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Photography of nature set to meditations from the Writings of the Bahá’í Faith.

Photography

Bashir Gabriel is a photographer with many years experience – focusing on landscape photography.

The photographs are inspired by Bahá’í Writings and the beauty of the photographs exhibit this. It is planned to produce resources in which the photographs are displayed with meditations, quotations and prayers from the Bahá’í Writings.

Publications & Resources

Blessed is the Spot – February 2017.

The meditation ‘Blessed is Spot’ by Bahá’u’lláh from the Bahá’í Writings, is displayed with full colour photographs (20 pages) from the region around Cairns Queensland, Australia. The meditation is as follows:

Blessed is the spot, and the house, and the place, and the city, and the heart, and the mountain, and the refuge, and the cave, and the valley, and the land, and the sea, and the island, and the meadow where mention of God hath been made, and His praise glorified. Bahá’u’lláh

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Where Available

NEW RESOURCES

Daily Readings

A series of eBooklets aligning with the Bahá’í Badí’ calendar that has a morning reading and an evening reading. These eBooklets are in ‘pdf’ format and are free to download and use on your devices – phones, tablets and computers.

New eBooklets are planned to be added from April/May 2024.

DOWNLOADS

Where Available

Australia:

Blessed Spot is available in printed form only as below:

ONLINE ORDERING:

Contact:

If you wish to order the Blessed Spot books please contact Bashir for further information via: collaborate@blessedspot.com.au

(Please note that currently sale of books are for within Australia only)

QUEENSLAND:

Brisbane Bahá’í Bookshop, 26 Mayneview St Milton. QLD 4064. Phone: +61 7 3367 1125

NEW SOUTH WALES:

National Bahá’i Bookshop, Bahá’í House of Worship grounds, 173 Mona Vale Rd, Ingleside (Sydney), NSW 2101. Phone +61 2 9998 9222

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Brighton Bahá’í Bookshop, 342 Brighton Rd, North Brighton (Adelaide), SA 5048. +61 8 8298 7811

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Melville Bahá’í Bookshop – Bahá’í Centre of Learning, 453 Marmion St. Melville (Perth), WA 6150. +61 8 9330 6999

Downloads

Blessed Spot Reflections – Daily Readings Writings from the Bahá’í Faith set to beautiful photographs for daily readings for morning and evening. A series of eBooklets that are in pdf and are available for free download. New eBooklets are being updated monthly. Click on the Title or the photo to download. (Best viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader free version on computers and mobiles). The Badí’ Calendar is used in the Bahá’í Faith. The year consists of 19 months of 19 days plus the Ayyám-i-Há \ Intercalary Days. Please refer to the message from the Universal House of Justice, below for more information and to the Badí’ dates that have been calculated, also below.

Universal House of Justice message dated 10 July 2014 Table of dates

Badí’ calendar 172 to 221 BE (2015 to 2064 AD)

1 Bahá \ Splendour 2 Jalál \ Glory