“The Word of God
is the king of words
and its pervasive influence is incalculable.
It hath ever dominated
and will continue to dominate
the realm of being…
…The Word is the master key for the whole world
inasmuch through its potency
the doors of the hearts of men,
which in reality are the doors of heaven,
are unlocked…”
Bahá’u’lláh
Year 182 B. E. – Bahháj/Delightful – Month 5 – Núr/Light
I am the Countenance of God
Whose splendour can never be obscured,
the Light of God Whose radiance can never fade.
(The Báb, Selections From the Writings of the Báb, p.12)
Day 11 Mas͟híyyat/Will & Jalál/Glory
Saturday, June 14th, 2025
No sooner, however,
had the Day Star of His Revelation manifested itself
in the heaven of God’s Will, than all,
except those whom the Almighty was pleased to guide,
were found dumbfounded and heedless.
(Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, p.11)
Beware lest ye be hindered
by the veils of glory
from partaking of the crystal waters
of this living Fountain.
(Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 37)
Day 12 ʻIlm/Knowledge & Jamál/Beauty
Sunday, June 15th, 2025
Further, we have harkened to
what the nightingale of knowledge sang
on the boughs of the tree of thy being,
and learned what the dove of certitude cried
on the branches of the bower of thy heart.
(Bahá’u’lláh, The Seven Valleys, p. 2)
Nay, by the Beauty of Him Who is the All-Glorified!
could ye but know it.
(Bahá’u’lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p. 54)
Day 13 Qudrat/Power & Kamál/Perfection
Monday, June 16th, 2025
He stretcheth out the hand of truth
from the sleeve of the Absolute;
he revealeth the secrets of power.
(Bahá’u’lláh, The Seven Valleys, p. 17)
These idols form the obstacle
that impedeth man in his efforts
to advance in the path of perfection.
(Bahá’u’lláh, Tablets of Baha’u’llah, p. 86)
Day 14 Qawl/Speech & Fidál/Grace
Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
The tongue faileth in describing these three Valleys,
and speech falleth short.
(Bahá’u’lláh, The Seven Valleys, p. 30)
Immeasurably exalted is this boundless grace;
immensely blessed is this resplendent favour.
(Bahá’u’lláh, Tablets of Baha’u’llah, p. 78)
Day 15 Masáʼil/Questions & Idál/Justice
Wednesday, June 18th, 2025
Now, all questions of morality contained in the spiritual,
immutable law of every religion are logically right.
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Paris Talks, p. 142)
Justice, love and kindness
must be the instruments of strength,
not of weakness.
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Divine Philosophy, p. 99)
Day 16 S͟haraf/Honour & Istijlál/Majesty
Thursday, June 19th, 2025
Christ was the Prophet of the Christians, Moses of the Jews
— why should not the followers
of each prophet recognize
and honour the other prophets also?
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Paris Talks, p. 49)
When this objective creation is unlimited
and not subject to suspension,
is not the subjective creation
of His Majesty the Almighty limitless?
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Divine Philosophy, p. 168)
Day 17 Sulṭán/Sovereignty & Istiqlál/Independence
Friday, June 20th, 2025
It is a spiritual world, a divine world,
and the center of the Sovereignty of God;
it is freed from body and that which is corporeal,
and it is purified and sanctified
from the imaginations of the human world.
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, p. 241)
Because a characteristic
of contingent beings is dependency,
and this dependency is an essential necessity,
therefore, there must be an independent being
whose independence is essential.
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, p. 6)
“The understanding of His words
and the comprehension of the utterances of the Birds of Heaven
are in no wise dependent upon human learning.
They depend solely upon purity of heart,
chastity of soul,
freedom of spirit.”
Bahá’u’lláh