Author Archives: lessan

A Minty adventure begins

By lessan | Published: September 25, 2010

I grew up in Cameroon, in a number of rural towns. One feature of living in the tropics is that things grow very easily, all year round, and everywhere you look there is greenery as far as the eye can see. In our back yard we had a vegetable garden, and as kids my sister […]

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In remembrance of The Servant of Bahá

By lessan | Published: November 28, 2009

Some reading material when commemorating the passing of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: “Friends, the time is coming when I shall be no longer with you. I have done all that could be done. I have served the Cause of Bahá’u’lláh to the utmost of My ability. I have labored night and day all the years of My life. […]

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Help him to marry

By lessan | Published: June 26, 2009

I’ve been reading the book Gate of the Heart – Understanding the Writings of the Bab, by Nader Saiedi. I’ll leave a review of the book for later – suffice it to say that there are some translations provided there which are not available anywhere else in English. I’ve started typing some of these quotations […]

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Happy Naw-Ruz!

By lessan | Published: March 20, 2009

Today is the last day of the fast, the day of loftiness in the month of loftiness. Through the fast, we strive to become detached from this world and from our lower nature, and to approach the heavenly horizon and the spiritual realm. Our loftiness then, and the acceptance of our fast, is wholly dependent […]

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Lamentations of Yahya’s pen

By lessan | Published: March 10, 2009

I recently came across a story about the pen of Mírzá Yahyá, who was complaining to Bahá’u’lláh of its treatment at the hands of its owner. The story is from the Kitáb-i-Badí (The Wondrous New Book), which is not yet translated into English, but I found a description of this story in Nader Saiedi’s book […]

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