Doubling the number of countries within the pale of the Faith through
planting its banner in the remaining Sovereign States of the planet as
well as the remaining virgin Territories mentioned in ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s
Tablets of the Divine Plan, involving the opening of forty-one countries
on the Asiatic, thirty-three on the African, thirty on the European,
twenty-seven on the American continents. Over twofold increase in the
number of languages into which Bahá’í literature is translated, printed or
in process of translation—forty in Asia, thirty-one in Africa, ten each in
Europe and America, to be allocated to the American, British, Indian and
Australian Bahá’í communities, including for the most part those into
which Gospels have been already translated. Doubling the number of
Ma_sh_riqu’l-A_dh_kárs, through the initiation of the construction of one
on the Asiatic and the other on the European continent. The acquisition of
the site of the future Ma_sh_riqu’l-A_dh_kár on Mount Carmel. The purchase
of the land for eleven future Temples, three on the American, three on the
African, two on the Asiatic, two on the European, one on the Australian
continents. The erection of the first dependency of the
Ma_sh_riqu’l-A_dh_kár in Wilmette. The development of the functions of the
institution of the Hands of the Cause. The establishment of a Bahá’í Court
in the Holy Land, preliminary to the emergence of the Universal House of
Justice.
Codification of the laws and ordinances of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Mother Book
of the Bahá’í Revelation. Establishment of six national Bahá’í Courts in
the chief cities of the Islamic East—Ṭihrán, Cairo, Ba_gh_dád, New Delhi,
Karachi, Kabul. Extension of international Bahá’í endowments in the Holy
Land, on the plain of Akká and the slopes of Mount Carmel. Construction of
international Bahá’í Archives in the neighborhood of the Báb’s Sepulcher.
Construction of a tomb for the wife of the Báb in _Sh_íráz. Identification
of the resting places of the father of Bahá’u’lláh and the mother and
cousin of the Báb for reburial in the Bahá’í cemetery in the vicinity of
the Most Great House. Acquisition of the Garden of Ridván in Ba_gh_dád,
site of the Síyáh-_Ch_ál in Ṭihrán, site of the martyrdom of the Báb in
Tabríz, and of His incarceration in _Ch_ihríq.
More than quadruple the number of National Spiritual Assemblies—twenty-one
on the American, thirteen on the European, ten on the Asiatic, three on
the African and one on the Australian continents. Multiply seven-fold
national Hazíratu’l-Quds, their establishment in the capital cities of the
chief Sovereign States and chief cities of the principal Dependencies of
the planet—twenty-one in America, fifteen in Europe, nine in Asia, three
in Africa, one in New Zealand. Framing national Bahá’í constitutions, and
establishment of national Bahá’í endowments in same capitals and cities of
same States and Dependencies.
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