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03 Jamál / Beauty, (10th day of Ridvan), 182 B.E. Tues 29 April 2025
by Writings from the Baha'i Faith April 29, 2025

April 29, 2025

O My friend! Listen with heart and soul to the songs of the spirit, and treasure them as thine own eyes; for heavenly wisdoms, even as vernal showers, will not rain forever upon the earth of men’s hearts, and though the grace of the All-Bounteous One is never ceasing and never stilled, yet to every time and era a portion is allotted and a bounty assigned, which is vouchsafed in a given measure. “And no one thing is there, but with Us are its storehouses; and We send it not down but in settled measure.”67 <https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/call-divine-bel…> Indeed, the clouds of the Loved One’s mercy rain only on the garden of the spirit, and bestow this bounty only in the season of spring. Other seasons have no share in this supernal grace, and barren lands hold no portion of this bounteous favour. Note: 67 Qur’án 15:21. Bahá’u’lláh, The Call of the Divine Beloved. Available from www.bahai.org/r/580916946

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02 Jamál / Beauty, (9th day of Ridván), 182 B.E. Mon 28 April 2025
by Writings from the Baha'i Faith April 28, 2025

April 28, 2025

This is the ninth day of Riḍván, O my God, and on this day one of Thy loved ones hath, as a token of his love for Thy Beauty and in the eagerness of his devotion to Thee, invited Him Who is the Manifestation of Thy Self and the Dayspring of Thy glory to leave His room in the prison for another. There he hath spread before Thy presence such of Thy gifts as he hath been able to provide, notwithstanding that the people had plundered all his possessions and the possessions of others among Thy loved ones. O Lord, since Thou hast gathered them round Thee and aided them to attain this surpassing grace, endue them with constancy in Thy Cause and bind their hearts together in such wise that no differences may arise in their midst. Grant, then, that they may guide all people unto this Luminary, the like of which the eye of creation hath never beheld and which standeth peerless in the realms of the seen and the unseen. Bahá’u’lláh, Days of Remembrance. Available from www.bahai.org/r/196684689

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01 Jamál / Beauty, (8th day of Ridvan), 182 B.E. Sun 27 April 2025
by Writings from the Baha'i Faith April 27, 2025

April 27, 2025

Release yourselves, O nightingales of God, from the thorns and brambles of wretchedness and misery, and wing your flight to the rose-garden of unfading splendour. O My friends that dwell upon the dust! Haste forth unto your celestial habitation. Announce unto yourselves the joyful tidings: “He Who is the Best-Beloved is come! He hath crowned Himself with the glory of God’s Revelation, and hath unlocked to the face of men the doors of His ancient Paradise.” Let all eyes rejoice, and let every ear be gladdened, for now is the time to gaze on His beauty, now is the fit time to hearken to His voice. Proclaim unto every longing lover: “Behold, your Well-Beloved hath come among men!” and to the messengers of the Monarch of love impart the tidings: “Lo, the Adored One hath appeared arrayed in the fullness of His glory!” O lovers of His beauty! Turn the anguish of your separation from Him into the joy of an everlasting reunion, and let the sweetness of His presence dissolve the bitterness of your remoteness from His court. Bahá’u’lláh, Days of Remembrance. Available from www.bahai.org/r/283064022

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19 Jalál / Glory (7th day of Ridvan) 182 B.E. Sat 26 April 202
by Writings from the Baha'i Faith April 27, 2025

April 27, 2025

That garden hath been named after its caretaker, who was called Riḍván. Those were the days whereon the All-Merciful cast the splendour of all His names over all who are in His heaven and on His earth. Some among His chosen ones had the honour of witnessing those days and beholding that which was manifested therein. In the arrival and departure of the Ancient Beauty, the signs and tokens of God were made clear and evident, and the light of Revelation was made to shine forth in the plenitude of its glory. Verily, His majesty was exalted, His power magnified, and His sovereignty revealed. Bahá’u’lláh, Days of Remembrance. Available from www.bahai.org/r/734094856

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18 Jalál / Glory (6th day of Ridvan) 182 B.E. Fri 25 April 2025
by Writings from the Baha'i Faith April 25, 2025

