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- What about “the supreme organ of the Bahai superstate?”
- Abdu’l-Baha speaks: “Fugeta” notes on the House of Justice and flexibility
- The 1932 Cairo codification of Bahai law
- A circlet of your hair: Abdu’l-Baha’s poem for Baha’u’llah
- A glowing review of Principles for Progress
- Serving the cause of democracy and freedom?
- “Church and State” available as a PDF file
- What about “the representatives of the people”?
- What about: “the laws of society”?
- What about: the Bahai state?
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- A la Conferencia de los Cuerpos Continentales de Consejeros
- A los bahá’ís del mundo, 1 de enero de 2011
- A moment of historic portent
- Announcing purchase of property adjacent to the Shrine of the Bab
- Anti-bahaism in the Iranian media: October 1, 2014
- Attitudes towards homosexuality, May 9, 2014, and two related letters
- Authorized English translation of Abdu'l-Baha's Risáliy-i-Síyásíyyih anticipated in 2022
- Bahai Government & Minorities
- Bahai Youth in Iran, Jan. 29, 2014 (English)
- Bahai Youth in Iran, Jan. 29, 2014. PDF
- Challenges facing youth in the West
- Challenges for Bahá'í Youth in a Western Way of Life (April 2013)
- Climate change (on behalf of the UHJ, November 29, 2017)
- Compilation: Achieving Race Unity (2020 update)
- Constraints on large internet activities
- Continental Counsellors conference: 1 Jan 2011
- Continental Counsellors Conference: 28 Dec. 2010
- Continuing need for pioneers 23 May 2100
- Decisions affecting the implementation of the Badi` calendar as of Ridvan 2015
- Destruction of the House of Baha'u'llah, further information
- Development of the Yerrinbool Baha’i Centre of Learning, 2009
- Eliminating racial prejudice and current activities: 10 April 2011
- Enrolment of believers in same-sex unions, in politics or the alcohol industry
- Evolution and Bahai teachings
- Extremes of Wealth and Poverty
- Fire at the shrine of Abdu'l-Baha (14 April update)
- Following the Invasion of Ukraine, April 1, 2022
- Guidance on social action and public discourse
- Homosexuality and gender identity, January 6, 2021
- Intellectual life and the future of Bahá'í studies (July, 2013)
- International and home-front pioneering
- Issues Pertaining to Growth, Retention and Consolidation in the United States
- ITC appointments 2013-2018
- May 9, 2020: adaptions to Covid-19 pandemic
- Message to the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors, December 2015
- Naw Ruz 2013: to the Bahais of Iran
- Naw Ruz message from the Universal House of Justice, March 21, 2015
- Naw-Ruz 177 (Covid-19 response)
- NSA of the UK: Goal of acquiring temple land near London
- NSA of the USA : America and the Five Year Plan
- NSA of the USA, "The Spirit of Teaching," December 8, 2017
- NSA of the USA: eradicating racial prejudice in the nation
- NSA of the USA: voting in primary elections
- On conversion therapies for homosexuality, July 7, 2014
- On political activity / موضع بهائیان نسبت به امور سیاسی
- On political activity: March 2, 2013
- Opening of Battambang Temple, 1 Sept. 2017
- Planting the seeds of the local Mashriqu'l-Adhkar
- Research Department memo 14 August 1996 Re: The Translation of the terms zina', liwat, and khiyanah
- Ridvan 2010
- Ridvan 2016 (en français)
- Ridvan 2017
- Ridvan Boodschap 2012 (Dutch)
- Ridvan Message 2012 (English, PDF)
- Ridvan Message 2012 (Spanish, PDF)
- Ridvan message 2012, French (pdf)
- Ridvan message 2016
- Ridvan message 2018
- Ridvan message 2019
- Ridvan Message 2021
- Ridvan message, 2011
- Ridvan message, 2012
- Ridvan message, 2013
- Ridvan message, 2015
- Ridvan message, 2020
- Science, Truth and Expert Advice
- Tablets from Abdu'l Baha Abbas to E.E. Wrestling Brewster
- Teaching in Iran / در باره امر تبلیغ در اران
- Termination of Black Men's Gatherings
- The future role of kings
- The marriage law and parental consent, 2010
- Three Tablets of Baha’u’llah for the Twin Holy Days
- To participants in the 114 youth conferences, July 1, 2013
- To the Bahais of Iran, marking nine years imprisonment for the seven Yaran, May 8 2017
- To the Bahais of Iran, May 8, 2015
- UHJ to the Bahais of Iran, Naw Ruz, 2014
- Universal Peace
- محدودیت های اقتصادی وارده بر جامعه بهائی: ۲۳ ژوئن ۲۰۱۶ / Economic restrictions imposed on the Baha'i community: 23 June 2016
- نامه محفل ملی بهاییان آمریکا به مقاله انتقادی مهرانگیز کار
- پیام ۱۹ ژانویه ۲۰۱۵ : امر تبلیغ در ایران
- پیام بیت العدل اعظم الهی خطاب به جوانان بهائی ایران
- پیام بیت العدل اعظم مورخ 7 دسامبر 2015
- پیام بیت العدل اعظم ١۵ بهمن ١٣٩٤ / February 4, 2016
- پیام بیت العدل اعظم ۹ مهر ١۳۹۳
- پیام نوروز ۱۳۹۵ / Naw Ruz message 2016, to the Bahais of Iran
- پیام ١٨ اردیبهشت ١٣٩٦ / May 8, 2017, to the Bahais of Iran
- پیام ٢۰ اردیبهشت ۱۳۹٢
- ‘Agents of social change’ : November 27, 2001
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- "...whoso disbelieveth in God.."
