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Directives from the Guardian
by Shoghi Effendi
Edition 1, (September 2006)
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Contents
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- 1: ‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ (Stories About)
- 2: ‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ’S MINISTRY (Re: World Objectives)
- 3: ADMINISTRATION--Attitude Towards (National Assembly’s Statement Approved)
- 4: ADMINISTRATION, BAHÁ’Í--(Rules and Regulations)
- 5: ADMINISTRATION (Study and Apply)
- 6: ADMINISTRATIVE MACHINERY (Related to America)
- 7: AFRICAN STUDENTS AND VISITORS
- 8: AGES AND EPOCHS (Define)
- 9: ALLÁH-U-ABHÁ (Bahá’í Greeting)
- 10: ANNUAL CONVENTION
- 11: AQDAS (THE)--LAWS OF
- 12: ARCHIVES (The Importance Of)
- 13: ARCHIVES
- 14: ASSEMBLIES--UNITY OF (Bahá’u’lláh’s Promise)
- 15: ASSEMBLY MEETINGS
- 16: ASSEMBLY VACANCY
- 17: ASSOCIATE COMMITTEE MEMBERS (Appointing of)
- 18:
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ATTACKS FROM CHURCH MISSIONARIES19: BÁB, DECLARATION OF 20: BÁB’S PHOTOGRAPH 21: BAHÁ’Í DISPENSATION (Duration of) 22: BAHÁ’ÍS (Destiny of) 23: BAHÁ’ÍS--NEW (On Admittance of New Applicants) 24: BAHÁ’ÍS--NEW (On Presenting the Master’s Will to New Applicants) 25: BAHÁ’ÍS--NEW (Qualifications of a New Believer) 26: BAHÁ’ÍS--NEW (The “Two Extremes” in Bringing in New Bahá’ís) 27: BAHÁ’ÍS (Two Kinds of) 28: BAHÁ’Í WAY OF LIFE (The Strength of the Cause) 29: BAHÁ’U’LLÁH (In accepting) 30: BELIEVERS, NEW (Accept Cause Without Qualifications) 31: BELIEVERS, REMOVAL OF 32: BIBLE (Authenticity of the) 33: CALENDAR (BAHÁ’Í) 34: CALIPHATE AND IMÁMATE 35: CATASTROPHE (The Apocalyptic Upheaval) 36: CIVIL COURTS (Disputes) 37: CIVIL ELECTIONS (Voting in) 38: COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS (Assembly Members) 39: COMMITTEES’ RESPONSIBILITIES 40: CONTRIBUTION 41: CONTRIBUTIONS (Lifting the Burden of Misery from Mankind) 42: CONTRIBUTIONS ARE VOLUNTARY 43: COVENANT (Meaning of Bahá’í) 44: COVENANT BREAKERS (Expulsion and Reinstatement of) 45: COVENANT BREAKERS (Shun) 46: CRIMSON BOOK (The) 47: CRITICISM 48: CRITICISM (On) 49: DANIEL, THE PROPHECY OF 50: DISPENSATION OF BAHÁ’U’LLÁH 51: DISPUTES, INDIVIDUAL--(Consultation with Assembly) 52: DRAMA--MANIFESTATIONS (Dramatic Works) 53: DRAMA OF THE FAITH 54: ECONOMIC TEACHINGS 55: ECONOMICS--BAHÁ’Í 56: ECONOMIC TEACHINGS 57: EDUCATION (On Inability of Modern Education to Produce a Mature Mind) 58: ELDERS (Four and Twenty) 59: ELECTION (Acceptance of) 60: ELECTIONS (BAHÁ’Í) 61: ELECTIONS (BAHÁ’Í) (To Administrative Posts)
