313. Plans for Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Ascension of Bahíyyih Khánum

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Plans for Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of

the Ascension of Bahíyyih Khánum

24 January 1982

To all National Spiritual Assemblies

Dear Bahá’í Friends,

313.1 The fiftieth anniversary of the ascension of Bahíyyih Khánum, eldest daughter of Bahá’u’lláh and designated by Him the Greatest Holy Leaf, will occur on 15 July of this year. We summon the entire Bahá’í world to a befitting commemoration of the life of the greatest woman in the Bahá’í Dispensation.

313.2 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-Adhkárs are in existence, they should be held in the Temple.

313.3 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 Bahá’í 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 Bahá’í greetings,

The Universal House of Justice

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Some References to the Greatest Holy Leaf

Found in published works

313.4 Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, *Tablets Revealed in Honor of the Greatest Holy Leaf *(New York:

National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada, 1933).

313.5 Shoghi Effendi:

The Advent of Divine Justice (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1990), p. 37.

Bahá’í Administration (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1974), pp. 25, 57, 70, 93, 187–196.

The Dawn-Breakers (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1974), dedication.

God Passes By (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1974), pp. 108, 347, 350, 392. Guidance for Today and Tomorrow (London: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1973), pp. 58–71.

Messages to America: Selected Letters and Cablegrams Addressed to the Bahá’ís of North America 1932–1946 (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Committee, 1947), pp. 1, 31, 37.

• Messages to the Bahá’í World* (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1971), p. 74.

• The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh* (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1991), pp. 67–68, 81–82, 93–94, 98.

313.6 Others:

Balyuzi, H. M., ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the Center of the Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh (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 Bahá’í Faith (London: George Ronald, 1970), pp. 119–220.

Blomfield, Lady Sarah, The Chosen Highway (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1967), pp. 37–69, 73.

Gail, Marzieh, *Khánum: 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.

Muhájir, Iran Furútan, comp., The Mystery of God (London: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1979), pp. 278–304.

Rabbaní, Rúhíyyih, The Priceless Pearl (London: Bahá’í 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, Bahá’í Holy Places at the World Centre (Haifa: Bahá’í World Centre, 1968), pp. 62–70.

313.7 The Bahá’í 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.

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vol. 10, 1944–1946, p. 536.

vol. 11, 1946–1950, pp. 474, 492.

vol. 16, 1973–1976, pp. 54, 66, 73.

313.8 Bahá’í News, published by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís 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

313.9 Star of the West (Chicago: Bahá’í News Service)

vol. 10, no. 17, pp. 312–14.

vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 163–67; no. 11, pp. 186–88; no. 13, pp. 211–14; no. 15, 245; no. 19, pp. 302–03.

vo1. 13, no. 4, pp. 68–69, 82–83, 88; no. 8, pp. 207–10, 219–20; no. 11, p. 314.

vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 256–60.

vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 278–82.

vol. 20, no. 1, p. 18; no. 4, p. 104.

vol. 23, no. 5, p. 134; no. 7, pp. 202–04; no. 12, pp. 374–77.

vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 18–20; no. 3, pp. 90–93.

vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 118–22

(Many of these references are accounts of early pilgrimages, and give only a brief mention of the Greatest Holy Leaf) \