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.
Baha’i Blog Studio Sessions is an initiative where we invite Baha’is and their friends from around the world to come into a studio and share the Baha’i Writings put to music.
In this Baha’i Blog Studio Session, we’re in Perth, Australia with Shameem Taheri-Lee, Pegah Zabihian, Araan Kousari, Sophie Jain, Banafsheh Sheriff, and Ramona Zare who sing “Make Haste to Love” based on the Writings of Abdu’l-Baha.
This song was filmed and recorded in Perth, Australia in December 2023. This song was composed by Roxana Sheriff and was recorded in her loving memory.
LYRICS/QUOTE:
Make haste to love! Make haste to trust! Make haste to give! To guidance come!
Come ye for harmony! To behold the Star of Day! Come here for kindliness, for ease! Come here for amity and peace!
Come and cast down your weapons of wrath, till unity is won! Come and in the Lord’s true path each one help each one.
CHORDS:
D A G A D A G A
Make haste to love! Make haste to trust!
D A G A G A D
Make haste to give! To guidance come!
D A G A
Come ye for harmony!
D A G A
To behold the Star of Day!
D A G A
Come here for kindliness, for ease!
G A D
Come here for amity and peace!
(Repeat the above)
D A G A D
Come and cast down your weapons of wrath, till unity is won!
D A G A D
Come and in the Lord’s true path each one help each one.
D A G A D
Come and cast down your weapons of wrath, till unity is won!
D A G A E
Come and in the Lord’s true path each one help each one.
D A G A
Come ye for harmony!
D A G A
To behold the Star of Day!
D A G A
Come here for kindliness, for ease!
G A D
Come here for amity and peace!
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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