About the Bahai Story Library
The Bahai Story Library is a free, growing collection of stories from the Bahá'í Faith — stories about Bahá'u'lláh, the Báb, 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, the Hands of the Cause, and the believers who knew them. The library also gathers selected Prayers and Writings for the Nineteen-Day Feasts and the nine Bahá'í Holy Days.
What this library is for
- Making Bahá'í history easy to read. Thousands of narrative stories, each drawn from a published, citable source, browsable by figure, era, location, theme, virtue, age, and length.
- Supporting devotional life. For every Feast and Holy Day, a curated set of prayers and passages from the Writings — verbatim from the Bahá'í Reference Library — together with the stories that genuinely belong to that occasion.
- Letting people find what they want, fast. A serious search across the whole library — full text, filters, and several browse-by-X paths — so whatever you're looking for is at most a few clicks away.
The bar for each story
The collection is only as good as each individual story in it. Every story must be sourced (author, source book, canonical link where available), faithfully presented (no paraphrasing that distorts meaning, no invented dialogue), clean(real human-readable title, properly paragraphed body, no scraping crud),complete (no mid-sentence truncations), and correctly classified (era, figures, themes, virtues, ages all matching the actual content). Anything that falls short of those bars gets fixed or removed.
How we decide what fits a Feast or Holy Day
The bar is genuine thematic relevance, not superficial keyword overlap. A story tagged for the Feast of Núr (Light) is a story about the Báb (the Gate / dawning Light), or about the Letters of the Living, or about the illumining moment of recognition — not a story that happens to use the word "light" once in passing. Same with the readings: the prayer or passage anchored to a Feast is anchored because its actual subject matter is that divine attribute — typically a canonical Tablet that Bahá'u'lláh revealed under that name (Ishráqát for Bahá / Splendour; Kalimát-i-Firdawsíyyih for Kalimát / Words; Lawḥ-i-Ḥikmat for ʻIlm / Knowledge; and so on).
What this library will not include
- Anything we can't trace to a published source
- Photographs, drawings, or any depiction of Bahá'u'lláh or the Báb
- Stories about Covenant-breakers or related controversies
- Politically charged content that could embarrass the Bahá'í community
- Modern stories about specific living individuals without their explicit consent
Free, forever
No advertising. No accounts. No tracking. Free for everyone, always. See the Source Library for every book this collection draws from, and the Privacy page for how we handle (very little) data.