'Abdu'l-Baha

In the entire span of religious history has there ever been a person like ‘Abdu’l-Baha?  -->Answer

A “partial and imperfect understanding”

Is it true that currently, no Baha’i has more than a “partial and imperfect understanding” of the Baha’i Faith?  -->Answer   

A very significant document

This document is referred to by the beloved Guardian as the “Most Great Law of the Faith of Baha’u’llah”  -->Answer

Consultation

‘Abdu’l-Baha defines these as the “prime requisites for them that take counsel together..” Can you name a few?  --> Answer

The "ideal sage"

This believer is referred to as 'Abdu'l-Baha's “gift to America”, and described by ‘Abdu’l-Baha Himself as “the ideal sage”, and as “…perfect in all the grades in knowledge and virtue, in sincerity of intention, in beauty of character, in severance from aught else save God and attraction with the fragrances of God.”  -->Answer  

Interracial Marriage

Their union represents the first black-white marriage in the American Baha'i community.  -->Answer 

References to "Temple" in the Suriy-i-Haykal

In the Suriy-i-Haykal, or the Surih of the Temple, we discover some references to Baha’u’llah such as the “Temple of the Cause.”, and the “Living Temple”. There are five more such references in that Tablet where the word “Temple” is used. Can you name a couple of them?  -->Answer

Medical Research

Can a Baha’i make arrangements for his/her body upon death be used for medical research?  -->Answer

Humanity

These two entities are symbolically referred to as the two “wings” by which humanity can “fly”. Can you identify them?  -->Answer

Jesus

Knowing that Christ was born of Mary, how do you explain His statement in the Gospel that “I am come from heaven”?  -->Answer

The Mystery of God

The “unique title of "Sirru'llah" (the Mystery of God)” which Baha’u’llah conferred upon ‘Abdu’l-Baha can be understood in light of this explanation by the beloved Guardian.  -->Answer  

Rooms in the Shrine of the Bab

The exterior doors to the eight rooms surrounding the central room of the Shrine of the Bab were named by ‘Abdu’l-Baha and Shoghi Effendi after certain eminent believers -- three of whom were Hands of the Cause. Can you name them?  -->Answer

Manifestation of God and God

What symbolic representation can one use to show the relationship between the Manifestation of God and God?  -->Answer

A criteria by Baha'u'llah

Under what condition does Baha’u’llah allow a person to “adorn himself with the ornaments of the earth, to wear its apparels, or partake of the benefits it can bestow…”  -->Answer

Story of creation in Genesis

Referring to Genesis in the Old Testament and the story of creation, how does ‘Abdu’l-Baha refute a literal interpretation of the story of creation?  -->Answer

Western believers in Iran

How far back can you estimate there were some Western believers in Iran?  -->Answer

The "first Baha'i of Hawaiian blood"

This woman is known as “the first Baha'i of Hawaiian blood”  -->Answer

Baha’u’llah’s "last outstanding Tablet”

This Tablet is referred to by the beloved Guardian as Baha’u’llah’s "last outstanding Tablet”  -->Answer  

The “Charter of Bahá'u'lláh's New World Order”

This document is referred to by the Guardian as the “Charter of Bahá'u'lláh's New World Order”  -->Answer  

Prayer for Spiritual Assembly

In what year did the beloved Guardian introduce the Baha’i world to the well known prayer from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá addressed to the members of the Spiritual Assembly in which the Master says: "Whenever ye enter the council-chamber, recite this prayer with a heart throbbing with the love of God and a tongue purified from all but His remembrance, that the All-powerful may graciously aid you to achieve supreme victory.”  -->Answer 

The first Baha'i in Western world

He is designated by the Guardian as “the first to embrace the Cause of Bahá'u'lláh in the Western world …”  -->Answer

An attribute of the Creator

Baha’u’llah indicates in one of His Tablets that today, as a result of His Revelation:
o “Every creature hath been endowed with all the potentialities it can carry”;
o “Every tree hath been endowed with the choicest fruits”;
o “every ocean enriched with the most luminous gems”; and that
o “Man, himself, hath been invested with the gifts of understanding and knowledge.”
He explains that these changes are all due to this attribute of the Creator which symbolically is interacting with the entire planet. What is this attribute and what is its symbolic representation?  -->Answer 

Add the missing word

In encouraging us to “acquire the sciences and arts”, ‘Abdu’l-Baha warns us that “If learning be not a means of access” to the Manifestation of God, then it “is nothing but evident _______.”  Can you fill in the blank.  -->Answer

When it's better not to have a religion

Under what circumstances does ‘Abdu’l-Baha indicate, in one of His talks, that it would be better not to have a religion and that “an irreligious man (would be) better than one who professe(d) it”.  --> Answer

An attribute of the Creator

According to the Teachings of Christ (Matthew 5:44), the fact that God "sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust", should reminds us of this attribute of the Creator. -->Answer

A ""stronghold for whosoever hath believed in God .."

He is compared to a fortified place, a fortress, a "stronghold for whosoever hath believed in God .."  -->Answer

National Spiritual Assembly

Seven future Hands of the Cause served on this National Assembly.  -->Answer

Add missing words

In one of His Talks ‘Abdu’l-Baha indicates that: “Love is the breath of the ______ _______in the heart of Man” Please fill in the blanks.  -->Answer

Meaning of "Let us make man in our image..."

The biblical statement "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness", some interpret to mean that women are not included. What explanation does ‘Abdu’l-Baha provide in rejecting that point of view?  -->Answer

Esperanto in Iran?

Is it true that there were Baha’i children in Persia who were taking Esperanto lessons as early as 1919?  -->Answer

A poem known as “Recognition”

This poem, known as “Recognition”, was composed by this prominent Hand of the Cause.  -->Answer

Baha’i World Commonwealth

We understand that the term “Baha’i World Commonwealth” is a reference to the future commonwealth of the nations of the world that is envisaged in the Baha’i writings. Can you describe some of its features and components?  -->Answer

“the ultimate oppression”

In a talk about Ridvan 2009, this former member of the Universal House of Justice quotes Baha’u’llah and brings our attention to what he calls “the ultimate oppression” that mankind is experiencing. Can you identify what quote he was referring to?  -->Answer

Harmful human conditions

In one of His talks ‘Abdu’l-Baha explains that these two human conditions will keep us from attracting and reflecting “the lights of the Supreme Concourse”. He compares them to the back side of a mirror turned to the sun. Name these two human conditions.  -->Answer

Add the missing word

In explaining the greatness of this “Day” in which “God's most excellent favours have been poured out upon men” Baha’u’llah calls on us to _________________ our differences.  -->Answer