at the beginning, middle, or
the end of the administrative part of the feast? Thanks for any advice.
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Thanks so much to everyone of you for replying to my query and providing
some useful links.
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If this feast be held in the proper fashion, `Abdu'l-Bahá states
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Dear Mike,
As a non-US citizen, I have no access to usbnc.org. I appreciate if you
could share the guidelines for LSAs with me privately. Thank you.
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Thank you dear Don, highly appreciate that.
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the following version should provide the info you want.
http://www.holy-writings.com/?a=SHOWTEXTd=%2Fen%2FBahai+Faith%2F4
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Susan,
Could Ruhi be defined as a Charismatic movement within the Baha'i Faith?
Bill
Probably in some countries YES, but not all countries or places.
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I am looking for some compilation or Baha'i quotations regarding
Mastery of Self. Any hint or ideas in this regard?
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I think Baha'is are only true Muslims.
So if Bahais are true Muslims what should Sunnis and Shias call themselves?
They can call themselves by their sect names, i.e. Sunni or Shia. As
they have not fully understood
there? If it refers to Covenant-Breakers, Muslims have
broken the greater covenant of God. Are they considered in this verse?
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Personally I find mainstream Baha'is offensive too. There is only one group
of Baha'is and that is simply called Baha'is. Other groups should be called
covenant-breakers.
The problem Firouz
and Prophet Muhamad. What many Muslims believe
today is some idle fancies and imagining.
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My religion is Baha'i which teaches us to respect Islam.
Dear Susan,
Respecting Islam
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Dear Susan,
How about Hidden Words saying Treasure the companionship of the
righteous and eschew all fellowship with the ungodly. I don't think
ungodly really means atheist here. Thinking about the Persian word
(ashrAr) means more to me as enemies. I think your
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Speaking for myself, you should feel free to make all kinds of
specific criticisms of the actions of the Iranian government. But then
when you characterize their negative practices as Islamic then you
give the impression
the traditional 'ulama.
In Shia Islam it seems those are the clergies (ayattolahs) who have
issued fatwas for Jehad and other terrorism acts. And I think in general
Shia clergies are much more powerful than their Sunni counterparts.
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fatwas against
Iraq and Iraqis, I cannot remember the details.
Firouz
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Is there a specific ayatollah who has said it is permissible to attack
non-combatant civilians in jihad?
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Uh Naison, Islam doesn't have priests.
But Islam has Mullahs, Moftis, Akhunds, Ayatollahs, Imams, etc. They are
sort of priests.
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to Baha'u'llah that I came to meet you in
cyberspace. I am thankful to you for all your posts.
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many Muslims
have come to believe these non-sense. So you see, there is big
difference between Muslims of Muslim countries and Muslims in countries
where Islam is a minority religion.
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, but that is some facts and
beliefs among these Muslims.
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Sunnis and Shias obviously disagree with one another on specific
points. And maybe even on a popular level there may be a certain
amount of conflict
their Shia
subjects.
If you get some time, please watch the following video. A sunni Imam in
Iran addressing his followers. It is in Persian.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S6m9JP97UUfeature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S6m9JP97UUfeature=player_embedded
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in Iran and became Baha'i some 30 years ago. So I
know well how the Muslims (Shias and Sunnis) in Middle East and Indian
sub-continent think and believe. Probably the Muslims in USA are a bit
different.
cheers,
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All the earth is a masjid (place of prostration)
So why Muslim bother to build masjids? Specially the one near World
Trade Center in NYC?
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to hear about core
activities in almost all Baha'i meetings, as if there is nothing else in
the Faith besides core activities.
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Ok you had 3 new active Baha'is in your cluster over a period of one year
to the World Center by
most developing countries about their growth rate.
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. For the last 15 years or so,
it was running around 100 per month.
Dear Ron,
That simply isn't true, Ron. It bottomed out
cluster as I'm the one who submits them. ;-}
My experience has been mostly in developing world and that was my
observation of inflated statistics.
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collapsed, etc.
Is there a well researched video clip or a scientific article that has
studied various claims and prepared some good responses to these claims
that could be shared to those who believe in such theories and answer
their questions.
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If I am not mistaken the House has already appointed a committee of 5
members as the trustees of Huquq.
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Dr Varqa was the International Trustee, but my understanding was that he had
to appoint a successor in his
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Thank you very much dear Dr. Hai.
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http://bahai-library.com/bsr/bsr09/9H2_comp_hiddenwords.htm and
scroll down to the Persian Hidden Words number 77.
On Wed, Jun
to that which they
have done and now are doing.
I appreciate if someone could explain more about this Hidden Word. Also
my specific question is to what their refers to. Thanks so much in advance.
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Dear Dr. Hai,
Do you know how I can access this file? Is there a link to a site?
Thanks for additional information.
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Dear Firouz:
This has been explained by Abdu'l
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Dear Khazeh,
Thanks so much once again for your time and elucidation of this Writing
of the Bab.
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What about toddlers?
Dear David,
I can't imagine coming into contact with the toddlers of Covenant
breakers without coming into contact with the parents as well.
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in
this regard.
He wants his books to be used mainly for people who take care of old or
terminally sick people on how to take care of them, and how to prepare
them for their journey to the next world.
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Dear Khazeh,
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the answers to all my questions. Thank you.
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Bangkok, Thailand
*Dear Khazeh, dear all,*
* *
*I am wondering if there is any Islamic hadith or prophecy about
coming of Jews to Israel
Dear Khazeh, dear all,
I am wondering if there is any Islamic hadith or prophecy about coming
of Jews to Israel (holy land).
