California Bahá'í Directory

Bahá’ís of Riverside, California
To contact Bahá’ís in the Riverside area
3332 Orange St. Riverside, CA 92501
(951) 684-8368
riversidebahaicenter @ gmail.com

Healing Prayer Riverside CA – Thy Name is My Healing O my God – Most Beautiful Prayer

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#Soul #Faith #Spirit #Pure #Joy #SpiritualQuotes #DailyQuotes #Quotestoliveby #Loving #Unity #Peace #QuotesDaily #PositiveQuotes
#MotivationalQuotes

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Spiritual and Uplifting Prayer – Be Generous In Prosperity And Thankful In Adversity – Hermosa oración

californiabahaidirectory99 — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 05:14:11 +0000

Beautiful Prayer – Be Generous In Prosperity And Thankful In Adversity – Hermosa oración

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be worthy of the trust of thy neighbor, and look upon him with a bright and friendly face. Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer to the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.

Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be unjust to no man, and show all meekness to all men. Be as a lamp unto them that walk in darkness, a joy to the sorrowful, a sea for the thirsty, a haven for the distressed, an upholder and defender of the victim of oppression.

Let integrity and uprightness distinguish all thine acts. Be a home for the stranger, a balm to the suffering, a tower of strength for the fugitive.

Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. Be an ornament to the countenance of truth, a crown to the brow of fidelity, a pillar of the temple of righteousness, a breath of life to the body of mankind, an ensign of the hosts of justice, a luminary above the horizon of virtue, a dew to the soil of the human heart, an ark on the ocean of knowledge, a sun in the heaven of bounty, a gem on the diadem of wisdom, a shining light in the firmament of thy generation, a fruit upon the tree of humility.

Bahá’u’lláh

Bahá’ís of Riverside, California
To contact Bahá’ís in the Riverside area
3332 Orange St. Riverside, CA 92501
(951) 684-8368
riversidebahaicenter @ gmail.com

Spiritual Prayer – Be Generous In Prosperity And Thankful In Adversity – Hermosa oración

#bahaullah
#bahaifaith
#bahaiprayers
#bahaiwritings
#bahaiquotes
#bahais
#Spirituality
#Soul
#Faith
#Spirit
#Pure
#Joy
#SpiritualQuotes
#DailyQuotes
#Quotestoliveby
#Loving
#Unity
#Peace
#QuotesDaily
#PositiveQuotes
#MotivationalQuotes

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Prayer For Self Healing – Illumine O Lord The Faces Of Thy Servants That They May Behold Thee

californiabahaidirectory99 — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 04:19:11 +0000

Spiritual Motivational Prayer – Illumine O Lord The Faces Of Thy Servants That They May Behold Thee

Illumine, O Lord, the faces of Thy servants, that they may behold Thee; and cleanse their hearts that they may turn unto the court of Thy heavenly favors, and recognize Him Who is the Manifestation of Thy Self and the Dayspring of Thine Essence. Verily, Thou art the Lord of all worlds. There is no God but Thee, the Unconstrained, the All-Subduing.

Bahá’u’lláh

Bahá’ís of Riverside, California
To contact Bahá’ís in the Riverside area
3332 Orange St. Riverside, CA 92501
(951) 684-8368
riversidebahaicenter @ gmail.com

Prayer For Hope – Illumine O Lord The Faces Of Thy Servants That They May Behold Thee

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Spiritual Prayer – I Beg Thee To Forgive Me O My Lord For Every Mention But The Mention Of Thee

californiabahaidirectory99 — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 04:10:11 +0000

Prayer For Healing For A Friend – I Beg Thee To Forgive Me O My Lord For Every Mention But The Mention Of Thee

I beg Thee to forgive me, O my Lord, for every mention but the mention of Thee,
and for every praise but the praise of Thee, and for every delight but delight in
Thy nearness, and for every pleasure but the pleasure of communion with Thee, and
for every joy but the joy of Thy love and of Thy good-pleasure, and for all things
pertaining unto me which bear no relationship unto Thee, O Thou Who art the Lord of
lords, He Who provideth the means and unlocketh the doors.

