Directives from the Guardian
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Directives from the Guardian

Shoghi Effendi

Gertrude Garrida, compiler

Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1973

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Contents

About Directives From the Guardian

1 `ABDU'L-BAHÁ (Stories About)

2 `ABDU'L-BAHÁ'S MINISTRY (Re: World Objectives)

3 ADMINISTRATION--Attitude Towards (National Assembly's Statement Approved)

4 ADMINISTRATION, BAHÁ'Í--(Rules and Regulations)

5 ADMINISTRATION (Study and Apply)

6 ADMINISTRATIVE MACHINERY (Related to America)

7 AFRICAN STUDENTS AND VISITORS

8 AGES AND EPOCHS (Define)

9 ALLÁH-U-ABHÁ (Bahá'í Greeting)

10 ANNUAL CONVENTION

11 AQDAS (THE)--LAWS OF

12 ARCHIVES (The Importance Of)

13 ARCHIVES

14 ASSEMBLIES--UNITY OF (Bahá'u'lláh's Promise)

15 ASSEMBLY MEETINGS

16 ASSEMBLY VACANCY

17 ASSOCIATE COMMITTEE MEMBERS (Appointing of)

18 ATTACKS FROM CHURCH MISSIONARIES

19 BÁB, DECLARATION OF

20 BÁB'S PHOTOGRAPH

21 BAHÁ'Í DISPENSATION (Duration of)

22 BAHÁ'ÍS (Destiny of)

23 BAHÁ'ÍS--NEW (On Admittance of New Applicants)

24 BAHÁ'ÍS--NEW (On Presenting the Master's Will to New Applicants)

25 BAHÁ'ÍS--NEW (Qualifications of a New Believer)

26 BAHÁ'ÍS--NEW (The "Two Extremes" in Bringing in New Bahá'ís)

27 BAHÁ'ÍS (Two Kinds of)

28 BAHÁ'Í WAY OF LIFE (The Strength of the Cause)

29 BAHÁ'U'LLÁH (In accepting)

30 BELIEVERS, NEW (Accept Cause Without Qualifications)

31 BELIEVERS, REMOVAL OF

32 BIBLE (Authenticity of the)

33 CALENDAR (BAHÁ'Í)

34 CALIPHATE AND IMÁMATE

35 CATASTROPHE (The Apocalyptic Upheaval)

36 CIVIL COURTS (Disputes)

37 CIVIL ELECTIONS (Voting in)

38 COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS (Assembly Members)

39 COMMITTEES' RESPONSIBILITIES

40 CONTRIBUTION

41 CONTRIBUTIONS (Lifting the Burden of Misery from Mankind)

42 CONTRIBUTIONS ARE VOLUNTARY

43 COVENANT (Meaning of Bahá'í)

44 COVENANT BREAKERS (Expulsion and Reinstatement of)

45 COVENANT BREAKERS (Shun)

46 CRIMSON BOOK (The)

47 CRITICISM

48 CRITICISM (On)

49 DANIEL, THE PROPHECY OF

50 DISPENSATION OF BAHÁ'U'LLÁH

51 DISPUTES, INDIVIDUAL--(Consultation with Assembly)

52 DRAMA--MANIFESTATIONS (Dramatic Works)

53 DRAMA OF THE FAITH

54 ECONOMIC TEACHINGS

55 ECONOMICS--BAHÁ'Í

56 ECONOMIC TEACHINGS

57 EDUCATION (On Inability of Modern Education to Produce a Mature Mind)

58 ELDERS (Four and Twenty)

59 ELECTION (Acceptance of)

60 ELECTIONS (BAHÁ'Í)

61 ELECTIONS (BAHÁ'Í) (To Administrative Posts)

62 ELECTIONS (Assembly Voting)

63 ELECTIONS (The Character of Bahá'í)

64 ELECTION OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES (Radical Changes Not Advised)

65 ELECTIONS, REGARDING (In the United States)

66 EMMANUEL, HIS HIGHNESS

67 ESPERANTO (The Subject of)

68 EVOLUTION, MAN'S

69 FAMILY TIES, SPIRITUAL TIES (Vs.)

70 FAST (Necessary Permission For)

