Teaching in Iran / در باره امر تبلیغ در اران
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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:…