Words of mine can’t describe the evisceral gut resentment I’ve had at the notion of any kind of elitism in the Baha’i Faith. Yet I have this primal memory Alpha Lady, this surrogate mother, this last loyal member other Baha’i Holy family, with such primal memories of being 1 of the humblest salty based inspirers ever, that keeps me returning to the Baha’i Faith. The rest of her fellow 25 or 26 last Hands of the Cause of God have certain magic beyond belief in their speeches and the delivery of their speeches.
34:52] “I think it’s much easier to say this kind of thing in Scotland where they still seem to believe in right and wrong, than it might be in other countries because you see people nowadays, perhaps they’re getting away from it, but
there was a period in our modern, what, development if you like, all over the world where they believed in the teachings of psychology, that you weren’t really responsible for everything. Your mother smacked you or somebody dropped you on your head or they took the bottle away from you or something unpleasant happened. Consequently, you develop this peculiarity. Consequently, you became a criminal or maladjusted or insecure or God knows what, all these modern terms.
Well, unfortunately, that bears very, very little relationship to anything taught by all the Prophets of God. Because the prophets very clearly teach that there is right and there is wrong. There is what is permitted. There is what is not permitted. There is evil, there is good and you have had it taught to you through the Prophets of God, through if you like the ministers in whatever church you came from, through the moralists in your society. Whatever the source may be, it’s all there.
And if you choose to do the wrong thing, you are responsible for your own acts. In other words, there is still that concept of choice.
You can make the choice to do what is right and do what is wrong. Now I know that in different cultures one thing maybe right; in another culture it may be wrong. There are shades of right and wrong. There are degrees of sin, if you like to use the old-fashioned word or whatever it is. But the fact remains that there are things that are permitted, and there are things that are not permitted. There are things that you can do, there are things you must not do, and so on.”
30:33 Gilbert Hakim is wrong about Baha’is being prohibited from carrying guns: 398. Bahá’í Justified in Defending his Life in Emergency
“Regarding the question you raised: In an emergency, when there is no legal source at hand to appeal to, a Bahá’í is perfectly justified in defending his life.”
(From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, July 24, 1943)
Self-Defense
“From the texts you already have available it is clear that Bahá’u’lláh has stated that it is preferable to be killed in the path of God’s good-pleasure than to kill, and that organized religious attack against Bahá’ís should never turn into any kind of warfare, as this is strictly prohibited in our Writings.
“The House of Justice does not wish at the present time to go beyond the guidelines given in the above-mentioned statements. The question is basically a matter of conscience, and in each case the Bahá’í involved must use his judgment in determining when to stop in self-defense lest his action deteriorate into retaliation.
“Of course the above principles apply also in cases when a Bahá’í finds himself involved in situations of civil disorder. We have, however, advised the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States that under the present circumstances in that country it is preferable that Bahá’ís do not buy nor own arms for their protection or the protection of their families.”
(From a letter of the Universal House of Justice to the National Spiritual Assembly of Canada, May 26, 1969: Messages from the Universal House of Justice, 1968-1973, p. 26)
“We have your letter of March 2, 1972 asking if … a pioneer couple living in a remote area lacking police protection may have a weapon in their possession for defending themselves as thieves have broken into their house twice and robbed them.
“A hitherto untranslated Tablet from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá points out that in the case of attack by robbers and highwaymen, a Bahá’í should not surrender himself, but should try, as far as circumstances permit, to defend himself, and later on lodge a complaint with the government authorities. A statement in a letter written on behalf of the Guardian indicates that in an emergency when there is no legal force at hand to appeal to a Bahá’í is justified in defending his life. Although we have advised certain National Assemblies in countries facing increasing civil disorder that it is preferable that Bahá’ís do not buy or own arms for their protection or the protection of their families, we feel that in the circumstances you have outlined in your letter it would be permissible for the pioneer family to keep a weapon in the house, provided the law permits.”
