MOVING FOR THE NEXT DAY

It’s a long and tiring day, today is my 7th day of pilgrimage, and we went to the Ridvan garden and House of Abdullah Pasha .

AKKA WALK

Inside the Mosque


Mosque of al-Jazzar

Khan-i-'Avamid

Today, I went to the Prison City of Akká and it was a busy day for me. I’ve been here to the Holy land for almost five year and it’s my first time to walk by myself around the city. And it was a noisy day in a rejoicing way may be, because people are jumping from the wall to the water, playing a lively Arabic music, they are walking around with their family and friends, boat riding and other activities. I’ve been walking and walking for one and half hour until I found something new to my eyes, something that amazed me that after quite long years I’ve been to a place that I never ever been before like going inside the Mosque of al-Jazzar where Abdul-Bahá used to visit and one of the room at the edge of the court of the Mosque was occupied by the Master.

Pilgrimage

My First Pilgrimage

This event for being a Bahá’í is one of the precious gifts that bound to us by the Blessed Beauty. Pilgrimage is a sign of devotion and love for God, this is the journey of the soul that connect to our creator and the main purpose of this sacred experience is pray and meditate at the Holy Shrines of the Central figure of the faith, Baha’u’llah, the Báb and Abdu’l-Bahá and to visits the Baha’i Holy Places and some related to the history of the faith.

I’ve been here in the Most Sacred spot of earth, Israel for 4 years and eight months serving at the Baha’I World Center as a gardener in Mt. Carmel. I arrived on 07 July 2002, two days later I applied for pilgrimage during my orientation program, that’s the first thing I did on computer. And here it is, its time to experience this blessing to be on Pilgrimage. The Supreme Body of the Faith, The Universal House of Justice invited me on 12 of February 2007 to join the other pilgrims around the world for 9 days from 05-13 of March 2007.

UNORGANIZED PICTURES

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My video clip

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" A FRIENDS OF MY ..."

Woooooowwwwwwww........................... I love this picture. Nothing to say,just look and smile as you see......

A SIGN OF EMERGING ROMANTIC FEELINGS

The orange rose has become the perfect way to symbolize the heat of passion, burning desire and the flames of love.Orange roses have a power to send a message of romance that can rival even the red rose!Hmmmmmmm.....I think I'm inlove...Ha! Ha! Ha!

"O SON OF EARTH"

"Wouldst thou have Me, seek none other than Me; and wouldst thou gaze upon My beauty, close thine eyes to the world and all that is therein; for my will and the will of another than Me, even as fire and water, cannot dwell together in one heart."

"THE LOWEST ELEVETION ON EARTH"

Location: The Dead Sea is located in the Middle East, between Jordan and Israel.
It's called the Dead Sea because nothing lives in it but with tons of tons of crystal formation of salt(mineral salt). It is some of the saltiest water anywhere in the world, almost six times as salty as the ocean! The Dead Sea is completely landlocked and it gets saltier with increasing depth.
Facts: The surface of the Dead Sea is over 1,300 feet below sea level. The very bottom of the sea, in the deepest part, is over 2,300 feet below sea level. The Dead Sea has some of the most saline water on earth; as much as 35% of the water is dissolved salts!

"NAZARETH CITY"

Nazareth City
The site where Nazareth exists today was founded and settled between 600-900 BCE. Nazareth is located between the open space of the Jezreel valley and the mountainous regions of Galilee. Nazareth is also 60 miles north of Jerusalem and midway between the Mediterranean and Galilean seas. Before Jesus’ time great battles had taken place in the valley that is seen from Nazareth. The Jezreel as it is seen from the town, is a natural battlefield. The villages and farms in the at the time of Jesus consisted of walled terraces, watch towers, and rock quarries. The village was surrounded be vineyards, olive grooves, and terraced crops, that might have inspired some of Jesus’ parables. Nazareth was isolated however because no trade routes ran through the city.
Nazareth is in the central area of Galilee and is surrounded by numerous sites of international historical and archeological importance, such as Cana of Galilee, Sephoris, Mount Tabor, the Mount of the Precipice, Tiberias, Capernaum amongst others. The heart of Nazareth today is the Old City, which is comprised of two parts: the nucleus - the historical and religious core - and the ``casing" - the markets, mansions, and houses on the slope of the Nebi Sa'in Ridge. Nazareth is now the largest Arab city in Israel with a population of, half Christians, half Moslems. These groups live together in a peaceful harmony coexisting with each other.

"THE MASADA"

Masada is one of the National Park of Israel Masada is a rugged natural fortress, of majestic beauty, in the Judaean Desert overlooking the Dead Sea. It is a symbol of the ancient kingdom of Israel, its violent destruction and the last stand of Jewish patriots in the face of the Roman army, in 73 A.D. It was built as a palace complex, in the classic style of the early Roman Empire, by Herod the Great, King of Judaea, (reigned 37 – 4 B.C.). The camps, fortifications and attack ramp that encircle the monument constitute the most complete Roman siege works surviving to the present day.
Criterion iii Masada is a symbol of the ancient Jewish kingdom of Israel, of its violent destruction in the later 1st century CE, and of the subsequent Diaspora. Criterion iv The palace of Herod the Great at Masada is an outstanding example of a luxurious villa of the Early Roman Empire, whilst the camps and other fortifications that encircle the monument constitute the finest and most complete Roman siege works to have survived to the present day. Criterion vi The tragic events during the last days of the Jewish refugees who occupied the fortress and palace of Masada make it a symbol both of Jewish cultural identity and, more universally, of the continuing human struggle between oppression and liberty.

"The Glowing Shrine of The Bab,Haifa,Israel"

The Báb, the Exalted One, is the Morn of Truth, the splendor of Whose light shineth throughout all regions. He is also the Harbinger of the Most Great Light, the Abha Luminary (Bahá'u'lláh). The Blessed Beauty (Bahá'u'lláh) is the One promised by the sacred books of the past, the revelation of the Source of light that shone upon Mount Sinai, Whose fire glowed in the midst of the Burning Bush. We are, one and all, servants of their threshold, and stand each as a lowly keeper at their door.

9th day of Ridvan

with Melona Jane Montalban

9th day of Ridvan

Me and Ate(older sister)Rhea

No APENAS UN AMIGO ORDINARIO...

...An hermano más viejo y un mejor amigo.Strict,serious type of person in a right time and place but sweet,loving and caring in a weired time and place.(ha! ha! ha!)

"EL DOS HOMBRE ESTABAN ARDIENDO"

"THE LATINO"

Esta foto se tomó durante celabration de Ridvan con mi dos favorito latinos (R) mi hermano Vahid de Bolivia y (L) mi hermano Shahriar Erfanian de Ecuador.

Baha'i Holy place in Turkey

Adrianople(Edirne presently),House of Baha'u'llah,Where He(The manifestation of God) stayed for 4 years, 8 months, and 22 days from late 1863-early 1868."The Land of Mystery", " The Remote Prison"...the place which none entereth except such as have rebelled against the authority of the Sovereign.

Istanbul,Turkey(feb.22-26,2006)

Me,Kerem Onat and Danielle Fallahi

TURKEY

The Turkish Republic was established on October 29,1923 from the remnants of theOttoman Empires. It is a bicontenental country Turkey straddles the Bosphorus traits that separate Southwest Asia from Southeast Europe. Anatolia is situated between theBlack Sea on the north and the Mediterranean Sea to south, with the Aegean Sea and Marmara Sea (both branches of the Mediterranean) to the west. Because of its geographical position between Europe and Asia and three seas, Turkey has been a historical crossroads, the homeland of and battleground between several great civilizations, and a center of commerce.