TAGS: * `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of; Japan; Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; Universal House of Justice, Letters and messages

Abstract:

Tablets of `Abdu'l-Bahá, letters of Shoghi Effendi and the Universal House of Justice, and historical notes about Japan.

Notes:

Note: this is the original complete compilation, with photographs, not the abridged version later republished by the Bahá'í World Center.

Japan Will Turn Ablaze!

Abdu'l-Bahá
Shoghi Effendi
Universal House of Justice [by or on behalf of]

Barbara R. Sims, compiler

Tokyo: Bahá'í Publishing Trust of Japan, 1992

Chapter 7

Excerpt from a Tablet of `Abdu'l-Bahá

O thou who art firm in the Covenant!*

The International Congress of Religions was organized this year (1906) in the capital of Japan. Many souls hastened to that empire from different parts of the world, in order that they might talk of and discuss the principles of their own religions, each one longing to convert that assembly to his own religion and establish the validity of his own particular belief. This congress had under discussion the politics of the religions. In truth, it is a political affair and not the attraction of the heart, faith, advancement toward God nor enkindlement with the fire of the love of God. This congress will not produce a lasting effect, for it is essentially politico-religious. What is effective and conducive to the penetration of the Word of God and the attraction of hearts is the fragrances of holiness and the divine glad-tidings, which the members of the congress do not in the least comprehend.

Consequently, if the believers of God go to that country — not to the congress — and through the power of the Word of God, the breath of the Holy Spirit, the reading of the verses of Oneness and associating with the individual inhabitants of that kingdom, undoubtedly untold and tremendous results will be realized and the sweet fragrance of the rose-garden of mysteries will perfume the nostrils of the people of those regions. It is significantly useful if some of the friends of God put forth an effort and hasten from America to those parts (Japan)...

(1906)

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* Addressed to Ahmad Sohrab.

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