(From a letter of the Universal House of Justice to the National Spiritual Assembly of Honduras, March 20, 1972)
Theodore L. Gunderson (November 7, 1928 – July 31, 2011) was a Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent In Charge and head of the Los Angeles FBI,[1]
duly noted George Edwin Field had some Welsh heritage and a similar personality to Mr. Burton. The way Jay Parker described Albert Parker as “an Atlantian Warlock” who raped and molested all 3 of his sons, not long after infancy, routinely and whatever child he could every chance he got. I have good reason to believe George E. Field did the same with his own.
Intone, O My servants, the verses of God that have been received by thee, as intoned by them who have drawn nigh unto Him, that the sweetness of thy melody may kindle thine own soul, and attract the hearts of all men. Whoso reciteth, in the privacy of his chamber, the verses revealed by God, the scattering angels of the Almighty shall scatter abroad the fragrance of the words uttered by his mouth, and shall cause the heart of every righteous man to throb. Though he may, at first, remain unaware of its effect, yet the virtue of the grace vouchsafed unto him must needs sooner or later exercise its influence upon his soul. Thus have the mysteries of the Revelation of God been decreed by virtue of the Will of Him Who is the Source of power and wisdom. –Bahá’u’lláh
– 5 – O SON OF BEING! Love Me, that I may love thee. If thou lovest Me not, My love can in no wise reach thee. Know this, O servant. – Bahá’u’lláh
Short Obligatory Prayer TO BE RECITED ONCE IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS, AT NOON I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy Might. There is none other God but Thee The Help in Peril the Self Subsisting!
https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/kitab-i-iqan/kitab-i-iqan.xhtml?1c70e6ff But, O my brother, when a true seeker determineth to take the step of search in the path leading to the knowledge of the Ancient of Days, he must, before all else, cleanse and purify his heart, which is the seat of the revelation of the inner mysteries of God, from the obscuring dust of all acquired knowledge, and the allusions of the embodiments of satanic fancy. He must purge his breast, which is the sanctuary of the abiding love of the Beloved, of every defilement, and sanctify his soul from all that pertaineth to water and clay, from all shadowy and ephemeral attachments. He must so cleanse his heart that no remnant of either love or hate may linger therein, lest that love blindly incline him to error, or that hate repel him away from the truth.
May as well just have fun with obvious double entendre phallic allusion to the reference to “endowment”
Some men are more endowed then others
Some men are unfortunate to have their endowment maimed beyond all fucking recognition without any chanced to defend themselves from these sick fucks worth a shit:
” And now concerning thy question whether human souls continue to be conscious one of another after their separation from the body. Know thou that the souls of the people of Bahá, who have entered and been established within the Crimson Ark, shall associate and commune intimately one with another, and shall be so closely associated in their lives, their aspirations, their aims and strivings as to be even as one soul. They are indeed the ones who are well-informed, who are keen-sighted, and who are endued with understanding. Thus hath it been decreed by Him Who is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.
The people of Bahá, who are the inmates of the Ark of God,
are, one and all, well aware of one another’s state and condition, and are united in the bonds of intimacy and fellowship. Such a state, however, must depend upon their faith and their conduct. They that are of the same grade and station are fully aware of one another’s capacity, character, accomplishments and merits. They that are of a lower grade, however, are incapable of comprehending adequately the station, or of estimating the merits, of those that rank above them. Each shall receive his share from thy Lord. Blessed is the man that hath turned his face towards God, and walked steadfastly in His love, until his soul hath winged its flight unto God, the Sovereign Lord of all, the Most Powerful, the Ever-Forgiving, the All-Merciful.
The souls of the infidels, however, shall—and to this I bear witness—when breathing their last be made aware of the good things that have escaped them, and shall bemoan their plight, and shall humble themselves before God. They shall continue doing so after the separation of their souls from their bodies.
