No goodly deed was or will ever be lost, for benevolent acts
are treasures preserved with God for the benefit of those who act.
- Baha’u’llah (The Compilation of Compilation, vol. I, Huqúqu'lláh)
February 28
No goodly deed was or will ever be lost, for benevolent acts
are treasures preserved with God for the benefit of those who act. 
February 27
The benefits accruing from benevolent works shall fall to
the individuals concerned. In such matters only a word would suffice. Should
anyone offer Huquq with utmost joy and radiance, manifesting a spirit of
resignation and content, his offering shall be acceptable before God, otherwise
He can dispense with all the peoples of the earth ... Well is it with them that
have fulfilled that which is prescribed in the Book of God. It is incumbent upon
everyone to observe that which God hath purposed, for whatsoever hath been set
forth in the Book by the Pen of Glory is an effective means for the purging,
the purification and sanctification of the souls of men and the source of
prosperity and blessing. Happy are they that have observed His commandments.
- Baha’u’llah (The Compilation of Compilation, vol. I, Huqúqu'lláh)
February 26
Great God! In this glorious Dispensation the treasures laid
up by kings and queens are not worthy of mention, nor will they be acceptable
in the presence of God. However, a grain of mustard offered by His loved ones
will be extolled in the exalted court of His holiness and invested with the
ornament of His acceptance. Immeasurably exalted is His bounty, immeasurably
glorified is His majesty. And yet, when an offering was adorned with the glory
of His acceptance and reported by Jinab-i-Amin, twice that amount was ordered
to be paid out to the poor and the needy. Unto this beareth witness every
fair-minded man of insight, and those that are truthful and trustworthy.
- Baha’u’llah (The Compilation of Compilation, vol. I, Huqúqu'lláh)
February 25
Let the days in excess of the months be placed before the
month of fasting. We have ordained that these, amid all nights and days, shall
be the manifestations of the letter Ha, and thus they have not been bounded by
the limits of the year and its months. It behoveth the people of Baha,
throughout these days, to provide good cheer for themselves, their kindred and,
beyond them, the poor and needy, and with joy and exultation to hail and
glorify their Lord, to sing His praise and magnify His Name.
- Baha'u'llah (‘The
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
February 24
Having barred the way that leadeth unto Thee, [God] Thou hast, by
virtue of Thine authority and through the potency of Thy will, called into
being Them Who are the Manifestations of Thy Self, and hast entrusted Them with
Thy message unto Thy people, and caused Them to become the Day-Springs of Thine
inspiration, the Exponents of Thy Revelation, the Treasuries of Thy Knowledge
and the Repositories of Thy Faith, that all men may, through Them, turn their
faces towards Thee, and may draw nigh unto the kingdom of Thy Revelation and
the heaven of Thy grace.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and meditations by
Baha’u’llah’)
February 23
Know thou that every created thing is a sign of the
revelation of God. Each, according to its capacity, is, and will ever remain, a
token of the Almighty. Inasmuch as He, the sovereign Lord of all, hath willed
to reveal His sovereignty in the kingdom of names and attributes, each and
every created thing hath, through the act of the Divine Will, been made a sign
of His glory. So pervasive and general is this revelation that nothing
whatsoever in the whole universe can be discovered that doth not reflect His splendor.
