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"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
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"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
For a Bahá’í memorial gathering. Bahá’u’lláh has revealed a Prayer for the Dead — to be recited in full at the funeral of any Bahá’í over the age of fifteen. Below is a story-tagged prayer drawn from the 535prayer-form texts in the library, paired with a few stories of beautiful Bahá’í passings.
— 'Abdu'l-Bahá, Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá Abbas
The Prayer for the Dead itself is at the Bahá’í Reference Library.
A young Bahá 'i lady pioneered to Bolivia in the 1930 s to open it to the Faith. Having no success in teaching anyone, she began to write to the Guardian expressing feelings of failure. With each passing month she wrote and he replied…
Among the women who came out of their homeland was the sorrowing Fatimih Begum, widow of the King of Martyrs. She was a holy leaf of the Tree of God. From her earliest youth she was beset with uncounted ordeals. First was the disaster…
From the death of that beloved youth due to his separation from you the utmost sorrow and grief has been occasioned, for he flew away in the flower of his age and the bloom of his youth, to the heavenly…
From morning till dark he worked at his craft, and almost every night he entertained the friends at supper. ** Áqá…
Áqá Faraj and Abu’l-Qásim, who had gone into hiding, then hurried away to Adrianople, to fall, ultimately, with the others and with their Well-Beloved, into the ‘Akká prison. ** Áqá…
They needed no teacher, then; by themselves, they saw through the veils that had blinded them before, and won the supreme desire of their hearts. ** Áqá Ibráhím-i-Iṣfahání And His…
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