- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of Remembrance’)
April 22
April 21
The Best-Beloved is come. In His right hand is the sealed
Wine of His name. Happy is the man that turneth unto Him, and drinketh his
fill, and exclaimeth: “Praise be to Thee, O Revealer of the signs of God!” By
the righteousness of the Almighty! Every hidden thing hath been manifested
through the power of truth. All the favours of God have been sent down, as a
token of His grace. The waters of everlasting life have, in their fullness,
been proffered unto men. Every single cup hath been borne round by the hand of
the Well-Beloved. Draw near, and tarry not, though it be for one short moment.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of Remembrance’)
April 20
This is the Day whereon naught can be seen except the
splendours of the Light that shineth from the face of Thy Lord, the Gracious,
the Most Bountiful. Verily, We have caused every soul to expire by virtue of
Our irresistible and all-subduing sovereignty. We have, then, called into being
a new creation, as a token of Our grace unto men. I am, verily, the
All-Bountiful, the Ancient of Days.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of Remembrance’)
April 19
The Divine Springtime is come, O Most Exalted Pen, for the
Festival of the All-Merciful is fast approaching. Bestir thyself, and magnify,
before the entire creation, the name of God, and celebrate His praise, in such
wise that all created things may be regenerated and made new. Speak, and hold
not thy peace. The day-star of blissfulness shineth above the horizon of Our
name, the Blissful, inasmuch as the kingdom of the names of God hath been
adorned with the ornament of the name of thy Lord, the Creator of the heavens.
Arise before the nations of the earth, and arm thyself with the power of this
Most Great Name, and be not of those who tarry.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Days of
Remembrance’)
April 18
Today the friends of God must appear in such wise among
God’s servants that by their actions they may lead all unto the pleasure of the
Lord of Glory. I swear by the Sun of the Horizon of Holiness that the friends
of God never have regarded nor will regard the earth or its transitory riches.
- Baha’u’llah (From a Tablet, Baha’i News no. 48, February 1931)
April 17
…today victory neither has been nor will ever be opposition
to any one, nor strife with any person; but rather what is well-pleasing is
that the cities of men’s hearts, which are under the dominion of the hosts of
selfishness and lust, should be subdued by the sword of wisdom and of
exhortation. Every one, then, who desires victory must first subdue the city of
his own heart with the sword of spiritual truth and of the Word, and must
protect it from remembering aught beside God; afterwards, let him turn his
efforts toward the citadel of the hearts of others.
- Baha’u’llah (From a
Tablet, Baha’i News no. 48, February 1931)
April 16
It has been known that God, glorious is His mention, is
sanctified from the world and what is therein, and that the meaning of victory
is not this, that anyone should fight or strive with another. The Lord of “He
doeth what he willeth” has committed the kingdom of creation, both land and
sea, into the hand of kings, and they are the manifestations of the divine
power according to the degrees of their ranks; verily, He is the potent, the
sovereign. But that which God, glorious is His mention, has desired for himself
is the hearts of His servants which are treasuries of praise and love of the
Lord and stores of divine knowledge and wisdom.
- Baha’u’llah (From a Tablet,
Baha’i News no. 48, February 1931)
April 15
The friends of God must be adorned with the ornament of
justice, equity, kindness and love. As they do not allow themselves to be the
object of cruelty and transgression, in like manner they should not allow such
tyranny to visit the handmaidens of God. He, verily, speaketh the truth and
commandeth that which benefitteth His servants and handmaidens. He is the
Protector of all in this world and the next.
- Baha’u’llah (From a Tablet, The
Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Women)
April 14
O rulers of the earth! Be reconciled among yourselves, that
ye may need no more armaments save in a measure to safeguard your territories
and dominions. Beware lest ye disregard the counsel of the All-Knowing, the
Faithful.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Queen Victoria, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of
Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
April 13
The eye of My loving-kindness weepeth sore over you,
[“leaders of religion”] inasmuch as ye have failed to recognize the One upon
Whom ye have been calling in the daytime and in the night season, at even and
at morn. Advance, O people, with snow-white faces and radiant hearts, unto the
blest and crimson Spot, wherein the Tree beyond which there is no passing is
calling: ‘Verily, there is none other God beside Me, the Omnipotent Protector,
the Self-Subsisting!’
- Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
April 12
God testifieth to the unity of His Godhood and to the
singleness of His own Being. On the throne of eternity, from the inaccessible
heights of His station, His tongue proclaimeth that there is none other God but
Him. He Himself, independently of all else, hath ever been a witness unto His
own oneness, the revealer of His own nature, the glorifier of His own essence.
He, verily, is the All-Powerful, the Almighty, the Beauteous.
He is supreme over His servants, and standeth over His
creatures. In His hand is the source of authority and truth. He maketh men
alive by His signs, and causeth them to die through His wrath. He shall not be
asked of His doings and His might is equal unto all things. He is the Potent,
the All-Subduing. He holdeth within His grasp the empire of all things, and on
His right hand is fixed the Kingdom of His Revelation. His power, verily,
embraceth the whole of creation. Victory and overlordship are His; all might
and dominion are His; all glory and greatness are His. He, of a truth, is the
All-Glorious, the Most Powerful, the Unconditioned.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah’)
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah’)
April 11
O ye leaders of religion in Persia! Who is the man amongst
you that can rival Me in vision or insight? Where is he to be found that dareth
to claim to be My equal in utterance or wisdom? No, by My Lord, the
All-Merciful! All on the earth shall pass away; and this is the face of your
Lord, the Almighty, the Well-Beloved.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the
Wolf’)
April 10
The world passeth away, and that which is everlasting is the
love of God. God willing, thou shalt circumambulate the True One in every world
of His worlds and shalt be free from all else save Him....
- Baha’u’llah (From a
Tablet, The Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Women)
April 9
O peoples of the world! He Who is the Most Great Name is
come, on the part of the Ancient King, and hath announced unto men this
Revelation which lay hid in His knowledge, and was preserved in the treasury of
His protection, and was written down by the Most Sublime Pen in the Books of
God, the Lord of Lords.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
April 8
O Son of Beauty! By My spirit and by My favor! By My mercy
and by My beauty! All that I have revealed unto thee with the tongue of power,
and have written for thee with the pen of might, hath been in accordance with
thy capacity and understanding, not with My state and the melody of My voice.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah’)
April 7
O kings of the earth! We see you increasing every year your
expenditures, and laying the burden thereof on your subjects. This, verily, is
wholly and grossly unjust. Fear the sighs and tears of this Wronged One, and
lay not excessive burdens on your peoples. Do not rob them to rear palaces for
yourselves; nay rather choose for them that which ye choose for yourselves.
Thus We unfold to your eyes that which profiteth you, if ye but perceive. Your
people are your treasures. Beware lest your rule violate the commandments of
God, and ye deliver your wards to the hands of the robber. By them ye rule, by
their means ye subsist, by their aid ye conquer. Yet, how disdainfully ye look
upon them! How strange, how very strange! .
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Queen
Victoria, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
April 6
O concourse of rulers and divines! Incline your ears unto
the Voice calling from the horizon of Akká. Verily, it aideth you to proceed
aright, and draweth you nigh unto Him, and directeth your steps towards the
station which God hath made the Dayspring of His Revelation and the
Dawning-Place of His splendors.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
April 5
Time and again have We, for the sake of God, admonished the
distinguished divines, and summoned them unto the Most Sublime Horizon, that
perchance they might, in the days of His Revelation, obtain their portion of
the ocean of the utterance of Him Who is the Desire of the world, and remain
not utterly deprived thereof.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
April 4
O Children of the Divine and Invisible Essence! Ye shall be
hindered from loving Me and souls shall be perturbed as they make mention of
Me. For minds cannot grasp Me nor hearts contain Me.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Hidden
Words of Baha’u’llah’)
April 3
O ye rulers of the earth!
Wherefore have ye clouded the radiance of the Sun, and caused it to
cease from shining? Hearken unto the
counsel given you by the Pen of the Most High, that haply both ye and the poor
may attain unto tranquillity and peace.
We beseech God to assist the kings of the earth to establish peace on
earth. He, verily, doth what He willeth.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Queen Victoria, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The
Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
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