Happy Declaration of the Báb!

 

The Shrine of the Báb on Mt. Carmel, Photo by Dina Sandgreen

“I am, I am, I am the Promised One! I am the One Whose name you have for a thousand years invoked, at Whose mention you have risen, Whose advent you have longed to witness, and the hour of Whose Revelation you have prayed God to hasten. Verily, I say, it is incumbent upon the peoples of both the East and the West to obey My word, and to pledge allegiance to My person.” 
-The Báb

"The essence of all that We have revealed for thee is Justice ..."

 

Antigua by Margo Davis

The essence of all that We have revealed for thee is Justice, is for man to free himself from idle fancy and imitation, discern with the eye of oneness His glorious handiwork, and look into all things with a searching eye.

(Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh)
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"The essence of wealth is love for Me ..."

 

The essence of wealth is love for Me; whoso loveth Me is the possessor of all things, and he that loveth Me not is indeed of the poor and needy. This is that which the Finger of Glory and Splendor hath revealed.

(Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh)
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"The beginning of magnanimity is ..."

 

The beginning of magnanimity is when man expendeth his wealth on himself, on his family and on the poor among his brethren in his Faith.

(Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh)
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"The essence of true safety is to observe silence ..."

The essence of true safety is to observe silence, to look at the end of things and to renounce the world.

(Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh)
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"The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds ..."

 

Royal_Poinciana photo by Trina Ridvan

The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds; he whose words exceed his deeds, know verily his death is better than his life.

(Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh)
www.bahai.org/r/146497714

"The essence of charity is for the servant to recount the blessings of his Lord ..."

 

© Chuck Egerton 2025

The essence of charity is for the servant to recount the blessings of his Lord, and to render thanks unto Him at all times and under all conditions.

(Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh)
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