Ala (Loftiness) 174 B.E.

Louisville, USA

“The names and attributes of Divinity are requirements of this world. The names the Powerful, the Living, the Provider, the Creator require and necessitate the existence of creatures. If there were no creatures, Creator would be meaningless. If there were none to provide for, we could not think of the Provider. If there were no life, the Living would be beyond the power of conception. Therefore, all the names and attributes of God require the existence of objects or creatures upon which they have been bestowed and in which they have become manifest.”
​-Abdu’l-Baha, Promulgation of Universal Peace​
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Haifa, Israel

“Si algún hombre se levantare para defender, en sus escritos, la Causa de Dios contra sus acometedores, tal hombre, por muy insignificante que fuere su aporte, será tan honrado en el mundo venidero que el Concurso en lo alto envidiaría su gloria. Ninguna pluma puede retratar la sublimidad de su posición, ni puede lengua alguna describir su esplendor. Porque a quienquiera que se mantenga firme y constante en esta santa, esta gloriosa y exaltada Revelación, le será dado tal poder, que lo habilitará para arrostrar y resistir todo lo que hay en el cielo y en la tierra. De esto Dios mismo es testigo.”
-Baha’u’llah, Pasajes de los Escritos de Baha’u’llah
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Chicago, USA

Preparing for our study circle during Ayyam-i-Ha!

“O ye blessed souls!
On the night of the feast ye entertained the beloved and were occupied in the service of the friends of God and the maid-servants of the Merciful One. Service to the sons and the daughters of the Kingdom is the diadem of everlasting glory with which ye have crowned your heads, the garment of eternal sovereignty with which ye have adorned your bodies, and the throne of majesty and grandeur of heaven upon which ye sat.”
-Abdul-Baha, Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
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Belair, Australia

“One of the deeds in obedience to the law is obligatory prayer. He Who is the Bearer of divine mysteries hath called it the ladder of ascent. He saith: “Obligatory prayer is a ladder of ascent for the believer.” Within it are hidden and concealed a myriad effects and benefits. Indeed, they are beyond computation. How great would be a man’s indolence and his injustice to himself if he were to abandon this ladder of ascent and attach himself to earthly treasures.”
—Baha’u’llah, The Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting by the Universal House of Justice)
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Quebec City, Canada

“The purpose of God in creating man hath been, and will ever be, to enable him to know his Creator and to attain His Presence.”
—Baha’u’llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah