New volume of Bahá’u’lláh’s Writings
National Spiritual Assembly
nsa@bahai.org.uk
19 January 2017
2 Sulṭán 173 B.E.
To all believers in the United Kingdom
Dearly loved Friends,
As you may recall, in anticipation of the first universal observance of the Twin Holy Birthdays of the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh according to the Badí‘ calendar, the Universal House of Justice released three Tablets from the volume Days of Remembrance: Selections from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh for Bahá’í Holy Days, which was then in preparation.
We are thrilled to inform you that this volume has now been published and will shortly be available for the friends to purchase through Bahá’í Books UK. For believers residing in the United Kingdom, the price will be £10 per copy.
The volume contains forty-five selections from the Pen of Bahá’u’lláh that were specifically revealed for, or which pertain to, nine Bahá’í Holy Days. Most of the Tablets and excerpts comprising the volume appear here for the first time in English translation.
More information about this publication can be found on the Bahá’í World News Service: http://news.bahai.org/story/1148 This page also contains a link to the complete publication in electronic form at the online Bahá’í Reference Library.
It is difficult to express the magnitude of the blessing that a publication of so many newly authorised translations of Tablets and excerpts from the Pen of the Manifestation of God confers upon His community and, indeed, mankind. Now that there is an authorised English translation, they will in time be translated into many of the hundreds of languages used around the world. They will thus give humanity a further glimpse into “the greatness, the inconceivable greatness of this Revelation” which “stands unparalleled in the annals of the past.” It can be seen as a further stage in the gradual unfoldment of the potent message of Bahá’u’lláh, whose purpose is to bring into being a New World Order and to “carry forward an ever advancing civilisation”.
The National Spiritual Assembly feels certain that the friends will wish to avail themselves of the priceless opportunity to discover these Tablets, and to make use of them in all of their Holy Days, including in the upcoming bicentenary commemorations in October.
With loving Bahá’í greetings,
Patrick O’Mara,
Secretary