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  • The Equality of Men and Women

    When ‘Abdu’l-Bahá talked about the problems and challenges humanity must deal with during His travels in Europe and the United States and Canada from 1910 to 1913, He brought up the equality of men and women—a question that, where it has been unaddressed, is causing a crisis in society (and families) and consequently a threat to the social structure.

  • Traditions Differ From Truth

    Knowledge of the truth is the goal of religions. Its progressive revelation in pro- portions corresponding to human spiritual capacity should not be a cause for discord and strife between people.

  • Movement and Life

    In December 1911, ‘Abdu’l- Bahá returned from His tour in London and Paris to spend the winter months in the city of Alexandria and prepare for His journey to America and Canada the following year. The flow of visitors to His residence continued all through the months of the winter…

  • The Springtime of the Soul Returns

    ‘A bdu’l-Bahá’s stay in Paris for the months of October and November 1911 afforded His hearers the pleasure of daily talks in which He discussed various topics related to the principles of Bahá’u’lláh. At the beginning of His visit, on 15 October, He gave a talk about the regularity of the renewal of the divine […]

  • Universal Love

    ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, while on visit to the city of Paris in 1911, more than once addressed the subject of the soul in His public talks. He pointed out in particular its spiritual nature and its essential effect on material life, with emphasis too on its role in establishing a unity of mankind for whose realization in this enlightened age all past religions participated in preparing the way.

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An open letter to the people of Egypt

Whatever directly motivated the rapid change that has occurred, the outcome demonstrates the collective desire of us all, the people of Egypt, to exercise greater control over our destiny. The freedom to do so is unfamiliar to us, having not previously enjoyed this degree of liberty. And our collective history, as Egyptians, Arabs, and Africans, has taught us that there is no shortage of self-interested forces in the world that would prevent us from deter- mining our own future or, alternatively, would invite us to voluntarily abdicate this responsibility.

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Hasten, hasten to friendship

‘Abdu’l-Bahá sailed on the 11 August 1911 on the S.S. Corsica for the French port of Marseilles. He spent a few days resting at the then famous health resort of Thonon-les-Bains in the eastern region of France on its borders with Switzerland.

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Bringing Oneself to Account in the Scale of Divine Requirements

This is a personal search in an attempt to understand what is involved in bringing oneself to account. O SON OF BEING! Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning: for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds. 1 Apparently, accounting […]

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Unless the Spiritual and Material Forces are Combined…

Unless the material changes occurring in the conditions of the world are accompanied by a similar renewal in spiritual beliefs and moral values, humanity will necessarily be faced with grave crises and calamitous violence as consequences of the imbalance between the two major forces that conduct its affairs and lead its steps toward the future.

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‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Journey to Europe

The journey of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá from Egypt in 1911 in the direction of the European continent opened a new stage in the Cause of God towards its world goals, at the head of which was to lay down the foundations on which would be built the long-sought unity between East and West, gathering all the races of the globe in one human family under the shadow of the Tree of Life. This journey was like a stream of light released from the land in which it appeared to reflect itself on the myriad horizons yearning for its encounter.

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