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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 Shoghi Effendi · 1941 · Bahá'í Publishing Trust
Formative Age (1921–1957) · in copyright
Shoghi Effendi's letter on the rise and fall of nations during the early 20th century.
About Shoghi Effendi
Eldest grandson of 'Abdu'l-Bahá and, by His Will and Testament, the appointed Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith. Translated foundational Bahá'í texts into English; supervised the construction of the Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel; directed the global expansion of the Faith.
1897–1957 · Guardian
Featured figures
“follows his survey of the fall of kings.”
“practically confined to the miniscule City of the Vatican.”
“is still operating with undiminished force.”
“a sorry spectacle of impotence and disruption”
“Thou passed Him by, and inquired not about Him.”
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In The Promised Day Is Come, Shoghi Effendi traces the loss of power of the religious hierarchies of Islám and Christendom, which he sees as paralleling the fall of the kings whom Bahá'u'lláh had also addressed.
In The Promised Day Is Come, Shoghi Effendi surveys the fall of the great monarchies of Europe and the Middle East between 1870 and 1925, reading the collapses in the light of the warnings Bahá'u'lláh had sent to those same sovereigns from Adrianople and 'Akká.
In The Promised Day Is Come, written in 1941 during the Second World War, Shoghi Effendi described the upheaval of his time as a judgment of God, at once a punishment and a cleansing, and as the birth pangs of a new Order.
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