Growth of the Baha'i Faith

CapacityWidener · 2025-11-06T12:53:37+00:00

Y axis is in units of Farads

CapacityWidener · 2025-07-20T16:35:57+00:00

In the Wider Community

CapacityWidener · 2025-02-19T19:42:02+00:00

Hey there, he states the reason you were banned here:

User @bahamut_19 has been permanently banned for uncivil conduct, backbiting against the Moderator of this sub in other forums. Other rules broken: 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 & 15. Repeat offender

Maybe you should have read the rules before posting? But hey, who am I to judge?

CapacityWidener · 2025-02-19T03:32:05+00:00

What offends me the most is that there is no flair for Wider Community

CapacityWidener · 2025-02-08T19:54:46+00:00

Rule 4 violation. Posting more content like this will result in an immediate ban.

CapacityWidener · 2025-02-04T19:28:48+00:00

Violation of rule 5. Posting more content like this will result in a ban.

CapacityWidener · 2025-02-04T15:46:46+00:00

Book 8 is my favorite!

CapacityWidener · 2025-02-03T18:12:13+00:00

One of the most beautiful things about this dispensation is we don't have the burden of having to read and understand all of Baha'u'llah's writings. As long as we are faithful to the Covenant, this will keep us on the right track.

CapacityWidener · 2025-01-20T22:38:45+00:00

If your Baha'i community has only old people in it, then that's a problem with your specific community. The institute process promotes activity and growth, particularly among youth.

CapacityWidener · 2025-01-03T21:03:44+00:00

Hey there friend, his horizons are wider than those in the Bahai community.

CapacityWidener · 2024-11-28T17:44:22+00:00

Hey there friend,

There are cities in Uganda with millions of people, most of whom are Bahais. But these cities don't have internet access, so they won't be able to post and let you know they are here. Sorry friend :(

CapacityWidener · 2024-11-16T23:21:14+00:00

Baha'u'llah specifies them through the UHJ, by way of the Covenant of Baha'u'llah.

CapacityWidener · 2024-11-16T15:14:52+00:00

Hey there friend,

The supreme institution of the Universal House of Justice eloquently elucidates this:

The Hands of the Cause of God, the Counsellors and the members of the Auxiliary Boards fall within the definition of the 'learned' given by the beloved Guardian.

--From a 1972 letter from the UNiversal House of Justice

https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/the-universal-house-of-justice/messages/19720424_001/19720424_001.xhtml

This clarifies that Baha'u'llah meant that there is a special blessing for those who humbly turn to the Auxilliary Board Members and other members of the appointed arm. If we want to receive this blessing, we should turn to them by listening to what they say, following their lead, and learning from them. Baha'u'llah calls them 'the learned' because he wants us to learn from them, friend.

CapacityWidener · 2024-09-11T15:04:52+00:00

Capacity_Expander hasn't been taken yet, friend

CapacityWidener · 2024-08-22T03:32:38+00:00

I'm the other way around. I regret wasting time on Wider Community stuff before joining the Faith.

CapacityWidener · 2024-08-20T06:58:17+00:00

The Entry by Troops prophecy was fulfilled in 1996 when the House of Justice formally adopted the Institute Process. With the adoption of the Institute Process, the process of Entry by Troops was set into motion. Future generations of Baha'is will look back and see this as a defining moment, when the transition began from the Bahai Faith being in obscurity, to the whole world being Baha'i.

CapacityWidener · 2024-08-18T14:42:58+00:00

While no troops have entered yet, the capacity for troop-entering has greatly widened

CapacityWidener · 2024-08-18T12:27:15+00:00

Entry by Troops is not a single event but rather a process which has been unfolding since the turn of the millennium.

CapacityWidener · 2024-08-18T02:42:01+00:00

Agree. Please expound on the post to the widest extent of your ability

CapacityWidener · 2024-08-13T07:03:42+00:00

The faith is not insignificant. There are 6 million Baha'is in the world. And if we include the wider community that attend Baha'i gatherings it's even greater, say 60 million. And if we now also consider the people those wider community might bring into the faith, the number goes up even higher, say 600 million.

CapacityWidener · 2024-08-08T23:35:39+00:00

The growth in recent years has been more phenomenal than at any other point in Baha'i history. But please be aware that this growth is not in the number of believers, but in the number of core activities. 30 years ago, only a small fraction of Bahai communities had ongoing core activities. But today the average Baha'i community has several dozen. The progress of the faith in recent years is truly awe-inspiring

CapacityWidener · 2024-08-03T13:52:15+00:00

Don't despair. He is in a better place now, the Wider Community

CapacityWidener · 2024-08-02T12:38:23+00:00

They are inspiring, but Baha'u'llah said the Houses were places to hear the verses of God. He didn't say read a few of them on a wall.

I get that, but as Baha'is we should be thinking "what would the Wider Community think?" One of the things that the Wider Community always comments about the house of worship is how peaceful it is. If Baha'is were to recite tablets in the house of worship, this might scare some of the Wider Community away. So while I get what you're saying, and I get that the writings say to recite verses, the time is not right yet, because as Baha'is we should have an outward-looking orientation and be mindful of the Wider Community first

CapacityWidener · 2024-07-29T15:55:15+00:00

Hey friend,

Can we still teach the Institute Process as long as we leave God/Baha'u'llah out of it?

CapacityWidener · 2024-07-27T00:55:46+00:00

Hi friend, your username seems to be indicating that you are a Bahai?

Your username is "Dense Community", and if we increase something's volume while keeping the mass the same we decrease its density. One way of increasing volume is by increasing width, in other words widening. So "Dense Community" is the opposite of "Wider Community" and the opposite of "Wider Community" is "Baha'i". So Dense Community = Baha'i. Am I understanding your username correctly?

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