Quote of the Day, 6 Sulṭán 173 BE

"They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick... I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

- Matthew 9:12-13, King James Edition

Quote of the Day, 5 Sulṭán 173 BE

“That the divers communions of the earth, and the manifold systems of religious belief, should never be allowed to foster the feelings of animosity among men, is, in this Day, of the essence of the Faith of God and His Religion.”

- Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Quote of the Day, 4 Sulṭán 173 BE

"Naught but the celestial potency of the Word of God, which ruleth and transcendeth the realities of all things, is capable of harmonizing the divergent thoughts, sentiments, ideas and convictions of the children of men."

- Shoghi Effendi, World Order of Bahá’u’lláh

Quote of the Day, 3 Sulṭán 173 BE

"They are forever free who renounce all selfish desires and break away from the egocage of “I,” “me,” and “mine” to be united with the Lord. This is the supreme state. Attain to this, and pass from death to immortality."

- Words attributed to Krishna, Bhagavad Gita

Quote of the Day, 2 Sulṭán 173 BE

"That which the people now fail to apprehend they shall erelong discover, on that day when their steeds shall stumble and their finery be folded up, their blades blunted and their feet made to falter."

- Baha'u'llah, Tablet to Násiri’d-Dín Sháh

Quote of the Day, 1 Sulṭán 173 BE

"Turn not away yourself from the three best things: good word, good thought, good deed."

- Words attributed to Zoroaster, the Avesta

Quote of the Day, 19 Sharaf 173 BE

"Consort with all men, O people of Bahá, in a spirit of friendliness and fellowship. If ye be aware of a certain truth, if ye possess a jewel, of which others are deprived, share it with them in a language of utmost kindliness and good-will. If it be accepted, if it fulfil its purpose, your object is attained. If any one should refuse it, leave him unto himself, and beseech God to guide him. Beware lest ye deal unkindly with him."

- Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah

Quote of the Day, 18 Sharaf 173 BE

"Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first, but it is bitter as poison in the end."

- Words attributed to Krishna, Bhagavad Gita

Quote of the Day, 17 Sharaf 173 BE

"Whenever dharma declines and the purpose of life is forgotten, I manifest myself on earth. I am born in every age to protect the good, to destroy evil, and to reestablish dharma."

- Words attributed to Krishna, Bhagavad Gita

Quote of the Day, 16 Sharaf 173 BE

“O ye children of men! The fundamental purpose animating the Faith of God and His Religion is to safeguard the interests and promote the unity of the human race, and to foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men. Suffer it not to become a source of dissension and discord, of hate and enmity.”

- Bahá’u’lláh, Tabernacle of Unity

Quote of the Day, 15 Sharaf 173 BE

“The suckling child must be nourished with milk. If it be given meat it will assuredly perish, and this would be naught but sheer injustice and unwisdom. Blessed are they that understand.”

- Bahá’u’lláh, Tabernacle of Unity

Quote of the Day, 14 Sharaf 173 BE

"O SON OF SPIRIT!

The bird seeketh its nest; the nightingale the charm of the rose; whilst those birds, the hearts of men, content with transient dust, have strayed far from their eternal nest, and with eyes turned towards the slough of heedlessness are bereft of the glory of the divine presence. Alas! How strange and pitiful; for a mere cupful, they have turned away from the billowing seas of the Most High, and remained far from the most effulgent horizon."

- Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah

Quote of the Day, 13 Sharaf 173 BE

"There are five prayers and five times of day for prayer; the five have five names. Let the first be truthfulness, the second honest living, and the third charity in the Name of God. Let the fourth be good will to all, and the fifth the praise of the Lord."

- Guru Granth Sahib, Holy Scripture of the Sikh faith

Quote of the Day, 12 Sharaf 173 BE

"The drunkenness of passion hath perverted most of mankind: Where are the daysprings of purity, O Desire of the worlds?"

- Baha'u'llah, Fire Tablet

Quote of the Day, 11 Sharaf 173 BE

"To enter the Kingdom is easy, but to remain firm and constant is difficult."

- Tablets of `Abdu'l-Baha Abbas Vol. 1

Quote of the Day, 10 Sharaf 173 BE

"Our purpose in revealing these convincing and weighty utterances is to impress upon the seeker that he should regard all else beside God as transient, and count all things save Him, Who is the Object of all adoration, as utter nothingness."

- Baha'u'llah, Kitab-i-Iqan

Quote of the Day, 9 Sharaf 173 BE

"Bahá'u'lláh has made it clear enough that only those things that have been revealed in the form of Tablets have a binding power over the friends. Hearsays may be matters of interest but can in no way claim authority. This basic teaching of Bahá'u'lláh was to preserve the Faith from being corrupted like Islam which attributes binding authority to all the reported sayings of Muhammad.

