Being a Bahá'í means recognising the Station of Bahá'u'lláh and obeying His teachings. Recognition is through understanding of His Faith, and is the result of spiritual growth stimulated by His Writings. Obedience, which demands commitment and sacrifice, requires a deep love for Bahá'u'lláh and an understanding of the fundamentals and principles of His Faith.

This course assists one to initiate and enhance the two processes of recognition and obedience. Its topics include. It is designed for those interested in bettering their relationship with Bahá'u'lláh and serving His Cause. It is particularly appropriate for those who:

• have just declared their belief in Bahá'u'lláh and joined the Bahá'í community.have been a Bahá'í for some time but wish to systematically increase their understanding of the Faith.

• have been to other Bahá'í classes but now wish to refresh their knowledge and recharge themselves spiritually.

The Kitáb-i-Iqán (Book of Certitude) was revealed within the space of two days and two nights, in the last years of Bahá'u'lláh’s stay in Baghdad (1278 A.H.-1862 A.D.). It was written in reply to the questions addressed to Bahá'u'lláh by the Material uncle of the Báb, Haji Mirza Siyyid Muhammad.

According to Shoghi Effendi in God Passes By, this Book set “forth in outline the Grand Redemptive Scheme of God” and it “occupies a position unparalleled by any work in the entire range of the Bahá’í literature, except the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Bahá'u'lláh’s Most Holy Book”
Yerrinbool Bahá’í Centre of Learning is offering a systematic study of the book as a distance education program with well developed study guides and supplementary readings.

"He is, and should for all time be regarded, first and foremost, as the Centre and Pivot of Bahá’u’lláh’s peerless and all-enfolding Covenant, His most exalted handiwork, the stainless Mirror of His light, the perfect Exemplar of His teachings, the unerring Interpreter of His Word, the embodiment of every Bahá’í ideal, the incarnation of every Bahá’í virtue, the Most Mighty Branch sprung from the Ancient Root, the Limb of the Law of God, the Being “round Whom all names revolve,” the Mainspring of the Oneness of Humanity, the Ensign of the Most Great Peace, the Moon of the Central Orb of this most holy Dispensation—styles and titles that are implicit and find their truest, their highest and fairest expression in the magic name ‘Abdu’l-Bahá."