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">62: ELECTIONS (Assembly Voting)63: ELECTIONS (The Character of Bahá’í) 64: ELECTION OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES (Radical Changes Not Advised) 65: ELECTIONS, REGARDING (In the United States) 66: EMMANUEL, HIS HIGHNESS 67: ESPERANTO (The Subject of) 68: EVOLUTION, MAN’S 69: FAMILY TIES, SPIRITUAL TIES (Vs.) 70: FAST (Necessary Permission For) 71: FASTING (The Ordinance of) 72: FAST (THE) 73: FEAST DAY (Changing Observance of) 74: FEAST (Nature of) 75: NAW-RÚZ FEAST (Observance of Feast Day Calendar) 76: NAW-RÚZ, TIME OF CELEBRATION OF 77: FEAST (Time for Holding) 78: FEASTS (Attendance at) 79: FEASTS AND ANNIVERSARIES--Bahá’í 80: FUND (How Every Believer Can Test the Measure of His Faith) 81: FUND (The Life-blood of these Nascent Institutions) 82: FUND (National Fund, Chief Obligation of) 83: FUND (We must be like the Fountain) 84: FUND (The Sacred Obligation) 85: FUNERAL (Bahá’í Funeral Service) 86: GREATEST NAME (Translation of Symbol of) 87: GROUP, BAHÁ’Í 88: GUARDIAN (Infallibility of the) 89: GUIDANCE, DIVINE (Of Guardian) 90: GUIDANCE (Individual) 91: GUIDANCE (Question of) 92: HANDS OF THE CAUSE--INSTITUTIONS (Station and Function--When Mentioned in Writing) 93: HAZÍRATU’L-QUDS (Functions of) 94: HEALING 95: HEROISM IS NEEDED 96: HIDDEN WORDS (Arabic) 97: HOLY DAYS--BAHÁ’Í 98: HOLY DAYS OF OTHER RELIGIONS 99: HOLY SHRINE (Believers turn to the) 100: HOSTS OF HIS TESTAMENT (The) 101: CORD (Meaning of) 102: ILLNESS 103: ILLNESS (Cancer) 104: INHERITANCE (Division of) 105: INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE (Whole question of)
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">106: ISLÁM107: JESUS (Virgin Birth of) 108: LIFE AFTER DEATH 109: LOVE (Turn to Bahá’í Brothers and Sisters) 110: LOVE, CUSTODIANS OF (World Exceedingly Dark) 111: LOVE--UNITY (The Greatest Need) 112: MANIFESTATION--IN 1000 YEARS (Organic Unity) 113: MANIFESTATIONS (The Phrase--“His Holiness”) 114: MANIFESTATIONS (Return of the Qualities) 115: MANIFESTATIONS (Significance of the Remains of the Prophets) 116: MANIFESTATIONS (Station of) 117: MARRIAGE, BAHÁ’Í 118: MARRIAGE, BAHÁ’Í (Consent of Parents--duty of Assembly to ascertain validity) 119: MARRIAGE--(Consent of Parents--Non-Bahá’í Participants) 120: MARRIAGE TO NON-BAHÁ’Í 121: MARRIAGES, BAHÁ’Í--(Reporting to the NSA) 122: MARRIAGE, BAHÁ’Í (re: Consent of Natural Parents) 123: MARRIAGE OF BAHÁ’U’LLÁH 124: MASONRY, FREE (Membership in) 125: MEDICAL SCIENCE (Leaving bodies to) 126: MEDITATION 127: MEETINGS, BAHÁ’Í 128: MEMBERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES, LSA (Residential Qualifications) 129: MEMORIAL OFFERINGS 130: MENTAL ILLNESS 131: MILITARY DUTY (Status of Bahá’ís in relation to) 132: MILITARY SERVICE 133: MORMONS (Religious sects--Associate with all--Show tolerance and friendliness) 134: MUNÍRIH KHÁNUM 135: MUSIC 136: NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES (Authority of) 137: N.S.A. INVOLVEMENT (Appeals Prohibited) 138: N.S.A.’s JURISDICTION OVER COMMITTEES (Authority of) 139: NEW ASSEMBLIES (Formation of) 140: NEW ASSEMBLIES (Residence Qualifications) 141: NINE (Number) 9: religions of the world, that is ‘existing religions, we should not 142: ORIENTALS 143: ORIENTALS (Association with) 144: PACIFISM (Bahá’í View of) 145: PEACE 146: PHOTOGRAPHS 147: PILGRIM’S NOTES
