A Traveler’s Narrative written to illustrate the episode of the BÁB

Selections from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh for Bahá’í Holy Days

The Epistle to the Son of the Wolf is the last major work of Bahá’u’lláh, founder of the Bahá’í Faith. It was written in 1891 just before his passing in 1892.

The Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed After the Kitáb-i-Aqdas are selected tablets written by Bahá’u’lláh, the founder of the Bahá’í Faith, and published together as of 1978. As his mission drew to a close after his writing of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas in 1873, he continued to write unnumbered tablets and letters, doing so until the last days of his life in 1892. Six of the tablets in this volume were translated into English and published in 1917. The translations were improved upon by Shoghi Effendi, and those not translated by him were filled in with the publication in 1978 under the supervision of the Universal House of Justice.

A treatise written in reply to a question from Siyyid Yúsuf-i-Sidihí Iṣfahání who had asked the question of how the promised Mahdi could have been ‘transformed’ into the Báb.

Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh is a compilation of selected tablets and extracts from tablets by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. Shoghi Effendi, head of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921 to 1957, made the selection and performed the translation, which was first published 1935. The work consists of a selection of the most characteristic and hitherto unpublished passages from the outstanding works of the Author of the Bahá'í Revelation, according to Shoghi Effendi. The passages come from the whole range of Bahá'u'lláh's writings, dated from about 1853 to 1892.

Tablets of ‘Abdul-Bahá describing aspects of the life of Bahá’u’lláh including the tribulations He suffered, events in His homeland, the purpose and greatness of His Cause, and the nature and significance of His Covenant.

Selections of prayers and meditations of Bahá’u’lláh compiled and transated by Shoghi Effendi

A selection of prayers prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice and released in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá's passing.

Compiled by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice

Some Answered Questions is a book that was first published in 1908. It contains questions related to religion, philosophy and science, asked to `Abdu'l-Bahá by Laura Clifford Barney, during several of her visits to Haifa between 1904 and 1906, and `Abdu'l-Bahá's answers to these questions. `Abdu'l-Bahá was the son of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, and was appointed by him as his successor and interpreter of his words. Topics covered include the Prophets of God, human evolution, immortality of the soul, the relationship between the soul and the body, reincarnation and Christian subjects.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Charter for Teaching. These fourteen tablets, written in the middle of the first world war, gave to the American Bahá’ís the unique mission of the spiritual conquest of the planet. That mission was later extended to the rest of the Bahá’í world by Shoghi Effendi during the great World Crusade of 1957-63.

The Tablet to The Hague is a letter which `Abdu'l-Bahá wrote to the Central Organisation for Durable Peace in The Hague, The Netherlands on 17 December 1919.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s final Will and Testament, the design or charter of the future Administration of the Bahá’í Faith.