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14:5014:50, 16 July 2026 Service to loved ones is service to God (hist | edit) [538 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Servitude to God lies in servitude to the friends== "Servitude to God lieth in servitude to the friends. One must be the essence of humility and the embodiment of meekness. One must become evanescence itself and be healed of every disease of the self, in order to become worthy of thraldom to the Threshold of the Almighty." :(From a Tablet of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá—translated from the Persian; in ''Give Me Thy Grace to Serve Thy Loved Ones'', no. [https://bahai-libra...")
14:3114:31, 16 July 2026 Preference for recognizing God even over parents and children (hist | edit) [727 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==After recognizing the oneness of God, the fruit best befitting the tree of human life is regard for the rights due to one's parents== "The fruits that best befit the tree of human life are trustworthiness and godliness, truthfulness and sincerity; but greater than all, after recognition of the unity of God, praised and glorified be He, is regard for the rights that are due to one's parents. This teaching hath been mentioned in all the Books of God, and reaffirmed by t...")
14:2614:26, 16 July 2026 Revelation like a sword (hist | edit) [3,845 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==The heavenly sword separates believer from infidel, father from son== "And further He saith: "Out of his mouth goeth a two-edged sword." Know thou that since the sword is an instrument that divideth and cleaveth asunder, and since there proceedeth from the mouth of the Prophets and the Chosen Ones of God that which separateth the believer from the infidel and the lover from the beloved, this term hath been so employed, and apart from this dividing and separating no ot...")
12:0812:08, 16 July 2026 Speaking and the Holy Spirit (hist | edit) [1,798 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==The breathings of the Holy Spirit will loosen thy tongue== "Rest assured that the breathings of the Holy Spirit will loosen thy tongue. Speak, therefore; speak out with great courage at every meeting. When thou art about to begin thine address, turn first to Bahá'u'lláh, and ask for the confirmations of the Holy Spirit, then open thy lips and say whatever is suggested to thy heart; this, however, with the utmost courage, dignity and conviction. It is my hope that fr...")
10:4910:49, 16 July 2026 Evil spirits (hist | edit) [6,905 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Evil influences both in this world and the next but there are no evil spirits== "In regard to your question concerning evil spirits and their influence upon souls, Shoghi Effendi wishes me to inform you that what is generally called evil spirit is a purely imaginary creation and has no reality whatever. But as to evil, there is no doubt that it exerts a very strong influence both in this world and in the next. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in the 'Some Answered Questions' giv...")
08:0108:01, 16 July 2026 The workers are few (hist | edit) [2,411 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
04:0904:09, 16 July 2026 Healing (hist | edit) [165 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
04:0204:02, 16 July 2026 No need to seek elsewhere when the Manifestation of God is present (hist | edit) [882 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
03:3503:35, 16 July 2026 Sinners are called rather than the righteous (hist | edit) [1,037 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==The one who views themselves a sinner is seen as acceptable== {{PilgrimsNote|Our Lord: "We ought to pray for Miss X, that she may become just as God wishes her to be. If she be so, it will be very good, because God always loves those who repent and are sorry for what they have done. Such people are ashamed before God and become very humble. "Once a Pharisee and a Publican entered the Temple to pray. The Pharisee said: 'Thank God I am not as other men.' The other said...")
03:2003:20, 16 July 2026 Hypocrisy (hist | edit) [4,258 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)

22:2522:25, 15 July 2026 Let the dead bury the dead (hist | edit) [13,215 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
09:3309:33, 15 July 2026 Take up thy cross (hist | edit) [3,425 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
09:2409:24, 15 July 2026 Diary of Juliet Thompson (hist | edit) [186 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Pilgrims' notes'' by an early American Bahá'í who met 'Abdu'l-Bahá.'' Category:Pilgrims' notes")
09:2209:22, 15 July 2026 Juliet Thompson (hist | edit) [44 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Books== * ''Diary of Juliet Thompson''")
09:2209:22, 15 July 2026 The price of following the Manifestation of God (hist | edit) [75 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)

05:2905:29, 14 July 2026 Jesus having nowhere to lay His head (hist | edit) [2,802 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Jesus could not find a place to abide because of what the treacherous had wrought== "He that married not could find no place wherein to abide, nor where to lay His head, by reason of what the hands of the treacherous had wrought. His holiness consisted not in the things ye have believed and imagined, but rather in the things which belong unto Us. Ask, that ye may be made aware of His station which hath been exalted above the vain imaginings of all the peoples of the e...")

05:5505:55, 13 July 2026 Leprosy (hist | edit) [1,161 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
05:1505:15, 13 July 2026 Persecution (hist | edit) [150 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==See also== * Opposition ==To-dos for this page== * Add quotations specific to persecution rather than mere opposition Category:Persecution")
05:0105:01, 13 July 2026 Knowing them by their fruits (hist | edit) [615 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
04:3104:31, 13 July 2026 Narrow is the way (hist | edit) [945 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
04:2604:26, 13 July 2026 J. E. Esslemont (hist | edit) [103 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''A Hand of the Cause of God''. ==Books== * Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era Category:People")
04:1104:11, 13 July 2026 Seek and you will find (hist | edit) [408 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
04:0604:06, 13 July 2026 Golden Rule (hist | edit) [296 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Blessed is the one who prefers his brother before himself== "Blessed is he who preferreth his brother before himself." :(Bahá'u'lláh, ''Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed After the Kitáb-i-Aqdas'', Kalímát-i-Firdawsíyyih, p. tb:71)")
03:1903:19, 13 July 2026 Not speaking unless given a hearing (hist | edit) [1,879 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
00:0600:06, 13 July 2026 Not to hoard riches and count them (hist | edit) [900 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)

