Bahá’u’lláh - The Glory of God

 

Finally, on the 28th of Jamádíyu’th-Thání 1269 A.H. (April 8, 1853), Bahá’u’lláh arrived in Baghdád, the capital city of what was then the T...

…except for the warm and enthusiastic reception accorded the travelers during their brief stay in Karand by its governor Hayát-Qulí Khán, of...

In a prayer revealed by Him at that time, Bahá’u’lláh, expatiating upon the woes and trials He had endured in the Síyáh-Chál, thus bears wit...

The journey, undertaken in the depth of an exceptionally severe winter, carrying the little band of exiles, so inadequately equipped, across...

Of the two brothers who accompanied Him on that journey the first was Mírzá Músá, commonly called Áqáy-i-Kalím, His staunch and valued suppo...

…until, finally, Thy [God's] decree was irrevocably fixed, and Thy behest summoned this servant to depart out of Persia, accompanied by...

This enforced and hurried departure of Bahá’u’lláh from His native land, accompanied by some of His relatives, recalls in some of its aspect...

With it, may be said to have begun the last and most fruitful of the four stages of a life, the first twenty-seven years of which were cha...

Among those who shared His exile was  His wife, the saintly Navváb, entitled by Him the “Most Exalted Leaf,” who, during almost forty years,...

The process which it set in motion, gradually progressing and unfolding, began by establishing His Cause for a time in the very midst of the...

The Sháh’s edict, equivalent to an order for the immediate expulsion of Bahá’u’lláh from Persian territory, opens a new and glorious chapter...

On the first day of the month of Rabí’u’th-Thání, of the year 1269 A.H., (January 12, 1853), nine months after His return from Karbilá, Bahá...

In the days when this Wronged One was sore-afflicted in prison, the minister of the highly esteemed government (of Russia)—may God, glorifie...

The Russian Minister, as soon as he was informed of the Imperial decision, expressed the desire to take Bahá’u’lláh under the protection of ...

On the twelfth day of January 1853, Bahá’u’lláh and His family left Tihrán, together with two of His brothers - Mírzá Músá, known in later y...

The relative peace and tranquillity accorded Bahá’u’lláh after His tragic and cruel imprisonment was destined, by the dictates of an unerrin...

Mirza Ridá-Qulí Bahá’u’lláh was given one month to leave the country. At the time of His release from the Síyáh-Chál, He was too ill to set ...

The Prisoner was eventually released from His confinement, and was able to unfold and establish, beyond the confines of the kingdom of her s...

The attempt on the life of Náiri’d-Dín Sháh, as stated in a previous chapter, was made on the 28th of the month of Shavvál, 1268 A.H., corre...

No sooner had He presented Himself before them than the Grand Vizir addressed Him saying: “Had you chosen to take my advice, and had you dis...

With such overwhelming testimonies establishing beyond the shadow of a doubt the non-complicity of Bahá’u’lláh, the Grand Vizir, after havin...

Now that He [Bahá’u’lláh] had been invested, in consequence of that potent dream, with the power and sovereign authority associated with His...

To our knowledge Bahá'u'lláh's first Tablet was a poem in Persian, Rashh-i-'Amá revealed in the Siyáh-Chál of Tihran soon af...

In His Súratu’l-Haykal (the Súrih of the Temple) He thus describes those breathless moments when the Maiden, symbolizing the “Most Great Spi...