- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed
after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
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“Recite ye the verses of God every morn and eventide.” (Bahá’u’lláh, ‘The Kitáb-i-Aqdas’)
August 27
Exhort thou the servants of God unto that whereunto We have
exhorted thee that they may abstain from whatsoever is forbidden them in the
Mother Book. Those who perpetrate deeds that would create turmoil among the
people have indeed strayed far from helping God and His Cause and are numbered
with the mischief-makers in the Tablet which God hath designated to be the
dawning-place of all Tablets.
August 26
Say: To assist Me is to teach My Cause. This is a theme with
which whole Tablets are laden. This is the changeless commandment of God,
eternal in the past, eternal in the future. Comprehend this, O ye men of
insight. They that have passed beyond the bounds of wisdom fail to understand
the meaning of assisting God as set forth in the Book. Say: Fear ye God and sow
not the seeds of dissension amongst men. Observe ye that which hath been
enjoined upon you by your Lord, the Almighty, the All-Knowing. He knoweth the
reality of victory and hath taught it to you with an utterance that the vain
imaginings of them that rove distraught in the wilderness of doubt can never
corrupt.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
August 25
The vitality of men’s belief in God is dying out in every
land; nothing short of His wholesome medicine can ever restore it. The
corrosion of ungodliness is eating into the vitals of human society; what else
but the Elixir of His potent Revelation can cleanse and revive it? Is it within
human power, O Hakím, to effect in the constituent elements of any of the
minute and indivisible particles of matter so complete a transformation as to
transmute it into purest gold? Perplexing and difficult as this may appear, the
still greater task of converting satanic strength into heavenly power is one
that We have been empowered to accomplish. The Force capable of such a
transformation transcendeth the potency of the Elixir itself. The Word of God,
alone, can claim the distinction of being endowed with the capacity required
for so great and far-reaching a change.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the
Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
August 24
We have not entered any school, nor read any of your
dissertations. Incline your ears to the words of this unlettered One, wherewith
He summoneth you unto God, the Ever-Abiding. Better is this for you than all
the treasures of the earth, could ye but comprehend it.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
August 23
Say: This, verily, is the heaven in which the Mother Book is
treasured, could ye but comprehend it. He it is Who hath caused the Rock to
shout, and the Burning Bush to lift up its voice, upon the Mount rising above
the Holy Land, and proclaim: “The Kingdom is God’s, the sovereign Lord of all,
the All-Powerful, the Loving!”
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of
Baha’u’llah’)
August 22
By God! Though weariness lay Me low, and hunger consume Me,
and the bare rock be My bed, and My fellows the beasts of the field, I will not
complain, but will endure patiently as those endued with constancy and firmness
have endured patiently, through the power of God, the Eternal King and Creator
of the nations, and will render thanks unto God under all conditions. We pray
that, out of His bounty—exalted be He—He may release, through this imprisonment,
the necks of men from chains and fetters, and cause them to turn, with sincere
faces, towards His face, Who is the Mighty, the Bounteous. Ready is He to
answer whosoever calleth upon Him, and nigh is He unto such as commune with
Him.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Nasiri’d-Din Shah, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of
Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
August 21
Erelong shall the exponents of wealth and power banish Us
from the land of Adrianople to the city of ‘Akká. According to what they say,
it is the most desolate of the cities of the world, the most unsightly of them
in appearance, the most detestable in climate, and the foulest in water. It is
as though it were the metropolis of the owl, within whose precincts naught can
be heard save the echo of its cry. Therein have they resolved to imprison this
Youth, to shut against our faces the doors of ease and comfort, and to deprive
us of every worldly benefit throughout the remainder of our days.
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Nasiri’d-Din Shah, Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of
the Lord of Hosts’)
August 20
I noted, moreover, thine allusions to thy death in God and
thy life through Him, and the love thou dost cherish for the beloved of the
Lord and for the Manifestations of His names and the Exponents of His
attributes. I have purposed, therefore, to acquaint thee with holy and
resplendent tokens from the realms of might and glory, that haply they may draw
thee nigh unto the court of holiness, nearness, and beauty, and draw thee to a
station wherein thou shalt see naught in all existence but the hallowed Countenance
of thy Beloved, and wilt behold all of creation as a day wherein none was
deemed worthy of mention.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Seven Valleys’, 2019 revised translation by the Baha’i World Centre; ‘The
Call of the Divine Beloved’)
August 19
We have decreed, O people, that the highest and last end of
all learning be the recognition of Him Who is the Object of all knowledge; and
yet, behold how ye have allowed your learning to shut you out, as by a veil,
from Him Who is the Day Spring of this Light, through Whom every hidden thing
hath been revealed. Could ye but discover the source whence the splendor of
this utterance is diffused, ye would cast away the peoples of the world and all
that they possess, and would draw nigh unto this most blessed Seat of glory.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
August 18
O ye leaders of religion! 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 (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
August 17
Say: O leaders of religion! Weigh not the Book of God with
such standards and sciences as are current amongst you, for the Book itself is
the unerring balance established amongst men. In this most perfect balance
whatsoever the peoples and kindreds of the earth possess must be weighed, while
the measure of its weight should be tested according to its own standard, did
ye but know it.