71 FASTING (The Ordinance of)

72 FAST (THE)

73 FEAST DAY (Changing Observance of)

74 FEAST (Nature of)

75 NAW-RÚZ FEAST (Observance of Feast Day Calendar)

76 NAW-RÚZ, TIME OF CELEBRATION OF

77 FEAST (Time for Holding)

78 FEASTS (Attendance at)

79 FEASTS AND ANNIVERSARIES--Bahá'í

80 FUND (How Every Believer Can Test the Measure of His Faith)

81 FUND (The Life-blood of these Nascent Institutions)

82 FUND (National Fund, Chief Obligation of)

83 FUND (We must be like the Fountain)

84 FUND (The Sacred Obligation)

85 FUNERAL (Bahá'í Funeral Service)

86 GREATEST NAME (Translation of Symbol of)

87 GROUP, BAHÁ'Í

88 GUARDIAN (Infallibility of the)

89 GUIDANCE, DIVINE (Of Guardian)

90 GUIDANCE (Individual)

91 GUIDANCE (Question of)

92 HANDS OF THE CAUSE--INSTITUTIONS (Station and Function--When Mentioned in Writing)

93 HAZÍRATU'L-QUDS (Functions of)

94 HEALING

95 HEROISM IS NEEDED

96 HIDDEN WORDS (Arabic)

97 HOLY DAYS--BAHÁ'Í

98 HOLY DAYS OF OTHER RELIGIONS

99 HOLY SHRINE (Believers turn to the)

100 HOSTS OF HIS TESTAMENT (The)

101 CORD (Meaning of)

102 ILLNESS

103 ILLNESS (Cancer)

104 INHERITANCE (Division of)

105 INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE (Whole question of)

106 ISLÁM

107 JESUS (Virgin Birth of)

108 LIFE AFTER DEATH

109 LOVE (Turn to Bahá'í Brothers and Sisters)

110 LOVE, CUSTODIANS OF (World Exceedingly Dark)

111 LOVE--UNITY (The Greatest Need)

112 MANIFESTATION--IN 1000 YEARS (Organic Unity)

113 MANIFESTATIONS (The Phrase--"His Holiness")

114 MANIFESTATIONS (Return of the Qualities)

115 MANIFESTATIONS (Significance of the Remains of the Prophets)

116 MANIFESTATIONS (Station of)

117 MARRIAGE, BAHÁ'Í

118 MARRIAGE, BAHÁ'Í (Consent of Parents-- duty of Assembly to ascertain validity)

119 MARRIAGE--(Consent of Parents--Non-Bahá'í Participants)

120 MARRIAGE TO NON-BAHÁ'Í

121 MARRIAGES, BAHÁ'Í--(Reporting to the NSA)

122 MARRIAGE, BAHÁ'Í (re: Consent of Natural Parents)

123 MARRIAGE OF BAHÁ'U'LLÁH

124 MASONRY, FREE (Membership in)

125 MEDICAL SCIENCE (Leaving bodies to)

126 MEDITATION

127 MEETINGS, BAHÁ'Í

128 MEMBERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES, LSA (Residential Qualifications)

129 MEMORIAL OFFERINGS

130 MENTAL ILLNESS

131 MILITARY DUTY (Status of Bahá'ís in relation to)

132 MILITARY SERVICE

133 MORMONS (Religious sects--Associate with all--Show tolerance and friendliness)

134 MUNÍRIH KHÁNUM

135 MUSIC

136 NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES (Authority of)

137 N.S.A. INVOLVEMENT (Appeals Prohibited)

138 N.S.A.'s JURISDICTION OVER COMMITTEES (Authority of)

139 NEW ASSEMBLIES (Formation of)

140 NEW ASSEMBLIES (Residence Qualifications)

141 NINE (Number)

142 ORIENTALS

143 ORIENTALS (Association with)

144 PACIFISM (Bahá'í View of)

145 PEACE

146 PHOTOGRAPHS

147 PILGRIM'S NOTES

148 PIONEERING

