The source of all learning is the knowledge of God, exalted
be His Glory, and this cannot be attained save through the knowledge of His
Divine Manifestation.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
October 26
The source of all learning is the knowledge of God, exalted
be His Glory, and this cannot be attained save through the knowledge of His
Divine Manifestation. 
October 25
The essence of wealth is love for Me; whoso loveth Me is the
possessor of all things, and he that loveth Me not is indeed of the poor and
needy. This is that which the Finger of Glory and Splendour hath revealed.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
October 24
He is truly wise whom the world and all that is therein have
not deterred from recognizing the light of this Day, who will not allow men’s
idle talk to cause him to swerve from the way of righteousness. He is indeed as
one dead who, at the wondrous dawn of this Revelation, hath failed to be
quickened by its soul-stirring breeze. He is indeed a captive who hath not
recognized the Supreme Redeemer, but hath suffered his soul to be bound,
distressed and helpless, in the fetters of his desires.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
October 23
Say: O ye that have strayed and lost your way! The Divine
Messenger, Who speaketh naught but the truth, hath announced unto you the
coming of the Best-Beloved. Behold, He is now come. Wherefore are ye downcast
and dejected? Why remain despondent when the Pure and Hidden One hath appeared
unveiled amongst you? He Who is both the Beginning and the End, He Who is both
Stillness and Motion, is now manifest before your eyes. Behold how, in this
Day, the Beginning is reflected in the End, how out of Stillness Motion hath
been engendered. This motion hath been generated by the potent energies which
the words of the Almighty have released throughout the entire creation. Whoso
hath been quickened by its vitalizing power, will find himself impelled to
attain the court of the Beloved; and whoso hath deprived himself therefrom,
will sink into irretrievable despondency.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the
Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
October 22
Say: O people! The Lamp of God is burning; take heed, lest
the fierce winds of your disobedience extinguish its light. Now is the time to
arise and magnify the Lord, your God. Strive not after bodily comforts, and
keep your heart pure and stainless. The Evil One is lying in wait, ready to
entrap you. Gird yourselves against his wicked devices, and, led by the light
of the name of the one true God, deliver yourselves from the darkness that
surroundeth you. Center your thoughts in the Well-Beloved, rather than in your
own selves.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
October 21
…it is incumbent upon a lowly servant to acquiesce to whatever
proof God hath appointed, and not to follow his own idle fancy. If the wishes
of the people [re miracles] were to be gratified not a single disbeliever would
remain on earth. For once the Apostle of God had fulfilled the wishes of the
people they would unhesitatingly have embraced His Faith. May God save thee,
shouldst thou seek any evidence according to thy selfish desire; rather it
behooveth thee to uphold the unfailing proof which God hath appointed. The
object of thy belief in God is but to secure His good-pleasure. How then dost
thou seek as a proof of thy faith a thing which hath been and is contrary to
His good-pleasure?
- The Báb (‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb’)
October 20
The beginning of magnanimity is when man expendeth his
wealth on himself, on his family and on the poor among his brethren in his
Faith.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
October 19
Consider the extent of the adherence of these people to
matters of faith. When dealing with their own affairs they are well content
with the testimony of two just witnesses, and yet despite the testimony of so
many righteous men they hesitate to believe in Him Who is the Bearer of the
divine Truth.
- The Báb (‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb’)
October 18
That which God testifieth is none other than what His
supreme Testimony [Go’s Manifestation] testifieth. Were all the peoples of the
world to testify unto a thing and were He to testify unto another, His
testimony will be regarded as God’s testimony, while aught else but Him hath
been and will ever be as naught; for it is through His might that a thing
assumeth existence.
- The Báb (‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb’)
October 17
The essence of true safety is to observe silence, to look at
the end of things and to renounce the world.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of
Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
October 16
The evidences which the people demanded from the Apostle of
God through their idle fancy have mostly been rejected in the Qur’án, even as
in the Súrih of the Children of Israel [Súrih XVII] it hath been revealed: ‘And
they say, by no means will we believe on thee till thou cause a fountain to
gush forth for us from the earth; or till thou have a garden of palm trees and
vines, and thou cause rivers to spring forth from the midst thereof in
abundance; or thou cause the heaven to fall down upon us, as thou hast given
out, in pieces; or thou bring God and the angels to vouch for thee; or thou
have a house of gold; or thou ascend to heaven nor will we believe in thine
ascension, till thou send down to us a book which we may read. Say, Praise be
to my Lord! Am I more than a man, an apostle?’
