See a list of descriptive headings for 51 of those messages between 1966 to 1988.
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May 29, 2026
Introducing a site: Messages from the Universal House of Justice to Individual Believers in Response to Questions
May 24, 2026
What happens when “the light of religion is quenched in men’s hearts and the divinely appointed Robe, designed to adorn the human temple, is deliberately discarded”
No wonder, therefore, that when, as a result of human perversity, the light of religion is quenched in men’s hearts, and the divinely appointed Robe, designed to adorn the human temple, is deliberately discarded,
- a deplorable decline in the fortunes of humanity immediately sets in,
- bringing in its wake all the evils which a wayward soul is capable of revealing.
- The perversion of human nature,
- the degradation of human conduct,
- the corruption and dissolution of human institutions, reveal themselves, under such circumstances, in their worst and most revolting aspects.
- Human character is debased,
- confidence is shaken,
- the nerves of discipline are relaxed,
- the voice of human conscience is stilled,
- the sense of decency and shame is obscured,
- conceptions of duty, of solidarity, of reciprocity and loyalty are distorted, and
- the very feeling of peacefulness, of joy and of hope is gradually extinguished.
May 18, 2026
May 12, 2026
‘Abdu’l-Baha lived in deed and truth the kind of life that Jesus of Nazareth led and bade His followers to lead
To live today in deed and truth the kind of life that Jesus of Nazareth led and bade His followers lead; to love God wholeheartedly, and for God’s sake to love all mankind, even one’s slanderers and enemies; to give consistently good for evil, blessings for curses, kindness for cruelty and, through a career darkened along its entire length by tragic misrepresentation and persecution, to preserve one’s courage, one’s sweetness and calm faith in God - to do all this and yet to play the man in a world of men, sharing at home and in business the common life of humanity, administering when occasion arose affairs large and small and handling complex situations with foresight and firmness — to live in such a manner throughout a long and arduous life, and when, in the fullness of time, death came, to leave to multitudes of mourners a sense of desolation and to be remembered and loved by them all as the servant of God - to how many men is such an achievement given as it has been given in this age of ours to ‘Abdu’l-Baha?
- George Townshend (Hand of the Cause of God [Sometime Cannon of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland]; World Order magazine, October 1936)
May 6, 2026
The correct way of reciting the Prayer for the Dead
The correct way of reciting the Prayer for the Dead is as follows:
Alláh-u-Abhá (once)
We all, verily, worship God (19 times)
Alláh-u-Abhá (once)
We all, verily, bow down before God (19 times)
Alláh-u-Abhá (once)
We all, verily, are devoted unto God (19 times)
Alláh-u-Abhá (once)
We all, verily, give praise unto God (19 times)
Alláh-u-Abhá (once)
We all, verily, yield thanks unto God (19 times)
Alláh-u-Abhá (once)
We all, verily, are patient in God (19 times)
When the Kitáb-i-Aqdas was being translated it was noted that the English translation of the instructions which form part of the Prayer for the Dead could be understood in more than one way. Therefore, when Note 11 was formulated it was expressed in a way that was intended to clarify the ambiguity, namely: “the repetition of the greeting ‘Alláh-u-Abhá‘ (God is the All Glorious) six times, each followed by nineteen repetitions of one of the six specifically revealed verses.”