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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Baha'i
Iran again finds itself in the forefront of world events. After
Islam, the largest religious minority in Iran is the Baha'i Faith-a
religion born there in the mid-Nineteenth Century. According to
many scholars of Iranian society and history, the Baha'is, in a
century and a half, have proven to be a significant social and
moral force capable of modernizing and democratizing that
country-the cradle of one of the most remarkable civilizations in
history. The followers of this religion which, according to the
Encyclopedia Britannica, is the second most widespread in the world
after Christianity, number more than six million globally...
In Quotations for Manifesting Your Potential in the Baha'i Faith,
author Nathan Thomas has compiled a collection of passages from the
Baha'i Holy Writings and other sources to help introduce this new
religion to the world as a message of spiritual development for all
people. The book is a companion to Manifest Your Potential in the
Baha'i Faith, How the Beliefs, Practices, and Vision of the Baha'i
Faith Can Change Your Life, written by the same author. Through the
use of quotations from the Central Figures of the Baha'i Faith,
which include the Bab, Baha'u'llah, and 'Abdu'l-Baha, along with
quotations from the Guardian and the Universal House of Justice and
its agencies, Quotations for Manifesting Your Potential in the
Baha'i Faith how the beliefs of this new world religion inspire a
new understanding for reality, how the practices of this faith
empower us to become more effective individuals in our spiritual
and material lives, and how the vision of Baha'u'llah brings people
together to transform the world around us into a heavenly kingdom
for all mankind. In the process, the book provides a guide to how
to approach the Baha'i Faith as a toolkit for realizing the
greatness in all people.
This volume was compiled as a sequence of correlated passages that
would be conducive to spiritual growth. The majority of the
material presented in this compilation is comprised of passages
from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, with one text from the Bab, some
from 'Abdu'l-Baha, one passage from a letter written on behalf of
Shoghi Effendi, and one ap- pendix from a letter written on behalf
of the Universal House of Justice.
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