Photo is of Mirza Muhammad-Quli, brother of Baha'u'llah. He was brought up by Baha'u'llah. He was 7 years older than Abdu'l-Baha. Photo from: http://www.bahai-biblio.org/centre-doc/etude/BAHA/famille-baha.htm "The other brother Mirza Muhammad-Quli, who was only about 7 years older than 'Abdu'l-Baha, had from childhood developed a strong attachment to Baha'u'llah, for their father had died soon after Mirza Muhammad-Quli was born and he was, consequently, brought up by Baha'u'llah. He had a quiet disposition and a loving nature and, throughout his life, remained a true servant at the threshold of his illustrious Brother. He was accorded the honour of pitching the tent of Baha'u'llah on the way from Baghdad to Constantinople, as well as on other occasions, and often used to serve tea in His presence." From The Revelation of Baha'u'llah by Adib Taherzadeh: http://bahai-library.com/

Who we are the Baha'is

To the Baha'i friends in New Hampshire and Maine:

Among what the International Teaching Centre calls the "countless
expressions of Baha'u'llah's divine love" are surely such verses as when
He calls His loved ones "the stars of the heaven of understanding, the
breeze that stirreth at the break of day, the soft-flowing waters upon
which must depend the very life of all men, the letters inscribed upon His
sacred scroll."  Such loving verses help us to properly see our place in
God's Plan.

The following are additional verses from the Master that tell us who we
are. Please accept this expression of my humble and loving support for
your continued devoted labors in the divine vineyard during the Five Year
Plan.

Brent




1 ye are lovers of the Abha Beauty

2 ye are on fire with the wine of His Testament

3 ye are the first to arise for this glorious cause

4 Ye are the waves of the deep sea of knowledge

5 ye are the massed armies on the plains of certitude

6 ye are clouds of divine pity over the gardens of life

7 ye are the abundant grace of God's oneness that is shed upon the
essences of all created things

8 On the outspread tablet of this world, ye are the verses of His singleness

9 atop lofty palace towers, ye are the banners of the Lord

10 ye are the life-laden winds

11 Ye are the breezes of spring that are wafted over the world

12 ye are the jessamine-scents from the gardens of the saved

13 Ye are the green branches

14 Ye are the ripe fruits

15 Ye are the beautiful gardens

16 Ye are the most dazzling lamps

17 Ye are the stars of the horizon of guidance

18 ye are the stars in the skies of God's compassion

19 Ye are the most brilliant stars

20 ye are the radiant stars, the gleaming meteors, the resplendent full
moons, the brilliant orbs in this wondrous Revelation

21 ye are the leviathans of this ocean, the birds of this pasture, the
moths of this lamp, the nightingales of this meadow

22 atop lofty palace towers, ye are the banners of the Lord

23 ye are the banners that flutter in the field of sacrifice

24 ye are the fields of the plain of Reality

25 ye are tested believers

26 ye are the signs of divine guidance

27 ye are the proofs of Bahá'u'lláh

28 Ye are the shepherds of the world

29 In His bowers are ye the blossoms and sweet-smelling herbs,
in the rose garden of the spirit the nightingales that utter plaintive cries

30 Ye are the birds that soar upward into the firmament of knowledge,
the royal falcons on the wrist of God

31 ye are songsters in the meadows of truth

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1 (Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 39)
2 (Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 208)
3 (Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha Abbas, Volume I, p. 18)
4 (Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 266)
5 (Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 266)
6 (Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 266)
7 (Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 266)
8 (Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 266)
9 (Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 266)
10 (Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 266)
11 (Baha'u'llah, The Advent of Divine Justice, p. 75)
12 (Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 266)
13 (Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha Abbas, Volume II, p. 346)
14 (Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha Abbas, Volume II, p. 346)
15 (Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha Abbas, Volume II, p. 346)
16 (Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha Abbas, Volume II, p. 346)
17 (Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha Abbas, Vol. II, p. 441)
18 (Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 266)
19 (Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha Abbas, Volume II, p. 346)
20 (Compilation, Fire and Light, p. 30)
21 (Compilation, Fire and Light, p. 26)
22 (Compilation, Quickeners of Mankind, p. 38)
23 (Compilation, Fire and Light, p. 30)
24 (Japan Will Turn Ablaze, p. 13)
25 (Compilation, Fire and Light, p. 29)
26 (Compilation, Fire and Light, p. 30)
27 (Abdu'l-Baha, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 462)
28 (Compilation on Trustworthiness, The Compilation of Compilations vol
II, p. 331)
29 (Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 266)
30 (Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 266)
31 (Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 176)

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