“This flow, moreover, will presage and hasten the advent of the day which, as prophesied by Abdu'l-Bahá, will witness the entry by troops of peoples of divers nations and races into the Bahá’í world - a day which, viewed in its proper perspective, will be the prelude to that long-awaited when a mass conversion on the part of these same nations and races, and as a direct result of a chain of events, momentous and possibly catastrophic in nature, and which cannot as yet be even dimly visualized, will suddenly revolutionize the fortunes of the Faith, derange the equilibrium of the world, and reinforce a thousandfold the numerical strength as well as the material power and the spiritual authoritv of the Faith of Bahá’u'lláh.”
(Shoghi Effendi. Citadel of Faith, page 117)
What does it take to be a Bahá’í?
To be a good Baha’i?
The sort that Bahá’u’lláh would recognise,
That ‘Abdul-Bahá would consider wise,
The sort of Bahá’í we ought to be?
It takes putting others before ourselves
Thinking of their needs before our own
Saying words of encouragement to those in pain
When they feel all hope is gone.
It takes seeing mankind as one family
Just as Bahá’u’lláh has said it should be
It takes working for peace in the midst of war
A good Bahá’í is this - and more.
Ina Cantrell