The eye of My loving-kindness weepeth sore over you,
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 Sadratu’l-Muntahá is calling: “Verily, there is none other God
beside Me, the Omnipotent Protector, the Self-Subsisting!”
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings
from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
August 16
Consider the doubts which they who have joined partners with
God have instilled into the hearts of the people of this land. “Is it ever
possible,” they ask, “for copper to be transmuted into gold?” Say, Yes, by my
Lord, it is possible. Its secret, however, lieth hidden in Our Knowledge. We
will reveal it unto whom We will. Whoso doubteth Our power, let him ask the
Lord his God, that He may disclose unto him the secret, and assure him of its
truth. That copper can be turned into gold is in itself sufficient proof that
gold can, in like manner, be transmuted into copper, if they be of them that
can apprehend this truth. Every mineral can be made to acquire the density,
form, and substance of each and every other mineral. The knowledge thereof is
with Us in the Hidden Book.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of
Baha’u’llah’)
August 15
God testifieth and beareth Us witness that We have, at all
times, been busied with the propagation of this Cause. Neither chains nor
bonds, stocks nor imprisonment, have succeeded in withholding Us from revealing
Our Self. In that land We forbad all mischief, and all unseemly and unholy
deeds. Day and night We sent forth Our Tablets in every direction. We had no
other purpose except to edify the souls of men, and to exalt the blessed Word.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’)
August 14
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the
Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
[1] The maker of the Golden Calf. See Qur’án 20:87–98.
August 13
Say, O people, fulfil whatever ye understand of the Persian
Bayán and whatever ye understand not ask this unerring Remembrance
[Baha’u’llah] that He may set forth clearly that which God hath intended in His
Book, for in truth He knoweth that which is enshrined in the Bayán by virtue of
the Will of Him Who is the Omnipotent, the Powerful.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of
Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
August 12
Purge thou thy heart that We may cause fountains of wisdom
and utterance to gush out therefrom, thus enabling thee to raise thy voice
among all mankind. Unloose thy tongue and proclaim the truth for the sake of
the remembrance of thy merciful Lord. Be not afraid of anyone, place thy whole
trust in God, the Almighty, the All-Knowing.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Tablets of
Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas’)
August 11
Praised be Thou, O Lord my God! I implore Thee by Thine
Ancient Beauty and Most Great Name, Whom Thou hast sacrificed that all the
dwellers of Thine earth and heaven may be born anew, and Whom Thou hast cast
into prison that mankind may, as a token of Thy bounty and of Thy sovereign
might, be released from the bondage of evil passions and corrupt desires…
- Baha’u’llah (‘Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah’)
August 10
- Baha'u'llah (Tablet to Nasiri’d-Din Shah,
Suriy-i-Haykal [Tablet of Temple]; ‘The Summons of the Lord of Hosts’)
August 9
Be ye guided by wisdom in all your doings, and cleave ye
tenaciously unto it. Please God ye may all be strengthened to carry out that
which is the Will of God, and may be graciously assisted to appreciate the rank
conferred upon such of His loved ones as have arisen to serve Him and magnify
His name. Upon them be the glory of God, the glory of all that is in the
heavens and all that is on the earth, and the glory of the inmates of the most
exalted Paradise, the heaven of heavens.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the
Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
August 8
These gifts [“favors vouchsafed by Him unto mankind”] are
inherent in man himself. That which is preeminent above all other gifts, is
incorruptible in nature, and pertaineth to God Himself, is the gift of Divine
Revelation. Every bounty conferred by the Creator upon man, be it material or
spiritual, is subservient unto this. It is, in its essence, and will ever so
remain, the Bread which cometh down from Heaven. It is God’s supreme testimony,
the clearest evidence of His truth, the sign of His consummate bounty, the
token of His all-encompassing mercy, the proof of His most loving providence,
the symbol of His most perfect grace. He hath, indeed, partaken of this highest
gift of God who hath recognized His Manifestation in this Day.
- Baha’u’llah (‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
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