Tablet catalog
29221 in total
ABU 2756•‘Abdu’l-BaháFa
Reported Utterance
Words spoken on 1912-12-20 in London
70 words
نفسی بی آمال و آرزو نیست سلطان و گدا هر کس مبتلای غمی است و دوچار مشکلی
ABU 2757•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken at Baltimore Hotel in Paris, 1913-05-22
70 words
There are three kinds of light. The light of the sun has only one function and that is to make things manifest.... The second light is the light of the eye... The third light is the light of the intellect.
ABU 2758•‘Abdu’l-BaháFa
Reported Utterance
Words spoken at a public park in San Francisco, 1912-10-05
70 words
هر چند نباتات نسبت بعالم حیوان حساس گفته نمی شوند ولی در عالم خود روح نباتی و قوهٴ حساسه دارند
ABU 2759•‘Abdu’l-BaháFa
Reported Utterance
Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1912-10-29
70 words
هر خوابگاهی را یکدالر دادن نقلی نیست لکن ما میخواهیم تقیدی براحت تن نداشته باشیم
ABU 2760•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken on 1914-05-31 in Tiberias
70 words
Whenever a believer dies and leaves behind debt, the friends of God must exert themselves to pay it off. If he had left some property or real estate they may dispose of it
ABU 2761•‘Abdu’l-BaháFa
Reported Utterance
Words spoken on 1913-05-19 in Paris
70 words
همیشه خوش خبر باشید اخبار خوش را همیشه زود منتشر نمائید
ABU 2762•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken on 1914-07-16
70 words
This wonderful Cause has not been properly introduced into China. It is very necessary that it should be done.
ABU 2763•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to William Ellis, reporter for The Continent, around 1910
70 words
We have no statistics and we do not consider these things important. It is the quality of the believers we care for.
ABU 2764•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Mr and Mrs Hannen, spoken on 1909-02-25
70 words
It has no effect. It does not develop the mind to subsist upon a vegetable diet. A man can be without reason or understanding, though he does not eat meat or flesh
ABU 2765•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken at Pleiades Sylvan Bower, Alhammeh near Tiberias, 1914-05-06
70 words
It is very strange how the possession of a few spans of earth blinds men to justice and fairness. He become neglectful and heedless
ABU 2766•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to E.J. Rosenberg et al, spoken around Feb. 1901
70 words
In reality wine or spirits taken even in moderate quantities does no permanent good. It is like urging a horse to full speed by whipping him... they must on no account allow their children to drink wine or alcoholic drinks
ABU 2767•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Breakwell, Hopper, Brittingham, spoken around 1901-09-04
70 words
this meant the River of those who went before; that is to say, the religious laws of each preceding prophet are annulled... In the time of Christ the commands of Moses were as dry bones
ABU 2768•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Mary MacNutt et al in 1904
70 words
You might receive a gift of no value from a friend, yet you value the gift for the sake of the love you have for your friend.
ABU 2769•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Sigurd Russell et al, spoken on 1904-04-14
70 words
Their glory is but temporal and mortal, for they are but rulers of this ephemeral sphere, where all things change from day to day
ABU 2770•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Aseyeh Allen spoken in May 1907
70 words
Man is dependent. God is independent. Man is weak. God is strong... So, God is, and although He expresses Himself through man, still if He had not created man, He would BE just the same.
ABU 2771•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Percy Woodcock in 1909
70 words
It has two distinct meanings, the esoteric and exoteric. Esoterically the ark is that shelter given by God
ABU 2772•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Miss Rosenberg, spoken on 1909-01-09
70 words
We know that the body or form has nothing to do with spirit or spiritual conditions. When the spirit is disconnected with or leaves the body, that is no reason for thinking it can be reabsorbed or joined with the whole of spirit
ABU 2773•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Mr and Mrs Hannen, spoken on 1909-02-23
70 words
there is a communication between spirits, but [that] the spiritual séances as given in Europe where spirits are supposed to move objects, etc., are phantasmagoria.
ABU 2774•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to Mrs. Brittingham, spoken around 1909-10-23
70 words
It will begin at midnight, the same as the solar year... In the Arabic there is no difference... These are symbols. Always, hair is the symbol of the glory of God...
ABU 2775•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to a young man, spoken on 1913-01-22
70 words
Now that you are returning to America, pass through all the large cities on the way, meet the friends of God and associate with them.
ABU 2776•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken at Rue St. Didier 30 in Paris, 1913-02-11
70 words
Our pathway is supplication and invocation, severance from all else save Him and communion with the Source of all benediction.
ABU 2777•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words to the Master's entourage, spoken on 1913-03-15
110 words
The Cause of God will soon throw a great reverberation throughout the pillars of the world. It will embrace in its fold the East and the West. Its power will penetrate through every atom of creation.
ABU 2778•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words following address to theosophists, spoken on 1913-04-10
70 words
Our hearts like unto pure mirrors receive the impressions and these spiritual images are reflected from one mirror upon another without the medium of language.
ABU 2779•‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Reported Utterance
Words spoken at Grand Hotel in Vienna, 1913-04-23
70 words
The greatest consolation for the heart is the Love of God. This is the balm for every wound and the remedy for every ailment.