The Nine Year Plan and the 28 November 2023 Message of the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá'ís of the World

The historic significance of the 28 November 2023 letter of the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá'ís of the World is assessed briefly and its potential impact on the implementation of the provisions of current Nine Year Plan is explored. The presentation reviews how various phases of development experienced by the worldwide Bahá’í community can be perceived as successive and coherent stages in a single, unfolding, Divinely- ordained drama and how each generation of Bahá'ís was able to build capacities needed to render the increasingly complex tasks expected of their generation. It argues that for the task ahead the achievements of the first century of the Formative Age of the Faith and their attendant processes of capacity building will prove to be a tremendous help in building confidence and certitude among those who are attracted to the vision of Bahá’u'lláh.

  • Firaydoun Javaheri

    Dr. Firaydoun Javaheri holds a doctorate in agronomy. As a pioneer to Africa for twenty-seven years, he served the Bahá’í community in his roles of Auxiliary Board member and, then, Continental Counsellor. While in Zambia, he worked as chief technical adviser for the Food and Agricultural Organization (an agency of the United Nations) for ten years and assisted, together with his wife Vida, in the establishment of the Banani International Secondary School. Dr. Javaheri served as a member of the International Teaching Centre from 1998 to 2003, and of the Universal House of Justice from 2003 to 2018.

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48th Annual Conference

1,900

The views expressed in this recording are those of the presenter and do not necessarily represent the views of the Association for Bahá’í Studies, nor the authoritative explications of Bahá’í writings.