The annual Baha’i festival commemorates the 12 days when Bahá’u’lláh, the founder of the Baha’i Faith, resided in a garden called Ridván (Paradise) in Baghdad, Iraq.
The first (April 21), ninth (April 29) and 12th (May 12) are celebrated as holy days when work is suspended.
March 2013′s ‘thought for the month’:
“Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man’s life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The knowledge of such sciences, however, should be acquired as can profit the peoples of the earth, and not those which begin with words and end with words….
“In truth, knowledge is a veritable treasure for man, and a source of glory, of bounty, of joy, of exaltation, of cheer and gladness unto him. Happy the man that cleaveth unto it, and woe betide the heedless.” From Epistle to the Song of the Wolf , pp 26-27
More thoughts…
Thames Valley Bahá’í Community 