All Baha'i Articles on Uplifting Words

When Tahirih heard about the Báb, Who had proclaimed that He was the Prophet of a New Revelation she was curious to read His Writings.

She was born Fátimah Umm-Salmá in 1817 in Qazvín, as the daughter of Muhammad Sálih Barághani, a prominent mujtahid (Muslim priest).

When the House of Worship was being constructed in Wilmette, United States, there were not many Bahá’ís in America and funds were scarce.

Jináb-i-Mírzá Músá was the true brother of Bahá’u’lláh, and from earliest childhood he was reared in the sheltering embrace of Baha'u'llah.

The first black Rhodes Scholar and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance, became a Bahá’í in 1918.

The first Japanese Baha’i. Kanichi Yamamoto (1879-1961) became the first Japanese Bahá’í in the world in Honolulu in 1902.

Among the followers of the Báb to show qualities of fearlessness, consecration and detachment from all save God was a village maiden.

Translator and Author, "Patron Saint" of Women Bahá'í Scholars.

Effie Baker – the first Australian woman to become a Baha’i; one of Australia’s foremost woman photographers; her photographs were chosen...

'O thou jewel of the spirit!" Thus did 'Abdu'l-Baha address this angelic being, one of the rare gems in the diadem of the Kingdom. Aunt...

Bernard Howell Leach CH CBE, was a British studio potter who is regarded as the "Father of British studio pottery".

John Ebenezer Esslemont, who passed away at Haifa November 22, 1925, was born on May 19, 1874, the youngest son of John E. Esslemont of...

Dr Mcnair was the second African American and first Baha'i to go into Space.

By Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum' THE outstanding heroine of the Bahá`í Dispensation.' Thus does the Guardian characterize his illustrious...

Only beloved! With a heart on fire And all my longings set in one desire To make my soul a many-stringed lyre For Thy dear hand to play,...