The video is about Baha'u'llah, the original inspiration and source of the 1985 Baha'i Peace Statement "The Promise of World Peace" (which is authored by the Universal House of Justice, the auhoritative body which has been administering the Baha'i faith since 1962). The video presentation proposes a solution to problems of war by contrasting scenes of warfare and violence with how humankind could possibly be/become if people of all races, ethnicities, classes, religions, ideologies, and nations would make the right choices as taught by the prisoner of Akka, namely, the Founder of the Baha'i faith, Baha'u'llah (1817-1892). Baha'i is a Persian word meaning "splendor." Baha'u'llah means "splendor of God" (Baha is an Arabic word denoting "splendor"). Baha'ullah's birth anniversary was celebrated worldwide on Wednesday, November 12, last week. It was, of course, celebrated with great joy by local Baha'i communities in and around St. Cloud. The 19th century founding prophet was born in Teheran and died in Bahji, outside Haifa (which is currently in Israel). The prophet/ founder was exiled from his homeland in Persia (currently Iran), and then imprisoned in and exiled successively to and from Baghdad, Constantinople, and Adrianople before his final period of internment in Akka, which is situated on the eastern Mediterranean (across the bay from Haifa). The writings of the prophet Baha'u'llah form a vital part of the corpus of sacred writings of the Baha'i faith (which he founded in 1863). Immediately before the dinner celebration on 11/16, Bette Bartos, a member of the Stearns County Baha'i community, by way of invocation, will chant (5 mins.) from a Baha'i anthology of sacred writings "Peace - More than an End to War." Through these sacred utterances, the founding prophet in God's name addresses humanity directly inviting them to do things that lead definitively to peace.

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