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Dear Susan,
Baha'is perform ablutions before saying their obligatory prayers even
if they have just had a bath, but the more thorough going ghusl in
Islam is done after sexual relations or after a women's period. This
is because semen and menstrual blood render one
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What was the point of the concept in Islam, then? If ghusl was never
actually necessary from a hygeine perspective what was the wisdom of it?
Were those people ever ritually impure or not? I'd like to know how to
square this with Islam being a revealed
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I have a question about the following:
Shaykh Abid, known by his pupils as Shaykhuna, was a man of piety and learning.
He had been a disciple of both Shaykh Ahmad and Siyyid Kazim. One day, he
related, I asked the Báb to recite the opening words of the Qur'án:
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Okay, I don't get it. The Bab was a sinless Manifestation and was always a
Manifestation.
That doesn't mean He wasn't also a child. The Manifestation has two
natures, one divine and the other human. The Bab's human nature was
clearly that of an impetuous child.
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On 19 Jun 2010 at 3:17, David Regal wrote:
... what about
obedience to parents? It may have been His uncle, but the uncle
counts as a parent since he raised the Bab. Does being a
Manifestation waive certain aspects of accountability? Regards,
David
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I would say Wudu/Ghusl are partially physical (including hygenic) and
partially spiritual/symbolic. For example, especially in the context
of the dark ages when Europeans even believed that frequent bathing
was unhealthy, Muslims having a regular practice of washing and
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On 19 Jun 2010 at 11:13, Gilberto Simpson wrote:
... in the Bahai case, even if you just took a bath, and then choose to
pray, you would still do the ablutions again, right? That seems to be
more of a ritual concept, no?
Not for purists:
18. QUESTION: With
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On 17 Jun 2010 at 10:27, Gilberto Simpson wrote:
I think there is more to the
novels than just that. In the later novels, the Authority (presumably
God) and his forces led by the angel Metatron are the primary
enemies. And at one point one of the good guys is
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For one thing, the Dawnbreakers is sort of a hagiographical account of the
mission of the Bab'. Not everything written in it is meant to be an exact,
unbiased account of everything that went down in the Babi Movement.
Secondly, even if that story was exactly true I
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But finally, I'm still kind of confused by where the question is coming
from. I understand that you might not call it ritual purityor ritual
impurity. But if both the Bahai faith and Islam have ablutions which need
to be performed before the prayers that would
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But if both the Bahai faith and Islam have
ablutions which need to be performed before the prayers that would
make them equally superstitious to use your conept..
I was not suggesting that the concept of ritual impurity was superstitious.
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I was responding to David (but it now occurs to me you may have posted
an exchange with someone who wasn't on the list).
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Susan Maneck sman...@gmail.com wrote:
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But if both the Bahai faith and Islam have
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I was responding to David (but it now occurs to me you may have posted
an exchange with someone who wasn't on the list).
No, I was responding to David as well. But it was my post in your trailer.
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* But as he is the Guardian, he has a “plus” that the House doesn’t have “he
often senses a situation or condition without having any detailed knowledge
of it”.
How do we know the House doesn't have this as well?
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