book of Certitude. The home where Bahá’u’lláh lived, a modest dwelling: become the focal center of a great number of seekers, visitors and pilgrims, including Kurds, Persians, Arabs and Turks, and … from…

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    Tahirih – Herald of the Emancipation of Women

    June 22, 2017
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    Bahá’u’lláh on Knowledge

    May 29, 2017
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    Beauty in the Universe and Ourselves

    June 27, 2017
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    The Miracle of Baghdad

    If we look in the Gospels or in the Quran we find ample evidence of the opposition of the religious hierarchies of the day to Jesus and Muhammad respectively. Again it was so in Bahá’u’lláh’s day. As we have seen before it is a tragic pattern of history that when the truth of a new prophet comes – very few are able to recognise it and those most concerned with religion are the most determined to “put out the light”. In Baghdad, some of the religious scholars (ulama) were continually agitating to cause some harm to Bahá’u’lláh. At one point they threatened jihad, at another they pressed upon the Governor…

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    Suriy-i-Haykal: Restoring the Temple

    July 7, 2017
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    Water Restored to Akka and Service to the Community

    September 11, 2017
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    Oneness of Humanity: A Sense of Community and a Glass of Water — the Baha’i Feast

    May 16, 2017
  • The Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah

    Mystic Gems – the Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh

    Among the most well-known works of Bahá’u’lláh are the Hidden Words. They are written in brief “gem-like utterances”,[1] 71 in Arabic and 82 in Persian. They are at once of crystalline clarity and yet impenetrable in their allusion to a spiritual reality beyond our day-to-day experience. The Hidden Words are among the works which Bahá’u’lláh wrote in the voice of the “truth-seeker and mystic”.[2] They were written in 1857–58 and were the fruit of Bahá’u’lláh’s meditations while walking the banks of the Tigris River in Baghdad. Bahá’u’lláh introduces them as follows: This is that which hath descended from the Realm of Glory, uttered by the tongue of power and might, and revealed unto the…

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    Frank Wyss – Knight of Bahá’u’lláh

    October 15, 2017

    George Townshend – from Cathedral to Coherence

    June 2, 2017
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    Further Reflections on a World Language

    October 4, 2017
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    A Mountain of Roses: The Ridvan Festival

    The second exile of Bahá’u’lláh by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, this time from Baghdad to Constantinople, is not remembered as a time of sorrow. It is remembered as a time of joy. For this time, in April 1863, marks the time when Bahá’u’lláh declared his mission to his closest friends and followers. For nearly 10 years, Bahá’u’lláh had restored the remnant followers of the Bab in Baghdad. He was a figure to which the community had naturally turned. As his fame grew, an increasing stream of visitors had come to his door, some travelling from Persia, including some high-ranking members of the Persian court. Writings such as the Hidden Words, the…

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    What hath God Wrought? 24 May 1844

    July 3, 2017
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    Taking Things Too Literally vs. Interpreting Texts for the Oneness of Humanity

    June 6, 2017
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    Detachment from the Material World

    June 29, 2017
  • Teheran where Baha'u'llah was born in 1817

    An Outline of Bahá’u’lláh’s Life

    The bare facts of anyone’s life don’t do it justice. Yet they help us put the many complex pieces of the puzzle together and foster understanding. In this series we have dived straight in: exploring concepts, events and writings. Here we will step back and think about the outlines of Bahá’u’lláh’s life. There are two tools that I would like to use for this purpose. One is to refer you to the beautiful pictorial display of Bahá’u’lláh’s life maintained by the Baha’i International Community at bahaullah.org.  There you will find a brief chronology, images associated with Bahá’u’lláh’s life and a narrative of key events. The second tool I will use is to adopt ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s…

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    Solving Problems Beyond Solution – The Book of Certitude

    April 27, 2017
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    Bahá’u’lláh’s letter to Pope Pius IX

    August 14, 2017
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    Epistle to the Son of the Wolf – Counsels to Bahá’u’lláh’s People and the World

    October 21, 2017
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