April 25, 2025

Sincerity is the foundation-stone of faith. That is, a religious individual must disregard his personal desires and seek in whatever way he can wholeheartedly to serve the public interest; and it is impossible for a human being to turn aside from his own selfish advantages and sacrifice his own good for the good of the community except through true religious faith. For self-love is kneaded into the very clay of man, and it is not possible that, without any hope of a substantial reward, he should neglect his own present material good. That individual, however, who puts his faith in God and believes in the words of God—because he is promised and certain of a plentiful reward in the next life, and because worldly benefits as compared to the abiding joy and glory of future planes of existence are nothing to him—will for the sake of God abandon his own peace and profit and will freely consecrate his heart and soul to the common good. “A man, too, there is who selleth his very self out of desire to please God.”[68] 68. Qur’án 2:203. ‘Abdu’l-Baha, The Secret of Divine Civilization. Available from www.bahai.org/r/219775018

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17 Jalál / Glory (5th day of Ridvan) 182 B.E. Thurs 24 April 2025
by Writings from the Baha'i Faith April 24, 2025

April 24, 2025

Our meaning is that the life of the Kingdom is the life of the spirit, and that it is eternal and sanctified above time and place, even as the human spirit, which is placeless. For were you to search throughout the human body, you would be unable to find a specific place or location for the spirit. The spirit is absolutely placeless and immaterial, but it has a connection with the body, even as the sun has a connection with this mirror: The sun occupies no place within the mirror, but it has a connection with it. In the same way, the world of the Kingdom is sanctified above all that can be seen by the eye or perceived by the other senses, such as hearing, smell, taste, or touch. ‘Abdu’l-Baha, Some Answered Questions. Available from www.bahai.org/r/990319825

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16 Jalál / Glory (4th day of Ridvan) 182 B.E. Wed 23 April 2025
by Writings from the Baha'i Faith April 23, 2025

April 23, 2025

Attract the hearts of men, through the call of Him, the one alone Beloved. Say: This is the Voice of God, if ye do but hearken. This is the Dayspring of the Revelation of God, did ye but know it. This is the Dawning-Place of the Cause of God, were ye to recognize it. This is the Source of the commandment of God, did ye but judge it fairly. This is the manifest and hidden Secret; would that ye might perceive it. O peoples of the world! Cast away, in My name that transcendeth all other names, the things ye possess, and immerse yourselves in this Ocean in whose depths lay hidden the pearls of wisdom and of utterance, an ocean that surgeth in My name, the All-Merciful. Thus instructeth you He with Whom is the Mother Book. Bahá’u’lláh, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh. Available from www.bahai.org/r/382318565

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15 Jalál / Glory (3rd day of Ridvan) 182 B.E. Tues 22 April 2025
by Writings from the Baha'i Faith April 22, 2025

April 22, 2025

I beseech Thee, O my God, by this Day and by Him Whom Thou hast made to be the Dawning-Place of Thy revelation and the Dayspring of Thine inspiration, to ordain for Thy loved ones the good of this world and of the world to come, and to number them with those whom naught can distract from Thy remembrance and praise. Strengthen, then, their hearts in such wise that the ascendancy of those who have disbelieved in Thee and in Thy signs may never dismay them. Baha’u’llah, Days of Remembrance. Available from www.bahai.org/r/622258420

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14 Jalál / Glory (2nd day of Ridvan) 182 B.E. Mon 21 April 2025
by Writings from the Baha'i Faith April 21, 2025

April 21, 2025

Adorn yourselves with the raiment of goodly deeds. He whose deeds attain unto God’s good pleasure is assuredly of the people of Bahá and is remembered before His throne. Assist ye the Lord of all creation with works of righteousness, and also through wisdom and utterance. Thus, indeed, have ye been commanded in most of the Tablets by Him Who is the All-Merciful. He, truly, is cognizant of what I say. Let none contend with another, and let no soul slay another; this, verily, is that which was forbidden you in a Book that hath lain concealed within the Tabernacle of glory. Baha’u’llah, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas. Available from www.bahai.org/r/994474187

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13 Jalál / Glory (1st day of Ridvan) 182 B.E. Sun 20 April 2025
by Writings from the Baha'i Faith April 20, 2025

April 20, 2025

Again, is there any deed in the world that would be nobler than service to the common good? Is there any greater blessing conceivable for a man, than that he should become the cause of the education, the development, the prosperity and honor of his fellow-creatures? No, by the Lord God! The highest righteousness of all is for blessed souls to take hold of the hands of the helpless and deliver them out of their ignorance and abasement and poverty, and with pure motives, and only for the sake of God, to arise and energetically devote themselves to the service of the masses, forgetting their own worldly advantage and working only to serve the general good. “They prefer them before themselves, though poverty be their own lot.”[72] “The best of men are those who serve the people; the worst of men are those who harm the people.” Note 72: Qur’án 59:9. ‘Abdu’l-Baha, The Secret of Divine Civilization. Available from www.bahai.org/r/555673920

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