In truth the station
of this Revelation transcendeth the station of whatever hath been manifested in
the past or will be made manifest in the future.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of
Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
March 19
A race of men incomparable in character, shall be raised up
which, with the feet of detachment, will tread under all who are in heaven and
on earth, and will cast the sleeve of holiness over all that hath been created
from water and clay.
- Baha’u’llah (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in a letter dated
25 December 1938; ‘The Advent of Divine Justice’)
March 18
Think not that We have revealed unto you
a mere code of laws. Nay, rather, We have unsealed the choice Wine with the
fingers of might and power. To this beareth witness that which the Pen of
Revelation hath revealed. Meditate upon this, O men of insight!...
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh’)
March 17
Whoever hath been
transported by the rapture born of adoration for My Name, the Most
Compassionate, will recite the verses of God in such wise as to captivate the
hearts of those yet wrapped in slumber. Well is it with him who hath quaffed
the Mystic Wine of everlasting life from the utterance of his merciful Lord in
My Name—a Name through which every lofty and majestic mountain hath been
reduced to dust.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
March 16
O faithful ones!
Should ye visit the resting-place of the Most Exalted Leaf, who hath ascended
unto the Glorious Companion, stand ye and say: ‘Salutation and blessing and
glory upon thee, O Holy Leaf that hath sprung from the Divine Lote-Tree! I bear
witness that thou hast believed in God and in His signs, and answered His Call,
and turned unto Him, and held fast unto His cord, and clung to the hem of His
grace, and fled thy home in His path, and chosen to live as a stranger, out of
love for His presence and in thy longing to serve Him. May God have mercy upon
him that draweth nigh unto thee, and remembereth thee through the things which
My Pen hath voiced in this, the most great station. We pray God that He may
forgive us, and forgive them that have turned unto thee, and grant their
desires, and bestow upon them, through His wondrous grace, whatever be their
wish. He, verily, is the Bountiful, the Generous. Praise be to God, He Who is
the Desire of all worlds; and the Beloved of all who recognize Him.
- Baha’u’llah (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in a letter dated December 21, 1939;
‘Messages to America’)
March 15
O ye the beloved of the one true God! Pass beyond the narrow
retreats of your evil and corrupt desires, and advance into the vast immensity
of the realm of God, and abide ye in the meads of sanctity and of detachment,
that the fragrance of your deeds may lead the whole of mankind to the ocean of
God’s unfading glory.
- Baha’u’llah (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in a letter dated
25 December 1938; ‘The Advent of Divine Justice’)
March 14
O ye My loved ones! Suffer not the hem of My sacred vesture
to be smirched and mired with the things of this world, and follow not the
promptings of your evil and corrupt desires.
- Baha’u’llah (Quoted by Shoghi
Effendi in a letter dated 25 December 1938; ‘The Advent of Divine Justice’)
March 13
Glorified art Thou,
O Lord, my God! Thou seest me in the hands of Mine enemies, and My son
bloodstained before Thy face, O Thou in Whose hands is the kingdom of all
names. I have, O my Lord, offered up that which Thou hast given Me, that Thy
servants may be quickened and all that dwell on earth be united.
- Baha’u’llah (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in a letter dated December 21, 1939; ‘Messages to
America’)
March 12
In the Name of Him
Who hath been promised in the Books of God, the All-Knowing, the All-Informed!
The days of fasting have arrived wherein those servants who circle round Thy
throne and have attained Thy presence have fasted. Say: O God of names and
creator of heaven and earth! I beg of Thee by Thy Name, the All-Glorious, to
accept the fast of those who have fasted for love of Thee and for the sake of
Thy good-pleasure and have carried out what Thou hast bidden them in Thy Books
and Tablets. I beseech Thee by them to assist me in the promotion of Thy Cause
and to make me steadfast in Thy love, that my footsteps may not slip on account
of the clamour of Thy creatures. Verily, Thou art powerful over whatsoever Thou
willest. No God is there but Thee, the Quickener, the All-Powerful, the Most
Bountiful, the Ancient of Days.
- Baha’u’llah (Compilation: ‘The
Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting’, prepared by the Research
Department of the Universal House of Justice; The American Baha’i September
2000)
March 11
O thou who art young
in age! May the confirmations of the Merciful enable thee to attain unto His
bountiful bestowals. Since thou wert adorned with the recognition of the
Daystar of Revelation when thou wert in the prime of youth, beseech thou God to
enable thee to achieve that which will be immortalized in the book of
existence. Mortality overtaketh everything except what is uttered and carried
out for God’s sake; such [words and deeds] are deathless. Strive that thou
mayest drink of the wine of immortality and attain unto the Kawthar of
steadfastness.
