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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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“Say: The Most Great Festival is, indeed, the King of Festivals. Call ye to”
“mind, O people, the bounty which God hath conferred upon you. Ye were sunk in”
“slumber, and lo! He aroused you by the reviving breezes of His Revelation,”
“and made known unto you His manifest and undeviating Path.”
“Verily, all created things were immersed in the sea of purification when, on”
The Báb and Bahá'u'lláh were born two years apart but on consecutive days of the lunar calendar. In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas Bahá'u'lláh names Their births among the four great festivals and says the two days are accounted as one.
In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas Bahá'u'lláh told the believers to turn, after His passing, to "Him Whom God hath purposed." In His Book of the Covenant He wrote that this verse meant the Most Mighty Branch, 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas Bahá'u'lláh named the days of Riḍván the first of the two Most Great Festivals and called the Most Great Festival "the King of Festivals." He wrote that on the first day of Riḍván "all created things were immersed in the sea of purification."
The Báb gave His followers a new calendar of nineteen months of nineteen days, each month named after an attribute of God, with Naw-Rúz as its first day. Bahá'u'lláh confirmed it in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and fixed the place of the extra days before the Fast.
In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas Bahá'u'lláh confirmed the Báb's calendar of nineteen months and made Naw-Rúz the feast that closes the Fast. He later explained that it falls on the day the sun enters Aries.
In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, revealed in 'Akká around 1873, Bahá'u'lláh told the kings of the earth that the King of Kings had appeared and summoned them to serve Him. He addressed the rulers of America and foretold suffering on the banks of the Rhine.
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