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Materials for the Study of the Babi Religion (Classic Reprint) Edward Granville Browne No preview available - 2017 |
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Abbas Abbás Efendi Abbás Efendi Abdu'l-Bahá above-mentioned Adrianople Afnán Akká America amongst Áqá Ján Arabic Azalís Báb Báb's Bábí and Bahá'í Bábís Bábism Baghdad Bahá Bayán Behá believers British Museum brother Chicago command Companions contains Divine doctrine entitled followers God's Government Ḥájji Hájji Mírzá Hasan hath Holiness our Master Ibráhím Khayru'lláh Imám Isfahan Islám Káshán Khurásán Kirmán Kitáb-i-Aqdas letter lithographed Mahdí Manifestation manuscript Master Bahá'u'lláh Mázandarán mentioned Mírzá Áqá Mírzá Husayn Mírzá Muḥammad Mírzá Músá Mírzá Yaḥyá Muḥammad Alí Efendi Mujtahid Mullá Mullá Husayn named persecution Persian prayer Prince Prophet Qur'an religion Rizwán Sayyid sect sent servants Sháh Shaykh Shaykh Tabarsí Shíráz Subh-i-Azal supra Supreme Pen Tablet Tabríz thou Tihrán translation Traveller's Narrative Verily verses writings written Yazd Zanján از است اگر الله او این به بها بها بود تو چو خود دولت شد شده كه که
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Page 348 - The thralls of yearning love constrain in the bonds of pain and calamity These broken-hearted lovers of thine to yield their lives in their zeal for thee. Though with sword in hand my Darling stand with intent to slay, though I sinless be, If it pleases him, this tyrant's whim, I am well content with his tyranny. As in sleep I lay at the...
Page 349 - With you, who contemn both love and wine for the hermit's cell and the zealot's shrine, What can I do ? For our faith divine you hold as a thing of infamy. The tangled curls of thy darling's hair, and thy saddle and steed are thine only care ; In thy heart the Infinite hath no share, nor the thought of the poor man's poverty.
Page 270 - ... out of his pain! No! The executioner swings the whip, and — I myself have had to witness it — the unhappy victim of hundredfold tortures runs! This is the beginning of the end. As for the end itself, they hang the scorched and perforated bodies by their hands and feet to a tree head downwards, and now every Persian may try his marksmanship to his heart's content from a fixed but not too proximate distance on the noble quarry placed at his disposal. I saw corpses torn by nearly one hundred...
Page 135 - It is just as easy for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven as it is for others. The entrance to a city is not called " Eye of a Needle" in the New Testament, and theologians know it, but will not say so for fear of the people's faith.
Page 61 - But the broad light glares and beats, And the shadow flits and fleets And will not let me be; And I loathe the squares and streets, And the faces that one meets, Hearts with no love for me: Always I long to creep Into some still cavern deep, There to weep, and weep, and weep My whole soul out to thee.
Page 335 - ... believe ! Neither is it the discourse of a soothsayer : how little are ye admonished ! It is a revelation from the LORD of all creatures. If Mohammed had forged any part of these discourses concerning us, verily we had taken him by the right hand, and had cut in sunder the vein of his heart ; neither would we have withheld any of you from chastising him.
Page 326 - Who love the life that now is, above that which is to come, and mislead from the way of God, and seek to make it crooked. These are in a far-gone error. And in order that He might speak plainly to them, we have not sent any Apostle, save with the speech of his own people; but God misleadeth whom He will, and whom He will he guideth: and He is the Mighty, the Wise. Of old did we send Moses with our signs : and said to him, " Bring forth thy people from the darkness into the light, and remind them...
Page xxvi - Baha'o'llah has breathed the Holy Spirit into the dead body of the world. Consequently every weak soul is strengthened by these fresh divine outbreathings. Every poor man will become rich, every darkened soul will become illumined, every ignorant one will become wise, because the confirmations of the Holy Spirit are descending like unto torrents. A new era of divine consciousness is upon us. The world of humanity is going through a process of transformation. A new race is being developed. The thoughts...
Page xx - He also quotes Guinness as having written (in 1886)2: " The secret things belong to God. It is not for us to say. But there can be no question that those who live to see this year 1917 will have reached one of the most important, perhaps the most momentous, of these terminal years of crisis.