Songs I Made
Disclaimer: I'm an amateur!
For anyone devoted to Shoghi Effendi and the Universal House of Justice, I’d like to share these songs in case they are useful in your private devotions. Hopefully, someone out there can improve these demo versions.
“Priceless Pearl” is a song about Shoghi Effendi. I should have picked a better singer than myself. Go to this address to listen and download if you wish:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Pij3vHia19SFwiyhj_uooCcL3mB0pAvn/view?usp=sharing
“Universal House of Justice” features my buddy Chris Hampton on lead vocals, and he deserved a more polished arrangement, but this is a first draft:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1872CF324zhElKi0b09hsnzqX8MujX7Z2/view?usp=sharing
LYRICS FOR “PRICELESS PEARL”
The most wondrous, unique and priceless pearl / that doth gleam from out the Twin Surging Seas / thou shall behold him endowed with supreme capacity / absolute perfection, priceless pearl / the sign of God the chosen branch / from him will appear wondrous things / the guardian of the Cause of God / ages and centuries will bear traces of him / his face will shine with a radiance / that illumines all the horizons of the world / thou shalt behold him endowed consummate power, and unsurpassed might: priceless pearl.
[I cobbled together those phrases from the below sources.]
During the time of Shoghi Effendi’s infancy, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá wrote of him:
“Verily, that child is born and is alive and from him will appear wondrous things that thou wilt hear of in the future. Thou shalt behold him endowed with the most perfect appearance, supreme capacity, absolute perfection, consummate power, and unsurpassed might. His face will shine with a radiance that illumines all the horizons of the world; therefore forget this not as long as thou dost live inasmuch as ages and centuries will bear traces of him.” [Rúhíyyih Khánúm, The Priceless Pearl, p. 2]
“Salutation and praise, blessing and glory rest upon that primal branch of the Divine and Sacred Lote-Tree, grown out, blest, tender, verdant and flourishing from the Twin Holy Trees; the most wondrous, unique and priceless pearl that doth gleam from out the Twin Surging Seas.” [‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Will and Testament]
“...he is the sign of God, the chosen branch, the guardian of the Cause of God, he unto whom all... must turn.” [‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Bahá'í World Faith, p. 442]
LYRICS FOR “UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE”
Shoghi Effendi said that posterity will regard the Universal House of Justice as “the last refuge of a tottering civilization”. [see America and the Most Great Peace]
‘Abdu’l-Bahá said God has ordained the Universal House of Justice as the “source of all good and freed from all error”. [see Will and Testament]