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What lies beyond Covid-19? How does it challenge humanity as a whole and ourselves as individuals to bring about change?The global pandemic that changed the world in early 2020, and the subsequent challenges that are emerging as a result, propel us to consider what is beyond this moment. The spirit of humanity, challenged daily by increasing trauma, requires constant reflection on who we are and who we collectively want to be. How can we arise to create a global collective consciousness? What is latent within humanity to bring about the transformation required?Among the most provocative and profound resources for the journey before us are observation and discovery within the natural and scientific world. This book identifies four essential questions that challenge our thinking, and weaves a web of scientific discovery and spiritual exploration through the magic of storytelling.The purpose of this book is to provide the traveller on his or her spiritual path with a guide to develop the discipline necessary for the journey. At this time of world peril, we look for answers and directions to take that will assist humanity as a whole, and ourselves as individuals, to reach safe shores and calm waters.

Most of us have grown up in a culture where alcohol is commonplace. Many people believe it (and certain drugs) to be harmless - only severe substance abuse is harmful, responsible use can even be beneficial and is part of normal social life . . . so goes the argument.We now live in a society awash with alcohol and drugs, which makes abstinence appear odd, unreasonable or even fanatical. Yet everyone knows someone (often a family member) whose life has been damaged by drugs or alcohol. So this book advocates rebellion. If being a rebel in some past age meant partying all the time, binge-drinking, taking drugs, being cool, this form of rebellion is long dead. Still, we rarely take a sceptical look at the use of 'alcohol and other chemical pastimes' in our society.Although inspired by the Bahá'í Writings, this book is not inherently religious. Drawing on reputable scientific sources easily available online, it makes the case for choosing a life free of alcohol and drugs - and not only for health reasons. It invites the reader to rebel against indolence, irrationality, prejudice, injustice and hatred; to stand for justice, clarity, community and compassion in the face of apathy and lethargy; to care deeply for humanity and to become a leader in the cultural change needed for society as a whole to fulfil its potential.Rob Cacchioni grew up in a small Canadian town, enmeshed in his own 'chemical pastimes' on the 'other side of the tracks'. In his early 20s he moved to Vancouver to study counselling and personal coaching. Already a student of comparative religion, he there encountered the Bahá'ís. He investigated Bahá'u'lláh's claim and embraced His global vision. He spent several years in South Korea, Taiwan and Yemen. He now lives in Vancouver with his wife and two children, where he teaches martial arts and music, and regularly offers talks on religious unity. For 20 years, he's studied religion and philosophy and currently runs a YouTube channel called Bridging Beliefs, offering bridges between Bahá'u'lláh's vision and Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, secularism and atheism.

The arts teacher is ruining what used to be Aiko's favorite class. Zeke misses out on the best part of the whole year - the science fair - when he has to go into the hospital. Arwen lives to play soccer but a stupid lie means he might not be allowed to play. Ghada comes home to find that her beloved grandma has died.When ten-year-old friends set up an after-school club so they can hang out together more often, they don't expect to be able to solve these problems themselves. But when they tap into the spirit within them, they and their friends discover that they have the power to make the world a better place.

. . . the institution of marriage as conceived and established by Bahá'u'lláh is extremely simple though of a vital social importance, constituting as it does the very foundation of social life. From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi When relations within the family are conducted with due regard for justice, it will be an important factor in bringing about peace in the world. Bahá'í International Community It is in recognition of the importance of marriage and families to communities, social life, the establishment of universal peace and the emergence of a new world civilization that this little book of verses from the holy scriptures, poets and thinkers is offered.A collection from the Bahá'í and other scriptures, prayers, poems, aphorisms and literary pieces on being married, arranged in nineteen sections including Love The Wedding A Marriage of Unity A Home Together Marriage Through Life's Stages

'As soon as a Bahá'í family unit emerges, the members should feel responsible for making the collective life of the family a spiritual reality, animated by divine love and inspired by the ennobling principles of the Faith. To achieve this purpose, the reading of the Sacred Writings and prayers should ideally become a daily family activity . . . In this way the friends could make of their families strong healthy units, bright candles for the diffusion of the light of the Kingdom, and powerful centres to attract the heavenly confirmations.' The Universal House of Justice, 17 April 1981 To assist the practice daily family prayers, Family Worship brings together over 120 Bahá'í prayers for the home, members of the family and for special occasions when the family worships together. Includes prayers for happiness, spiritual progress, unity, marriage, children and parents.