149 POLITICAL FIGURES (Non-Political Character of the Bahá'í Faith)

150 POLITICS (Loyalty to World Order of Bahá'u'lláh)

151 POLITICS (Non-Interference in)

152 POLITICS (Remain Aloof from Political Affairs)

153 POLITICS (Shun Politics Like the Plague)

154 PRAYER (Five Steps of)

155 PRAYER BEADS

156 PRAYER (Bahá'u'lláh's in Dispensation)

157 PRAYERS

158 PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS (Book of)

159 PRAYERS (Daily)

160 PRAYERS (Daily Obligatory)

161 PRAYERS (Healing)

162 PRAYERS (To be Read as Revealed)

163 PREJUDICES (Racial)

164 PROPHETS (Many will appear)

165 PSYCHIATRY

166 PSYCHIC PHENOMENA

167 PURE SOULS

168 PYRAMID PROPHECIES

169 PROMINENT FIGURES (Letters to Government Heads)

170 QUR'ÁN (`Sales' Translation Recommended)

171 QUR'ÁN--STUDY OF (Concerning School Program)

172 QUR'AN, SURIHS OF THE

173 RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS, NON-BAHÁ'Í

174 RESURRECTION (Explains the Passage on page 231 of the Gleanings)

175 RINGSTONES AND BURIAL STONES

176 SUMMER SCHOOLS, BAHÁ'Í (Importance of)

177 SUMMER SCHOOLS, BAHÁ'Í (Purpose of)

178 SERVICE TO HUMANITY

179 SEVEN LIGHTS OF UNITY

180 SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE FAITH (A Single Divine and World-Embracing System)

181 SPIRITUALITY (The Troubles of This World Pass)

182 SUMMER SCHOOLS (The Bahá'í)

183 SUMMER SCHOOLS (Bahá'í Atmosphere in)

184 SUPREME TRIBUNAL

185 TABLETS OF `Abdu'l-BAHÁ

186 TEACHERS (Unqualified Loyalty)

187 TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS (Can Serve as Both)

188 TEACHERS, BAHÁ'Í (A Principle)

189 TEACHING

190 TEACHING (Love for Bahá'u'lláh)

191 TEACHING

192 TEACHING (Advent of Divine Justice)

193 TEACHING, CONCENTRATE ON (Source of Joy and Consolation)

194 TEACHING (The Concourse on High)

195 TEACHING (Direct)

196 TEACHING--Divine World Order--The Sole Panacea

197 TEACHING (Duty of Every Believer)

198 TEACHING (Give the Message)

199 TEACHING (Greater Unity Among the Friends)

200 TEACHING (Love and Unity)

201 TEACHING--BAHÁ'Í FAITH (What the Cause Now Requires)

202 TEACHING (Study Early History and Principles of the Faith)

203 TEACHING (The Utmost Effort)

204 TEACHING (In South)

205 TEACHING METHODS

206 TEMPLE, CHANTING IN THE

207 TESTS AND PROBLEMS

208 THEOCRACY

209 TOMBSTONE, BAHÁ'Í SYMBOL ON

210 TRANSLITERATION OF BAHÁ'Í TERMS

211 UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE, MEMBERSHIP

212 VACCINATION

213 VISIONS

214 VOTING--(Civil)

215 VOTING RIGHT, The

216 VOTING RIGHTS (Status of Individuals Deprived of)

217 WORK, BAHÁ'Í

218 WORK, DAILY--(Bahá'u'lláh's Command Concerning Daily Work)

219 WORLD FEDERATION--(On Bahá'í Participation in International Conferences)

220 YEAR NINE, The

221 YOUTH

222 YOUTH (Regarding the Age of Fifteen)

223 BAHÁ'Í YOUTH IN SCHOOL

224 YOUTH, JUNIOR (Do Great Deeds)

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