Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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Barnabas declaiming at Baha’i meeting in Westminster. Photo © 2009 Mark Bamford
Around 120 people sat through my talk at the Westminster Baha’i community’s public meeting for the Baha’i festival of Ridvan last night. The subject? Baha’u’llah, His Revelation and Mission.
Outline for my talk on Baha’u’llah – click on it to enlarge it
The programme also included [...]
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photo credit: timrawle
On the night of 31st December 1999 my wife, my son, his girlfriend, and I travelled in a chartered Jubilee Line train from Westminster (we’d been at a reception at the House of Lords) to North Greenwich to see in the turn of the millennium at what was then known as the [...]
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Regular readers will recall that I wrote about the amazing and wondrous story of Charles Everett Ellis, as told in The Barber’s Diaries here (a year ago) and here (in September this year).
My good friend David Henderson tells me he has been working with the indie film makers Outpost Worldwide to revise the video story [...]
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The Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has today added two Bahá’í shrines to the list of World Heritage sites. The resting places of the twin Founders of the Bahá’í Faith – the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh – are the first sites connected with a modern religious tradition to [...]
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‘Be generous in prosperity’, a much loved passage from the pen of Bahá’u’lláh, as processed by Wordle. You gotta have a play with Wordle.
You see it much bigger here.
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The room in which Bahá’u’lláh passed away in 1892 [Photo: Nancy Wong, 2007]
Today is the 116th anniversary of the Ascension of Bahá’u’lláh in 1892. Bahá’ís around the world commemorated this solemn occasion at 3 a.m. (by the sun), turning to face the Shrine of Bahá’u’lláh, the holiest spot on earth for Bahá’ís, and reciting a [...]
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Reviving the world – regenerating its peoples
Bahá’u’lláh says this:
The Day Star of Truth that shineth in its meridian splendor beareth Us witness! They who are the people of God have no ambition except to revive the world, to ennoble its life, and regenerate its peoples. Truthfulness and good-will have, at all times, marked their relations [...]
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In the House of ‘Abbúd, visitors move softly around and there’s a shush of socked feet sliding across the floor. Whispered conversations in front of pictures hanging on the walls. Pilgrims sit cross-legged on the floor of the wood-lined room where Bahá’u’lláh finished revealing the Kitáb-i-Aqdas in 1873 and contemplate the going out of the [...]
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Delegates from many nations to the International Bahá’í Convention went in groups to visit the prison cell that Bahá’u’lláh occupied in the barracks in Akka for two years, two months and five days from 31 August 1868. We crowded into the cell and sat in silence on the floor, on chairs and on the ledge [...]
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Shrine of Bahá’u’lláh © David Henderson
My very good friend David Henderson has set up a wonderful new website called Baha’i Words. It contains beautiful photos and the Words of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
If you subscribe (click on the “subscribe” tab at the top of the blog) you will receive a prayer and a reading each day [...]
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