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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."
By Lady Blomfield · 1940 · George Ronald
Formative Age (1921–1957) · public domain
First-person accounts of the Holy Family from a close Western disciple (bahai-library.com edition).
About Lady Blomfield
Sara Louisa, Lady Blomfield. English social reformer and one of the first European Bahá'ís. Hosted 'Abdu'l-Bahá at her London residence during His Western tours and recorded much of His teaching there.
1859–1939
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On a July morning in 1850, the Báb was brought to a barracks square in Tabríz to be shot. What happened when the smoke of the first volley cleared astonished the thousands who watched. A retelling from Lady Blomfield's The Chosen Highway.
On a spring evening in Shíráz in 1844, a tired seeker named Mullá Ḥusayn was invited into the home of a young merchant. Before the night was over, his long search — and a new age for humanity — had begun. A retelling from Lady Blomfield's The Chosen Highway.
During the two years Bahá'u'lláh lived unknown in the mountains of Kurdistán, He came upon a child crying by the road — punished at school, his writing-book destroyed. What this hidden King of Glory did next, He did for one small, frightened boy. A retelling from Lady Blomfield's The Chosen Highway.
In the bitter winter of 1852, Bahá'u'lláh lay chained in an underground dungeon in Tihrán. Each night His wife slipped through the dangerous streets to learn whether He still lived — while at home a little girl held her frightened baby brother and waited. A retelling from Lady Blomfield's The Chosen Highway.
For two years the family of Bahá'u'lláh did not know where He was. His young daughter, the future Greatest Holy Leaf, lived those years in poverty and longing — until a rumor of a holy dervish in the mountains brought Him home. A retelling from Lady Blomfield's The Chosen Highway.
Táhirih — poet, scholar, and the only woman among the Báb's first disciples — sat with a small boy on her knee, listening to the learned men debate in the next room. What she called out to them has echoed ever since. A retelling from Lady Blomfield's The Chosen Highway.
Released from the Black Pit but broken by it, Bahá'u'lláh was exiled in the dead of winter. His wife sold her last jewels to fund the journey and washed clothes with her own chapped hands — and once, trying to make Him a sweet cake, reached for sugar and found salt. A retelling from Lady Blomfield's The Chosen Highway.
One cold winter, a mother walked alone through dangerous streets each night to find out if her husband was safe — while at home a little girl held her baby brother and waited.
A little girl waited two long years, not knowing where her father had gone — until a story about a holy stranger in the mountains brought Him back to her door.
After years of searching, a tired traveler met a kind young Man at the city gate. By morning, his whole life — and the whole world — would never be the same.
A boy sat crying by the road because his schoolwork was ruined. Then a kind stranger stopped to help — and that stranger was no ordinary traveler.
Thousands of people crowded into a square to watch the Báb be taken from them. But when the smoke cleared, something happened that no one could explain.
While the grown-ups argued and argued in the next room, a brave and brilliant woman named Táhirih — with a little boy on her knee — called out the words everyone needed to hear.
On a freezing journey into exile, a little girl watched her mother do everything she could to care for the family — including one small, loving mistake nobody ever forgot.
The Power that had banished Bahá'u'lláh to the worst prison in its empire could not keep Him there. In His last years the walls of 'Akká opened, and the once reviled Prisoner lived out His days in a mansion at Bahjí, honoured by pilgrims and notables alike — having shown, His family recalled, how to glorify God in abasement and how to glorify Him again in honour.
During the First World War the military governor of the region, Jamál Páshá, one of the most feared men in the Ottoman Empire, vowed to crucify 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Mount Carmel and raze the Bahá'í holy places. The Master met the threat with perfect calm — and before the general could carry it out, his army was routed and his power swept away.
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