Ep. 6: The First Day of Ridvan

Baha'i mom and poet Andrea Hope shares about the Baha’i Festival of RIdvan. This episode includes a reading of the poem “Baha’u’llah in the Garden of Ridvan" by Robert Hayden. 

 Note 107 of the Kitab-i-Aqdas: https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/kitab-i-aqdas/14#170824240

Ridvan is Everywhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6j022cYmfU

YouTube video The Festival of Ridvan for children: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uKgA-ZPJKs&t=6s 

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Baha'u'llah in the Ridvan Garden by Robert Hayden

Agonies confirm His hour,
and swords like compass-needles turn
toward His heart,

The midnight air is forested
with presences that shelter Him
and sheltering praise

The auroral darkness which is God
and sing the word made flesh again
in Him.

Eternal exile whose return
epiphanies repeatedly
foretell

He watches in a borrowed garden,
prays. And sleepers toss upon
their armored beds,

Half-roused by golden knocking at
the doors of consciousness. Energies
like angels dance

Glorias of recognition.
Within the rock the undiscovered suns
release their light.

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