God is passing

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The book God passes by was written by Shoghi Effendi , the guardian of Baha'iism , and describes the first 100 years of the history of the Baha'i religion after the declaration of the Bab from 1844 to 1944. It is an important work of Baha'i literature.

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Shoghi Effendi wrote the book in English on the 100th anniversary of the Bab Declaration to mark the first 100 years of Babism and Baha'is history . A German translation was first published in 1954 by George Ronald Verlag in Oxford.

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After an introduction by George Townshend and a foreword by Shoghi Effendi, it deals with the history of the Baha'i religion. He divides the book into four parts, which describe different periods. The first period is the time of Bab's ministry from 1844 to 1853 and is dealt with in Chapters I to V. The second period is the time of the ministry of Baha'u'llah from 1853 to 1892 (Chapters VI to XIII). The third period from 1892 to 1921 is the time of the ministry of Abdu'l Baha (Chapters XIV to XXI). The fourth period finally deals with the beginning of the so-called creative age of the Baha'i Faith from 1921 to 1944 and describes in Chapters XXII to XXV the Baha'i Faith under its own guardianship, i.e. H. the establishment and development of the administrative order, the attacks on Baha'i institutions and the international expansion of teaching.

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