Breaking the Fast 2gether

ALWAYS AND 4EVER- This is one of the special moments that I won’t ever forget being here at World Center and being in this flat for few years. And one of them is observing the fast together with my flat mates, cooking every day, eating, and praying together.

Every year of fasting, most of the time I’m the one who prepared breakfast for all of us, and I love doing it. Then, I woke up my flat mates to be together. Above photo was taken this morning with Luis after we break the fast and pray. We usually eat fresh cooked food, but today I ate piece of bread with choco spread, perssimon, mango juice and water. Luis ate cereal with milk, orange juice and water because we run out of gas. While my other flat mate was still on bed, he just drink a lot of water and it make him feel better all day long. And most specially,this is the time to get more closer to them.

THE PASSAGES

Baha'u'llah revealed these passages for
the world of being.

THE ESSENCE OF LIGHT

The Essence light
Light is like the teaching of the Blessed Beauty, it illuminate the heart, spirit and soul of humankind. And when the light of God shine with the utmost splendor, the darkness turneth into light; ignorance into knowledge; hatred into love; and sorrow into happiness.


The light bulbs that I took at the House of Abdullah-Pasha catches my attention, and it came to my mind that even how small the light is, still has the power to lightened the surrounding in able to see and appreciate what is in there, and even how small it is when you place it in one big dark room, it is and it will ever be a center of attraction...that is the essence of my thought.

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.