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From: Brent Poirier
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 8:35 AM
I am interested, not in how God withholds gifts, but in how you friends see
that the Hands of the Cause have "withheld".
Hi Brent,
I think the implications of "withheld" is similar to the passages below.
Best wishes,
--- Vaughn
Afterward it is said: "These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in
the days of their prophecy,"[1] meaning that in that cycle they would be
like kings. The law and teachings of Muhammad, and the explanations and
commentaries of Ali, are a heavenly bounty; if they wish to give this
bounty, they have power to do so. If they do not wish it, the rain will not
fall: in this connection rain stands for bounty.
(Abdu'l-Baha, Some Answered Questions, p. 50)
THE Day of Resurrection is a day on which the sun riseth and setteth like
unto any other day. How oft hath the Day of Resurrection dawned, and the
people of the land where it occurred did not learn of the event. Had they
heard, they would not have believed, and thus they were not told!
(The Bab, Selections from the Writings of the Bab, p. 78)
Thus hath Sadiq, son of Muhammad, spoken: "God verily will test them and
sift them."
(Baha'u'llah, The Kitab-i-Iqan, p. 255)
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