- The Báb (Quoted by
Baha’u’llah, ‘Days of Remembrance’)
July 6
July 5
O people! The clouds of wisdom have been lifted and God hath
revealed His Cause. This is that which ye were promised in all the Scriptures.
Fear ye God and hasten unto Me. I am, O people, a scion of your Prophet. I have
brought unto you verses that bewilder the minds of them that perceive, and this
is but a token of God’s proof and testimony. Deny them not at the prompting of
your idle fancies, and be fair in your judgement. They verily proceed from the
religion of God that hath been sent down unto you through the power of truth,
would that ye might believe!
- The Báb (Quoted by Baha’u’llah, ‘Days of
Remembrance’)
July 4
God is My witness, O people! I am come to you with a
Revelation from the Lord, your God, the Lord of your fathers of old. Look not,
O people, at the things ye possess. Look rather at the things God hath sent
down unto you. This, surely, will be better for you than the whole of creation,
could ye but perceive it. Repeat the gaze, O people, and consider the testimony
of God and His proof which are in your possession, and compare them unto the
Revelation sent down unto you in this Day, that the truth, the infallible
truth, may be indubitably manifested unto you. Follow not, O people, the steps
of the Evil One; follow ye the Faith of the All-Merciful, and be ye of them
that truly believe. What would it profit man, if he were to fail to recognize
the Revelation of God? Nothing whatever. To this Mine own Self, the Omnipotent,
the Omniscient, the All-Wise, will testify.”
- The Báb (Quoted by Baha’u’llah,
‘Days of Remembrance’)
July 3
…this, the Lord of days, the Day whereon the Day-Star of the
Bayán manifested itself above the horizon of mercy, the Day in which the Beauty
of the All-Glorious shone forth in the exalted person of ‘Alí-Muḥammad, the
Báb. No sooner did He reveal Himself, than all the people rose up against Him.
By some He was denounced as one that hath uttered slanders against God, the
Almighty, the Ancient of Days. Others regarded Him as a man smitten with
madness, an allegation which I, Myself, have heard from the lips of one of the
divines. Still others disputed His claim to be the Mouthpiece of God, and
stigmatized Him as one who had stolen and used as his the words of the
Almighty, who had perverted their meaning, and mingled them with his own. The
Eye of Grandeur weepeth sore for the things which their mouths have uttered,
while they continue to rejoice upon their seats.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of
Remembrance’)
July 2
O company of the Concourse on high, and O denizens of the
immortal city! Hasten ye to pay homage, for the Shrine of grandeur hath
appeared within this Tabernacle round which all former shrines revolve; and
circle about and draw nigh unto the Lord of all men in these days, the like of
which the eyes of the former generations have never beheld. All hail then to
this, the Festival of the Lord, that hath dawned above the horizon of God, the
Most Gracious, the All-Bountiful!
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of Remembrance’)
July 1
O ye that abide beneath the tabernacle of grandeur! O ye
that dwell within the pavilion of inviolable sanctity! O ye that are sheltered
under the canopy of loftiness and glory! Lift up your voices and sing in the most
melodious of tones in your most exalted chambers, for in this Dispensation the
veiled Beauty hath been revealed, and the Day-Star of the Unseen hath risen
above the horizon of ancient glory. All hail then to this, the Festival of the
Lord, that hath appeared with a splendid adorning!
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of
Remembrance’)
June 30
He [God], in truth, hath, throughout eternity, been one in
His Essence, one in His attributes, one in His works. Any and every comparison
is applicable only to His creatures, and all conceptions of association are
conceptions that belong solely to those that serve Him. Immeasurably exalted is
His Essence above the descriptions of His creatures. He, alone, occupieth the
Seat of transcendent majesty, of supreme and inaccessible glory. The birds of
men’s hearts, however high they soar, can never hope to attain the heights of
His unknowable Essence. It is He Who hath called into being the whole of
creation, Who hath caused every created thing to spring forth at His behest.
Shall, then, the thing that was born by virtue of the word which His Pen hath
revealed, and which the finger of His Will hath directed, be regarded as
partner with Him, or an embodiment of His Self? Far be it from His glory that
human pen or tongue should hint at His mystery, or that human heart conceive
His Essence. All else besides Him stand poor and desolate at His door, all are
powerless before the greatness of His might, all are but slaves in His Kingdom.
He is rich enough to dispense with all creatures.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from
the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
June 29
O people of the Bayán! I swear by God! This Wronged One hath
had no other intention except to manifest the Cause He was commissioned to
reveal. Were ye to incline your inner ears unto Him, ye would hear from every
limb and member and vein and even from every single hair of this Wronged One
that which would stir and enrapture the Concourse on high and the world of
creation.
- Baha’u’llah ('Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
June 28
Consecrate Thou, O my God, the whole of this Tree unto Him,
[Baha’u’llah] that from it may be revealed all the fruits created by God within
it for Him through Whom God hath willed to reveal all that He pleaseth. By Thy
glory! I have not wished that this Tree should ever bear any branch, leaf, or
fruit that would fail to bow down before Him, on the day of His Revelation, or
refuse to laud Thee through Him, as beseemeth the glory of His all-glorious
Revelation, and the sublimity of His most sublime Concealment. And shouldst
Thou behold, O my God, any branch, leaf, or fruit upon Me that hath failed to
bow down before Him, on the day of His Revelation, cut it off, O My God, from
that Tree, for it is not of Me, nor shall it return unto Me.
