Frederick Prays

07/24/2023

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156905097874769&id=71760664768

06/16/2023

This Facebook group is primarily focused on encouraging people of all faith traditions to pray and share their inspiring thoughts and prayers with others in hopes of bringing forth a more spiritual community.

This post, focuses on how individuals can arise, face the ultimate challenge of recanting their faith or be executed.

“On 18 June 1983 — 40 years ago this month — 10 Baháʼí women were taken to a square in Shiraz, Iran, under the cloak of night. After months of torture and imprisonment, they were mass executed without the knowledge of their families. One was 17, most in their 20s. Their crime was their belief in a faith that promoted gender equality — absent and criminalized in Iran — justice and truthfulness. They were hanged one by one, each forced to watch the next woman’s death in a harrowing attempt to coerce them into renouncing their faith. None did.”

The women executed on this date were:

Mona Mahmoudnejad, 17;
Roya Eshraghi, 23, executed along with her mother Ezzat-Janami Eshraghi;
Simin Saberi, 24;
Shahin (Shirin) Dalvand, 25;
Akhtar Sabet, 25;
MahshidAkhtar Sabet - Executed by hanging in Shiraz on 18th June 1983 | Archives of Baha'i Persecution in Iran Niroumand, 28;
Zarrin Moghimi-Abyaneh, 29;
Tahereh Arjomandi Siyavashi, 30. Her husband, Jamshid Siavashi, was executed two days earlier;
Nosrat Ghufrani Yaldaie, 46. Her son, Bahram Yaldaie, was executed two days earlier;
Ezzat-Janami Eshraghi, 57, along with her daughter Roya, 23. Her husband, Enayatullah Eshraghi was executed two days earlier.

06/10/2023

Article on prayer in the Frederick News Post:

When considering all the seasons of the year, our spiritual needs change just as the seasons do. As we grow, we are able to adapt, with God’s guidance, to help

04/12/2023

The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds; he whose words exceed his deeds, know verily his death is better than his life.
The essence of true safety is to observe silence, to look at the end of things and to renounce the world.
The beginning of magnanimity is when man expendeth his wealth on himself, on his family and on the poor among his brethren in his Faith.
The essence of wealth is love for Me; whoso loveth Me is the possessor of all things, and he that loveth Me not is indeed of the poor and needy. This is that which the Finger of Glory and Splendor hath revealed.

🌹Bahá'u'lláh

04/11/2023

03/06/2023

When you meet those whose opinions differ from your own, do not turn away your face from them. All are seeking truth, and there are many roads leading thereto. Truth has many aspects, but it remains always and forever one.
Do not allow difference of opinion, or diversity of thought to separate you from your fellow-men, or to be the cause of dispute, hatred and strife in your hearts. Rather, search diligently for the truth and make all men your friends. Every edifice is made of many different stones, yet each depends on the other to such an extent that if one were displaced the whole building would suffer; if one is faulty the structure is imperfect. - Abdu'l-Bahá

02/26/2023

The most acceptable prayer is the one offered with the utmost spirituality and radiance; its prolongation hath not been and is not beloved by God. The more detached and the purer the prayer, the more acceptable is it in the presence of God.

- The Báb