23:5323:53, 12 July 2026 Not to be ostentatious in fasting (hist | edit) [880 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==How many who subject themselves to austerities before the gaze of others to perpetuate their names== "...how many those who subsist on the coarsest bread, who take for their only seat the grass of the field, and who undergo every manner of hardship, merely to maintain their superiority in the eyes of men! Thus do We expose their deeds, that this may serve as a warning unto others. These are the ones who subject themselves to all manner of austerities before the gaze o...")
19:4619:46, 12 July 2026 Not to be ostentatious with righteousness (hist | edit) [611 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
19:4119:41, 12 July 2026 Lord's Prayer (hist | edit) [576 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
19:2019:20, 12 July 2026 Loving one's enemies (hist | edit) [4,763 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
18:4618:46, 12 July 2026 Turning the other cheek (hist | edit) [4,164 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
00:3500:35, 12 July 2026 Lust (hist | edit) [105 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
00:2600:26, 12 July 2026 Litigiousness (hist | edit) [1,339 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)

22:2322:23, 11 July 2026 Priority for certain social duties over devotional duties (hist | edit) [553 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Priority of service to parents over direct service to God== "Should anyone give you a choice between the opportunity to render a service to Me and a service to them, choose ye to serve them, and let such service be a path leading you to Me. This is My exhortation and command unto thee. Observe therefore that which thy Lord, the Mighty, the Gracious, hath prescribed unto thee." :(Bahá'u'lláh: Family Life, A Compilation of the Universal House of Justice, in ''...")
12:2612:26, 11 July 2026 Not to be content with relative distinction (hist | edit) [963 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Chosen ones of God should not be content with relative distinction and excellence== "The chosen ones of God ... should not look at the depraved conditions of the society in which they live, nor at the evidences of moral degradation and frivolous conduct which the people around them display. They should not content themselves merely with relative distinction and excellence. Rather they should fix their gaze upon nobler heights by setting the counsels and exhortations o...")
12:2412:24, 11 July 2026 Not to deny God's servants (hist | edit) [322 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Deny not God's servant should he ask anything from you== "O SON OF MAN! Deny not My servant should he ask anything from thee, for his face is My face; be then abashed before Me." :(Bahá'u'lláh, ''Hidden Words'', from the Arabic, no. hwa:30) ==See also== * Begging Category:Religious concepts")
12:1812:18, 11 July 2026 Purity (hist | edit) [85 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Tablets== * Tablet of Purity ==See also== * Chastity Category:Virtues")
08:2708:27, 11 July 2026 Fulfillment of the Law (hist | edit) [2,434 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
06:3906:39, 11 July 2026 Fanaticism (hist | edit) [693 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
06:2906:29, 11 July 2026 Cleanliness (hist | edit) [218 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Manifestations of cleanliness== * Self-cleaning * Hygiene * Bathing ==See also== * Tablet of Purity ==To-dos for this page== * Add quotations on cleanliness being a virtue Category:Cleanliness")
06:2706:27, 11 July 2026 Universal education (hist | edit) [123 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
06:2606:26, 11 July 2026 Those arguing are both wrong (hist | edit) [719 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==If divided, both sides to a difference are wrong; if united, they are both right== "During the days of Bahá'u'lláh some of the prominent teachers of the Cause in Persia were divided as to the station of Bahá'u'lláh and at last wrote to Him for arbitration. In answer Bahá'u'lláh said that if they were united both sides were right and if they were divided both were wrong. The Master often denied Himself any station just to maintain the unity of the friends for tha...")
06:2406:24, 11 July 2026 Religion must be the cause of unity (hist | edit) [345 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Religion is for unity == "The religion of God is for love and unity; make it not the cause of enmity or dissension." :(Bahá'u'lláh, Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Revealed After the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p. 220) ==See also== * Unity * Religion * Harmony of science and religion * Interfaith Category:Religious concepts")
06:1806:18, 11 July 2026 House of Justice (hist | edit) [1,662 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "May refer to: * Universal House of Justice * National House of Justice (currently the National Spiritual Assembly) * Local House of Justice (currently the Local Spiritual Assembly) ==Local and National Spiritual Assemblies to volve in the future into local and national Houses of Justice== "This clearly places heavy responsibilities on the local as well as national Assemblies, which in the course of time will evolve, with the Master's power and guidance, in...")
06:0906:09, 11 July 2026 Prejudice (hist | edit) [146 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Types== * Freedom from racial prejudice * Freedom from religious prejudice * Freedom from national prejudice")
06:0406:04, 11 July 2026 Ritual (hist | edit) [878 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)

23:0023:00, 9 July 2026 Divorce law relating to fines (hist | edit) [2,266 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
22:5122:51, 9 July 2026 Shaving one's head (hist | edit) [1,995 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Not to shave one's head== "Shave not your heads; God hath adorned them with hair, and in this there are signs from the Lord of creation to those who reflect upon the requirements of nature. He, verily, is the God of strength and wisdom. Notwithstanding, it is not seemly to let the hair pass beyond the limit of the ears. Thus hath it been decreed by Him Who is the Lord of all worlds." :(Bahá'u'lláh, ''Kitáb-i-Aqdas'', par. 44) :"Shaving one's hea...")
04:2804:28, 9 July 2026 Cursing and execration (hist | edit) [1,930 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (https://bahai-library.com/gulpaygani_brilliant_proof)

04:3804:38, 8 July 2026 Salt of the earth (hist | edit) [3,320 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (+page)
02:5802:58, 8 July 2026 Salt (hist | edit) [65 bytes] Brettz9 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "==Phrases== * Salt of the earth Category:Food and drink")

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