... light of justice ...

‎"Though the world is encompassed with misery and distress, yet no man hath paused to reflect what the cause or source of that may be. Whenever the True Counsellor uttered a word in admonishment, lo, they all denounced Him as a mover of mischief and rejected His claim. How bewildering, how confusing is such behaviour! No two men can be found who may be said to be outwardly and inwardly united. The evidences of discord and malice are apparent everywhere, though all were made for harmony and union. The Great Being saith: O well-beloved ones! The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers. Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. We cherish the hope that the light of justice may shine upon the world and sanctify it from tyranny."

Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh

،مناجاتی با عنوان «خاک ایران»

وب سایت آئین بهائی

دوستان عزیز،مناجاتی با عنوان «خاک ایران» در وب سایت قرار گرفته است. شما را به مشاهده و شنیدن این مناجات زیبا          

.دعوت می نمائیم

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... the prison of ‘Akká

“We are about to shift from this most remote place of banishment unto the prison of ‘Akká. And, according to what they say, it is assuredly the most desolate of the cities of the world, the most unsightly of them in appearance, the most detestable in climate, and the foulest in water; it is as though it were the metropolis of the owl; there is not heard from its regions aught save the sound of its hooting. And in it they intend to imprison the Servant, and to shut in Our faces the doors of leniency and take away from Us the good things of the life of the world during what remaineth of Our days. By God, though weariness should weaken Me, and hunger should destroy Me, though My couch should be made of the hard rock and My associates of the beasts of the desert, I will not blench, but will be patient, as the resolute and determined are patient, in the strength of God, the King of Preexistence, the Creator of the nations; and under all circumstances I give thanks unto God. And We hope of His graciousness (exalted is He) the freedom of Our necks from chains and shackles in this imprisonment: and that He will render [all men’s] faces sincere toward Him, the Mighty, the Bounteous. Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him. And We ask Him to make this dark calamity a buckler for the body of His saints, and to protect them thereby from sharp swords and piercing blades. Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.


 Abdu'l-Bahá

To what else can the ...

To what else can the observant eye or the unprejudiced mind, acquainted with the signs and portents heralding the birth, and accompanying the rise, of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh ascribe this dire, this planetary upheaval, with its attendant destruction, misery and fear, if not to the emergence of His embryonic World Order, which, as He Himself has unequivocally proclaimed, has “deranged the equilibrium of the world and revolutionized mankind’s ordered life”? To what agency, if not to the irresistible diffusion of that world-shaking, world-energizing, world-redeeming spirit, which the Báb has affirmed is “vibrating in the innermost realities of all created things” can the origins of this portentous crisis, incomprehensible to man, and admittedly unprecedented in the annals of the human race, be attributed?

Shoghi Effendi,  God Passes By

دیگر چه غمی

هوالله

 ای بنده پر وفای جمال قدم، زنده به اسم اعظمی, رنجور بلا را دیگر چه غمی، امواج عطا هر یک چه غمی، دریای جفا شبنمی، دیگر چه غمی، هجوم اعدأ تاریکی شبی، تائید ملکوت ابهی جلوه صبحدمی، دیگر چه غمی، شماتت جهلا چون طنین مگسی، و ندأ ملأ اعلی با نگ فریادرسی، دیگر چه غمی، مقاومت علمأ چون استقامت پشهٔ بینوا، قوت کلمه الله چون ریح صر صر شدیدالقوی، دیگر چه غمی، سستی ناقضین چون حرکت مور بی وفا، سطوت میثاق سلطنت سماوات اعلی، 
دیگر چه غمی، بنیان امم بنیاد بر هوی، اساس امر الله قصر مشید ذروه علیا، دیگر چه غمی. والبهأ علیک. ع ع

17 شهریور سالگرد شهدای سبعه یزد

17 شهریور سالگرد شهدای سبعه یزد

در سحرگاه مورخ 17 شهریور 1359 ماموران سپاه پاسداران یزد هفت نفر از بهاییان را که مدتی زندانی بودند به باغ خان برده و تنها به جرم بهایی بودن تیرباران نموده و به شهادت رساندند

اسامی شهدای سبعه یزد: جنابان فریدون فریدانی،عبدالوهاب کاظمی،علی مطهری،محمود حسن زاده،جلال مستقیم ،نورالله اخترخاوری و جناب عزیزالله ذبیحیان.