In Pursuit of Hope takes the reader on a quest in search of a more purposeful life amidst the environmental, social, economic and spiritual challenges of the 21st century. A metaphorical journey across seven valleys and seven mountain ranges, this is a do-it-yourself guide for anyone who is seeking greater meaning in life. A companion for each step of the way, this book assists you to ask the right questions and provides you with tools to help you along your journey. While it is impossible to know your ultimate destination and what the future will bring, this book shows that you can make a difference, contributing to change within your own life, the lives of those around you, and the planet as a whole.

Our Seven Families explores the value of human social life - why we need human connections.

The Dispensation of the Báb began quietly with a profound conversation one May night in the year 1844, unattended by all save a single listener. The impact of that momentous announcement has since reverberated through a turbulent humanity, largely ignorant of its source, for a century and a half. Yet it is a world that is growing increasingly aware of the global Bahá'í community that has slowly taken shape following the Báb's announcement.The Báb's principal purpose was to announce the dawning of a new age for humanity through a vast new Revelation of guidance from God - the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, outlining a framework for the development of a global civilization which would take into account all of the manifold spiritual and material dimensions of human life.The purpose of this present anthology marking the bicentenary of the Báb's birth is to collect together some of the many tributes and testimonials to the Báb that capture, not so much the chronological details of His earthly life, but rather the importance of His station and the impact of His Revelation.

The third set in the series of books for very young children.How can you help a young children understand the concept of the equality of women and men? What do you say when your child asks, 'Why did granny die?' How can you show your child that the laws God send us are for our benefit?Designed to help parents teach their children some of the abstract ideas enshrined in the Bahá'í teachings, each booklet provides the basic vocabulary and concepts needed.Each page is illustrated with a simple line drawing suitable for the child to colour. Guidelines on how to use the booklets are included with each set.

It is undeniable that Islam is today in a condition of deep crisis. Political upheavals that dominate popular discussion of the subject are no more than surface expressions of a problem of historic dimensions: the inability of Islamic scholars and institutions to reconcile the teachings and perspectives of their Faith with the realities of modernity. Democratic and constitutional government, pluralistic societies, the authority of the sciences, such principles as gender equality and religious freedom, a rapidly integrating world - all these familiar features of contemporary civilization pose insurmountable challenges to anyone who attempts to accommodate them to religious guidance laid down fourteen centuries ago for an earlier, much simpler stage in humanity's social evolution. One sees in contemporary Islam a society desperately searching for, and failing always to find, a formula that will make it possible to retain traditional Muslim faith in God while embracing the inescapable requirements of a world beyond the imagination of ages past. At the same time, millions of Muslims view with feelings of outrage and helplessness the caricature of the Faith they love that an aggressive fundamentalism is determined to impose upon it. Equally significant has been the awakening of European populations to the implications of the presence in their midst of a vast number of Muslim immigrants - some now into the third generation - who often appear essentially irreconcilable with certain foundational norms of Western culture. Perhaps not surprisingly, this has inspired widespread desire to understand the religious roots of such phenomena, awakening an unprecedented interest in Islamic belief and practice.Islam at the Crossroads presents extracts drawn primarily from the texts of the Qur'án and the Bible to explain the interrelationship between Islam and its sister Abrahamic religions, Judaism and Christianity, as well as the Bahá'í Faith, the most recent link in the chain of religions capable of responding to the process of transformation in which the entire world is today caught up. The format illustrates the progressive pattern and integral coherence of the divine Revelations as constituents of one common faith, and demonstrates the principle that 'God, Who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us,' and, specifically, to followers of Islam, through Bahá'u'lláh. 'Globalization' and 'modernity', far from being alien to the Faith taught in the Qur'án, are thus rather a fulfilment of it, both spiritually and practically. Clearly, Muslims have as much right to this common heritage of humankind as do the people of any other religious background. Within the Bahá'í community, much emphasis is placed on the importance of Western Bahá'ís undertaking a serious study of Islam, using for the purpose 'sources that are authoritative and unbiased'. This book examines the criteria offered by the teachings of Bahá'u'lláh for the validity of the Mission of the Prophet Muhammad, and some of the reasons why Islam and its fortunes are directly dependent on submission to God's Will and following His Straight Path in this day and age. Born in Iran and brought up in Africa, Dr Lameh Fananapazir studied medicine in Scotland and is currently a cardiologist and electrophysiologist in the United States. He is the author of several hundred medical articles and spent two and half years in Haifa, Israel where he was the director of the Health Services at the Bahá'í World Centre and Visiting Professor of Molecular Genetics at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. This book was born out of his curiosity concerning the root causes of religious fanaticism and increasing certitude that Bahá'u'lláh's teachings represent the only possible remedy.