This being a basic principle of the Faith, we should not confuse Tablets that were actually revealed and mere talks attributed to the founders of the Cause. The first have absolute binding authority while the latter can in no way claim our obedience"

- From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the United States Publishing Committee, December 29, 1931

Quote of the Day, 8 Sharaf 173 BE

“Disencumber yourselves of all attachment to this world and the vanities thereof. Beware that ye approach them not, inasmuch as they prompt you to walk after your own lusts and covetous desires, and hinder you from entering the straight and glorious Path.”

- Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

Quote of the Day, 7 Masá’il 173 BE

"Chant the Words of God and, pondering over their meaning, transform them into actions!"

- Tablets of `Abdu'l-Baha Abbas Vol. 1

Quote of the Day, 6 Masá’il 173 BE

"Our progress may be slow, our task immeasurably beyond our limited strength, the setbacks we may suffer in His service numerous and painful, and the neglect and indifference of the peoples around us deep and widespread; yet what the vigilant spirit of our departed Master requires us in this day is to follow in His footsteps, to remain firm and unafraid amid the vicissitudes of the world, and carry on with radiant hope, to the very last moment of our life, the glorious task we, and they that follow us, are destined to achieve.

His promise is sure, and His power none can resist. We need but follow, day by day, His divine exhortations and instructions, and do all in our power to exemplify every one of them in our daily life, and putting our trust wholly in Him wait with confidence for the unfolding of His plan to all the world."

- Letter by Shoghi Effendi to the Baha'is of California, December 21 1923

Quote of the Day, 5 Masá’il 173 BE

"Depend upon God, be sincere and sever thyself from all else save Him."

- Tablets of `Abdu'l-Baha Abbas volume 1

Quote of the Day, 4 Masá’il 173 BE

"The legislation enacted by the Universal House of Justice is different from interpretation. Authoritative interpretation, as uttered by 'Abdu'l-Baha and the Guardian, is a divinely guided statement of what the Word of God means. The divinely inspired legislation of the Universal House of Justice does not attempt to say what the revealed Word means -- it states what must be done in cases where the revealed Text or its authoritative interpretation is not explicit. It is, therefore, on quite a different level from the Sacred Text, and the Universal House of Justice is empowered to abrogate or amend its own legislation whenever it judges the conditions make this desirable."

- Letter from the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer titled "Teaching versus Proselytizing", January 03 1982

Quote of the Day, 3 Masá’il 173 BE

"The provenance, the authority, the duties, the sphere of action of the Universal House of Justice all derive from the revealed Word of Bahá’u'lláh, which, together with the interpretations and expositions of the Centre of the Covenant and of the Guardian of the Cause–who, after `Abdu’l-Bahá, is the sole authority in the interpretation of Bahá’í Scripture–constitute the binding terms of reference of the Universal House of Justice and are its bedrock foundation. The authority of these Texts is absolute and immutable until such time as Almighty God shall reveal His new Manifestation to Whom will belong all authority and power."

- Constitution of the Universal House of Justice

Quote of the Day, 2 Masá’il 173 BE

"The substance is, that prior to the completion of a thousand years, no individual may presume to breathe a word. All must consider themselves to be of the order of subjects, submissive and obedient to the commandments of God and the laws of the House of Justice. Should any deviate by so much as a needle’s point from the decrees of the Universal House of Justice, or falter in his compliance therewith, then is he of the outcast and rejected."

- Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Baha

Quote of the Day, 1 Masá’il 173 BE

"Whensoever holy souls, drawing on the powers of heaven, shall arise with such qualities of the spirit, and march in unison, rank on rank, every one of those souls will be even as one thousand, and the surging waves of that mighty ocean will be even as the battalions of the Concourse on high. What a blessing that will be—when all shall come together, even as once separate torrents, rivers and streams, running brooks and single drops, when collected together in one place will form a mighty sea. And to such a degree will the inherent unity of all prevail, that the traditions, rules, customs and distinctions in the fanciful life of these populations will be effaced and vanish away like isolated drops, once the great sea of oneness doth leap and surge and roll.

I swear by the Ancient Beauty, that at such a time overwhelming grace will so encircle all, and the sea of grandeur will so overflow its shores, that the narrowest strip of water will grow wide as an endless sea, and every merest drop will be even as the shoreless deep.

O ye loved ones of God! Struggle and strive to reach that high station, and to make a splendour so to shine across these realms of earth that the rays of it will be reflected back from a dawning-point on the horizon of eternity. This is the very foundation of the Cause of God. This is the very pith of the Law of God. This is the mighty structure raised up by the Manifestations of God. This is why the orb of God’s world dawneth. This is why the Lord establisheth Himself on the throne of His human body."

- Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Baha