Baha’i’s of Newport

19/10/2023

If the learned and worldly-wise men of this age were to allow mankind to inhale the fragrance of fellowship and love, every understanding heart would apprehend the meaning of true liberty, and discover the secret of undisturbed peace and absolute composure.

Bahá’u’lláh (Baha'i Writings)

11/09/2023

...After each sunset comes a sunrise.

The spiritual light of the world has risen again from the eastern horizon. The night is finished; the day is come and the first rays of the dawn are destroying the shadows, dispersing the clouds, making the plants to grow, the trees to become verdant and ornamenting the flower-beds with roses. The sun of reality hath reappeared with tremendous power and soon the light of Baha'u'llah will be diffused throughout the world.
Attributed to Abdul-Baha

15/08/2023

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In this video, we hear an extract from Ruhiyyih Khanum’s book "Prescription for Living" about dealing with hardship and struggle. You can find a copy of "Pre...

31/07/2023

Consider the pettiness of men's minds. They ask for that which injureth them, and cast away the thing that profiteth them. They are, indeed, of those that are far astray. We find some men desiring liberty, and priding themselves therein. Such men are in the depths of ignorance. Liberty must, in the end, lead to sedition, whose flames none can quench....Liberty causeth man to overstep the bounds of propriety, and to infringe on the dignity of his station. It debaseth him to the level of extreme depravity and wickedness.
Regard men as a flock of sheep that need a shepherd for their protection. This, verily, is the truth, the certain truth. We approve of liberty in certain circumstances, and refuse to sanction it in others. We, verily, are the All-Knowing.
Say: True liberty consisteth in man's submission unto My commandments, little as ye know it...Happy is the man that hath apprehended the Purpose of God in whatever He hath revealed from the Heaven of His Will. ___________________________________

Verily this is that Most Great Beauty, foretold in the Books of the Messengers, through Whom truth shall be distinguished from error and the wisdom of every command shall be tested. Verily He is the Tree of Life that bringeth forth the fruits of God, the Exalted, the Powerful, the Great.

- Baha'u'llah (Baha'i Writings)

08/07/2023

https://youtu.be/Dw9cW8SbClc

Official video for "Our Story Is One" by Colby Jeffers & Sarah Mohebiany is a global campaign that honors ten Baha’i women who were unjustly ex...

10/06/2023

...when sadness visits us we become weak, our strength leaves us, our comprehension is dim and our intelligence veiled. The actualities of life seem to elude our grasp, the eyes of our spirits fail to discover the sacred mysteries, and we become even as dead beings.

There is no human being untouched by these two influences; but all the sorrow and the grief that exist come from the world of matter – the spiritual world bestows only the joy!

If we suffer it is the outcome of material things, and all the trials and troubles come from this world of illusion....whereas the spiritual Kingdom never causes sadness. – Abdu’l-Baha (Baha'i Writings)

29/05/2023

(Baha'u'llah) bore all these ordeals and calamities in order that our hearts might become enkindled and radiant, our spirits be glorified, our faults become virtues, our ignorance be transformed into knowledge; in order that we might attain the real fruits of humanity and acquire heavenly graces; in order that, although pilgrims upon earth, we should travel the road of the heavenly Kingdom, and, although needy and poor, we might receive the treasures of eternal life. For this has He borne these difficulties and sorrows.
Abdul-Baha (Baha'i Writings)

16/04/2023

A kindly tongue is the lodestone of the hearts of men. It is the bread of the spirit, it clotheth the words with meaning, it is the fountain of the light of wisdom and understanding.

Baha'u'llah (Baha'i Writings)

23/03/2023

23/03/2023

A very warm and joyous Naw-Ruz celebration in the Welsh Valleys.

20/03/2023

08/03/2023

In the world of humanity the female s*x is treated as though inferior, and is not allowed equal rights and privileges. This condition is due not to nature, but to education. In the Divine Creation there is no such distinction. Neither s*x is superior to the other in the sight of God. Why then should one s*x assert the inferiority of the other, withholding just rights and privileges as though God had given His authority for such a course of action? If women received the same educational advantages as those of men, the result would demonstrate the equality of capacity of both for scholarship.
-Abdul-Baha (Baha'i Writings)