Ridvan celebrates Baha’u’llah’s time in 1863 in the garden of Ridvan in Baghdad when He publicly declared His station as a Manifestation of God. The Ridvan Festival is 12 days long and is also the time of year when Baha’is elect their governing bodies.
This melody, sung in Arabic by Saba Jaberi, is inspired by the last paragraph of the 2023 Ridvan Message from the Universal House of Justice where it says, “Copious are the blessings that a benevolent Lord has chosen to bestow upon His loved ones. Lofty is the calling, magnificent the prospect. Pressing are the times in which we have all been summoned to serve.”
The English translation of the words sung in Arabic are:
Copious Copious are the blessings
That were bestowed upon the loved ones of God
Lofty is the calling, magnificent the prospect.
Pressing Pressing are the times in which we have all been summoned to serve.
In her innermost heart, Sonjel is a stay-at-home parent and a bookworm with a maxed out library card but professionally she is a museologist with a background in English Literature. She currently lives on Prince Edward Island, an isle in the shape of a smile on the eastern Canadian coast. Sonjel is a writer who loves to listen to jazz when she's driving at night.
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