© The Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Bournemouth and Poole 2021
Dorset
Baha’is
Local Bahá’í history
A letter from Abdu’l-Baha to the Baha’is of
Bournemouth
There exists a Tablet of `Abdu'l-Baha addressed to the Baha'is of Bournemouth. It was written on 19 January 1921 and is in reply to a letter from the Bournemouth Baha'is informing `Abdu'l-Baha that they had held their first 19-Day Feast on 30 December 1920 at a tea room in Boscombe. All in attendance at that meeting signed the letter to `Abdu'l-Baha. It is a very significant letter for the Bournemouth community written as it was by the eldest son of Baha’u’llah the Founder of the Faith. `Abdu'l-Baha was known as the Perfect Exampler of the Faith and towards the end of His life was able to travel to Europe and America to meet with and talk to a huge number of dignitaries and civic leaders as well as the many small Baha’i communities that were dotted around the Western World.
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The translation from the Persian to English is thus:
O ye true friends! Your letter hath been received and it brought great joy. God be praised, ye had made ready an entertainment and established the feast which is to be held every nineteen days. Whatsoever gathering is arranged with the utmost love, and where those who attend are turning their faces toward the Kingdom of God, and where the discourse is of the Teachings of God, and the effect of which is to cause those present to advance -- that gathering is the Lord's, and that festive table hath come down from heaven. It is my hope that this feast will be given on one day out of every nineteen, for it bringeth you closer together; it is the very well-spring of unity and loving-kindness. Ye observe to what a degree the world is in continual turmoil and conflict, and to what a pass its nations have now come. Perchance will the lovers of God succeed in upraising the banner of human unity, so that the one-coloured tabernacle of the Kingdom of Heaven will cast its sheltering shadow over all the earth; that misunderstandings among the world's peoples will vanish away; that all nations will mingle one with another, dealing with one another even as the lover with his beloved. It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being, and to wish him well; to work for the upliftment of society; to blow the breath of life into the dead; to act in accordance with the instructions of Bahá'u'lláh and walk His path -- until ye change the world of man into the world of God. Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Baha, no. 47, pp. 89-90
© The Local Spiritual Assembly of the
Bahá’ís of Bournemouth and Poole 2021
Dorset
Baha’is
Local Bahá’í history
A letter from Abdu’l-Baha to the Baha’is of
Bournemouth
There exists a Tablet of `Abdu'l-Baha addressed to the Baha'is of Bournemouth. It was written on 19 January 1921 and is in reply to a letter from the Bournemouth Baha'is informing `Abdu'l-Baha that they had held their first 19-Day Feast on 30 December 1920 at a tea room in Boscombe. All in attendance at that meeting signed the letter to `Abdu'l-Baha. It is a very significant letter for the Bournemouth community written as it was by the eldest son of Baha’u’llah the Founder of the Faith. `Abdu'l-Baha was known as the Perfect Exampler of the Faith and towards the end of His life was able to travel to Europe and America to meet with and talk to a huge number of dignitaries and civic leaders as well as the many small Baha’i communities that were dotted around the Western World.
© The Local Spiritual Assembly
of Bournemouth and Poole
The translation from the Persian to English is
thus:
O ye true friends! Your letter hath been received and it brought great joy. God be praised, ye had made ready an entertainment and established the feast which is to be held every nineteen days. Whatsoever gathering is arranged with the utmost love, and where those who attend are turning their faces toward the Kingdom of God, and where the discourse is of the Teachings of God, and the effect of which is to cause those present to advance -- that gathering is the Lord's, and that festive table hath come down from heaven. It is my hope that this feast will be given on one day out of every nineteen, for it bringeth you closer together; it is the very well-spring of unity and loving-kindness. Ye observe to what a degree the world is in continual turmoil and conflict, and to what a pass its nations have now come. Perchance will the lovers of God succeed in upraising the banner of human unity, so that the one-coloured tabernacle of the Kingdom of Heaven will cast its sheltering shadow over all the earth; that misunderstandings among the world's peoples will vanish away; that all nations will mingle one with another, dealing with one another even as the lover with his beloved. It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being, and to wish him well; to work for the upliftment of society; to blow the breath of life into the dead; to act in accordance with the instructions of Bahá'u'lláh and walk His path -- until ye change the world of man into the world of God. Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Baha, no. 47, pp. 89-90
