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In 1914 the Master wrote to the friends in Denver concerning how to convey the message of Bahá’u’lláh: ‘The three conditions of teaching the Cause of God are the science of sociability, purity of deeds and sweetness of speech. I hope each…
Two Filipino pioneers recall [Dr. Muhajir’s] visit as the sustaining element in their difficult and lonely existence. In all the years that they were at their post they had no other vistor but him. He would arrive, tired and worn out after travelling for more than eighteen…
The first person singular seldom crept into the Master’s speech. He once told a group of New York friends that in the future the words ‘I’ and ‘Me’ and ‘Mine’ would be regarded as profane. Lua Getsinger reported that one day she…
One of the friends relates that when he first arrived in Bahrain he did not think Faizi was any different from anyone else and that, like the rest of them, he would enjoy a little flattery. He very quickly realized that not…
Faizi loved almost everyone who crossed his path. He embraced individuals so warmly that each thought he loved them more than anyone else and many felt that his relationship with them was very special and not the same as with others. The…
Mable Ives, after she married Howard Colby Ives (my father) became known to many who loved her as Rizwanea. For very many years, after they were married, my father and Rizwanea traveled and taught the Faith. It was their entire life. They…
Ms Nasrin Buroumand recalls the challenges that Dr. Muhajir set for the friends: He had come just to meet us – two Persian girls who had pioneered at his instruction…He advised us always to hurry. There was no time to be wasted….
The following recollection of Javidukt Khadem, wife of the Hand of the Cause Zikrullah Khadem, describes part of a road trip she took with Hand of the Cause Dorothy Baker. The story leads to a description of how Dorothy Baker prepared for…
In the many years of my residence at the threshold of the Master’s presence, I often wondered how and by what means was that Blessed Personage able to solve the manifold problems created by the raging storms of adversity and hardship? How…
Once there were certain Persian princes in the presence of Bahá’u’lláh. He was engaged in conversation with them and with loving-kindness sought news of their country. In the course of this interview one of the princes made the following remark: ‘How is…