"This is the Utterance of God; if only thou wouldst apprehend it!"

"This is the Counsel of God; would that thou mightest heed it! This is the Bounty of God; would that thou mightest receive it! This is the Utterance of God; if only thou wouldst apprehend it! This is the Treasure of God; if only thou couldst understand!

This is a Book which hath become the Lamp of the Eternal unto the world, and His straight, undeviating Path amidst the peoples of the earth. Say: This is the Dayspring of Divine knowledge, if ye be of them that understand, and the Dawning-place of God’s commandments, if ye be of those who comprehend."

-Bahá'u'lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, paragraphs 185-186, pp. 86-87

" ... to pulsate even as the throbbing artery in the body of mankind, that through him may be quickened the world and every crumbling bone."

"Happy are ye, O ye the learned ones in Bahá. By the Lord! Ye are the billows of the Most Mighty Ocean, the stars of the firmament of Glory, the standards of triumph waving betwixt earth and heaven. Ye are the manifestations of steadfastness amidst men and the daysprings of Divine Utterance to all that dwell on earth. Well is it with him that turneth unto you, and woe betide the froward. This day, it behoveth whoso hath quaffed the Mystic Wine of everlasting life from the Hands of the loving-kindness of the Lord his God, the Merciful, to pulsate even as the throbbing artery in the body of mankind, that through him may be quickened the world and every crumbling bone."

- Bahá'u'lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, paragraph 173, p. 82

Alberto Giacometti

Most Great House of Bahá'u'lláh, Baghdad

"Mankind’s ordered life hath been revolutionized through the agency of this unique, this wondrous System ..."

"The world’s equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating influence of this most great, this new World Order. Mankind’s ordered life hath been revolutionized through the agency of this unique, this wondrous System—the like of which mortal eyes have never witnessed."

-Bahá'u'lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, paragraph 181, p. 85

“Verily, there is none other God but Me, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.”

"We, verily, see amongst you him who taketh hold of the Book of God and citeth from it proofs and arguments wherewith to repudiate his Lord, even as the followers of every other Faith sought reasons in their Holy Books for refuting Him Who is the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. Say: God, the True One, is My witness that neither the Scriptures of the world, nor all the books and writings in existence, shall, in this Day, avail you aught without this, the Living Book, Who proclaimeth in the midmost heart of creation: “Verily, there is none other God but Me, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.”"

-Bahá'u'lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, paragraph 168, pp. 80-81

"We have assigned to every end a means for its accomplishment ..."

"We have assigned to every end a means for its accomplishment; avail yourselves thereof, and place your trust and confidence in God, the Omniscient, the All-Wise."

-Bahá'u'lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, paragraph 160, p. 77

"With shattered hearts, we have received news of the destruction of the Most Great House--the House of Bahá’u’lláh in Baghdad."

TO: All National Spiritual Assemblies 

DATE: 27 June 2013 

" With shattered hearts, we have received news of the destruction of the Most Great House--the House of Bahá’u’lláh in Baghdad. While the precise circumstances attending this outrageous violation are as yet unclear, its immediate consequence is without doubt, and must be emphatically stated: 

 The peoples of the world have been robbed of a sanctuary of incalculable sacredness. 

 So deplorable an act, coming on the eve of the unprecedented worldwide convocation of Bahá’u’lláh's young followers and their friends, calls to mind that mysterious interplay of crisis and victory through which His indestructible, irrepressible, inexorable purpose will finally be consummated. 

We supplicate the Blessed Beauty to confer upon His faithful followers throughout the world 

fortitude and resolve in the face of this grievous blow. 

 More information will be provided as it becomes available."

    The Universal House of Justice 

 "Praised be Thou, O Lord my God! Thou art He the excellence of Whose glory hath exalted them who are the sources of authority and honor, the potency of Whose might hath empowered them who are the fountain-heads of energy and strength, the dominion of Whose will hath elevated the Exponents of Thy Cause above all that are in heaven and on earth, and the life-giving effusions of Whose Pen have quickened the souls of the denizens of the kingdom of creation.

I am he, O my Lord, who, wholly for Thy sake, hath turned his face unto Thee, and who, while acknowledging Thy power and Thy sovereignty, hath directed his steps towards Thy dearly-loved Sanctuary, and Thine adored and hallowed Court. In this state I have reached the City (Baghdád) wherein, in the full glory of Thy names, Thou didst reveal Thy Self unto all created things. In it I have communed with Thy loved ones, and from the House within its walls I have inhaled the breaths of Thy holiness and perceived the fragrances of Thy fellowship.

Cast me not from Thy presence, O my Lord, neither do Thou drive me away from the shores of Thy love and Thy good-pleasure. For the poor can find no refuge unless he knocketh at the door of Thy wealth, and the outcast can find no peace until he be admitted to the court of Thy favor.

 Magnified be Thy name, O my Lord, for Thou hast enabled me to recognize the Manifestation of Thine own Self, and hast caused me to be assured of the truth of the verses which have descended upon Thee. Empower me, I implore Thee, to cling steadfastly unto whatsoever Thou hast bidden me observe. Help me to guard the pearls of Thy love which, by Thy decree, Thou hast enshrined within my heart. Send down, moreover, every moment of my life, O my God, that which will preserve me from any one but Thee, and will set my feet firm in Thy Cause.

Thou art, verily, the God of glory, the God of power, the God of knowledge and wisdom. No God is there beside Thee, the Great Giver, the All-Bountiful, the Almighty, the Ever-Forgiving.

 Praised be God, the All-Glorious, the All-Compelling."

-Bahá'u'lláh, Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh, CV, pp. 175-177