Allah-u-Abha

[|Alláh-u-Abhá]

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[|Alláh-u-Abhá] ([|Arabic]: الله أبهى, Alláh-u-Abhá; lit.//God is Most Glorious//‎) is a greeting that [|Bahá'ís] use when they meet each other.//Abhá// is a superlative of the word [|Bahá'], and a form of the [|Greatest Name]. Bahá'ís are asked to repeat the phrase //Alláh-u-Abhá// 95 times per day, as described by [|Bahá'u'lláh], founder of the Bahá'í Faith in the [|Kitáb-i-Aqdas], his book of laws



Baha'u'llah wrote in His Most Holy Book called the Kitab-i-Aqdas and the Mother Book [|Verse 18], "It hath been ordained that every believer in God, the Lord of Judgment, shall, each day, having washed his hands and then his face, seat himself and, turning unto God, repeat 'Alláh-u-Abhá' ninety-five times."

"Alláh-u-Abhá! Praise be to God!" -Interpretation in [|TALK] ‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ [|DELIVERED IN CHICAGO]

[|Shoghi Effendi] [|Directives from the Guardian] [|9: ALLÁH-U-ABHÁ (Bahá’í Greeting)]

“The Bahá’ís are free to greet each other with Alláh-u-Abhá when they meet, if they want to, but they should avoid anything which to outsiders, in a western country, might seem like some strange Oriental password. "We must be very firm on principles and laws, but very normal and natural in our ways, so as to attract strangers.”



[|THE GUARDIAN'S LETTER]

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//**PUBLISHED BY [|CHARLES MASON REMEY], GUARDIAN OF [|THE ABHA WORLD FAITH]--THAT IS, THE [|ORTHODOX WORLD FAITH] OF BAHA'U'LLAH**//

//**VOLUME 1, NO. 2, DECEMBER 1966**//

//**Dear Friends;**//

//**When the 65 Page Pamphlet "[|The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah]"[| was published] [|by] [|Shoghi Effendi] on February 8, 1934, with its call to the believers "throughout the West", Shoghi Effendi wrote: "upon the 23rd of May of this auspicious year, the [|Baha'i World] will celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the founding of the Faith of Baha'u'llah".**// //**Upon the 57th Page of "[|The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah]" it is written: "The sacred and youthful branch, the Guardian of the Cause of God, as well as the Universal House of Justice to be universally elected and established, are both under the care and protection of [|the Abha Beauty], under the shelter and unerring guidance of [|the Exalted One (The Bab)] (may my life be offered up for them both) whatsoever they decide is of God."**//

//**From these two statements it is clear that Shoghi Effendi (following what 'Abdu'l-Baha wrote) intended to build the Administration of the dispensation of the Babi Faith. It was the Bab who declared Himself to be the Forerunner of He whom God would Manifest. He made His declaration at Shiraz in Persia (now Iran) on May 23rd, 1844. The Babi Dispensation was of but 19 years and was ended and completed with the Declaration of Baha'u'llah in 1863 in the Garden of El Ridvan at Baghdad.**//

//**The [|Babi Faith] and the Baha'i Faith are two distinct and different religions; -- this was not made clear in the forming of the Administration of the Faith that was formed about the Babi Religion instead of the Baha'i Faith. In other words,.....The first Guardian of the Faith so construed the Master [|'Abdu'l-Baha]'s [|Will and Testament] that he formed his Administration upon the [|Babi Faith] and not upon the Baha'i Faith.**//

//**This mistake has caused so much confusion and misunderstanding and trouble that the only thing for the second Guardian to do, to set matter aright, is to discard all which Shoghi Effendi did and to institute a New Faith which shall be the Orthodox Faith of Baha'u'llah under the Holy Name of ABHA in order to carry out the conditions that will lead to the establishment of the TRUE Baha'i Faith (of Baha'u'llah) which Faith has not yet been established in the world.**//

//**So long as the former Administration exists, we will have two Causes -- The former Administrative Order trying to keep alive the Spirit and ways and customs of the Babi Faith, as opposed to the ways of the New Abha Faith that has dawned and is struggling to overcome and put aright the mistakes of the past.**//

//**I have gone over all the writings that I have of [|Shoghi Effendi]. Nowhere does he mention "the 24 Elders " of [|the Dispensation of Baha'u'llah]. Nowhere does he mention "The Covenant" nor the Holy Spirit save where he is quoting from 'Abdu'l-Baha -- and those instances are very rare.**//

//**The [|Bab] and Baha'u'llah never used these terms. These terms came into the Baha'i vocabulary in the Day of the Master, 'Abdu'l-Baha and were never employed by the Bab nor by Baha'u'llah.**// //**Until now there has been no Orthodox Baha'i Faith. It is now the duty of the Second Guardian to declare the NEW ABHA FAITH otherwise there will be no Orthodox Baha'i Faith .**//

//**The Guardian urges all believers to study the [|Will] and [|Testament] of [|'Abdu'l-Baha], [|"The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah" and "The World Order Unfolds" by Shoghi Effendi].**//

//**All believers are exhorted to teach and to spread the [|Glad Tidings] of the [|Glorious Kingdom] of [|the Abha Father] foretold by [|Jesus the Christ] and the Prophets--praying that [|the Holy Spirit] will confirm them in their efforts to spread the Faith.**//

//**The Abha Name of God was first pronounced by Jesus the Christ in His moments of anguish [|in the Garden of Gethsemane], on the eve of his Crucifixion when He called upon "[|Abba Father]". (see Mark 14-36). "[|Abba]" and "Abha" are pronounced alike.**//

//**[|Mason Remey], Florence, Italy 12 November, 1966**//

//**NOTICE**//

//**In the forthcoming letters in this series, the Guardian will share with his readers the detailed knowledge of a number of complications and misunderstandings under which the people of the Baha'i World are laboring. These misunderstandings have resulted from the mistake made by the first Guardian of the Faith which is the chief subject of this letter of December, 1966.**//

//**C.M.R.**//

In the Most Holy Name of El Abha

I the Second Guardian of the Baha'I Faith hereby appoint Donald Harvey st my death to be my Successor the Third Guardian of the Faith.

Mason Remey May 23rd 1967 Florence, Italy

P.S. May the Spirit of El Abha ever protect this line of Spiritual descent from Abdu'l Baha the Center of the Covenant of El Baha.

C.M.R.