The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys
Introduction
Bahá’í is commanded to obey his government. Among the Bahá’í virtues are spotless cleanliness, chastity, trutworthiness, hospitality, courtesy, and justice.
The only person from the West to visit
Bahá’u’lláh was Professor Edward G. Browne of Cambridge University who came in 1890. Here is a sentence from his reverent record of that experience: “No need to ask in whose presence I stood, as I bowed myself before One who is the object of a devotion and love which kings might envy and emperors sigh for in vain.”
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Before His passing in 1892, Bahá’u’lláh wrote a Will and Testament investing His son,
‘Abdu’l-Bahá, with the authority to interpret His teachings. This son’s given name was ‘Abbás Effendi and He was born in
Ṭihrán the very time of
the Báb’s Declaration in
Shíráz, before midnight on May 22, 1844. He shared prison and exile with His Father. In His early teens, He was asked to comment on a verse in the
Qur’án and He produced a literary masterpiece. His outstanding sociological work was
The Secret of Divine Civilization.
During a brief period of freedom, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá traveled in Europe, America and Egypt. He journey from coast to coast in the United State from April to December 1912. He lectured in
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