- The Báb (Quoted
by Baha’u’llah in ‘The Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
June 27
Say: “The True One is come evident as the shining sun; O
pity that He should have come into the city of the blind!”
- Baha’u’llah (Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
June 26
God is My witness that this Wronged One hath had no purpose
except to convey the Word of God. Blessed are the fair-minded, and woe betide
them that have turned aside.
- Baha’u’llah (Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
June 25
Bear thou witness in thine inmost heart unto this testimony
which God hath Himself and for Himself pronounced, that there is none other God
but Him, that all else besides Him have been created by His behest, have been
fashioned by His leave, are subject to His law, are as a thing forgotten when
compared to the glorious evidences of His oneness, and are as nothing when
brought face to face with the mighty revelations of His unity.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
June 24
…concerning the divines of the Latter Days, He [1] saith:
“The religious doctors of that age shall be the most wicked of the divines
beneath the shadow of heaven. Out of
them hath mischief proceeded, and unto them it shall return.”
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Nasiri’d-Din Shah, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of
the Lord of Hosts’)
[1] A Tradition ascribed to eleventh Im’am, Abu Muhammad
al-Hasan al-Askari
June 23
It behoveth thee to look with divine insight upon the things
We have revealed and sent unto thee and not towards the people and that which
is current amongst them. They are in this day like unto a blind man who, while
moving in the sunshine, demandeth: Where is the sun? Is it shining? He would
deny and dispute the truth, and would not be of them that perceive. Never shall
he be able to discern the sun or to understand that which hath intervened
between him and it. He would object within himself, voice protests, and would
be among the rebellious. Such is the state of this people. Leave them unto
themselves, saying: Unto you be that which ye desire and unto us that which we
desire. Wretched indeed is the plight of the ungodly.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of
Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
June 22
O Son of My Handmaid! Guidance hath ever been given by
words, and now it is given by deeds. Every one must show forth deeds that are
pure and holy, for words are the property of all alike, whereas such deeds as
these belong only to Our loved ones. Strive then with heart and soul to
distinguish yourselves by your deeds. In this wise We counsel you in this holy
and resplendent tablet.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Hidden Words of Bha’u’llah’)
June 21
Know thou…that in the Day of His Manifestation all things
besides God shall be brought forth and placed equally, irrespective of their
rank being high or low. The Day of Return is inscrutable unto all men until
after the divine Revelation hath been fulfilled. He is in truth the One Who
ordaineth whatsoever He willeth. When the Word of God is revealed unto all
created things whoso then giveth ear and heedeth the Call is, indeed, reckoned
among the most distinguished souls, though he be a carrier of ashes. And he who
turneth away is accounted as the lowliest of His servants, though he be a ruler
amongst men and the possessor of all the books that are in the heavens and on
earth.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
June 20
O Sun-like Mirrors! Look ye upon the Sun of Truth. Ye,
verily, depend upon it, were ye to perceive it. Ye are all as fishes, moving in
the waters of the sea, veiling yourselves therefrom, and yet asking what it is
on which ye depend.
- The Báb (Quoted by Baha’u’llah in ‘The Epistle to the Son
of the Wolf’)
June 19
Beware, beware lest thou behave like unto the people of the
Bayán. For indeed they erred grievously, misguided the people, ignored the
Covenant of God and His Testament and joined partners with Him, the One, the
Incomparable, the All-Knowing. Verily they failed to recognize the Point of the
Bayán, for had they recognized Him they would not have rejected His
manifestation in this luminous and resplendent Being. And since they fixed
their eyes on names, therefore when He replaced His Name ‘the Most Exalted’ by
‘the Most Glorious’ their eyes were dimmed. They have failed to recognize Him
in these days and are reckoned with those that perish. Indeed, had they known
Him through His own Self or by virtue of that which He hath revealed, they
would not have repudiated Him when He appeared in this glorious and
incomparable Name, which God hath ordained to be the Sword of His Revelation
between heaven and earth, and through which truth is separated from error, even
from now until the Day when mankind shall stand before the Lord of the worlds.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
June 18
Concerning the prerequisites of the learned, He saith:
“Whoso among the learned guardeth his self, defendeth his faith, opposeth his
desires, and obeyeth his Lord’s command, it is incumbent upon the generality of
the people to pattern themselves after him....” [1] Should the King of the Age reflect upon this
utterance which hath streamed from the tongue of Him Who is the Dayspring of
the Revelation of the All-Merciful, he would perceive that those who have been
adorned with the attributes enumerated in this holy Tradition are scarcer than
the philosopher’s stone; wherefore not every man that layeth claim to knowledge
deserveth to be believed.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Nasiri’d-Din Shah,
Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
[1] A Tradition ascribed to eleventh Im’am, Abu Muhammad
al-Hasan al-Askari
June 17
And now concerning thy reference to the existence of two
Gods. Beware, beware, lest thou be led to join partners with the Lord, thy God.
He is, and hath from everlasting been, one and alone, without peer or equal,
eternal in the past, eternal in the future, detached from all things,
ever-abiding, unchangeable, and self-subsisting. He hath assigned no associate
unto Himself in His Kingdom, no counsellor to counsel Him, none to compare unto
Him, none to rival His glory. To this every atom of the universe beareth
witness, and beyond it the inmates of the realms on high, they that occupy the
most exalted seats, and whose names are remembered before the Throne of Glory.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
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