Dear Baha'i friends,
The fiftieth anniversary of the ascension of Bahiyyih Khanum, eldest daughter of Baha'u'llah and designated by Him the Greatest Holy Leaf, will occur on 15 July of this year. We summon the entire Baha'i world to a befitting commemoration of the life of the greatest woman in the Baha'i Dispensation.
National Spiritual Assemblies are requested to arrange national commemorative services, and to ensure that all local communities hold befitting meetings. These services should be held on the date of the anniversary or on the weekend immediately following it, and in those countries where Mashriqu'l-Adhkars are in existence, they should be held in the Temple.
In order to provide for your arrangement of the services, we have requested our Research Department to compile a bibliography of references to the Greatest Holy Leaf in Baha'i literature in English, and this is enclosed for your use. In addition the book announced in our message of March 1981 is now at press, and will be available by the time of the commemoration.
With loving Baha'i greetings,
The Universal House of Justice
(‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice, 1963-1986’)
Some References to the Greatest Holy Leaf Found in Published Works
Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha, Tablets revealed in honour of the Greatest Holy Leaf (New York: National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States and Canada, 1933).
Shoghi Effendi:
• The Advent
of Divine Justice (Wilmette: Baha'i
Publishing Trust, 1990), p. 37.
• Baha'i
Administration (Wilmette: Baha'i
Publishing Trust, 1974), pp. 25, 57, 70, 93, 187-196.
• The
Dawn-Breakers (Wilmette: Baha'i
Publishing Trust, 1974), dedication.
• God Passes
By (Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Trust,
1974), pp. 108, 347, 350, 392.
• Guidance
for Today and Tomorrow (London: Baha'i
Publishing Trust, 1973), pp. 58-71.
• Messages
to America: Selected Letters and
Cablegrams Addressed to the Baha'i s of North America 1932-1946 (Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Committee, 1947), pp. 1,
31, 37.
• Messages
to the Baha'i World (Wilmette: Baha'i
Publishing Trust, 1971), p. 74.
• The World
Order of Baha'u'llah (Wilmette: Baha'i
Publishing Trust, 1991), pp. 67-68, 81-82, 93-94, 98.
Others:
• Balyuzi,
H. M., 'Abdu'l-Baha, the Centre of the Covenant of Baha'u'llah (London: George Ronald, 1971), pp. 12, 54-55, 74, 332,
401, 416, 454-455, 463-464, 482.
• Balyuzi,
H. M., Edward Granville Browne and the Baha'i Faith (London: George Ronald,
1970), pp. 119-220.
• Blomfield,
Lady Sarah, The Chosen Highway (Wilmette:
Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1967), pp. 37-69, 73.
• Gail,
Marzieh, Khanum: the Greatest Holy Leaf as Remembered by Marzieh Gail
(London: George Ronald, 1982).
• Maxwell,
May, An Early Pilgrimage (London: George
Ronald, 1969), pp. 18-19.
• Muhajir,
Iran Furutan, comp., The Mystery of God (London: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1979), pp. 278-304.
• Rabbani,
Ruhiyyih, The Priceless Pearl (London:
Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1969), pp. 6-7, 10-11, 13-15, 21-22, 39, 44,
46-51, 57-58, 63, 90, 102-03, 112, 115, 129-30, 139-40, 144-48, 151-52, 168,
199, 218, 236, 259, 261-62, 266-67, 273, 279-80, 430, 438.
• Universal
House of Justice, Baha'i Holy Places at the World Centre (Haifa: Baha'i World
Centre, 1968), pp. 62-70.
The Baha'i World, an International Record
• Vol. 2,
1926-1928, pp. 83, 132.
• Vol. 3,
1928-1930, p. 64.
• Vol. 5,
1932-1934, pp. 22-23, 114-15, 169-88.
• Vol. 8,
1938-1940, pp. 5, 8, 206, 255-56, 262, 266.
• Vol. 9,
1940-1944, p. 329.
• Vol. 10,
1944-1946, p. 536.
• Vol. 11,
1946-1950, pp. 474, 492.
• Vol. 16,
1973-1976, pp. 54, 66, 73.
Baha'i News, published by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States
• no. 18,
June 1927, p. 5.
• no. 36,
December 1929, p. 1.
• no. 52,
May 1931, pp. 1-2.
• no. 62,
May 1932, p. 2.
• no. 65,
August 1932, pp. 1-2.
• no. 66,
September 1932, p. 1.
• no. 72,
March 1933, p. 3.
• no. 121,
December 1938, p. 3.
• no. 124,
April 1939, p. 1.
• no. 128,
August 1939, p. 4
• no. 133,
February 1940, p. 1.
• no. 135,
April 1940, insert
Star of the West (Chicago: Baha'i News Service)
• Vol. X:17,
pp. 312-14.
• Vol. XII,
no. 10, pp. 163-67; no. 11, pp. 186-88; no. 13, pp. 211-14; no. 151 p. 245; no.
19, pp. 302-03.
• Vol. XII,
no. 4, pp. 68-69, 82-83, 88; no. 8, pp. 207-10, 219-20; no. 11, p. 34.
• Vol.
XVII:8, pp. 256-60.
• Vol.
XVIII:9, pp. 278-82.
• Vol. XX,
no. 1, p. 18; no. 4, p. 104.
• Vol.
XXIII, no. 5, p. 134; no. 7, pp. 202-04; no. 12, pp. 374-77.
• Vol. XXIV,
no. 1, pp. 18-20; no. 3, pp. 90-93.
• Vol.
XXV:4, pp. 118-22
(Many of these references are accounts of early pilgrimages,
and give only a brief mention of the Greatest Holy Leaf)
• Actions
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(‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice, 1963-1986’
