Promised Day is Come

The promised day has come, the nearly 170 -page German translation of the English letter of Shoghi Effendi dated 28 March 1941, the Baha'is in the West ( " The Promised day is Come" ).

Content

In this work, Shoghi Effendi interpreted salvation history from the revolutionary Bahaisicht events that occurred in Europe and Asia since the mid-19th century. The cause of the cataclysmic events of Shoghi Effendi sees that the rulers and clerics the epistles of Bahá'u'lláh paid no attention. To prove this interpretation, translated and quoted Shoghi Effendi passages from the writings of Baha'u'llah as from the Kitab -i -Aqdas, the Book of Certitude, the Hidden Words and from all missive, later published in claim and proclamation. In these passages the rulers and the clergy of the divine plan was unveiled, which is intended to raise mankind to a higher stage of development, and to create a new saner world. They were also called in and admonished implement this plan and warned not to notice him. Additionally commented Shoghi Effendi translated by him passages from the advocates of the name, the Seven evidence, the Bayan and the epistles of the Bab to Mohammed Shah.

Ruler

The rulers were in their entirety and some individually addressed. Each individually addressed rulers belonged example, the Emperor Napoleon III. of the Second Empire of France, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Tsar Alexander II of the Russian Empire, King William I of the Kingdom of Prussia, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria - Hungary, Sultan Abdulaziz of the Ottoman Empire and Shah Naser ad -Din of Persia. Shoghi Effendi characterized these rulers and described their fate, as they paid no attention to the missive. He also explained the divine retribution of the house of the Qajar, the decline of the House of Romanov -Holstein -Gottorp, the rise of Bolshevism and the fate of the Habsburgs.

Clergyman

Shoghi Effendi quoted missive in which Baha'u'llah turns to the Christian and the Muslim clergy. Moreover, Shoghi Effendi quoted missive in which Baha'u'llah turns to the Jews and the clergy of Zoroastrianism. Pope Pius IX. the Papal State was addressed individually by Baha'u'llah. Shoghi Effendi characterizes this Pope, describing his fate when he paid no attention to the missive. Shoghi Effendi describes the collapse of the Caliphate and interprets this as well as many other events as signs of degeneration of the individual religions.