The Báb

Bahá’ís of Riverside, California
To contact Bahá’ís in the Riverside area
3332 Orange St. Riverside, CA 92501
(951) 684-8368
riversidebahaicenter @ gmail.com

Prayer For Strength – I Beg Thee To Forgive Me O My Lord For Every Mention But The Mention Of Thee

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Spiritual and Uplifting Prayer – Glory Be To Thee, O My God! I Beg Of Thee By Thy Name

californiabahaidirectory99 — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 04:41:11 +0000

Most Beautiful Prayer – Glory Be To Thee, O My God! I Beg Of Thee By Thy Name

Glory be to Thee, O my God! I beg of Thee by Thy name, the Most Merciful, to protect Thy servants and Thy handmaidens when the tempests of trials pass over them, and Thy manifold tests assail them. Enable them, then, O my God, so to seek refuge within the stronghold of Thy love and of Thy Revelation, that neither Thine adversaries nor the wicked doers among Thy servants, who have broken Thy Covenant and Thy Testament, and turned away most disdainfully from the Day-Spring of Thine Essence and the Revealer of Thy glory, may prevail against them.

They themselves, O my Lord, have waited at the door of Thy grace. Do Thou open it to their faces with the keys of Thy bountiful favors. Potent art Thou to do what Thou willest, and to ordain what Thou pleasest. These are the ones, O my Lord, who have set their faces towards Thee, and turned unto Thy habitation. Do with them, therefore, as becometh Thy mercy, which hath surpassed the worlds.

Bahá’u’lláh

Bahá’ís of Riverside, California
To contact Bahá’ís in the Riverside area
3332 Orange St. Riverside, CA 92501
(951) 684-8368
riversidebahaicenter @ gmail.com

Spiritual Motivational Prayer – Glory Be To Thee, O My God! I Beg Of Thee By Thy Name

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9 Bahá’í Women Executed In Iran June 18 1983 #HumanRights #neverforget

californiabahaidirectory99 — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 04:29:11 +0000

9 Bahá’í Women Executed In Iran June 18 1983 #HumanRights #neverforget

Mona Mahmudnizhad (September 10 , 1965 – June 18, 1983) was a Persian Bahá’í who, in 1983, together with nine other Bahá’í women, was sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran because of her membership in the Bahá’í Faith.

Mona Mahmudnizhad was born on September 10, 1965 to Yad’u’llah and Farkhundeh Mahmudnizhad, who had left their home in Iran to teach their religion in Yemen. She was the second child in the family; the family’s first daughter, Taraneh, was seven years old at the time of Mahmudnizhad’s birth. Mona spent her first four years in Yemen; at age two, she was hit by a car and thrown to the sidewalk, but sustained no serious injury.In 1969 the government of Yemen expelled all foreigners and the Mahmudnizhad family returned to Iran. They spent two years in Isfahan, six months in Kirmanshah and three years in Tabriz before finally settling in Shiraz in 1974. During this time her father repaired small appliances for work and served the Bahá’í community as part of various Bahá’í administrative bodies.

While Bahá’ís regularly faced persecution in Iran, the Islamic Revolution of 1979 refocused the persecution. At 7:30pm on October 23, 1982, four armed revolutionary guards, sent by the public prosecutor of Shiraz, entered the Mahmudnizhad household and ransacked the home in search of Bahá’í material. When they were finished they took Mona and her father into custody. The two were blindfolded and taken to Seppah prison in Shiraz, where they were placed in separate quarters; Mahmudnizhad was detained in Seppah prison for a total of 38 days.On November 29, 1982, she and five other Bahá’í women were transferred from Seppah prison to Adelabad prison, which was also in Shiraz. After some time in Abelabad she was transferred to the Islamic Revolutionary Court where she was interrogated and then returned to prison. A few days later, she was once again taken from the prison and interrogated in front of an Islamic Revolutionary Judge. After these series of interrogations Mahmudnizhad was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. At the time of her sentencing, the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, made a plea for clemency, despite this, the sentence of the 10 women was carried out on the night of June 18, 1983, in a nearby polo field.The names and ages of the other women who were hanged with Mahmudnizhad were:

Mrs. Nusrat Yalda’i, 54 years old,
Mrs. ‘Izzat Janami Ishraqi, 50 years old,
Miss Roya Ishraqi, 23 and daughter of ‘Izzat,
Mrs. Tahirih Siyavushi, 32 years old,
Miss Zarrin Muqimi, 28 years old,
Miss Shirin Dalvand, 25 years old,
Miss Akhtar Sabit, 19 or early 20’s,
Miss Simin Sabiri, early 20’s,
Miss Mahshid Nirumand, 28 years old

On June 18, 1983, Mona along with 9 other Bahá’í women was executed in Iran because of her membership in the #Bahai Faith. #HumanRights

We must never forget.

