New publication entitled “Bahá’í Sacred Writings”

8 July 2025 / 16 Mercy 182

All Local Spiritual Assemblies
All Regional Bahá’í Councils
All Registered Groups

Dear Bahá’í Friends,

We are delighted to advise you of the availability of a new publication entitled Bahá’í Sacred Writings, a collection of selections from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh and the Writings and utterances of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.  In a letter dated 8 July, the Department of the Secretariat of the Universal House of Justice shared the following about this publication:

“Designed to serve as a resource that will support and reinforce the process of growth that is currently under way in neighbourhoods, clusters, and villages worldwide, this collection will vastly increase access to the Sacred Writings for many of those whose initial encounter with the Creative Word has been through participation in the courses of the training institute. Among the passages included in the volume will be found many excerpts that are quoted in the materials of the training institute, here frequently set within the original sources from which the quotations were drawn, along with a number of newly translated excerpts which are published here in English for the first time. The book gathers together in a single volume a comprehensive collection of selections representing the range of the Bahá’í teachings.”

We have attached a copy of the English-language edition of the publication and the text is also available on the Bahá’í Reference Library at https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/bahai-sacred-writings/.  In the coming months, the book will be available for purchase through our Bahá’í Distribution Service.  When we receive news of the availability of a French translation of the publication, we will inform the community.

Kindly share this news as widely and quickly as possible.

With loving Bahá’í greetings,
Karen McKye, Secretary

Bahá’í Sacred Writings