Collection # 3

•  1969: Hands of the Cause of God Enoch Olinga and Dr. Rahmatu'llah Muhajir (Photo)
• A Baha’i is “recognized by his character, not by his person”
• A Baha’i should always relate “what he hears to the Bahá'í teachings”
• A calligraphic artwork by prominent Baha'i Mishkin-Qalam (Photo)
• ‘Abdu’l-Baha compares the Baha’i Movement to other movements
• Abdu’l-Baha describes an amazing journey in one’s spiritual transformation: the “school of spiritual progress” and the “branches of knowledge [that] will be developed” in “the university of heaven”
• 'Abdu'l-Baha's bedroom, Plaza Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA, April, 1912 (Photo)
• ‘Abdu’l-Baha was asked if prayer was necessary since presumably God knows the wishes of all our hearts
• 'Akka -- May, 1967 (Photo)
• An amazing spiritual principle to keep in mind...
• Apostles of Baha'u'llah -- summary background information (Photo)
• Attaining God’s “good-pleasure” the moment one’s soul leaves the body
• Baha’u’llah delineates “the fundamental principles for the administration of the affairs of men”
• Baha’u’llah in a Tablet had specifically referred to the one who would oppose His appointed Center of the Covenant
• Baha’u’llah sacrificed His life for us –- “so that he might educate us, so that he might make us illumined, so that he might make us heavenly, so that he might change our character, change our lives, so that he might illumine our inmost self.”
• Did you know that in one of the Tablets of Divine Plan ‘Abdu’l-Baha addressed the believers in the United States and Canada as “Apostles of Baha’u’llah”?
• Did you know that the very first law that Baha’u’llah revealed in the Kitab-i-Aqdas is the obligatory prayer?
• Entry by Troops - excerpt from a talk by Adib Taherzadeh (Video clip)
• Freedom is not a matter of place. It is a condition …
• Geographic Distribution of Local Spiritual Assemblies by Continent -- as of 2003 (Photo)
• Good “attributes and virtues which are the adornments” of the “reality” of a human being
• Hand of the Cause Ruhiyyih Khanum with Swaziland Princess (Photo)
• How to “develop the wonderful skill of Bahá'í consultation”
• How to properly view the Revelation of Baha’u’llah –- the Guardian explains
• How we each can vindicate “the truth of this Cause before the eyes of enlightened people”
• In terms of the intensity of Their light and Its effect on the whole earth, previous Manifestations of God were like “stars”, and Baha’u’llah is like the “sun”
• Keith Ransom-Kehler burried in Isfahan, Persia, 1933 (Photo)
• Martha Root and Marion Jack with Governor and Mayor of Adrianople (Photo)
• Mount Carmel as it appeared to the first American pilgrims in 1898 (Photo)
• Mount Carmel as of 1926 (Photo)
• One of the places Baha'u'llah stayed during His period of retirement (Photo)
• Places visited by the Báb (Photo)
• Points to keep in mind when thinking to participate in certain humanitarian activities
• Prayer “transcends all ritualistic forms and formulae”
• “…proclamation … complements(s) and reinforce(s) the twin processes of expansion and consolidation”
• Queen Marie of Romania visits America in 1926 (Photos)
• Question: “Are miracles performed in this Day?”
• Revealed healing prayers “apply both to physical and spiritual healing”
• Ruhiyyih Khanum visits the President of India, 1974 (Photo)
• “Service is the magnet which draws the divine confirmations.”
• Spiritual Unity – a “unity” that is “greater than the unity of mankind”
• State of mind & heart to strive for when saying the Obligatory Prayer
• The “Administration of Bahá'u'lláh's invincible Faith” is the “infallible Organ for the accomplishment of a Divine Purpose”
• The amazing station of Mulla Husayn – the First Letter of the Living
• The “Bahá'ís must increasingly stand out as pillars of righteousness and forbearance”
• The charm of music and its influence in the hearts of children
• The commander of the Persian regiment that executed the Bab in 1850
• The extent of future opposition
• “The first proclamation of emancipation for the blacks was made by the whites of America”
• The fundamental purpose of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh is the realization of the organic unity of the entire human race
• The “greatest opportunities … challenges, and … tests” that Baha’i youth face
• The house of 'Abdu'l-Baha in Haifa, as it appeared in His days (Photo)
• The International Deputization Fund
• The Mansion of Bahji as of 1900s (Photo)
• The Mashriqu’l-Adhkar (the Baha’i Temple) in Chicago “marks the inception of the Kingdom of God on earth."
• The Master delineates the pathway to becoming “clothed in the attributes of the angels of heaven” while we are still on this plane of existence
• “The most blessed condition is the condition of prayer and supplication”
• The Reason for the Appearance of a Manifestation of God in a Given Place
• The seal of the first Baha'i Assembly of the United States and Canada, 1897 (Photo)
• The significance of Tablets and Addresses of ‘Abdu’l-Baha
• “The station of absolute self-surrender transcendeth, and will ever remain exalted above, every other station.”
• The “Supreme Tribunal” -- ‘Abdu’l-Baha explains how its members should be universally elected and the impact of its ruling
• "The teachings of Bahá'u'lláh are the light of this age and the spirit of this century."
• The Teachings of the Faith place the “obligation of deepening in the Cause” on every believer
• The Ten Year Crusade “completed the structure of the Administrative Order of Bahá'u'lláh”
• The Tomb of Baha'u'llah in the years immediately following His ascension (Photo)
• The “Word of God” is “endowed with the capacity” to convert “satanic strength into heavenly power”
• To “consecrate” oneself “to service in the Cause of God” – ‘Abdu’l-Baha explains its meaning
• To “resist the natural tendency to let our attention dwell on the faults and failings of others rather than on our own”
• To become “associates” of ‘Abdu’l-Baha “in servitude” to Baha’u’llah’s “Holy Threshold”
• Two opposing types of conduct that Baha’u’llah doesn’t approve
• Understanding how God would “confer blessing upon a servant” or adversely “test him with the benefits of this world and of the next”
• Virtues to strive for concerning one’s own spiritual growth and development while interacting with other human beings
• We should become more like “earth” and not like “fire”
• We should never imagine that “youth must await their years of maturity before they can render invaluable services to the Cause of God”