The Promised Day Is Come
- 2nd Indian Edition, preface by Charles R. MacDonald
- New Delhi Baha'i Publishing Trust 1976
- 136 p. ; 24 cm
This is Shoghi Effendi's letter explaining the reasons for the world's present moral and social chaos and offering assurance that God has not abandoned humanity. Shoghi Effendi explains that God's purpose is to usher in a new Golden Age and that "the Hand of Providence" is working to fulfill that purpose. All are reminded of their duty to accept the Manifestation of God for this age and to "labor serenely, confidently, and unremittingly" to lend their share of help in whatever way they can to bring about the new world order.
The Promised Day Is Come This Judgment of God What Response to His Call? Features of This Moving Drama A World Receded from Him Recipients of the Message Tablets to the Kings The Most Great Law Revealed Revealed to the Pope Let the Oppressor Desist God’s Vicar on Earth Humiliation Immediate and Complete The Rise of Bolshevism End of the Holy Roman Empire What of Turkey and Persia? The Doom of Imperial Turkey Divine Retribution on the Qájár Dynasty The Decline in the Fortunes of Royalty Recognition of Kingship The Crumbling of Religious Orthodoxy Words Addressed to Muslim Ecclesiastics The Falling Fortunes of Shí‘ih Islám The Collapse of the Caliphate A Warning Unto All Nations His Messages to Christian Leaders Christian Nations against Christian Nations The Continuity of Revelation The Three False Gods The Weakened Pillars of Religion God’s Purpose The Great Age to Come Religion and Social Evolution The Wider, Inclusive Loyalty World Commonwealth
In the midst of World War II, the Guardian addressed this long letter to the Bahá'ís of the West in which he analyzed the disintegration of nations, societies and religions. "Shoghi Effendi looks at history in the lights of its essence: the relationship between temporal man and eternal God." [Preface]
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