Tablet catalog
29221 in total
ABU 1880‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to the friends, spoken on 1914-03-09
160 words
The good deeds of man are like unto the sweet fragrances emanated from the musk... As his deeds have been performed with no reference to the applause and commendation of men he enjoys them more than any one else.
ABU 1881‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Fugeta et al, spoken on 1920-01-01
160 words
The reality of spirit, because it is not corporeal, cannot be in bodily form. We cannot say it is like the fire, or like water.
ABU 1882‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken on 1913-09-02 in Ramleh
160 words
Once there was a theologian who took a sea trip. While he was walking on the deck and watching the calm sea... By these remarks I do not mean that religious study must be entirely neglected
ABU 1883‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to some friends, spoken on 1915-04-03
160 words
These [locusts] are the armies of God. They are countless in number. Look at them how they fly. How high they are ascending in the air. They must also be fed.
ABU 1884‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Mrs. C, Emogene Hoagg et al, spoken on 1920-10-24+25
160 words
This is the Lord's supper. Sometimes the material things have a spiritual effect - for instance, music is material but has an effect over the spirit
ABU 1885‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken in Feb. 1911
160 words
Fasting is a symbol. Fasting signifies abstinence from lust. Physical fasting is a symbol
ABU 1886‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
160 words
Now listen unto what I say for it is the foundation of success and the basis of righteousness
ABU 1887‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
160 words
The Blessed Beauty of El-Abha (Baha'o'llah) - may the divine souls of the existence be
ABU 1888‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to several Baha'is, spoken on 1912-07-01
160 words
I desire to make manifest among the friends in America a new light that they may become a new people
ABU 1889‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken on 1913-08-23 in Ramleh
160 words
The stories of the prophets recorded in the Koran are not for the sake of recording history. They are as warnings to future generations after Mohammed
ABU 1890‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
160 words
God has given man a heart and the heart must have some attachment
ABU 1891‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken in Sep. 1911 in London
160 words
God has created the world as one -- the boundaries are marked out by man. God has not divided the lands
ABU 1892‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
160 words
Verily the founding of the Mashrak-el-Azkar will mark the inception of the Kingdom of God on earth.
ABU 1893‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Wilson, Engelhorn, Stewart, Brittingham, spoken around 1909-10-23
160 words
Bodily matters are not important. The physical suffering of Christ passed away
ABU 1894‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken to Miss St. in Aug 1910
160 words
Der Engländer hat ein unerschutterliches Staatsbewußtsein, welches mit seinem Geschäftssinn ganz verwachsen ist; deswegen ist er der geborene Eroberer und Kolonisator
ABU 1895‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Helen Goodall and Ella Cooper spoken in Jan. 1908
160 words
The love shown by animals is instinctive and not dependent upon their own will--that is, they are endowed with their qualities and use them in a natural way
ABU 1896‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken on 1911-10-17 in Paris
160 words
I wish you to study the works of the Blessed Beauty and to live according to His teaching.
ABU 1897‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Address to the Baha'is at 309 W 78th St in New York, 1912-11-16
160 words
Wherever the mention of Baha'u'llah rises up, that is the paradise of Abha.
ABU 1898‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
160 words
Tell them they should do as they think best in these matters. Should they marry, divorce, leave their homes, move to other places
ABU 1900‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken on 1914-06-18
160 words
Prayer and supplication are two wings whereby man soars toward the heavenly mansion of the True One.
ABU 1901‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken ca. 1919
160 words
God treats these people with His mercy, not with His justice, since God is against war.
ABU 1902‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
160 words
Until now it has been said that all religions were composed of tenets that had to be accepted, even if they seems contrary to science.
ABU 1903‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to the secretary of the New York Peace Society, New York, 1912
160 words
You must rest assured and let there be no trace of doubt in your souls that God is your assister and helper
ABU 1904‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Asadullah Qumi spoken around Sept. 1910
160 words
Do you realize the meaning of my statement... Tell the friends, how, under severe circumstances of bodily weakness, I have accepted... A clipping from the newspaper of Moaid...