- Bah’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
February 22
O Oppressors on Earth! Withdraw your hands from tyranny, for
I have pledged Myself not to forgive any man’s injustice. This is My covenant
which I have irrevocably decreed in the preserved tablet and sealed with My
seal.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah’)
February 21
Be ye warned, O men of understanding. It ill beseemeth the
station of man to commit tyranny; rather it behoveth him to observe equity and
be attired with the raiment of justice under all conditions.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
February 20
Hearken with all thy heart unto the nightingale song of the
Beloved, that perchance thou mayest
abandon the habitation of self and desire and step into the placeless realm of
eternal glory, forsake thine own life,
and commune with Him Who is the life of thy life. Wert thou to traverse the limitless reaches of the spirit,
thou wouldst of a certainty rend asunder the garment of patience and forbearance, hasten to offer
up thy soul, renounce the dross of this fleeting world, and find repose upon the throne of ancient
glory.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Four Valleys’, 2019 revised translation by the Baha’i
World Centre; ‘The Call of the Divine Beloved’)
February 19
Praise be to God Who hath made being to come forth from
nothingness; graven upon the tablet of man a measure of the mysteries of His
eternity; taught him from the storehouse of divine utterance that which he knew
not; made him a perspicuous book unto such as have believed and surrendered
their souls; given him to behold, in this dark and ruinous age, a new creation
within all things; and caused him to speak forth, from the midmost heart of
eternity, and in a new and wondrous voice, embodied in the most excellent
Temple. [Manifestation of God] And all to this end: that every man may testify,
in himself and by himself, before the Seat of the revelation of his Lord, that
there is none other God but Him; and that all may reach that summit of
realities where none shall contemplate anything but that he shall perceive God
therein. This is the vision of the splendours which have been deposited within
the realities of all things; for otherwise He, exalted be His glory, is
entirely sanctified above being seen or witnessed: “No vision taketh in Him,
but He taketh in all vision; He is the Subtile, the All-Perceiving.” [Qur’an
6:103]
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Seven
Valleys’, 2019 revised translation by the Baha’i World Centre; ‘The Call of the
Divine Beloved’)
February 18
Be righteous, O servants, in your actions! Turn not away
from the helpless; make mention of Me amidst the great, and have no fear.
- Baha'u'llah (From
a Tablet; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Teaching Prominent People)
February 17
Look not upon Him [Baha’u’llah] with any eye except His own.
For whosoever looketh upon Him with His eye, will recognize Him; otherwise he
will be veiled from Him. Shouldst thou seek God and His Presence, seek thou Him
and gaze upon Him.
- The Báb (Quoted by Baha’u’llah in ‘The Epistle to Son of
the Wolf’)
February 16
The Great Being saith: The Tongue of Wisdom proclaimeth: He
that hath Me not is bereft of all things. Turn ye away from all that is on
earth and seek none else but Me. I am the Sun of Wisdom and the Ocean of
Knowledge. I cheer the faint and revive the dead. I am the guiding Light that
illumineth the way. I am the royal Falcon on the arm of the Almighty. I unfold
the drooping wings of every broken bird and start it on its flight.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
February 15
Send down, then, upon Thy loved ones, O my God, from the
heaven of Thy bounty that which will cause them to fix their gaze upon Thee and
to act in accordance with Thy will and behest. Ordain for them, then, what will
profit them and preserve them, what will draw them nigh and set them free.
Verily Thou art their Lord, their Creator, and their Helper. No God is there
but Thee, the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Generous.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of
Remembrance’)
February 14
Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony,
with friendliness and fellowship.
- Baha'u'llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the
Wolf’)
February 13
This lowly one entreateth the people of the world to observe
fairness, that their tender, their delicate and precious hearing which hath
been created to hearken unto the words of wisdom may be freed from impediments
and from such allusions, idle fancies or vain imaginings as ‘cannot fatten nor
appease the hunger’, so that the true Counsellor may be graciously inclined to
set forth that which is the source of blessing for mankind and of the highest
good for all nations.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
February 12
Lawful is it for Him Whom God will make manifest to reject
him who is greatest on earth, inasmuch as such a one is but a creature in His
grasp, and all things adore Him.
- The Báb (Quoted by Baha’u’llah in ‘The
Epistle to Son of the Wolf’)
February 11
The heaven of true understanding shineth resplendent with
the light of two luminaries: tolerance and righteousness.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
February 10
Know thou with absolute certainty, and through the firmly
established and most irrevocable decree, that He [Baha’u’llah]—exalted be His
glory, and magnified be His might, and sanctified be His holiness, and
glorified be His grandeur, and lauded be His ways, maketh each thing to be
known through its own self; who then can know Him through any one except
Himself?