Bahá’ís of Riverside, California
To contact Bahá’ís in the Riverside area
3332 Orange St. Riverside, CA 92501
(951) 684-8368
riversidebahaicenter @ gmail.com

Prayer For Hope – O My Lord! Thou Knowest That The People Are Encircled With Pain And Calamities

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Most Beautiful Prayer – O My Lord! Thou Knowest That The People Are Encircled With Pain And Calamities

californiabahaidirectory99 — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 03:13:10 +0000

O my Lord! Thou knowest that the people are encircled with pain and calamities and are environed with hardships and trouble. Every trial doth attack man and every dire adversity doth assail him like unto the assault of a serpent. There is no shelter and asylum for him except under the wing of Thy protection, preservation, guard and custody.

O Thou the Merciful One! O my Lord! Make Thy protection my armor, Thy preservation my shield, humbleness before the door of Thy oneness my guard, and Thy custody and defense my fortress and my abode. Preserve me from the suggestions of self and desire, and guard me from every sickness, trial, difficulty and ordeal.

Verily, Thou art the Protector, the Guardian, the Preserver, the Sufficer, and verily, Thou art the Merciful of the Most Merciful.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá

Spiritual Motivational Prayer – O My Lord! Thou Knowest That The People Are Encircled With Pain And Calamities

Bahá’ís of Riverside, California
To contact Bahá’ís in the Riverside area
3332 Orange St. Riverside, CA 92501
(951) 684-8368
riversidebahaicenter @ gmail.com

Portraits of Bahá’í Women – Corinne Knight True

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Women In the Bahá’í Faith – Corinne Knight True

californiabahaidirectory99 — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 05:27:09 +0000

Corinne Knight True was born in Kentucky [1-4] during the Civil War, the oldest child of Martha Thomas (Duerson) Knight (1839-1901) and Moses Greene Knight (1819-1903) [1-vi]. Skillful real estate investments in Chicago downtown property made Moses Knight prosperous, but when the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 swept the city, followed by the 1873 depression, Knight had to sell all his Kentucky property and move his family to Chicago to preserve his investments [1-7]. Financial success enabled Knight to send his daughter to Miss Mary Baldwin’s finishing school in Virginia. A few months after graduation, on November 24, 1882, Corinne Knight eloped, marrying Moses Adams True (1857-1909), the son of a next-door neighbor [1-10 to 13]. Moses Knight opposed his daughter’s marriage and the resulting bitter divide between father and daughter, who formerly had been close, lasted ten years.

The Trues had eight children in rapid succession: Harriet Merrill (1883-92) [1-14,18]; Lawrence Knight (1885-1906) [1-vii]; Charles Gilbert Davis (1886-1912) [1-vii]; Edna Miriam (1888-1988); Arna Corinne (1890-1975) [1-viii]; twins Katherine (1893-1963) [1-viii] and Kenneth (1893-1901) [1-27]; and Nathanael (1896-1899) [1-21,22]. The family was close and prosperous; they hired a cook and sent the children to private school. The loss of four of the children before adulthood produced a series of successive blows that severely tested Corinne True and turned her thinking toward religion. After Harriet fell down the stone basement stairs and died at age nine, Corinne and Moses True turned away from mainline Protestantism to some newly developed approaches to religion: the Unity School of Christianity, then Christian Science, then Divine Science [1-18]. When the baby of the family, Nathanael, died from complications following diphtheria in 1899 Corinne deepened her religious search. Through a friend she encountered the Bahá’í Faith late in 1899 and accepted it within a few months, at age thirty-eight [1-24]. In contrast, her husband was very sympathetic to Bahá’í beliefs but never formally joined.

