Breezes of Confirmation, One Question at a Time

A game of Blooket turned study into a friendly contest for the junior youth of SS18.

On 26 July, one of the junior youth groups of SS18 gathered around a single laptop and a handful of phones for something their animator had quietly prepared — a game of Blooket, its questions drawn line by line from Breezes of Confirmation, the text the group is studying.

The questions asked for more than a remembered phrase — each turned on meaning: on prayer, on service, on the confirmations that attend a soul who arises to serve.

Answers came quickly at first, then more carefully. Teammates leaned in over one another's screens, and when one answer was disputed the group went back to the text itself to settle it — reading the passage once more, together.

To the Mountains, in Search of Truth

On 12 July, the Grade 3 children of SS18 created a layered paper scene inspired by the story of Zoroaster, who went up into the mountains to pray and meditate in his search for the truth.

Cutting and colouring layer upon layer, each child built glowing mountains, a rising light and a quiet place of prayer — imagining the stillness in which truth is sought and a seeking heart is drawn closer to God.

A Prayer, Word by Word

On 19 July, the class gathered again to review the prayer they are learning by heart — following along with a colourful visual aid that pairs words and pictures, helping the verses take root in memory.

Seri Kembangan Children's Class

The children of Seri Kembangan gathered for their weekly class — a morning of prayers, story and the quiet joy of learning together, side by side.

Gathering for the Feast of Kalimát

The friends gathered for the Feast of Kalimát (Words) in all six areas of the community, eighty-four in all, for devotion, consultation, and fellowship.

With warm and loving hearts, the friends of Subang Jaya extend a heartfelt welcome to Darien Sanjay Saravanen.

The Cluster at a Glance

A snapshot of ongoing activities across the Subang Jaya cluster.

A Lawyer's Life in Service

Our junior youth met a Bahá'í lawyer visiting from Italy — and discovered how a profession can become a life of service to humanity.

On 11 July, the junior youth gathering welcomed a special guest — a Bahá'í lawyer visiting from Italy, who spoke warmly about her experience and her work in the field of law. She shared how the ideals of justice and service shape her daily life, and the young people listened eagerly, putting to her their own questions about her work and how one comes to serve others through a profession.

Adding to the joy of the occasion, the group was joined by a few visiting junior youth from Indonesia — a happy reminder of the bonds of friendship that unite young people across borders in a shared spirit of learning and service.

The Ridván Message carries the guidance of the Universal House of Justice for the world — insights to inspire action, unity and service. Studied together, it opens ever-widening circles of friendship and purpose.

Online

SK · Zoom gathering

Friends studying the 2026 Ridván Message together over Zoom · 17 July 2026.

In Person

Bahá'í Centre, Puchong

Facilitated by ABM Siew Ha · morning study on 19 July 2026.

In Person

Bahá'í Centre, Puchong

Friends gathered for the Ridván Message study · 19 July 2026.

New Cluster Appointments

With joyful hearts we share news of two loving appointments for the Subang Jaya Cluster, made as the community enters the second phase of the Nine Year Plan. We offer our warm congratulations and prayers to the dear friends called to serve.

“Your dedicated efforts will, like a magnet, attract the promised confirmations.”

— Southern Region Training Institute Board

Cycles of Growth in Kemuning Utama

In Kemuning Utama the rhythm of community life moves in cycles — seasons of planning, expansion, and consolidation that carry an injection of energy and draw the widest possible circle of friends into the work of building community.

Kemuning Utama adopted this feature with great diligence when the work first began in December 2023. The very first festival was preceded by two weeks of expansion activities, including daily outreach — a practice that has continued consistently ever since. What began with only one or two teams has since grown significantly in both scale and capacity.

The most intensive periods arrive in the months leading up to the school holidays, when substantial planning and outreach take place. Youth gatherings create fresh opportunities to meet and engage new participants, while outreach reaches into homes, schools, and the everyday spaces where young people gather with their friends. Social media, too, is enlisted to encourage participants to invite their peers.

Weekly classes are occasionally turned into outreach sessions, sharpening the focus on expanding participation. These seasons are aimed above all at welcoming more youth into the programme through Youth Camps and Intensive Camps.

National celebrations — Merdeka, Hari Malaysia, and other festive days — open the door to more focused engagement with local leaders and community members. During examination periods, collaboration with parents deepens through reflection meetings, consultations, and coordinated efforts to support the youth in their studies and their wider development.

Reflection spaces have now taken root across several neighbourhoods, generating renewed energy throughout the area. In Kota Kemuning, outreach for junior youth, SEC and study-circle activities has expanded; in Setia Alam, participation in higher Ruhi book studies has increased, with the potential for SEC and youth-gathering activities beginning to emerge. In Kampung Subang, youth themselves are taking charge of neighbourhood activities — a sign of growing capacity for community building beyond the CIA.

