Garden of Ridvan in Baghdad |
…the world-wide celebrations of the “Most Great Festival,”
the “King of Festivals,” the “Festival of God” Himself—the Festival associated
with the accession of Him Who is the Lord of the Kingdom
to the throne of everlasting glory, and with the formal assumption by Him of
His prophetic office…
(Shoghi Effendi from a letter dated June 15, 1946;
‘Messages to America’)