It is clear and evident that all men shall, after their physical death, estimate the worth of their deeds, and realize all that their hands have wrought. I swear by the Daystar that shineth above the horizon of Divine power! They that are the followers of the one true God shall, the moment they depart out of this life, experience such joy and gladness as would be impossible to describe, while they that live in error shall be seized with such fear and trembling, and shall be filled with such consternation, as nothing can exceed. Well is it with him that hath quaffed the choice and incorruptible wine of faith through the gracious favor and the manifold bounties of Him Who is the Lord of all Faiths.…
This is the Day when the loved ones of God should keep their eyes directed towards His Manifestation, and fasten them upon whatsoever that Manifestation may be pleased to reveal. Certain traditions of bygone ages rest on no foundations whatever, while the notions entertained by past generations, and which they have recorded in their books, have, for the most part, been influenced by the desires of a corrupt inclination. Thou dost witness how most of the commentaries and interpretations of the words of God, now current amongst men, are devoid of truth. Their falsity hath, in some cases, been exposed when the intervening veils were rent asunder. They themselves have acknowledged their failure in apprehending the meaning of any of the words of God.
Our purpose is to show that should the loved ones of God sanctify their hearts and their ears from the vain sayings that were uttered aforetime, and turn with their inmost souls to Him Who is the Dayspring of His Revelation, and to whatsoever things He hath manifested, such behavior would be regarded as highly meritorious in the sight of God.…
Magnify His Name, and be thou of the thankful. Convey My greetings to My loved ones, whom God hath singled out for His love, and caused them to achieve their objects. All glory be to God, the Lord of all worlds.”
30:33 Gilbert Hakim is wrong about Baha’is being prohibited from carrying guns: 398. Bahá’í Justified in Defending his Life in Emergency
“Regarding the question you raised: In an emergency, when there is no legal source at hand to appeal to, a Bahá’í is perfectly justified in defending his life.”
(From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, July 24, 1943)
“From the texts you already have available it is clear that Bahá’u’lláh has stated that it is preferable to be killed in the path of God’s good-pleasure than to kill, and that organized religious attack against Bahá’ís should never turn into any kind of warfare, as this is strictly prohibited in our Writings.
“The House of Justice does not wish at the present time to go beyond the guidelines given in the above-mentioned statements. The question is basically a matter of conscience, and in each case the Bahá’í involved must use his judgment in determining when to stop in self-defense lest his action deteriorate into retaliation.
“Of course the above principles apply also in cases when a Bahá’í finds himself involved in situations of civil disorder. We have, however, advised the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States that under the present circumstances in that country it is preferable that Bahá’ís do not buy nor own arms for their protection or the protection of their families.”
(From a letter of the Universal House of Justice to the National Spiritual Assembly of Canada, May 26, 1969: Messages from the Universal House of Justice, 1968-1973, p. 26)
“We have your letter of March 2, 1972 asking if … a pioneer couple living in a remote area lacking police protection may have a weapon in their possession for defending themselves as thieves have broken into their house twice and robbed them.
“A hitherto untranslated Tablet from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá points out that in the case of attack by robbers and highwaymen, a Bahá’í should not surrender himself, but should try, as far as circumstances permit, to defend himself, and later on lodge a complaint with the government authorities. A statement in a letter written on behalf of the Guardian indicates that in an emergency when there is no legal force at hand to appeal to a Bahá’í is justified in defending his life. Although we have advised certain National Assemblies in countries facing increasing civil disorder that it is preferable that Bahá’ís do not buy or own arms for their protection or the protection of their families, we feel that in the circumstances you have outlined in your letter it would be permissible for the pioneer family to keep a weapon in the house, provided the law permits.”
(From a letter of the Universal House of Justice to the National Spiritual Assembly of Honduras, March 20, 1972)
“A Roadmap for a Moral Society: Justice and Forgiveness Continued | Episode 58”
103 views Streamed live on Jan 29, 2024 In Episode 58 of ‘A Roadmap for a Moral Society’ series, the discussion revolves around key virtues like justice and forgiveness, and how they contribute to building a healthier society. The host, Gilbert Hakeem, shares deep insights on the understanding of justice, forgiveness, and their impact on societal and individual happiness and peace. The episode features discussions on how laws should be just and fair for all, irrespective of race, gender, or economic status. The dialogue also speaks about how manifestations of God’s laws can guide humanity to practice justice and fairness, and the repercussions if these laws are disobeyed. The session concludes with a focus on learning more about justice through the writings of the Baha’i Faith and a prayer for the departed.
re: “statistically you have a much lower 37:47 chance of of not getting shot or less chance of getting 37:54 shot uh if you don’t carry guns”
Here’s where I have to call Islamic Republic of Iran Stockholm syndrome Bullshit of someone afraid becoming as belligerently embarassing as his Howling Towelhead non-Baha’i cousins still idolizing the belligerent failed Islamic psychopaths who hate Baha’is!
which is typical of some refugees in the USA where they don’t like the 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitution afraid of owning guns to defend families. IF you are too uncomfortable with having this emergency self defense option to defend your family, who do you honestly trust do defend you and your family? The police and the government?
RE: 47:29 Gilbert Hakim says: “SO as you see here it’s explained that any conflict or dissension that occur within the Baha’i community can be resolved within the Baha’i community and we should not engage or publicize those Strife or conflicts outside the community and adhere to the houses of justice that is provided with the administrative order to resolve conflict so these are really key element and adherence to” THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY THE CASE! And for him to say that is a slap in the face to SURVIVOR adult child victims of incredulous deluded halfwit immature Baha’i coumunities where children are abandoned to sexual predator older children. It is unfortunate that some Baha’i Communities have been deluded in this matter in the past and the survivors have responsibility to bring this to your attention
We must take counsel together in such wise that no occasion for ill-feeling or discord may arise. This can be attained when every member expresseth with absolute freedom his own opinion and setteth forth his argument. Should anyone oppose, he must on no account feel hurt for not until matters are fully discussed can the right way be revealed. The shining spark of truth cometh forth only after the clash of differing opinions. – Selections from the Writings of Abdu’l-Baha, p. 87.
“fomenting discorded” / “Calumny” / Backbiting / “Vicious Criticism” VERSES. necessary critique of criminally insane people? IT IS Good DISCERNING that, especially FROM all the Libtard Libertine Halfwit 1st Generation criminally negligent fakeBaha’i comunities OF THE BOOMER Generation ruinning their own children’s lives, fleecing them into an evolutionary Dead End! @xgnardprime @xgnardprime 1 day ago (edited) HERE IS SOMETHING I STRONGLY AM CONVINCED IS TRUE and I am afraid WAY too many pathologically conceited, arrogant, and incredulous Baha’is in denial, especially of the deluded derelect dufus boomer Generation of the USA & Canada especially, complacent DISAGREE: Former child victims who redress grievances truthfully and honestly are not committing “discord”. Even though memories sometimes are suppressed for a very long time (40 years or more.) There maybe legal “statute of limitations” but there are no spiritual statute of limitations to incite Justice “the best beloved of all things”), as an adult survivor, who was a former child victim, that adult has the right and duty to testify his experience and whistle blow. It goes against equity, goodwill and conscience to aid and abet coverup against trauma based mind control. “31 O Son of Being! Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds. ” – Baha’u’llah
HERE IS SOMETHING I STRONGLY AM CONVINCED IS TRUE and I am afraid WAY too many pathologically conceited, arrogant, and incredulous Baha’is in denial, especially of the deluded derelect dufus boomer Generation, complacent DISAGREE:
Former child victims who redress grievances truthfully and honestly are not committing “discord”. Even though memories sometimes are suppressed for a very long time (40 years or more. There maybe legal “statute of limitations” but there are no spiritual statute of limitations to incite Justice “the best beloved of all things”), as an adult survivor, who was a former child victim, that adult has the right and duty to testify his experience and whistle blow. It goes against equity, goodwill and conscience to aid and abet coverup against trauma based mind control.
