takyihs

Updated: May 8, 2025

That seat of learning had been renowned for its vast endowments, its numerous takyihs, and its association with Saláhi’d-Dín-i-Ayyubí and his descendants; from it some of the most illustrious exponents of Sunní Islám had gone forth to teach its precepts, and now a delegation, headed by Shaykh Ismá’íl himself, and consisting of its most eminent doctors and most distinguished students, called upon Bahá’u’lláh, and, finding Him willing to reply to any questions they might wish to address Him, they requested Him to elucidate for them, in the course of several interviews, the abstruse passages contained in the Futúhát-i-Makkíyyih, the celebrated work of the famous Shaykh Muhyi’d-Dín-i-‘Arabí. “God is My witness,” was Bahá’u’lláh’s instant reply to the learned delegation, “that I have never seen the book you refer to.

Effendi Shoghi - God Passes By

Their abstruse dissertations, their vehement controversies, their interminable discussions, are outmoded and abandoned. Their takyihs, the haunts of the lazy, the passive, and contemplative pietists, are either being sold or closed down.

Effendi Shoghi - The Promised Day Is Come