God Passes By

While the fabric of the Administrative Order of the Faith of Baha'u'llah gradually arose, and while through the influence of unforeseen forces the independence of the Faith was...

With the passing of 'Abdu'l-Baha the first century of the Baha'i era, whose inception had synchronized with His birth, had run more than three quarters of its course. Seventy-se...

The Faith that had stirred a whole nation to its depth, for whose sake thousands of precious and heroic souls had been immolated and on whose altar He Who had been its Author ha...

While Baha'u'llah and the little band that bore Him company were being subjected to the severe hardships of a banishment intended to blot them from the face of the earth, the st...

The return of Baha'u'llah from Sulaymaniyyih to Ba_gh_dad marks a turning point of the utmost significance in the history of the first Baha'i century. The tide of the fortunes o...

The attempt on the life of Nasiri'd-Din _Sh_ah, as stated in a previous chapter, was made on the 28th of the month of _Sh_avval, 1268 A.H., corresponding to the 15th of August,...

A twenty-year-old Faith had just begun to recover from a series of successive blows when a crisis of the first magnitude overtook it and shook it to its roots. Neither the tragi...

The period of the Bab's banishment to the mountains of A_dh_irbayjan, lasting no less than three years, constitutes the saddest, the most dramatic, and in a sense the most pregn...

The establishment of the Faith of Baha'u'llah in the Western Hemisphere--the most outstanding achievement that will forever be associated with 'Abdu'l-Baha's ministry--had, as o...

The train of dire events that followed in swift succession the calamitous attempt on the life of Nasiri'd-Din _Sh_ah mark, as already observed, the termination of the Babi Dispe...

May 23, 1844, signalizes the commencement of the most turbulent period of the Heroic Age of the Baha'i Era, an age which marks the opening of the most glorious epoch in the grea...

The arrival of Baha'u'llah in Akka marks the opening of the last phase of His forty-year long ministry, the final stage, and indeed the climax, of the banishment in which the wh...

'Abdu'l-Baha's historic journeys to the West, and in particular His eight-month tour of the United States of America, may be said to have marked the culmination of His ministry,...

The Bab's captivity in a remote corner of A_dh_irbayjan, immortalized by the proceedings of the Conference of Bada_sh_t, and distinguished by such notable developments as the pu...

Well nigh half a century had passed since the inception of the Faith. Cradled in adversity, deprived in its infancy of its Herald and Leader, it had been raised from the dust, i...

'Abdu'l-Baha's great work was now ended. The historic Mission with which His Father had, twenty-nine years previously, invested Him had been gloriously consummated. A memorable...

While the initial steps aiming at the erection of the framework of the Administrative Order of the Faith of Baha'u'llah were being simultaneously undertaken by His followers in...

The waves of dire tribulation that violently battered at the Faith, and eventually engulfed, in rapid succession, the ablest, the dearest and most trusted disciples of the Bab,...

The arrival of Baha'u'llah in the Najibiyyih Garden, subsequently designated by His followers the Garden of Ridvan, signalizes the commencement of what has come to be recognized...

Though the rebellion of Mirza Muhammad-'Ali precipitated many sombre and distressing events, and though its dire consequences continued for several years to obscure the light of...

The institutions signalizing the rise and establishment of the Administrative Order of the Faith of Baha'u'llah did not (as the history of their unfoldment abundantly demonstrat...

The outstanding accomplishments of a valiant and sorely-tested community, the first fruits of Baha'u'llah's newly established Covenant in the Western world, had laid a foundatio...

The immediate effect of the ascension of Baha'u'llah had been, as already observed, to spread grief and bewilderment among his followers and companions, and to inspire its vigil...

On the 23rd of May of this auspicious year the Baha'i world will celebrate the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Faith of Baha'u'llah. It will commemorate at once th...

I have in the preceding chapters endeavored to trace the rise and progress of the Faith associated with the Bab and Baha'u'llah during the first fifty years of its existence. If...

'Abdu'l-Baha's unexpected and dramatic release from His forty-year confinement dealt a blow to the ambitions cherished by the Covenant-breakers as devastating as that which, a d...