“31 O Son of Being! Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds. ” – Baha’u’llah
re: 1:04:50+ “WHETHER IT’S JUST or NOT” “2 O Son of Spirit! The best beloved of all things in My sight is Justice; turn not away therefrom if thou desirest Me, and neglect it not that I may confide in thee. By its aid thou shalt see with thine own eyes and not through the eyes of others, and shalt know of thine own knowledge and not through the knowledge of thy neighbor. Ponder this in thy heart; how it behooveth thee to be. Verily justice is My gift to thee and the sign of My loving-kindness. Set it then before thine eyes.” – Baha’u’llah
I don’t know if 1:04:58 “JUST or not” was meant to be said with a different context or not, but when someone throws out the word “Just” as in “Justice” and someone is redressing grievances for a horrible crime committed on them as a totally defenseless child a long, long, long time ago, for you as an individual to pontificate and adjudicate “whether” that Witness’s testimony is ” just or not” IS NOT how Baha’i administration works. You have 9 member spiritual assemblies that must consult and adjudicate on what constitutes “discord”! And they’re not any military or police authority in any government anywhere in the world. You don’t get to immediately say someone else’s accusations are absolutely lacking credibility. REDRESSING grievances and critique-ing people who we disagree with us is our prerogative, with emotional angst GRANTED 1st amendment of the U.S Constitution. New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)
If any Baha’is expect me to believe that Simon Campbell here is
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/376/254/ “Thus, we consider this case against the background of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials. ”
IMHO there’s a lot of confusion in strong differing opinions that absolutely must be discerned!
NO one Living indidivual Baha’i gets to play Judge, Jury, and Executioner! the only Authoritive individuals (who even they don’t think they were individuals in the matter) were the Central Figures Baha’u’llah, Abdu’l-Baha, and Shoghi Effendi, many of their words stand, core Writings of which have been thoroughly translated into English.
1:04:19 away from these people and deter people [from listening to] these type 1:04:28 of uh evildoers that may provoke dissension 1:04:37 among the people and to protect them from the prompting and the 1:04:42 evil Whisperer so concentration of 1:04:49 especially Baha’i Community related to the goal of propagating religion any kind of Discord 1:04:58 WHETHER IT’S JUST or NOT would harm the goal and create DISUNITY 1:05:06 within the community itself so this 1:05:12 is, We’re gonna beseech God to 1:05:18 Aid us to steer away from these people and making sure that they don’t impact 1:05:26 because we all live in the community and society 1:05:31 and when we are subject to this kind of Discord and 1:05:38 Malice in our mind we we’re allowed to use the same 1:05:44 technique to get back at them”
Concerted discipline to repeat God honest truth, that’s an urgent important message, even if there’s a certain amount of redundancy surrounded by deniers who will never care, is not necessarily a bad thing.
Incredulous boomer Baha’is, who were adults responsible for child safety and failed ruined a lot of peoples’ lives. They will atone for their sins and are atoning for their sins 1 way or another, even though this is going on at least 40 years ago and this blog is 10 years old now. It goes against Equity, Good Conscience, and Justice if I didn’t aid and abet their demise.
” I want people to understand that the Bahai Faith does not favor or endorse one economic system over another economic system”
Really? There are 3 very specific economic systems that The Baha’i Faith describes as “FALSE GODS!” Here’s Shoghi Effendi the Guardian of the Baha’i Faith categorically identifying 3 false gods: ” Nationalism, Racialism and Communism”. Duly noted “Capitalism” isn’t mentioned but it’s a fair bet to say that predator parasite capitalism a.k.a. as corporatism: aids and abets the 3 false gods, and is part and parcel of those 3 false gods. ” deify the state and exalt the nation above mankind” Good luck sleeping well if you were Baha’i and stupid enough to push the scamdemic jabs.
