Gabr

Persian

Also geuber, geubre, gabrak, gawr, gaur, gyaur, gabre

A New Persian term originally used to denote a Zoroastrian. ... In time, gabr came to have a pejorative implication and was superseded in literature by the respectable Zardoshti, “Zoroastrian”. (Source :: Wikipedia:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabr)

Gabriel

The highest of all the angels, the Holy Spirit. It is his duty to write down the decrees of God; through him the Qur’án was revealed to Muḥammad.

See also : Cherubim; Holy Spirit.

A-Z : Gabriel

Garden of Paradise

See   Garden of Riḍván

Garden of Riḍván

Literally “Garden of Paradise” or Najíbíyyih Garden

The name given by Bahá’u’lláh to two gardens - the Najíbíyyih Garden in Baghdád and a garden belonging to Bahá’u’lláh outside ‘Akká.

Bahá’u’lláh stayed at the Garden of Riḍván in Baghdád for twelve days, from 21 April to 2 May, 1863, after the Ottoman Empire exiled him from Baghdád, before commencing His journey to Constantinople.

A-Z : Riḍván ~ Declaration of Bahá’u’lláh

Gate of the Gate

See   Mullá Ḥusayn

Gematria

Hebrew numerology

Getsinger, Lua

See   Lua Getsinger

Ghenza Rama

Main Sabaean Scripture

glory, veils of

See   veils of glory

God, Day of

See   Day of God

God, Manifestation of

See   Manifestation of God

God’s Holy Mountain

See   Mount Carmel

God’s Major Plan

See   Major Plan of God

God’s Minor Plan

See   Minor Plan of God

Golden Age

See   Ages

Gospel

Either the whole New Testament, or one of its four Gospel Books

A-Z : Gospel(s)

Greater Branch

See   Mírzá Muḥammad-‘Alí

Greater Covenant

See   Covenant

Greatest Holy Leaf

See   Bahíyyih Khánum

Greatest Name

Also referred to as the Most Great Name.

The name Bahá’u’lláh (“the Glory of God”) and its derivatives, such as Alláh-u-Abhá (“God is Most Glorious”), Bahá (“glory”, “splendour”, or “light”), and Yá Bahá’u’l-Abhá (“O Thou the Glory of the Most Glorious!”).

A-Z : Name(s) ~ Most Great

Green Acre

Founded in 1894 by Sarah Jane Farmer. The name comes from the poet John Greenleaf Whittier, who was a friend of the Farmer family.

It is America's first Bahá’í school, in Eliot, Maine, on the banks of the Piscataqua River. Now a permanent institution, Green Acre Bahá’í School is owned and operated by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States, fostering the oneness of humanity, world peace, unity of the races, equality of men and women, and other Bahá’í ideals.

Green Acre is also the home of the Badasht Academy.

Greenleaf, Elizabeth

See   Elizabeth Greenleaf

Guardianship

The institution, anticipated by Bahá’u’lláh in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas and established by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in His Will and Testament, to which Shoghi Effendi was appointed.

Shoghi Effendi explains that the Guardianship and the Universal House of Justice constitute the twin pillars of the World Order of Bahá’u’lláh and are the twin successors of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.

The Guardian’s chief functions are to interpret the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, the Báb, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and to be the permanent head of the Universal House of Justice.

A-Z : Guardianship

Gulpáygání

See   Abu’l-Faḍl