Some Answered Questions

In the early 1900s, a young American woman named Laura Clifford Barney made several pilgrimages to Haifa, where she posed probing questions to `Abdu'l-Bahá, the son of Bahá'u'lláh and interpreter of the Bahá'í Faith. Over three years of conversations, she asked about God, the nature of the soul, evil, fate and free will, and the deeper meanings of Christian scripture. What emerged was not a theological treatise but a living dialogue: intimate, surprising, sometimes challenging. `Abdu'l-Bahá draws on the Bible, the Qur'an, and Persian poetry to reframe familiar questions about immortality, healing, and the relationship between science and religion. He argues that evil has no independent existence, that the soul evolves across lifetimes, and that the prophecies of Revelation and Isaiah point toward a unified spiritual future. More than a record of answers, this book captures the art of spiritual reasoning in action. It remains vital for anyone curious about the Bahá'í tradition, comparative religion, or the big questions that never go away.