FROM THE BOOK PROMISED DAY IS COME: “The chief idols in the desecrated temple of mankind are none other than the triple gods of Nationalism, Racialism and Communism, at whose altars governments and peoples, whether democratic or totalitarian, at peace or at war, of the East or of the West, Christian or Islamic, are, in various forms and in different degrees, now worshiping. Their high priests are the politicians and the worldly-wise, the so-called sages of the age; their sacrifice, the flesh and blood of the slaughtered multitudes; their incantations outworn shibboleths and insidious and irreverent formulas; their incense, the smoke of anguish that ascends from the lacerated hearts of the bereaved, the maimed, and the homeless.
The theories and policies, so unsound, so pernicious, which deify the state and exalt the nation above mankind, which seek to subordinate the sister races of the world to one single race, which discriminate between the black and the white, and which tolerate the dominance of one privileged class over all others—these are the dark, the false, and crooked doctrines for which any man or people who believes in them, or acts upon them, must, sooner or later, incur the wrath and chastisement of God.”
0 seconds ago 32:29 Also not mention “Communism”. How can you forget communism?
4 days ago (edited) re: 7:01 Unfettered investigation of truth Hidden Words re: “ O Son of Spirit! The best beloved of all things in My sight is Justice; turn not away therefrom if thou desirest Me, and neglect it not that I may confide in thee. By its aid thou shalt see with thine own eyes and not through the eyes of others, and shalt know of thine own knowledge and not through the knowledge of thy neighbor. Ponder this in thy heart; how it behooveth thee to be. Verily justice is My gift to thee and the sign of My loving-kindness. Set it then before thine eyes. ” re: non-partisan & won’t exalt any nation or class above others. Mine own eyes and ears sees a bunch of yuppy snobby shills running the Baha’i Faith in North America, [23 minute and 26 second of Transcript of: Address to the 6th Annual Association for Bahá’í Studies Conference, Canada (1981) – Ruhiyyih Khanum says “Baha’is are becoming snobs” ] TOO often more concerned about Iranian refugee status and asylum than Baha’i ‘ principles against child endangerment, grooming into #LGBTQ+, Satanic ritual abuse, and other aberration. Mine own eyes & see-eth Satanic British free mason / old European monarchy / Tyranny & pervert imperialist dominance ruinning North America, wolves in sheeps clothing in western politicians ammoral and crooked to the core who de facto hate Baha’is by their child molesting predelictions and policies. It’s okay to critique Iranian fanatical Muslims, but somehow pervert tyrants running Western coutnries categorically against Baha’i principles is too “partisan politics”. R.I.P. David Kelly!
I don’t know who in their right mind can honestly claim to know just what other peoples’ accounts surviving narcissistic abuse are, of whom they’ve never met, from another end of the an internet connection could possibly really mean. We’re not witnesses to anyone else’s experience, but veracity or vehemence of the tone speaks volumes. And so does the vehemence of the Lyrics to the song “Tiocfaidh ár lá”
“Tiocfaidh ár lá” “And in the end, you’ll find out my friend that the Irish will always look you in the EYES!”
IT OCCURRED TO ME this Lady especially in her ” 7 DEMONIC SPIRITS Behind Narcissism/Narcissist“” video is reminding me of AT least 1 certain child abuse survivor woman I’ve met. And she is DESCRIBING their incestuous child molesting family members (1 of which is her own blood sibling brother’s and Father’s sick F-ING CRIMES) to the TEE and a LOT of what possesses that stockholm syndrome infecting my soul. Thank You!