The most recent cycle brought an even greater surge of energy. Outreach began at the very start of the cycle — supporting participant intake and preparing for junior youth festivals, educational visits with youth to the University of Malaya and the Ḥaẓíratu'l-Quds, well-planned service projects, and, finally, a seven-day camp during the school holidays.

This surge was further strengthened by the contribution of the Local Spiritual Assembly, which assumed several key responsibilities. Their support freed the nucleus to devote more time to planning and coordination, opening the way for a broader range of activities and initiatives during this season of growth and expansion.

“Waves of one sea”

A wider vision of belonging in a shared Dutch society

The Hague, Netherlands — Belonging to a country is often spoken of as something inherited, earned, or proved. An initiative of the Bahá'í Office of Public Affairs of the Netherlands begins from another premise: that every person has a part to play in society's shared future.

Titled “Golven van één zee” (“Waves of one sea”), it shifts belonging from a contested question of identity to the shared capacity to contribute — asking how everyone, whatever their background, might take part in the true prosperity of society and so come to feel at home within it.

Growing out of conversations on identity and social cohesion, roundtables have engaged residents across the country — with young people especially ready to carry the insights into action in their own neighbourhoods.

“Belonging is not about assimilation, but about the participation of all — each person, whatever their background, contributing to the prosperity of a shared society.”

— Bahá'í Office of Public Affairs, Netherlands

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Given to the Penny

The story of Tony and Maria — a couple who, having lost everything, placed their future in the hands of Bahá'u'lláh.

Tony and Maria are a Bahá'í couple living in the United States — Tony is black and Maria is white. A few years ago, just as they had almost finished building a home for themselves, the house was destroyed by an arsonist out of racial prejudice. Everything they owned had been stored in the new garage, and it too went up in flames — so within a few hours they lost all they possessed.

The experience left them absolutely stunned, the more so as it was not clear whether the insurance company would be willing to pay for their loss. At about this time a Bahá'í conference was held in a nearby city, and the couple decided to attend.

When the Funds were discussed and the friends encouraged to contribute, Tony and Maria looked at each other and wondered whether they dared to make a pledge. Then, for the first time in their lives, they resolved to do something for their Faith without thinking of the consequences: they pledged $2,000 from their insurance proceeds to the Funds, and put their future in the hands of Bahá'u'lláh.

A few days later Tony returned to work. His fellow workers had heard of his misfortune and had a gift waiting for him. They gathered together, expressed their sympathy, and handed him an envelope. When he was alone, Tony opened it — and could scarcely believe what he saw: a gift of $2,000, to the penny.

“To Tony and Maria this was a miracle — and a true confirmation of their faith.”

— Gloria Faizi, Stories About Bahá'í Funds, p. 98

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Dr. Rahmatu'lláh Muhájir — 1923–1979

A physician who carried his healing to the farthest islands of the earth — remembering a Hand of the Cause of God whose journeys touched every continent.

Born in Iran in 1923, into a family whose devotion to the Faith reached back to its earliest days, Rahmatu'lláh Muhájir grew up surrounded by prayer. Even as a boy he longed to give his whole life to the Cause, and he chose the path of medicine so that his service might heal body and soul alike.

He trained as a physician in Tehran, and served the community there with energy and gladness. But his heart was set on the goals of the Ten Year Crusade, and in 1954 he and his wife, Írán, left everything familiar behind and sailed for the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia — a remote place of forest and sea, without roads, electricity or post.

There he lived as the islanders lived. He learned their language, treated their sick, taught their children to read and write, and spoke to all of Bahá'u'lláh. For this service Shoghi Effendi named him a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh, and whole villages entered the Faith — among the first fruits of mass teaching in the Bahá'í world.

Those island years set the pattern of his life. He had seen with his own eyes that the Cause belongs to every people, that the humblest village can become a centre of light, and that a believer need not wait to be learned, or wealthy, or asked twice, before arising to serve.

In October 1957, at only thirty-four, he was appointed by Shoghi Effendi to the rank of Hand of the Cause of God — among the youngest ever named. From that day his life became one unbroken journey. He crossed the Pacific from island to island, walked the villages of Africa, Asia and the Americas, and seemed to be everywhere at once, a doctor now prescribing courage.

Wherever he went he carried maps, plans and figures, and a gentle, irresistible insistence. He asked communities not merely to admire the goals but to arise for them — to open children's classes, to raise up teachers from among the newly declared, to trust the capacity of every soul. Weariness he treated as a detail; he slept little, travelled light, and smiled much.

He was still travelling when his heart failed him, on 29 December 1979, in Quito, Ecuador, high in the Andes — a pioneer to the very end, laid to rest far from the land of his birth. His name, Muhájir, means “the one who migrates”. No name was ever more truly borne, and no lamp among us has shone more brightly.

Children held a special place in his heart. Wherever he landed he asked first after their classes, for he believed the future of every community was already seated on its classroom floor. Friends remember him arriving with a doctor's bag in one hand and lesson materials in the other — and leaving behind, always, a community more confident than the one he had found.

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