O Son of Being! Walk in My statutes for love of Me and deny
thyself that which thou desirest if thou seekest My pleasure.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah’)
March 4
O Son of Being! Walk in My statutes for love of Me and deny
thyself that which thou desirest if thou seekest My pleasure. 
March 3
O people of the world! We have enjoined upon you fasting
during a brief period, and at its close have designated for you Naw-Ruz as a
feast. Thus hath the Day-Star of Utterance shone forth above the horizon of the
Book as decreed by Him Who is the Lord of the beginning and the end. … The traveller, the ailing, those who are with
child or giving suck, are not bound by the Fast; they have been exempted by God
as a token of His grace. He, verily, is the Almighty, the Most Generous.
- Baha'u'llah (The Kitab-i-Aqdas)
March 2
Cling firmly to obligatory prayer and fasting. Verily, the
religion of God is like unto heaven; fasting is its sun, and obligatory prayer
is its moon. In truth, they are the pillars of religion whereby the righteous
are distinguished from those who transgress His commandments. We entreat God,
exalted and glorified be He, that He may graciously enable all to observe that
which He hath revealed in His Ancient Book.
- Baha’u’llah (Compilation: 'The Importance of Obligatory Prayer and
Fasting', prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice)
March 1
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)
February 28
O Son of Man! Veiled in My immemorial being and in the
ancient eternity of My essence, I knew My love for thee; therefore I created
thee, have engraved on thee Mine image and revealed to thee My beauty.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah’)
February 27
...they that tread the path of faith, they that thirst for
the wine of certitude, must cleanse themselves of all that is earthly -- their
ears from idle talk, their minds from vain imaginings, their hearts from
worldly affections, their eyes from that which perisheth. They should put their
trust in God, and, holding fast unto Him, follow in His way. Then will they be
made worthy of the effulgent glories of the sun of divine knowledge and understanding,
and become the recipients of a grace that is infinite and unseen…
- Baha'u'llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
February 26
O ye rich ones on earth!
If ye encounter one who is poor, treat him not disdainfully. Reflect upon that whereof ye were
created. Every one of you was created of
a sorry germ. [Qur’an 77:20; 32:8]
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Napoleon III,
Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
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
O Son of the Throne! Thy hearing is My hearing, hear thou
therewith. Thy sight is My sight, do thou see therewith, that in thine inmost
soul thou mayest testify unto My exalted sanctity, and I within Myself may bear
witness unto an exalted station for thee.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Hidden Words of
Baha’u’llah’)
February 23
Time and again have We admonished Our beloved ones to avoid,
nay to flee from, anything whatsoever from which the odor of mischief can be
detected. The world is in great turmoil, and the minds of its people are in a
state of utter confusion. We entreat the Almighty that He may graciously
illuminate them with the glory of His Justice, and enable them to discover that
which will be profitable unto them at all times and under all conditions. He,
verily is the All-Possessing, the Most High.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the
Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
February 22
O ye that dwell on earth! The distinguishing feature that
marketh the preeminent character of this Supreme Revelation consisteth in that
We have, on the one hand, blotted out from the pages of God’s holy Book
whatsoever hath been the cause of strife, of malice and mischief amongst the
children of men, and have, on the other, laid down the essential prerequisites
of concord, of understanding, of complete and enduring unity. Well is it with
them that keep My statutes.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of
Baha’u’llah’)
February 21
It is clear and evident that whenever the Manifestations of
Holiness were revealed, the divines of their day have hindered the people from
attaining unto the way of truth. To this testify the records of all the
scriptures and heavenly books. Not one Prophet of God was made manifest Who did
not fall a victim to the relentless hate, to the denunciation, denial, and
execration of the clerics of His day! Woe unto them for the iniquities their
hands have formerly wrought! Woe unto them for that which they are now doing! What
veils of glory more grievous than these embodiments of error! By the
righteousness of God! to pierce such veils is the mightiest of all acts, and to
rend them asunder the most meritorious of all deeds!
- Baha’u’llah (‘The
Kitab-i-Iqan’)
February 20
Reduce not the ordinances of God to fanciful imaginations of
your own; rather observe all the things which God hath created at His behest
with the eye of the spirit, even as ye see things with the eyes of your bodies.
- The Báb (‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb)
February 19
This is the day when the gems of constancy that lie hid in
the mine of men’s inner selves should be made manifest. O people of Justice! Be
as brilliant as the light and as splendid as the fire that blazed in the
Burning Bush. The brightness of the fire of your love will no doubt fuse and
unify the contending peoples and kindreds of the earth, whilst the fierceness
of the flame of enmity and hatred cannot but result in strife and ruin. We
beseech God that He may shield His creatures from the evil designs of His
enemies. He verily hath power over all things.
- Baha’u’llah (Lawh-i-Dunya
[Tablet of the World]; ‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
February 18
Notwithstanding the divinely-inspired admonitions of all the
Prophets, the Saints, and Chosen ones of God, enjoining the people to see with
their own eyes and hear with their own ears, they have disdainfully rejected
their counsels and have blindly followed, and will continue to follow, the
leaders of their Faith. Should a poor and obscure person, destitute of the
attire of men of learning, address them saying: “Follow ye, O people! the
Messengers of God,” [Qur’an 36:20] they would, greatly surprised at such a
statement, reply: “What! Meanest thou that all these divines, all these
exponents of learning, with all their authority, their pomp and pageantry, have
erred, and failed to distinguish truth from falsehood? Dost thou, and people
like thyself, pretend to have comprehended that which they have not
understood?”
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
February 17
It behoveth you to observe truthfulness, whereby your
temples shall be adorned, your names uplifted, your stations exalted amidst
men, and a mighty recompense assured for you before God.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet
to Napoleon III, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of
Hosts’)
February 16
Upon Our arrival at this Prison, We purposed to transmit to
the kings the messages of their Lord, the Mighty, the All-Praised. Though We
have transmitted to them, in several Tablets, that which We were commanded, yet
We do it once again as a token of God’s grace. Perchance they may recognize the
Lord, Who hath come down in the clouds with manifest sovereignty.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Napoleon III, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the
Lord of Hosts’)
February 15
Say, by reason of your remembering Him Whom God shall make
manifest and by extolling His name, God will cause your hearts to be dilated
with joy, and do ye not wish your hearts to be in such a blissful state? Indeed
the hearts of them that truly believe in Him Whom God shall make manifest are
vaster than the expanse of heaven and earth and whatever is between them. God
hath left no hindrance in their hearts, were it but the size of a mustard seed.
He will cheer their hearts, their spirits, their souls and their bodies and
their days of prosperity or adversity, through the exaltation of the name of
Him Who is the supreme Testimony of God and the promotion of the Word of Him
Who is the Dayspring of the glory of their Creator.
- The Báb (‘Selections from
the Writings of the Báb)
February 14
…strive thou to comprehend the meaning of this saying of
‘Alí, [the first Imam] the Commander of the Faithful: “Piercing the veils of
glory, unaided.” Among these “veils of glory” are the divines and doctors
living in the days of the Manifestation of God, who, because of their want of
discernment and their love and eagerness for leadership, have failed to submit
to the Cause of God, nay, have even refused to incline their ears unto the
divine Melody. “They have thrust their fingers into their ears.” And the people also, utterly ignoring God and
taking them for their masters, have placed themselves unreservedly under the
authority of these pompous and hypocritical leaders, for they have no sight, no
hearing, no heart, of their own to distinguish truth from falsehood.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
February 13
If ye become aware of a sin committed by another, conceal
it, that God may conceal your own sin.
He, verily, is the Concealer, the Lord of grace abounding.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Napoleon III,
Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
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