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In the Baha’i teachings marriage is referred to as “a fortress for wellbeing” and family is considered a fundamental and indispensable unit of society and the mainstay of community life.
Baha’i Blog’s “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 Phoenix, United States with Rahz Saeed and Safaa Hansen who sing “Two Birds” based on a prayer by Abdu’l-Baha.
This song was filmed and recorded in Phoenix, United States, December 2017.
He is God!
Abdu’l-Baha
O peerless Lord! In Thine almighty wisdom Thou hast enjoined marriage upon the peoples, that the generations of men may succeed one another in this contingent world, and that ever, so long as the world shall last, they may busy themselves at the Threshold of Thy oneness with servitude and worship, with salutation, adoration and praise. “I have not created spirits and men, but that they should worship me.” Wherefore, wed Thou in the heaven of Thy mercy these two birds of the nest of Thy love, and make them the means of attracting perpetual grace; that from the union of these two seas of love a wave of tenderness may surge and cast the pearls of pure and goodly issue on the shore of life. “He hath let loose the two seas, that they meet each other: Between them is a barrier which they overpass not. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will ye deny? From each He bringeth up greater and lesser pearls.”
O Thou kind Lord! Make Thou this marriage to bring forth coral and pearls. Thou art verily the All-Powerful, the Most Great, the Ever-Forgiving.
D, Cadd9, G/B, G, (x2) D Cadd9 G/B G D O Thou kind Lord! Make Thou this marriage to bring forth Cadd9 G/B G coral and pearls (x2) Bm D G Gm With servitude and worship, salutation, adoration and praise Bm D F# G With servitude and worship, salutation, adoration and praise Bm D G Gm I have not created spirits and men, but that they should worship me Bm D F# G I have not created spirits and men, but that they should worship me Bm D G Gm Wherefore, wed Thou in the heaven of Thy mercy these two Bm D F# G birds of the nest of Thy love Bm D G Gm Wherefore, wed Thou in the heaven of Thy mercy these two Bm D F# G birds of the nest of Thy love (x3)
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