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There is no doubt that
each of us intends to celebrate in style the Greatest of
Festivals. Therefore, you are invited to a virtual pilgrimage, a special meditative session for the celebration of each of
the three special Days of the Festival of Ridvan.
Glad Tidings! Glad Tidings! The doors of the Kingdom are open. Glad Tidings! Glad Tidings! Armies of angels are descending from heaven. Glad Tidings! Glad Tidings! The Sun of Truth is rising. Glad Tidings! Glad Tidings! The Heavenly Food is being sent from above. Glad Tidings! Glad Tidings! The Trumpet is sounding. Glad Tidings! Glad Tidings! The Banner of the Great Peace is floating far and wide. Glad Tidings! Glad Tidings! The Light of the Oneness of Humanity is burning brightly. Glad Tidings! Glad Tidings! The Fire of the Love of God is blazing. Glad Tidings! Glad Tidings! The Holy Spirit is being outpoured. Glad Tidings! Glad Tidings! For Everlasting Life is here. O ye that sleep awake! O ye heedless ones learn wisdom! O blind receive sight! O deaf hear! O dumb speak! O dead arise! Be Happy! Be Happy! Be full of JOY
- Abdu’l-Baha
CELEBRATION
PROGRAM - FIRST DAY OF RIDVAN
Imagine that you are eagerly waiting, as you stand near the prison-city of Akka, the waving of a Hand, so
blessed. 
Rejoice
with exceeding gladness, O people of Bahá, as ye call to remembrance
the Day of supreme felicity, the Day whereon the Tongue of the
Ancient of Days hath spoken, as He departed from His House,
proceeding to the Spot from which He shed upon the whole of creation
the splendors of His name, the All-Merciful. God is Our witness. Were
We to reveal the hidden secrets of that Day, all they that dwell on
earth and in the heavens would swoon away and die, except such as
will be preserved by God, the Almighty, the All-Knowing, the
All-Wise.
- Baha'u'llah
Verily,
all created things were immersed in the sea of purification when, on
that first day of Riḍván, We shed upon the whole of creation the
splendours of Our most excellent Names and Our most exalted
Attributes. This, verily, is a token of My loving providence, which
hath encompassed all the worlds. Consort ye then with the followers
of all religions, and proclaim ye the Cause of your Lord, the Most
Compassionate; this is the very crown of deeds, if ye be of them who
understand.
-
Baha'u'llah
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VIDEO
- The Festival of Ridvan
TABLET
- April 22, 1863VIDEO
- Queen of Carmel
CELEBRATION
PROGRAM - NINTH DAY OF RIDVAN
Today, try to imagine that you are circling, in spirit,
the "Verdant Isle" where the KING OF GLORY enjoyed sitting
while hearing the whispers of the realms above.
The
Festival of Ridvan is come and the splendour of the light of God is
shining from the invisible horizon of His mercy. The overflowing
grace of the Lord of oneness is pouring down copiously from the
unseen world and the glad-tidings of the Kingdom are coming in from
all countries. The resplendent morn that betokens the advancement of
the Cause of God and heralds the exaltation of His Word is dawning in
every region.
Praise be to God that the fame of the Ancient
Beauty — may my life be offered up for His loved ones — has been
noised abroad in the world and the glory of His Cause is spread far
and wide throughout the East and the West. These joyous developments
will indeed gladden the hearts of His loved one. -
Bahiyyih Khanum
VIDEO
- History
TABLET - The Perspicuous Verses
CELEBRATION
PROGRAM - TWELFTH DAY OF RIDVAN
Imagine that you sit in the sun-filled garden where the Prince of Peace revealed His true identity to those who had irrevocably intertwined their destinies with His.
And
whenever I chose to hold my peace and be still, lo, the voice of the
Holy Ghost, standing on my right hand, aroused me, and the Supreme
Spirit appeared before my face, and Gabriel overshadowed me, and the
Spirit of Glory stirred within my bosom, bidding me arise and break
my silence. If your hearing be purged and your ears be attentive, ye
will assuredly perceive that every limb of my body, nay all the atoms
of my being, proclaim and bear witness to this call: "God,
besides Whom is none other God, and He, Whose beauty is now manifest,
is the reflection of His glory unto all that are in heaven and on
earth."
-
Baha'u'llah
And
whenever I chose to hold my peace and be still, lo, the voice of the
Holy Ghost, standing on my right hand, aroused me, and the Supreme
Spirit appeared before my face, and Gabriel overshadowed me, and the
Spirit of Glory stirred within my bosom, bidding me arise and break
my silence. If your hearing be purged and your ears be attentive, ye
will assuredly perceive that every limb of my body, nay all the atoms
of my being, proclaim and bear witness to this call: "God,
besides Whom is none other God, and He, Whose beauty is now manifest,
is the reflection of His glory unto all that are in heaven and on
earth.
Cry out
before the gaze of the dwellers of heaven and of earth: I am the Maid
of Heaven, the Offspring begotten by the Spirit of Bahá. My
habitation is the Mansion of His Name, the All-Glorious. Before the
Concourse on high I was adorned with the ornament of His names. I was
wrapt within the veil of an inviolable security, and lay hidden from
the eyes of men. Methinks that I heard a Voice of divine and
incomparable sweetness, proceeding from the right hand of the God of
Mercy, and lo, the whole Paradise stirred and trembled before Me, in
its longing to hear its accents, and gaze on the beauty of Him that
uttered them. Thus have We revealed in this luminous Tablet, and in
the sweetest of languages, the verses which the Tongue of Eternity
was moved to utter in the Qayyúmu'l-Asmá.
- Baha'u'llah TABLET - The Divine Springtime is come VIDEO - The Ridvan Tablet
Be
wonderfully blessed !
Loesha
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