- The Báb (‘Selections from the
Writings of the Báb’)
October 15
O My servants! It behoveth you to refresh and revive your
souls through the gracious favors which, in this Divine, this soul-stirring
Springtime, are being showered upon you. The Day Star of His great glory hath
shed its radiance upon you, and the clouds of His limitless grace have
overshadowed you. How high the reward of him that hath not deprived himself of
so great a bounty, nor failed to recognize the beauty of his Best-Beloved in
this, His new attire.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of
Baha’u’llah’)
October 14
The recognition of Him Who is the Bearer of divine Truth is
none other than the recognition of God, and loving Him is none other than
loving God. However, I swear by the sublime Essence of God—exalted and
glorified be He—that I did not wish my identity to be known by men, and gave
instructions that My name should be concealed, because I was fully aware of the
incapacity of this people, who are none other than those who have, in reference
to no less a person than the Apostle of God—incomparable as He hath ever
been—remarked, ‘He is certainly a lunatic’. [Qur’án 68:51] If they now claim to
be other than those people, their deeds bear witness to the falsity of their
assertions.
- The Báb (‘Selections from the Writings of the Báb’)
October 13
The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of
deeds; he whose words exceed his deeds, know verily his death is better than
his life.
- Baha’u’llah ('Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
October 12
Glorified, glorified be Thou, O my God! How can I ever hope
to ascend into the heaven of Thy most holy will, or gain admittance into the
tabernacle of Thy Divine knowledge, knowing as I do that the minds of the wise
and learned are impotent to fathom the secrets of Thy handiwork—a handiwork
which is itself but a creation of Thy will?
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and
Meditations by Baha’u’llah’)
October 11
In this very verse there lieth concealed a breath of
detachment, which if it were to be breathed full upon the world, all beings
would renounce their lives, and sacrifice their souls.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The
Kitab-i-Iqan’)
October 10
O concourse of the fair-minded! Observe and reflect upon the
billows of the ocean of the utterance and knowledge of God, so that ye may
testify with your inner and outer tongues that with Him is the knowledge of all
that is in the Book. Nothing escapeth His knowledge. He, verily, hath
manifested that which was hidden, when He, upon His return, mounted the throne
of the Bayán. All that hath been sent down hath and will come to pass, word for
word, upon earth. No possibility is left for anyone either to turn aside or
protest. As fairness, however, is disgraced and concealed, most men speak as
prompted by their own idle fancies.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the
Wolf’)
October 9
Such is Thy [God's] greatness that wert Thou to concentrate the eyes
of all men in the eye of one of Thy servants, and to compress all their hearts
within his heart, and wert Thou to enable him to behold within himself all the
things Thou hast created through Thy power and fashioned through Thy might, and
were he to ponder, throughout eternity, over the realms of Thy creation and the
range of Thy handiwork, he would unfailingly discover that there is no created
thing but is overshadowed by Thine all-conquering power, and is vitalized
through Thine all-embracing sovereignty.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations
by Baha’u’llah’)
October 8
O Son of Man! Write all that We have revealed unto thee with
the ink of light upon the tablet of thy spirit. Should this not be in thy
power, then make thine ink of the essence of thy heart. If this thou canst not
do, then write with that crimson ink that hath been shed in My path. Sweeter
indeed is this to Me than all else, that its light may endure for ever.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah’)
October 7
Gracious God! In His [the Báb’s] Book, which He hath
entitled “Qayyúmu’l-Asmá,”—the first, the greatest and mightiest of all
books—He prophesied His own martyrdom. In it is this passage: “O thou Remnant
of God! I have sacrificed myself wholly for Thee; I have accepted curses for
Thy sake; and have yearned for naught but martyrdom in the path of Thy love.
Sufficient Witness unto me is God, the Exalted, the Protector, the Ancient of
Days!”
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Kitab-i-Iqan’)
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