https://youtu.be/qKoHrw3aTpk?t=204 “Be thou as a flame of fire to My enemies” Isaiah 11:6 KJV “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.” Here is the best prediction and synchronicity of what I strongly believe the 2 Total Solar eclipses of the Sun in North America Represent. August of 2017 was Leo (Lion) , and 8th of April of 2024 is in Aries (The Ram or the Lamb). I cannot personally fail to notice the 2 lamps in this theater scene in the Movie Donnie Darko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WbzSSuJ6KA&t=0s looking like 2 total solar eclipses of the sun, the paths of which cross in Saint Louis, Missouri. After witnessing Widow of that prophecized child (Shoghi Effendi), for the first time in 1974 while I myself was a child (the very child depicted making an appeal to Heaven. She will always be “Rebecca Sparrow” to me. Even if that boy is not me, His image illustrates the foundation of my soul to escape halfwit boomer parents’ treachery! 02:17:59 06 – 12. Commentary on the 11th Chapter of the Book of Isaiah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lep_whvMizI&t=8279s TEXT IS HERE https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/5#493874326 The light of heavenly love will shine and the gloomy darkness of hatred and enmity will be dispelled as far as possible. Universal peace will raise its pavilion in the midmost heart of creation and the blessed Tree of Life will so grow and flourish as to stretch its sheltering shade over the East and the West. Strong and weak, rich and poor, contending kindreds and hostile nations—which are like the wolf and the lamb, the leopard and kid, the lion and the calf—will treat one another with the utmost love, unity, justice, and equity. The earth will be filled with knowledge and learning, with the realities and mysteries of creation, and with the knowledge of God. 5 Now, in this glorious age, which is the century of Bahá’u’lláh, [ for more on Abdu’l-Baha’s commentary on Isaiah 11: https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/5#246018326 ] The Priceless Pearl by Ruhiyyih (Mary Maxwell) Khanum Chapter 1 https://bahai-library.com/khanum_priceless_pearl&chapter=1 THE CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH OF SHOGHI EFFENDI More light is thrown on this subject by the diary of Dr Yunis [page 2] Khan, who spent three months in Akka with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá during 1897, and returned in 1900 for a stay of many years. From his words we infer that, perhaps due to news having reached the West that a grandson had been born to the Master, a believer in America had written to Him that in the Bible is mentioned that after ‘Abdu’l-Bahá “a little child shall lead them” (Isaiah 11:6) and does this mean a real, live child who exists? Dr Yunis Khan was not aware, in 1897, that this question had been put and that ‘Abdu’l-Bahá had revealed the following Tablet in answer to it: IMPORTANT QUOTE “O Maidservant of God! Verily, that child is born and is alive and from him will appear wondrous things that thou wilt hear of in the future. Thou shalt behold him endowed with the most perfect appearance, supreme capacity, absolute perfection, consummate power and unsurpassed might. His face will shine with a radiance that illumines all the horizons of the world; therefore forget this not as long as thou dost live inasmuch as ages and centuries will bear traces of him. http://bahairesearch.com/english/Baha’i/Baha’i_Studies/Adib_Taherzadeh/The%20Child%20of%20the%20Covenant.aspx “[43 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, quoted in Rabbani, Priceless Pearl, p. 1.] Another believer enquired about a verse in Isaiah (11:6), ‘a little child shall lead them’, wanting to know whether this was true and whether the child who would succeed ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was then living. In response ‘Abdu’l-Bahá revealed the following Tablet: O Maidservant of God! “Verily, that child is born and is alive and from him will appear wondrous things that thou wilt hear of in the future. Thou shalt behold him endowed with the most perfect appearance, supreme capacity, absolute perfection, consummate power and unsurpassed might. His face will shine with a radiance that illumines all the horizons of the world; therefore forget this not as long as thou dost live inasmuch as ages and centuries will bear traces of him. Upon thee be greetings and praise ‘Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbas[44] [44 ibid. p. 2. (‘Abdu’l-Bahá, quoted in Rabbani, Priceless Pearl.)] However, in this Tablet ‘Abdu’l-Bahá did not reveal the identity of Shoghi Effendi as that child who would succeed Him. That the successors of the Centre of the Covenant and of Shoghi Effendi were disclosed only after the ascension of Bahá’u’lláh and of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá constitutes one of the most important features of the Covenant. Not until one grasps the purpose and significance of such”