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"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
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"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
The Bahá’í month of
ʻIlm — Knowledge
5 ʻIlm 183 BE
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Munírih Khánum, wife of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, recalls losing five children in 'Akká, the words Bahá'u'lláh wrote to her when her little son Ḥusayn died, and the wisdom she came to see in it.
Quote of the day
“But now, contrary to these teachings, see how Christians are”
In 365 days
Celebrates the birth of Siyyid 'Alí Muhammad, the Báb, in Shíráz in 1819.
Readings for Birth of the Báb →Believers who came into the presence of Bahá'u'lláh found they could not look steadily at His face. One pilgrim spilt his tea without noticing, and a Cambridge scholar wrote that he could never forget it.
The chief divine of Núr sent two of his ablest doctors, Mullá 'Abbás and Mírzá Abu'l-Qásim, to overcome Bahá'u'lláh in argument. They heard Him, gave up their pulpits and standing, and served His Cause; the divine himself declined to debate Him.
Nabíl-i-Akbar, the only disciple Shaykh Murtadá raised to the rank of mujtahid, was found kneeling humbly before Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdad. Driven later from Qá'in, he taught in disguise and died penniless in Bukhárá.
In Geneva in 1911 'Abdu'l-Bahá asked Juliet Thompson whether she could come on to London, and she said her steamer ticket could not be exchanged. Back in New York, a Tablet reached her with a small sum of money: exactly the cost of the ticket.
Invited to the Plaza Hotel in New York in July 1912, 'Abdu'l-Bahá sat in a small room and declined the manager's offer to show Him the rest. Mahmúd's Diary records why, and records how often that year He refused gifts.
Each summer Milly Collins gave Shoghi Effendi a sum of money and begged him to spend it on himself. The Guardian, who travelled third class and lived by strict economy, used a small part of it as she wished and spent the rest on the gardens, the Holy Places and the Archives.