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">148: PIONEERING149: POLITICAL FIGURES (Non-Political Character of the Bahá’í Faith) 150: POLITICS (Loyalty to World Order of Bahá’u’lláh) 151: POLITICS (Non-Interference in) 152: POLITICS (Remain Aloof from Political Affairs) 153: POLITICS (Shun Politics Like the Plague) 154: PRAYER (Five Steps of) 155: PRAYER BEADS 156: PRAYER (Bahá’u’lláh’s in Dispensation) 157: PRAYERS 158: PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS (Book of) 159: PRAYERS (Daily) 160: PRAYERS (Daily Obligatory) 161: PRAYERS (Healing) 162: PRAYERS (To be Read as Revealed) 163: PREJUDICES (Racial) 164: PROPHETS (Many will appear) 165: PSYCHIATRY 166: PSYCHIC PHENOMENA 167: PURE SOULS 168: PYRAMID PROPHECIES 169: PROMINENT FIGURES (Letters to Government Heads) 170: QUR’ÁN (‘Sales’ Translation Recommended) 171: QUR’ÁN--STUDY OF (Concerning School Program) 172: QUR’AN, SURIHS OF THE 173: RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS, NON-BAHÁ’Í 174: RESURRECTION (Explains the Passage on page 231 of the Gleanings) 175: RINGSTONES AND BURIAL STONES 176: SUMMER SCHOOLS, BAHÁ’Í (Importance of) 177: SUMMER SCHOOLS, BAHÁ’Í (Purpose of) 178: SERVICE TO HUMANITY 179: SEVEN LIGHTS OF UNITY 180: SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE FAITH (A Single Divine and World-Embracing System) 181: SPIRITUALITY (The Troubles of This World Pass) 182: SUMMER SCHOOLS (The Bahá’í) 183: SUMMER SCHOOLS (Bahá’í Atmosphere in) 184: SUPREME TRIBUNAL 185: TABLETS OF ‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ 186: TEACHERS (Unqualified Loyalty) 187: TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS (Can Serve as Both) 188: TEACHERS, BAHÁ’Í (A Principle) 189: TEACHING 190: TEACHING (Love for Bahá’u’lláh) 191: TEACHING
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@19270@[email protected]#toc388" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">192: TEACHING (Advent of Divine Justice)193: TEACHING, CONCENTRATE ON (Source of Joy and Consolation) 194: TEACHING (The Concourse on High) 195: TEACHING (Direct) 196: TEACHING--Divine World Order--The Sole Panacea 197: TEACHING (Duty of Every Believer) 198: TEACHING (Give the Message) 199: TEACHING (Greater Unity Among the Friends) 200: TEACHING (Love and Unity) 201: TEACHING--BAHÁ’Í FAITH (What the Cause Now Requires) 202: TEACHING (Study Early History and Principles of the Faith) 203: TEACHING (The Utmost Effort) 204: TEACHING (In South) 205: TEACHING METHODS 206: TEMPLE, CHANTING IN THE 207: TESTS AND PROBLEMS 208: THEOCRACY 209: TOMBSTONE, BAHÁ’Í SYMBOL ON 210: TRANSLITERATION OF BAHÁ’Í TERMS 211: UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE, MEMBERSHIP 212: VACCINATION 213: VISIONS 214: VOTING--(Civil) 215: VOTING RIGHT, The 216: VOTING RIGHTS (Status of Individuals Deprived of) 217: WORK, BAHÁ’Í 218: WORK, DAILY--(Bahá’u’lláh’s Command Concerning Daily Work) 219: WORLD FEDERATION--(On Bahá’í Participation in International Conferences) 220: YEAR NINE, The 221: YOUTH 222: YOUTH (Regarding the Age of Fifteen) 223: BAHÁ’Í YOUTH IN SCHOOL 224: YOUTH, JUNIOR (Do Great Deeds)