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- proper noun The central holy book in the
Baha'i Faith
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Following the text of the Aqdas is a brief compilation of Writings of
The Kitáb-i-Aqdas 1817-1892 Bah��'u'll��h 1854
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Most Holy Book of Aqdas, which in this most excellent of all ages is the
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(The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, paragraph 99) [65] 66: “When the eyes of the people of the East were captivated by the arts ...”
A Compilaton on Scholarship Universal House of Justice
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(The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, paragraph 173) [7] 8: “The Great Being saith: The man of consummate learning and the sage ...”
A Compilaton on Scholarship Universal House of Justice
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Emphasizing that the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and the Will and Testament
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(“Kitáb-i-Aqdas” — provisional translation from the Arabic) [22] “23: At the outset of every endeavour, it is incumbent to look to the end of ...”
A Compilation on Bahá’í Education Universal House of Justice
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“Kitáb-i-Aqdas”, the Mother-Book of His Revelation, will have been codified and its laws promulgated, the Lesser Peace will have been established, the unity of mankind will have been achieved and its maturity attained, the Plan conceived by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá will have been executed, the emancipation of the Faith from the fetters of religious orthodoxy will have been effected, and its independent religious status will have been universally recognized ...
Compilation on Peace Universal House of Justice
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In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, laws that are basic to both personal and community life have been reformulated in the context of a society that embraces the whole range of human diversity.
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Kitáb-i-Aqdas to heed the example of the fall of Napoleon III and of other rulers who had been victorious in war, and not to allow pride to keep him back from recognizing this Revelation.
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By its action, humanity has done literally everything of which it is capable, and God, in accepting this consecrated effort on the part of those who have embraced His Cause, endows the institution thus brought into existence with those powers promised to it in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and the Will and Testament of
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