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- "anything Shoghi Effendi said is Baha'i doctrine"
- 'Estates' as an alternative to political parties
- 1963 and the lesser peace
- 20,000 martyrs?
- A list of slanders
- A theocratic cabal ?
- Abdu'l-Baha's knighthood and other bogeys
- Age of frustration
- Agnostic Bahai?
- All Bahai?
- Answer to al-ahram
- Authority and authenticity, and some old translations
- Bahai Studies and the academic study of religion
- Beat your wives?
- Being Bahai: creed or community
- Betrouwbaarheid van geschriften
- Blame the atheists?
- Book burning?
- Capital punishment in the Aqdas
- Catholic-Bahai marriage
- China, China, Chinaward
- Church and State - 1
- Church and State - 2
- Church and State - 3: Shoghi Effendi, establishment
- Church and state - dispensationalism, establishment
- Church and State - response to Maneck's Review
- Church and State - theological arguments
- Church and State Q&A
- Church and State – response to Maneck’s review (2)
- Church, State, experts, consensus
- Cremation
- Disenrolment - myspace 2008
- Disenrolment – Tarikh 2006
- end of the world
- enrolled vs unenrolled
- Enrolment and not
- Entry by troops when?
- Four questions
- Haram-e Aqdas
- Implications of SCOTUS in Obergefell for the policies of Bahai institutions
- In crystal coffins
- Infallibility and amputation in the Torah
- Infallibility and the meaning of khata'
- Infallibility as freedom
- Jesus, author of the Gospel
- Just like the Catholics?
- Khan to convention, precis
- Learned - good and bad
- Learned - honour them
- Letters on behalf of Shoghi Effendi
- Letters on behalf of Shoghi Effendi - 2
- Letters on behalf of Shoghi Effendi - 3
- Mashriqu'l-adhkar types
- Method and focus in my Church and State
- Minor plan, major plan
- Morally conservative?
- Nationalism, patriotism, romanticism
- No clergy?
- Parallelism as a literary device
- Political activity
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- Present influence of the Bahai Faith
- Pro-Life or Pro-Choice?
- Progressive Revelation
- Quick Review of the work of Cornell and Schaefer as explanations of Bahai Law
- Reciting the Greatest Name
- Review of Alkan, Dissent and Heterodoxy
- Same sex marriages - 1
- Same sex marriages - 2
- Same sex marriages - 3
- Same sex marriages - 4
- Same sex marriages - 5
- Same sex marriages - 6
- Scholars in the Bahai Community 1
- Scholars in the Bahai Community 2
- Scholarship and review in the Bahai community
- Science and religion
- Socially progressive?
- Stages of World Order development
- Sulh-e Akbar
- Tattoos
- The 'margin' is ahead of the curve
- The 'mutilation' passage
- The 'Paris Talks' tablet on women
- The age of Aisha
- The Bahai Faith as Iranian modernism
- The essence of wealth
- The Five Ahkam in Bahai law
- The Great Being
- The Lesser Peace - coming when
- The Master's last tablet to America
- The miracle of 19 in the Quran
- The Pilgrim's hostel and the Mashriq
- The Virgin Birth, twin houses and twin shrines
- Theologians, the learned and the wise
- Theology - 2005-12-03
- Theology - a defence
- Theology 2005-10-17
- Theology 2005-10-21
- Theology 2006-02-13
- Theology 2007-01-01
- Theology 2008-06-03
- Theology 2009-10-00
- Three citations (?) from Shoghi Effendi
- Too tender for the house - the prequel
- Twoness, two sovereignties
- Vain imaginings
- Vivisection and science
- Voluntary theocracy?
- Who belongs?
- Who belongs? - 2
- Who belongs? - 3
- Who votes in the Bahai World Order?
- Why don't Bahais teach in Israel?
- Y2k and all that
- Y2K: Lesser Peace, unity of nations
- اطاعت بیچون و چرا + دین و دولت
- عدم دخالت در سیاست و شرکت در امور جمهوری
- Literature
- In Memoriam
- Alice Barney
- Ata’ullah Rezvani (1961-2013)
- Consul Albert Schwarz
- Dr. Arastu Khan Hakim (1877-1934)
- Edwin Scott
- Ethel Jenner Rosenberg
- George Adam Benke
- Hippolyte Dreyfus Barney : an appreciation by Shoghi Effendi
- J. E. Esslemont
- Keith Ransom-Kehler
- Mirza Mahmud Zargani (Zarqani)
- Mrs. Agnes Parsons
- Mrs. Claudia S. Coles
- Udo Schaefer
- William H. Randall 1863-1929
- Images of hate
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I warmly recommend watching Violetta Zein's youtube presentation about Shoghi Effendi in Oxford:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFjTX-XJggYand her online illustrated chronology that matches that:https://theutteranceproject.com/the-guardian-part-4/
Thank you Sen for your time and thank you for answering. You were talking about textual criticismo and I checked…
Shoghi Effendi is a demanding writer. A reader must read a considerable amount of his works to see how he…
age and century? Wrong translation of Shoghi.
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Violetta Zein mentions this letter, and the preceding events, at around 1 hour 24 minutes in her excellent youtube video:…