When True became a Bahá’í the American Bahá’í community numbered 1500 to 2000 and was five years old. The Bahá’í religion began in 1863 when an Iranian noble named Mírzá Husayn-`Alí (1817-92), known as Bahá’u’lláh, founded a new religion based on such principles as the oneness of God, the spiritual unity of the world’s religions, the oneness of humanity, independent individual search for truth, and the equality of the sexes. A practical religion, it quickly spread beyond Iran and attracted Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Buddhists as well as Muslims. When Bahá’u’lláh died his son `Abdu’l-Bahá (1844-1921) became head of the Faith.

It is not known what attracted True to the Bahá’í Faith, though its universal nature and inclusiveness were probably factors. She immediately became one of Chicago’s most active Bahá’ís. When, in May 1901, the Chicago Bahá’ís elected an all-male governing body to run the community and a women’s Auxiliary Board to assist, True became corresponding secretary of the latter [4-49-50]. In March 1902 True delivered a talk at the Chicago Bahá’í Sunday program titled “Fundamental Points of Behaism [sic]” and its contents indicate True’s understanding of the Bahá’í Faith was as good as any of the other Chicago Bahá’ís’ at the time [paper in Chase Papers, National Bahá’í Archives].

True wrote `Abdu’l-Bahá about the exclusion of women from the Chicago Bahá’í governing body on 25 February 1902, noting that “many” felt it should be a “mixed board” because “women in America stand so conspicuously for all that is highest & best in every department.” [3-23] In his response `Abdu’l-Bahá stated that while “in the sight of God, the conduct of women is the same as that of men” and there was “no difference” between the sexes, nevertheless the “House of Justice” had to consist only of men and that the “reason will presently appear, even as the sun at midday.” [3-25]

True accepted `Abdu’l-Bahá’s ruling–which also affirmed the equality of the sexes–and poured her energy into the Chicago Bahá’í women’s organization, which `Abdu’l-Bahá highly praised [3-21]. For the next eight years Chicago had two parallel Bahá’í organizations, one confined to men, the other to women. True served as president or secretary of the women’s body at different times. By 1903 she had been instrumental in establishing the first Bahá’í communities in Michigan–in Muskegon and Fruitport–near her family’s summer residence. She also traveled to Wisconsin to speak about the Bahá’í Faith. [4-140]

In 1903 the Chicago Bahá’ís heard about the construction of the world’s first Bahá’í House of Worship, in what is today Turkmenistan. They wrote `Abdu’l-Bahá asking for permission to build a temple of their own [4-118-19]. `Abdu’l-Bahá not only sent them two encouraging letters in response, but wrote True and encouraged her to get involved in the effort [1-41] [4-119]. She was surprised, as previously she had not been interested. read more here

Portraits of Bahá’í Women – Corinne Knight True

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Spiritual Prayer – O Son Of Man! If Thine Eyes Be Turned Towards Mercy – Hermosa oración

californiabahaidirectory99 — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 05:56:11 +0000

The Most Beautiful Prayer – O son of man! If thine eyes be turned towards mercy, forsake the things that profit thee and cleave unto that which will profit mankind. And if thine eyes be turned towards justice, choose thou for thy neighbour that which thou choosest for thyself. Humility exalteth man to the heaven of glory and power, whilst pride abaseth him to the depths of wretchedness and degradation.

¡Oh hijo de hombre! Si tus ojos se vuelven hacia la misericordia, abandona las cosas que te benefician y aférrate a lo que beneficiará a la humanidad. Y si tus ojos se vuelven hacia la justicia, elige para tu prójimo lo que elijas para ti. La humildad exalta al hombre al cielo de la gloria y el poder, mientras que el orgullo lo humilla a las profundidades de la miseria y la degradación.

Baha’u’llah

Bahá’ís of Riverside, California
To contact Bahá’ís in the Riverside area
3332 Orange St. Riverside, CA 92501
(951) 684-8368
riversidebahaicenter @ gmail.com

Beautiful and Lovely Prayer – Blessed and happy is he that ariseth to promote the best interests of the peoples and kindreds of the earth.

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Spiritual and Uplifting Prayer – Blessed And Happy Is He That Ariseth – Hermosa oración

californiabahaidirectory99 — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 05:34:12 +0000

Bienaventurado y feliz el que se levanta para promover los mejores intereses de los pueblos y familias de la tierra.

Baha’u’llah

Bahá’ís of Riverside, California
To contact Bahá’ís in the Riverside area
3332 Orange St. Riverside, CA 92501
(951) 684-8368
riversidebahaicenter @ gmail.com