- Baha’u’llah (Cited by the Universal House of
Justice in a letter dated 158 B.E. addressed to the Iranian believers
throughout the world)
March 10
The Prophets of God
should be regarded as physicians whose task is to foster the well-being of the
world and its peoples, that, through the spirit of oneness, they may heal the
sickness of a divided humanity. To none is given the right to question their
words or disparage their conduct, for they are the only ones who can claim to
have understood the patient and to have correctly diagnosed its ailments. No man,
however acute his perception, can ever hope to reach the heights which the
wisdom and understanding of the Divine Physician have attained. Little wonder,
then, if the treatment prescribed by the physician in this day should not be
found to be identical with that which he prescribed before. How could it be
otherwise when the ills affecting the sufferer necessitate at every stage of
his sickness a special remedy?
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of
Baha’u’llah’)
March 9
Inspire then my
soul, O my God, with Thy wondrous remembrance, that I may glorify Thy name.
Number me not with them who read Thy words and fail to find Thy hidden gift
which, as decreed by Thee, is contained therein, and which quickeneth the souls
of Thy creatures and the hearts of Thy servants.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and
Meditations by Baha’u’llah’)
March 8
Do not bring our
fasts to an end with this fast, O my Lord, nor the covenants Thou hast made
with this covenant. Do Thou accept all that we have done for love of Thee, and
for the sake of Thy pleasure, and all that we have left undone as a result of
our subjection to our evil and corrupt desires. Enable us, then, to cleave
steadfastly to Thy love and Thy good-pleasure, and preserve us from the mischief
of such as have denied Thee and repudiated Thy most resplendent signs.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations by
Baha’u’llah’)
March 7
My body hath borne
imprisonment that your souls may be released from bondage, and We have
consented to be abased that ye may be exalted. Follow the Lord of glory and
dominion, and not every ungodly oppressor. My body longeth for the cross, and
Mine head awaiteth the thrust of the spear, in the path of the All-Merciful,
that the world may be purged from its transgressions. Thus hath the Daystar of
divine authority shone forth from the horizon of the Revelation of Him Who is
the Possessor of all names and attributes.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Pope Pius IX, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple];
‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
March 6
O ye peoples of the
world! Know assuredly that My commandments are the lamps of My loving
providence among My servants, and the keys of My mercy for My creatures. Thus
hath it been sent down from the heaven of the Will of your Lord, the Lord of
Revelation. Were any man to taste the sweetness of the words which the lips of
the All-Merciful have willed to utter, he would, though the treasures of the
earth be in his possession, renounce them one and all, that he might vindicate
the truth of even one of His commandments, shining above the Dayspring of His
bountiful care and loving-kindness.
- Baha'u'llah (‘The Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
March 5
O people of the
world! Follow not the promptings of the self, for it summoneth insistently to wickedness
and lust; follow, rather, Him Who is the Possessor of all created things, Who
biddeth you to show forth piety, and manifest the fear of God. He, verily, is
independent of all His creatures. Take heed not to stir up mischief in the land
after it hath been set in order. Whoso acteth in this way is not of Us, and We
are quit of him. Such is the command which hath, through the power of truth,
been made manifest from the heaven of Revelation.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
March 4
By the righteousness
of God! Should they cast Him into a fire
kindled on the continent, He will assuredly rear His head in the midmost heart
of the ocean and proclaim: “He is the Lord of all that are in heaven and all
that are on earth!” And if they cast Him into a darksome pit, they will find
Him seated on earth’s loftiest heights calling aloud to all mankind: “Lo, the
Desire of the World is come in His majesty, His sovereignty, His transcendent
dominion!” And if He be buried beneath the depths of the earth, His Spirit
soaring to the apex of heaven shall peal the summons: “Behold ye the coming of
the Glory; witness ye the Kingdom of God, the Most Holy, the Gracious, the
All-Powerful!” And if they shed His blood, every drop thereof shall cry out and
invoke God in this Name through which the fragrance of His raiment hath been
diffused in all directions.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Pope Pius IX,
Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
March 3
Verily, I say,
fasting is the supreme remedy and the most great healing for the disease of
self and passion.
- Baha’u’llah (Compilation: ‘The Importance of Obligatory
Prayer and Fasting’, prepared by Research Department of the Universal House of
Justice)
March 2
Thou seest me then,
O my God, with my face turned towards Thee, cleaving steadfastly to the cord of
Thy gracious providence and generosity, and clinging to the hem of Thy tender
mercies and bountiful favors. Destroy not, I implore Thee, my hopes of
attaining unto that which Thou didst ordain for Thy servants who have turned
towards the precincts of Thy court and the sanctuary of Thy presence, and have
observed the fast for love of Thee.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations by
Baha’u’llah’)
March 1
Know thou that
religion is as heaven; and fasting and obligatory prayer are its sun and its
moon. We entreat God, exalted and glorified be He, to graciously aid everyone
who acteth according to His will and good-pleasure.
- Baha’u’llah (Compilation: ‘The Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting’, prepared by the Research
Department of the Universal House of Justice)
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