Abu'l-Qásim Faizí, has made no attempt to give a biographical history of Amelia Collins. But it is against the setting of her high rank and her distinction as a Bahá'í that this moving tribute to her, as Mr Faizí came to know her in Haifa, must be read.Amelia Collins, the subject of this moving personal tribute, accepted the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh in 1919 and for over four decades gave to it her energetic and single-hearted devotion. The great love she bore for its Guardian, Shoghi Effendi, her loyalty to him and passionate desire to render him any assistance within her power and to lighten, however slightly, the heavy burden that rested on his shoulders, not only endeared her to him but to all her fellow-believers. For many years she was a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States and Canada.On January 9th, 1951, she was appointed as 'highly esteemed Vice-President' of the first International Bahá'í Council by Shoghi Effendi and on December 23rd of that same year, she was sent a cable informing her that he was 'moved convey glad-tidings your elevation rank Hand Cause'.

At a time when forces of destruction are sweeping the surface of the earth, plunging the whole of the human race into a state of chaos and dismay and uprooting its time-honoured institutions, the comparatively small Bahá'í community is erecting the framework of new institutions embracing the whole planet and designed to evolve, in the fullness of time, into Bahá'u'lláh's New World Order. In this thoughtful book Adib Taherzadeh ¿ traces the origin of the Bahá'í Administrative Order ¿ outlines the spiritual standards and principles that govern the workings of the Spiritual Assembly ¿ emphasizes the importance of understanding the spirit of the Administrative Order and of conforming to it ¿ describes the gradual unfoldment of the administrative institutions of the Bahá'í Faith and provides insights into the role of the individual members of these institutions - the Trustees of the Merciful.

"The harmony of religious belief with reason is a new vista which Bahá'u'lláh has opened for the soul of man." 'Abdu'l-Bahá Six thought-provoking essays cutting through the 'jargon jungle' that permeates and distorts the current stand-off between those who believe in a God or Creator and those who reject such beliefs, in particular the increasingly popular 'New Atheists'. The book addresses the mental struggle of many sincere seekers who are trying to rationalize their convictions in this scientific age, and highlights the urgent need for dialogue between religion and science. The author draws on the writings of the Bahá'í Faith, and particularly of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, who in many of his writings and public speeches elaborated on the Bahá'í principle of harmony between religion and science and the necessity of investigating reality with an open mind.

The Bahá'í community is composed of people from all backgrounds and life circumstances - educated and uneducated, professional and non-professional, healthy and unwell, mentally sound and mentally ill; moral, obedient and edified. Some have lost every material thing they have ever owned; some have every material thing they need. All are called to a higher purpose than their own individual development: to achieve oneness and unity within this diverse community.Phyllis K. Peterson uses true stories to explain how the Bahá'í community is learning to develop true intimacy and unity through devotional meetings, reflection meetings and home visits and how it is learning to integrate not only the races but those who are outcast because of mental illness or physical disability.

Why, asked Hom, do I feel different from the animals?Because, said God, You ask the question 'why?'A book for all children who ask the question 'why?' Remember the Rainbow is the story of evolution from a Bahá'í viewpoint, in which science and religion go hand in hand.The history of mankind is told from the beginning. There is the story of Omi who looks like and amoeba, Fin who swims in the shallow part of the sea and longs for the sun, Tad who dreams of running, Utang who feels he is not an ape at all, although he looks like one. And finally Man, who always forgets, until the time comes when his destiny calls him to recognize his kinship with all other members of the family of humankind.

Mr McLaughlin has taken a short passage from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh and provided a set of fascinating, thought provoking and inspiring notes for the reader.