Nur (Light) 181 B.E.

Cairns, Australia

“I pray God to make thy home a center for the radiation of light and the glowing of His love in the hearts of His people. Know that in every home when God is praised and prayed to, and His Kingdom proclaimed, that home is a garden of God and a paradise of His happiness.”
-‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

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Menai Strait, Wales

“O SON OF SPIRIT! I created thee rich, why dost thou bring thyself down to poverty? Noble I made thee, wherewith dost thou abase thyself? Out of the essence of knowledge I gave thee being, why seekest thou enlightenment from anyone beside Me? Out of the clay of love I molded thee, how dost thou busy thyself with another? Turn thy sight unto thyself, that thou mayest find Me standing within thee, mighty, powerful and self-subsisting.”
-Bahá’u’lláh, The Hidden Words of Bahá’u’lláh

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Gloucester, MA, USA

“I am the Primal Point from which have been generated all created things. I am the Countenance of God Whose splendour can never be obscured, the Light of God Whose radiance can never fade. Whoso recognizeth Me, assurance and all good are in store for him.”
-The Báb, Selections from the Writings of the Báb, “Extracts from an Epistle to Muḥammad Sháh”

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Victoria, BC, Canada

O Lord so rich in bounty, so replete with grace, Whose knowledge doth mine inmost heart and soul embrace! At morn, the solace of my soul is none but Thee; The knower of my loss and woe is none but Thee. The heart that for a moment hath Thy mention known Will seek no friend save longing pain for Thee alone. Withered be the heart that sigheth not for Thee, And better blind the eye that crieth not for Thee! In all mine hours of deepest gloom, O Lord of might, My heart hath Thy remembrance for a shining light. Do, through Thy favour, breathe Thy spirit into me, That what hath never been may thus forever be. Consider not our merit and our worth, O Lord of bounty, but the grace Thou pourest forth. Upon these broken-winged birds whose flight is slow Out of Thy tender mercy newfound wings bestow.

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Cornwall, England

“Knowledge is a light which God casteth into the heart of whomsoever He willeth.”
-‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Secret of Divine Civilization

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Adelaide, South Australia

“Behold, then, O my God, how Thy Light hath been compassed with the onrushing winds of Thy decree, how the tempests that blow and beat upon it from every side have added to its brightness and increased its splendor. For all this let Thee be praised.”
-Baha’u’llah, Prayers and Meditations

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Wilmette, IL, USA

“At a time when darkness had encompassed the world, the ocean of divine favour surged and His Light was made manifest, that the doings of men might be laid bare. This, verily, is that Light which hath been foretold in the heavenly scriptures. Should the Almighty so please, the hearts of all men will be purged and purified through His goodly utterance, and the light of unity will shed its radiance upon every soul and revive the whole earth.”
-Bahá’u’lláh, The Tabernacle of Unity

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Tailem Bend, Australia

“The education and training of children is among the most meritorious acts of humankind and draweth down the grace and favor of the All-Merciful, for education is the indispensable foundation of all human excellence and alloweth man to work his way to the heights of abiding glory.”
–‘Abdu’l‑Bahá, Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá

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Outer Banks, NC, USA

Dawn prayers at the Outer Banks

“Say: This is the Dawn whereat the hidden Essence and the unseen Treasure were made manifest, the Dawn whereat the Ancient Beauty seized the cup of immortality with the hands of glory and, having first quaffed therefrom, proffered it unto all the peoples of the earth, high and low alike. All glory, then, to the one who hath approached this cup, taken it up, and drunk therefrom for the love of his Lord, the All-Powerful, the Most High!”
-Bahá’u’lláh, Lawḥ-i-Mawlúd (Tablet of the Birth)