عده ای از احبا پس از غسل آن پیکرهای پاک،ایشان را در 

گلستان جاوید (آرامگاه بهاییان)به خاک سپردند،اما افسوس که دولت بعدا آنجا را ویران نموده و بر روی آن بناهای دیگر احداث نمود برنامه ای که برای گلستان فعلی یزد نیز در نظر است

یاد و خاطره این عزیزان هرگز فراموش نخواهد شد

درجاتشان متعالی.

"The field is indeed so immense, ...

"The field is indeed so immense, the period so critical, the Cause so great, the workers so few, the time so short, the privilege so priceless, that no follower of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh, worthy to bear His name, can afford a moment's hesitation. That God-born Force, irresistible in its sweeping power, incalculable in its potency, unpredictable in its course, mysterious in its workings, and awe-inspiring in its manifestations--a Force which, as the Báb has written, "vibrates within the innermost being of all created things," and which, according to Bahá'u'lláh, has through its "vibrating influence," "upset the equilibrium of the world and revolutionized its ordered life"--such a Force, acting even as a two-edged sword, is, under our very eyes, sundering, on the one hand, the age-old ties which for centuries have held together the fabric of civilized society, and is unloosing, on the other, the bonds that still fetter the infant and as yet unemancipated Faith of Bahá'u'lláh."

Shoghi Effendi. The Advent of Divine Justice

A tempest, unprecedented ....

A tempest, unprecedented in its violence, unpredictable in its course, catastrophic in its immediate effects, unimaginably glorious in its ultimate consequences, is at present sweeping the face of the earth. Its driving power is remorselessly gaining in range and momentum. Its cleansing force, however much undetected, is increasing with every passing day. Humanity, gripped in the clutches of its devastating power, is smitten by the evidences of its resistless fury. It can neither perceive its origin, nor probe its significance, nor discern its outcome. Bewildered, agonized and helpless, it watches this great and mighty wind of God invading the remotest and fairest regions of the earth, rocking its foundations, deranging its equilibrium, sundering its nations, disrupting the homes of its peoples, wasting its cities, driving into exile its kings, pulling down its bulwarks, uprooting its institutions, dimming its light, and harrowing up the souls of its inhabitants.

Shoghi Effendi, ‘The Promised Day Is Come'

Beware lest the powers ...

 


 Say: O people of God! Beware lest the powers of the earth alarm you, or the might of the nations weaken you, or the tumult of the people of discord deter you, or the exponents of earthly glory sadden you. Be ye as a mountain in the Cause of your Lord, the Almighty, the All-Glorious, the Unconstrained.
Bahá’u’lláh

O Son of Beauty!

O Son of Beauty!
By My spirit and by My favor! By My mercy and by My beauty! All that I have revealed unto thee with the tongue of power, and have written for thee with the pen of might, hath been in accordance with thy capacity and understanding, not with My state and the melody of My voice.

Bahá’u’lláh

Be generous in prosperity ...

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge. Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be unjust to no man, and show all meekness to all men. Be as a lamp unto them that walk in darkness, a joy to the sorrowful, a sea for the thirsty, a haven for the distressed, an upholder and defender of the victim of oppression. Let integrity and uprightness distinguish all thine acts. Be a home for the stranger, a balm to the suffering, a tower of strength for the fugitive. Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. Be an ornament to the countenance of truth, a crown to the brow of fidelity, a pillar of the temple of righteousness, a breath of life to the body of mankind, an ensign of the hosts of justice, a luminary above the horizon of virtue, a dew to the soil of the human heart, an ark on the ocean of knowledge, a sun in the heaven of bounty, a gem on the diadem of wisdom, a shining light in the firmament of thy generation, a fruit upon the tree of humility.

 Baha'u'llah,