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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 Bahá'u'lláh · 1873 · Bahá'í Publishing Trust
Bahá'u'lláh's ministry (1853–1892) · in copyright
The Most Holy Book — the mother book of the Bahá'í Dispensation.
About Bahá'u'lláh
Founder of the Bahá'í Faith. Imprisoned and exiled successively from Persia to Baghdád, Constantinople, Adrianople, and finally 'Akká, where He revealed the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and the bulk of His Writings.
1817–1892 · Founder
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“Him Whom God shall make manifest”
“He Who is the sovereign Lord of all is come. The Kingdom is God's.”
From Ye Are but Vassals: The Aqdas Proclaims the King of Kings
In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Most Holy Book, Bahá'u'lláh wrote a single luminous verse pointing the believers, after His passing, toward "Him Whom God hath purposed, Who hath branched from this Ancient Root." In His Book of the Covenant He made the meaning unmistakable: the object of that verse was none other than 'Abdu'l-Bahá, the Most Mighty Branch.
Bahá'ís did not invent the supreme rank of Riḍván — Bahá'u'lláh Himself conferred it. In His Most Holy Book He named those days the first of the "two Most Great Festivals," and tradition has hailed Riḍván as the "King of Festivals," the days whereon, in His own words, "all created things were immersed in the sea of purification."
In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Most Holy Book of His Revelation, Bahá'u'lláh confirmed the calendar the Báb had ordained and set His own seal upon Naw-Rúz — joining it forever to the close of the Fast, fixing it to the moment the sun enters the sign of Aries, and designating the new year of the spring equinox as a festival for all the people of the world.
In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Most Holy Book revealed in the prison-city of 'Akká, Bahá'u'lláh turned to the assembled monarchs of the earth and addressed them in words of staggering majesty. He told them that the sovereign Lord of all had come, that they were but vassals, and that the King of Kings had appeared and was summoning them unto Himself. A reflection on the verses in which the sovereignty of God is proclaimed over every throne on earth.
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