“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 181 B. E. – Ḥubb/Love– Month 17 – Sulṭán/Sovereignty
As long as the sovereignty of God
is immemorial,
therefore the creation of our world
throughout infinity is presupposed.
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Foundations of World Unity, p. 53)
Day 15 Masáʼil/Questions & Jalál/Glory
Saturday, February 1st, 2025
Thanks be to God,
that in this new cycle the admonition
of Bahá’u’lláh is that in the search for truth
man must weigh religious questions
in the balance of science and reason.
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Divine Philosophy, p. 102)
Hath the earth conceived Him
whom the veils of glory prevent not
from ascending into the Kingdom of His Lord,
the Mighty, the Supreme?
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, A Traveller’s Narrative, p. 79)
Day 16 S͟haraf/Honour & Jamál/Beauty
Sunday, February 2nd, 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)
This is a brilliant century.
Eyes are now open to the beauty
of the oneness of humanity,
of love and of brotherhood.
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London, p. 54)
Day 17 Sulṭán/Sovereignty & Kamál/Perfection
Monday, February 3rd, 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)
But the spirit of man has two aspects:
one divine, one satanic —
that is to say, it is capable of the utmost perfection,
or it is capable of the utmost imperfection.
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, p. 144)
Day 18 Mulk/Dominion & Fidál/Grace
Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
Were the dominions of the whole,
entire earth to be thine,
it would not equal this great dominion
which is no other than spreading the guidance of God.
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá v2, p. 254)
Just as the reality of divinity is limitless,
likewise his grace and bounties are limitless.
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Divine Philosophy, p. 169-170)
Day 19 ʻAláʼ/Loftiness & Idál/Justice
Wednesday, February 5th, 2025
Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling
in the loftiness of their heavenly station.
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 8)
The just king is the shadow of God in the earth;
all should take refuge
under the shadow of his justice
and rest in the shade of his favor.
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, A Traveller’s Narrative, p. 65)
Year 181 B. E. – Ḥubb/Love– Month 18– Mulk/Dominion
Everlastingly that luminous Entity
hath been sitting on the throne of might
and everlastingly It will have a penetrating dominion
over the worlds of existence.
This dominion is eternal and everlasting
and has no abrupt end.
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Baháv 3, p. 659)
Day 1 Bahá/Splendour & Istijlál/Majesty
Thursday, February 6th, 2025
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)
Unto Him pertaineth all glory and majesty
in the kingdoms of Revelation and Creation
and whatever lieth between them.
(The Báb, Selections from the Writings of The Báb, p. 171)
Day 2 Jalál/Glory & Istiqlál/Independence
Friday, February 7th, 2025
GLORY be unto Him Who knoweth
all that is in the heavens and in the earth.
(The Báb, Selections from the Writings of The Báb, p. 17)
We are but the embodiments of poverty,
of nothingness, of helplessness and of perdition,
while Thy whole Being betokeneth
wealth, independence, glory, majesty
and boundless grace.
(The Báb, Selections from the Writings of The Báb, p. 179)
“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