Stages of Baha’i Administrative Order

The monument of the resting place of the Greatest Holy Leaf symbolically represents stages in the Administrative Order of the Faith. What are these stages?  --> Answer

Baptism

What does baptism symbolize in Christianity?  --> Answer

Education

Broadly speaking, how many types of education does a human being need to receive?  --> Answer

India and Burma

Who was the spiritual father of India and Burma. --> Answer

Famous Baha'i artist

She was taught by Mary Maxwell in Paris and went on pilgrimage to Haifa in 1908. She was allowed once again to visit 'Abdu'l-Baha while He was touring Europe in 1911. She reached the pinnacle of success and happiness when the Master granted her request to paint His portrait. Who was she? --> Answer

Holy Spirit and the Most Great Spirit

In the Baha’i Writings one encounters the terms “Holy Spirit” and the “Most Great Spirit”. Any thoughts on their respective significance and how they relate to previous Dispensations? --> Answer

Shoghi Effendi

When did the Guardian end his self-imposed retirement period due to the sudden death of his beloved Grandfather, ‘Abdu’l-Baha? --> Answer

Story Book

This story book about the lives of Baha’u’llah and the Báb also contains certain historical events that took place outside the Faith during particular periods associated with their Ministeris. Can you guess the name of this book? --> Answer

Patience

To what degree do we have to be patient with other people’s spiritual growth and development? --> Answer

A Baha'i

What does a Baha’i need to do in order to show the following virtues in his/her character and work: “a joy, a power, a love, a purity, a radiance, an efficiency”?  -->Answer

A "magnificent gift" from the Guardian

The Guardian in 1935 presented the Western Bahá'ís with a magnificent gift which he described it as "consisting of a selection of the most characteristic and hitherto unpublished passages from the outstanding works of the Author of the Bahá'í Revelation." What was that gift?  -->Answer

The Guardian

What were the factors that compelled the Guardian to temporarily leave the affairs of the Cause to “the supervision of the Holy Family and the headship of the Greatest Holy Leaf”?  -->Answer

“the hosts of Divine Revelation"

In the Suriy-i-Haykal, or the Surih of the Temple, Paragraph 1.49, Baha’u’llah mentions that “the hosts of Divine Revelation (have) been sent down by the Lord of all names and attributes bearing the banners of His signs”. Do the Writings throw any light on who such “beings” are?  -->Answer

light & darkness

What do you understand when you read this statement in Baha’i scriptures that man’s condition is… “at the last degree of darkness, and at the beginning of light”?  -->Answer

Using science in religion

How can you explain scientifically this statement of Christ “The Father is in me”?  --> Answer

'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