One Common Faith

One Common Faith

• 1

  Bahá’u’lláh refers to the ancient Persian and Arabian story of Majnún and Laylí, The Seven Valleys and The Four Valleys, (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1991), page 6.

• 2

  Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1983), section LXI.

• 3

  Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1983), section XVI.

• 4

  Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1988), page 27.

• 5

  Gleanings, section XVII.

• 6

  Bahá’u’lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1988), page 133.

• 7

  Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Íqán (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1993), paragraph 216.

• 8

  Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Íqán, paragraph 216.

• 9

  Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Íqán, paragraph 104.

• 10

  Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Íqán, paragraph 106.

• 11

  Gleanings, section XXII.

• 12

  Prayers and Meditations by Bahá’u’lláh, (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1987), page 311.

• 13

  Gleanings, section XXVII.

• 14

  Gleanings, section CIX.

• 15

  Gleanings, section LXXXI.

• 16

  Julian Huxley, cited by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (London: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1959), page 243. See also Julian Huxley, Knowledge, Morality, and Destiny (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957), page 13.

• 17

  Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh: Selected Letters, (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1991), page 35.

• 18

  Gleanings, section LXXVII.

• 19

  Gleanings, section CXXXII.

• 20

  Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas: The Most Holy Book (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1993), paragraph 182.

• 21

  Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Íqán, paragraph 4.

• 22

  Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Íqán, paragraph 8.

• 23

  Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Íqán, paragraph 13.

• 24

  Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Íqán, paragraph 14.

• 25

  St. Matthew 13.25, Authorized King James Version.

• 26

  St. Matthew 13.29–30, Authorized King James Version.

• 27

  Qur’án, surih 7, verse 33, Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation, third edition, (n.p.: 1938).

• 28

  Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, paragraph 99.

• 29

  The Summons of the Lord of Hosts: Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh (Haifa: Bahá’í World Centre, 2002), paragraph 126.

• 30

  Bahá’u’lláh, quoted in Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice, (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1990), page 79.

• 31

  Isaiah 45.5.

• 32

  Timothy 1.17.

• 33

  Qur’án, surih 3, verse 73.

• 34

  Qur’án, surih 2, verse 177.

• 35

  St. Matthew 5.13.

• 36

  St. Matthew 5.14.

• 37

  Micah 6.8.

• 38

  St. John 14.6.

• 39

  Qur’án, surih 24, verse 35.

• 40

  Genesis 17.7.

• 41

  Bhagavad-Gita, chapter IV, Sir Edwin Arnold translation.

• 42

  Deuteronomy 34.10.

• 43

  St. John 5.45–47.

• 44

  Qur’án, surih 2, verse 136.

• 45

  The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Talks Delivered by ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá during His Visit to the United States and Canada in 1912, revised edition (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1995), page 326.

• 46

  St. John 1.10.

• 47

  Gleanings, section CVI.

• 48

  Abraham Lincoln, quoted in Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989).

• 49

  Qur’án, surih 21, verse 104.

• 50

  Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, paragraph 5.

• 51

  The Summons of the Lord of Hosts, paragraph 174.

• 52

  Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, page 204.

• 53

  Bahá’u’lláh, quoted in Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, page 192.

• 54

  Gleanings, section 106.

• 55

  Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh, page 129.

• 56

  Bahá’u’lláh, quoted in Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh, pages 202–203.

• 57

  Bahá’u’lláh, quoted in Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice, page 84.

• 58

  Gleanings, section CXXXII.

• 59

  ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá, The Secret of Divine Civilization, (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1990), page 96.

• 60

  Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá, (Haifa: Bahá’í World Centre, 1997), page 256.

• 61

  Bahá’u’lláh, from a previously untranslated Tablet.

• 62

  Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá, (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1944), page 25.

• 63

  Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Íqán, paragraph 213.

• 64

  Gleanings, section VII.

• 65

  The Summons of the Lord of Hosts, paragraph 126.

• 66

  St. John 10.16.

• 67

  Qur’án, surih 39, verse 69.

• 68

  St. Matthew 6.10.

• 69

  Qur’án, surih 85, verse 2.

• 70

  Revelation 21.2.

• 71

  Revelation 3.12.

• 72

  Isaiah 2.2.

• 73

  Isaiah 3.15.

• 74

  Daniel 12.9.

• 75

  Isaiah 62.2.

• 76

  Qur’án, surih 21, verse 104.

• 77

  Gleanings, section IV.

• 78

  St. Luke 17.21.

• 79

  St. Matthew 21.33.

• 80

  St. Matthew 13.23.

• 81

  St. Matthew 7.17.

• 82

  Gleanings, section XCVI.

• 83

  Gleanings, section CXX.