The Tablet to The Hague is a letter which `Abdu'l-Bahá

`Abdu'l-Bahá

‘Abdu’l-Bahá , born ‘Abbás Effendí, was the eldest son of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. In 1892, `Abdu'l-Bahá was appointed in his father's will to be his successor and head of the Bahá'í Faith. `Abdu'l-Bahá was born in Tehran to an aristocratic family of the realm...

 wrote to the Central Organisation for Durable Peace

Central Organisation for Durable Peace

The Central Organisation for a Durable Peace was established at The Hague, The Netherlands, in April 1915. Its members represented nine European nations and the United States. They called for a "new diplomacy", willing to accept military sanctions against aggressive countries.The Organisation was...

 in The Hague

The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...

, The Netherlands on 17 December 1919.

It was delivered in person by Ahmad Yazdání and Hand of the Cause

Hands of the Cause

The Hands of the Cause of God, Hands of the Cause, or Hands were a select group of Bahá'ís, appointed for life, whose main function was to propagate and protect the Bahá'í Faith...

 Ibn-i-Asdaq

Ibn-i-Asdaq

Mírzá `Alí-Muḥammad-i-Khurásání known as Ibn-i-Aṣdaq , was an eminent follower of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, a global religion of Persian origin. He was appointed a Hand of the Cause, and identified as one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh.Ibn-i-Asdaq was...

 in 1920.

In the tablet

Tablet (religious)

A tablet, in the religious context, is a term traditionally used for religious texts.Jews and Christians believe that Moses brought the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai in the form of two stone tablets. According to the Book of Exodus, God delivered the tablets twice, the first set having been...

, `Abdu'l-Bahá gives an overview of Bahá'í principles

Bahá'í teachings

The Bahá'í teachings represent a considerable number of theological, social, and spiritual ideas that were established in the Bahá'í Faith by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the religion, and clarified by successive leaders including `Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'u'lláh's son, and Shoghi Effendi, `Abdu'l-Bahá's...

, which include the following:

• Declaration of universal peace.
• Independent investigation of reality.
• Oneness of humanity.
• Religion must be the cause of fellowship and love.
• Religion must be in conformity with science and reason.
• Abandonment of religious, racial, political, economic and patriotic prejudices.
• One universal language.
• Equality of women and men.
• Voluntary sharing one's property.
• Man's freedom from the captivity of the world of nature.
• Religion is the ideal safeguard.
• Material civilization should be combined with Divine civilization.
• Promotion of education.
• Justice and right.

He declares that the League of Nations

League of Nations

The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace...

 is "incapable of establishing universal peace", and calls for the establishment of a Supreme Tribunal

International court

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, representing all countries: