On 9 July 47, Shoghi Effendi received a letter from the chairman of United Nations Special Committee on Palestine requesting a statement on the relationship which the Bahá'í Faith had to Palestine and the Bahá'í attitude towards any future changes in the status of the country. His reply, "The Faith of Bahá'u'lláh: A World Religion," was written 14 July 1947 and sent the next day.

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

This collection of prayers revealed by Bahá’u’lláh is released electronically on the Bahá’í Reference Library.

This collection of prayers revealed by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá has been released electronically on the Bahá’í Reference Library.

Dedicated to the memory of Shoghi Effendi in commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the formation of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of New Zealand.

Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era is perhaps the foremost introductory volume on the Bahá'í Faith which eventually was published in 1923 and since translated into dozens of languages.

Bahá’í Administration is a collection of letters and messages from Shoghi Effendi addressed to the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada from 1922 to 1932. The first part of the book takes excerpts from the Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Bahá, which is one of the charters of the Bahá'í administration. The second part consists of almost 50 letters written by Shoghi Effendi over the decade that followed the death of `Abdu’l-Bahá. The directives outline several significant characteristics of how the Bahá’í Faith would develop, and address significant issues that were happening at the time, including American dissidents who disputed with him over his authority, and the actions of Covenant-breakers in Haifa who were expelled by him. He also addresses successes that the Faith achieved from legal rights achieved in Egypt, to recognition within the British Empire, to winning legal rights to the House of Bahá’u’lláh in Baghdad in an international court, and making huge advances in the construction of the American Bahá’í temple. The worldwide expansion and consolidation of the Faith during this period brought it from the obscurity of a small Middle Eastern religion into a worldwide faith with significantly more adherents and resources. The American community was the driving force behind this growth.

The purpose of this book is to offer the student of religion a compilation of Bahá'í Sacred Writings which, in one convenient volume, discloses their universal range of themes, their direct application to modern life and their incomparable spiritual power. Here is a World Bible revealed for men of all races and lands; a new creation which affirms and fulfils the highest assurance which, from age to age, the succession of Prophets have enkindled within the human soul. The past is not denied but extended through the present to establish a firm foundation for a new era of justice and peace. The illumination cast upon our own age, indeed, reveals the former religions and their Founders in a clearer light than they have ever been manifest before. The Bahá'í concept of the unity of the Prophets of God bans religion as creed and ceremony but resurrects faith in realization of one eternal divine Truth which now, for the first time, can be apprehended in its plan and purpose for the human race.

Call to the Nations is a collection of extracts from a fascinating series of letters penned by Shoghi Effendi to the Bahá’ís of the world. Shoghi Effendi, was the Guardian and appointed head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957.

This book is a collection of letters, cables, appeals, documents, various excerpts etc. by Shoghi Effendi..

“…the dawn of a New Day shall break upon that land and the Rays of this Divine Revelation shall make of India a spiritually-quickened, peaceful and united country.” — Shoghi Effendi, Jan. 9, 1923

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