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Back in 1975 my wife and I went on pilgrimage to the Baha'i Holy Places around Haifa and Bahji. Each pilgrimage is unique and we were happy to meet Ruhiyyih Khanum and Ali Akhbar Furutan. We also me Fujita the Gardiner for the shrines. We took tours of the prison fortress of Akka and saw...

Yes Tone and Allah-u-Abha! The Feast prayers I'm posting have been used in my community awhile and I thought I'd share them here.... You could share your favorites. We could share! Art

Baha'is will be observing the Feast of Izzat September 7th. The prayers can be selected by the members of the community hosting the Feast. Baha'i Feasts are held every nineteen days according to the Baha'i Calendar. I'm sharing here some of the prayers that could be in the devotional part of...

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The Feast of Asma will be held Wednesday - Thursday this week and there are some prayers and meditations I'll post here: It hath been ordained that every believer in God, the Lord of Judgement, shall, each day, having washed his hands and then his face, seat himself and, turning unto God...

I hadn't seen this topic earlier but when I first joined this forum the Baha'i Faith was listed here as Abrahamic. I did write a small piece in Quora under the topic: Do Baha’is identify their Faith as Abrahamic? I would say yes for two reasons… The first reason: Abdul-Baha as well as the...

Wil! Good to read your post! Right there's a Local Spiritual Assembly elected with nine believers for a given jurisdiction. Some cities have under nine believers so they have a "Baha'i Group". Los Angeles has a large Baha'i Community and due to their size they could hold Feasts at various...

Hey Cino.... ! Thanks for posting! Baha'i communities are based on civil boundaries or jurisdictions. So my community is relatively small in a City and we've had an Assembly (elected by adult believers) since 1973 varying in size. Lately due to the limits in our state as set by the virus...

Baha'i Feasts are held every nineteen days on the Baha'i Calendar: The community gathers at Feasts and the program has three parts: (1) A devotional program of readings followed by (2) a business section with reports and (3) ending with a social/refreshment session. In most Baha'i...

Excerpt from the Súriy-i-Aḥzán - Súrih of Sorrows (Many Baha'is read the following on the commemoration of the Martyrdom of the Bab.) Would that thou wert standing at this moment before the Throne and couldst hear how the melodies of eternity issue from the Temple of Bahá! By the one true God...

The following was compiled by David Merrick in 2008: This is the story of the final days of the Báb, who appeared in Persia in 1844 to challenge and reform the corruption of the land, and introduce to the world the appearance of Bahá'u'lláh and a new world Faith. Imprisoned in the Castle of...

I'll be posting more information about the Martyrdom of the Bab which is commemorated on Friday July 9th later...

Baha’is around the world celebrate the 22nd of May, 1844 as the day of the Declaration of the Bab, who was the forerunner of Baha’u’llah, the founder of the Baha’i Faith. (The date to commemorate this joyous historic occasion shifts within the Gregorian calendar from year to year but according...

First Day of Ridván (meaning “Paradise” in Arabic) — the most important of the Bahá’í holy days. It is the day on which Bahá’u’lláh declared His mission as a Messenger of God. 20 April 21 April Ninth Day of Ridván, the day on which Bahá’u’lláh’s family joined Him in the Garden of Ridván...

Newly translated prayers of Abdul-Baha: He is God. O God, my God! With utter lowliness and fervour, humility and devotion, I implore Thee with my tongue and my heart, with my spirit and my soul, and with my mind and my conscience, to grant the most cherished of all desires, destine the most...

This is, O my God, the first of the days on which Thou hast bidden Thy loved ones to observe the Fast. I ask of Thee by Thy Self and by him who hath fasted out of love for Thee and for Thy good-pleasure—and not out of self and desire, nor out of fear of Thy wrath—and by Thy most excellent names...

Baha'is around the world will begin a Nineteen Day Fast beginning at sunrise tomorrow March 1st. From the age of fifteen years to seventy years of age Baha'is abstain from solid food and liquids between sunrise and sunset for nineteen days. Read more at Fasting | What Bahá’ís Believe There...

Ayyám-i-Há (this year of 2021) will begin in the evening of Wednesday February 24th and ends in the evening of Sunday February 28. During Ayyam-i-Ha (translated as “Days of Joy” or “Days outside of time“) Baha'is and friends perform acts of charity, give gifts to friends and family and attend...