Whether writing to the friends at that time of bereavement, or in later years when Solace, its Guide, its Mainstay and Champion”. Turned to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, recognizing Him to be, “in its hour of desperate need, its Many were written soon after the “Supreme Affliction” of the passing of Bahá’u’lláh.Īt that moment, the orphaned community of the Greatest Name, grief-stricken and despondent, Though the Tablets presented here cover the entire period of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s ministry,
Published in Persian in volumes 3 and 4 of Munta khabátí az Makátíb-i-Ḥaḍrat-i-‘Abdu’l-Bahá. Volume consists of seventy-six newly translated selections chosen from Tablets originally Of guidance, encouragement, sustenance, edification, and boundless love. To individuals and communities in the East and the West, comprising an unceasing outpouring Over the course of that unique stewardship, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá wrote thousands of Tablets Which had already been initiated for the promotion of its interests, and, finally,īy ushering in, through the provisions of His own Will, the Formative Age in its evolution”.
Precepts of that Faith and its cardinal principles, by consolidating the activities The illumination of His Father’s Faith upon the West, by expounding the fundamental His mission would be “to enrichĪnd extend the bounds of the incorruptible patrimony entrusted to His hands by shedding Steward of its glory and the diffuser of its light”. Lighting the path ahead, towards the attainment of Bahá’u’lláh’s ultimate purpose:Īs the radiant Centre of that Covenant, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá’u’lláh’s eldest son andĪppointed Successor, would, for the next three decades, lead the Cause and be “the The dark of night but by the reflection of its glory in the Moon of the Covenant,
Yet the setting of that Sun was not followed by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá memorably relayed in His telegram informing Sulṭán ‘Abdu’l-Ḥamíd of theĪscension of Bahá’u’lláh-had set. Of its rising glory in the Síyáh- Chál and Baghdad to its midday splendour in Adrianople and ‘Akká, the Sun of Bahá-as On, after four decades of bountiful radiance, from the first intimation