- The Báb (Quoted by Baha’u’llah in ‘The Epistle to Son of the Wolf’)
February 9
Better is it for thee to recite but one of the verses of Him
Whom God shall make manifest than to set down the whole of the Bayán, for on
that Day that one verse can save thee, whereas the entire Bayán cannot save
thee.
- The Báb (Quoted by Baha’u’llah in ‘The Epistle to Son of the Wolf’)
February 8
Ere nine will have elapsed from the inception of this Cause,
the realities of the created things will not be made manifest. All that thou
hast as yet seen is but the stage from the moist germ until We clothed it with
flesh. Be patient, until thou beholdest a new creation. Say: ‘Blessed,
therefore, be God, the most excellent of Makers!’
- The Báb (Quoted by
Baha’u’llah in ‘The Epistle to Son of the Wolf’)
February 7
It is the ardent hope of this lowly one that God—exalted be
His glory—may grant all men that which is good. For he who is endowed therewith
is the possessor of all things.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed
after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
February 6
O Son of Worldliness! Pleasant is the realm of being, wert
thou to attain thereto; glorious is the domain of eternity, shouldst thou pass
beyond the world of mortality; sweet is the holy ecstasy if thou drinkest of
the mystic chalice from the hands of the celestial Youth. Shouldst thou attain
this station, thou wouldst be freed from destruction and death, from toil and
sin.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah’)
February 5
By the righteousness of God! Our withdrawal [from Baghdad to
mountains of Kurdistan] contemplated no return, and Our separation hoped for no
reunion. The one object of Our retirement was to avoid becoming a subject of
discord among the faithful, a source of disturbance unto Our companions, the
means of injury to any soul, or the cause of sorrow to any heart. Beyond these,
We cherished no other intention, and apart from them, We had no end in view. And
yet, each person schemed after his own desire, and pursued his own idle fancy,
until the hour when, from the Mystic Source, there came the summons bidding Us
return whence We came. Surrendering Our will to His, We submitted to His
injunction.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
February 4
It is incumbent upon them who are in authority to exercise
moderation in all things. Whatsoever passeth beyond the limits of moderation
will cease to exert a beneficial influence. Consider for instance such things
as liberty, civilization and the like. However much men of understanding may
favourably regard them, they will, if carried to excess, exercise a pernicious
influence upon men.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
February 3
The Great Being saith: The learned of the day must direct
the people to acquire those branches of knowledge which are of use, that both
the learned themselves and the generality of mankind may derive benefits
therefrom.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
February 2
O Children of Adam! Holy words and pure and goodly deeds
ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory. Strive that your deeds may be
cleansed from the dust of self and hypocrisy and find favor at the court of
glory; for ere long the assayers of mankind shall, in the holy presence of the
Adored One, accept naught but absolute virtue and deeds of stainless purity.
This is the daystar of wisdom and of divine mystery that hath shone above the
horizon of the divine will. Blessed are they that turn thereunto.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah’)
February 1
Lauded be Thy name, O Lord my God! Thou dost witness that
Thy will hath prevailed over all created things, and Thy mercy hath surpassed
all who are in heaven and on earth. And when Thou didst purpose to unveil Thy
sovereignty, and to glorify Thy word, and to reveal Thy bounteousness and
mercy, Thou didst raise up one of Thy servants, and didst choose Him above all
Thy creatures, and didst single Him out for Thy purpose, and didst clothe Him
with the robe of Thy guidance, and didst immerse Him beneath the seas of Thy
majesty and grandeur, and didst sanctify Him from all that beseemeth not the
greatness of Thy glory and the power of Thy might, and didst bid Him to cry out
before all that are in heaven and on earth, and summon the multitudes to the
Manifestation of Thy Self and the Revealer of Thy signs.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers
and Meditations by Baha’u’llah’)
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