There are such prophecies in Christian scriptures, I wonder if such
prophecies exists in Islamic scriptures as well?
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The information
Is the following quote from Einstein? How is it in German?
regards,
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There are two ways to live your life - one is as though nothing is a
miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle
But I think the French is more elegant
Il existe deux facons de vivre ta vie. Tu peux
but they are not citizens of Egypt. Here
we're talking about Egyptian ID card. As you know if any of these
Buddhists or Hindus would ever marry to an Egyptian Muslim, they have to
change their religions and become Muslims.
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Does anyone know if there are any Hindus
Dear friends,
A friend of mine is looking for a Baha'i prayer for newly born baby. He
believe Abdu'l-Baha has revealed such a prayer. Does anyone know about
this prayer and could possibly share it with us.
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then a sentence or phrase containing many words,
might have thousands of meanings. Could you elaborate more on this.
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Hasan Elias:
Thank Firouz for the information, I
found it very interesting.
Dear Hasan,
But do you agree with such an
interpretation of Quran to prove that speed of light is indirectly mentioned in
this holy book, or similar claims from other holy scriptures?
Regards
The following from http://www.answers.com is quite interesting to read
called The great disappointment.
http://tinyurl.com/7s9do
or
http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4dsid=deid=830797945nogray
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those affected in those countries too.
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to become a Baha'i in my late
teens.
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a fatwa based on his own understanding of Islam. Many times
these fatwas are very contradictory.
Just some thoughts.
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The question under discussion is what should be done in those societies or
countries where there is shortage of women, i.e a solution for today's
China!
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for robbery, or beheading a person for some crime is following
Islam to its best of Shariah. Are these considered best in todays world?
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and even at the time of Baha'u'llah there were
spiritual Muslims and Christians. Even today there are some spiritual people
among the followers of all the past religions. But we are talking about
mainstream as you mentioned.
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do not assume that Baha'is hate Muslims.
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find a wife in China today, specially among
poorer Chinese families.
How about exporting some Chinese men to those societies where there is
shortage of men? ;-)
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I would like to thank you for your explanation. I do always enjoy reading
what you have to say. Very enlightening indeed. Thanks also for explaining
about imma ya/tiyannakum
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Dear FriendsAny thoughts on the following two quotations would be much
appreciated.
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"In the treasuries of the knowledge of God there lieth concealed a
knowledge which, when applied, will largely, though not wholly, eliminate
fear. This knowledge, however, should be t
Gilberto:
Yes. For example, there were Christian abolitionists before the
Babi/Bahai faith banned slavery. So human beings were able to look at
the institution of slavery, and applying basic moral principles were
able to see that slavery was a bad thing which should be changed.
Firouz:
Based
see no reference to Institution of
Guardianship in K42.
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is that Universal House of Justice will be established
without a Guardian. I have not seen any Writing from Baha'u'llah to indicate
that one of the Aghsan should be a member of the House of Justice or any other
relationship between Aghsan and the House.
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of
superstitions and nonsense man-made teachings but no one can conclude that
such teachings are from Buddha. Actually some branches of Mahayan Buddhism
indeed believe in God.
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f Baha'u'llah) which the Will and
Testament stipulated a Guardian had to be.
As far as I understand Baha'u'llah never mentions about the
Institution of Guardian. Abdu'l-Baha created this institution and I guess it was
meant to be temporary.
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is ultimately the Word of God and whatever He reveals is
such only secondarily.
Yes that's true but it also depends on how one interprets it. I am sure you
well know about the Tablet of Jamal Brujerdi where Baha'u'llah explains
about His stations.
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but I don't
know of a place where it declares itself immune from criticism.
Firouz:
Baha'u'llah also challenges people to come up a verse like what Baha'u'llah
has revealed and goes further and allows them to assist each other:
O people, if ye deny these verses, by what proof hath ye believed in God
Dear Firouz,
I never read that passage that way. I thought He was asking them to come up
with proof they believed in God, not come up with better verses.
warmest, Susan
Dear Susan,
I remember long long time back when I was living in Dubaiwe had a
deepening class about Tablet of Ahmad
Janine:
It could be that at a young age this woman recognised
the purity and specialness of the Prophet and was
therefore very willing to marry Him.
Should the Prophet marry any girl (no matter what age) who would like to get
married to Him?
regards,
Firouz
Firouz:
[ My understanding of Omniscient in Law-i-Hikmat refers to His divine
station. Baha'u'llah in His Divine station is God and Omniscient but in
His
Physical station He had His physical limitations similar to all of us.
That's why He read books and newspapers.
Susan:
Yeah, but what does
In studying the Writings, we should not take a single verse on its
own, but rather take a wide selection of the writings.
Dear Firouz,
I would take this to mean that sometimes Baha'u'llah accessed books
supernaturally and other times He did so the old fashion way. In other words,
most
understanding I do agree with most of
what he has to say about the infallibility of the House.
I do appreciate to read what you have to say on the same
subject. Thanks so much for sharing your ideas.
Why the House does not write anything about this
subject?
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and it's the source of all good but still there is a distinction
between a decision being infallible and a decision being the source of all
good.
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Susan:
"Exactly. And we do need to keep in mind that Ruhi wasn't designed for us,
it was designed to consolidate mass enrollments."
Dear Susan,
Why then are we encouraged and sometimes sort of forced to
enroll for these courses? Is it just to increase statistics?
Regar
a number of counselors who
have sacrificed so many things for the Faith and are the essence of love,
knowledge, and humility. But I suppose not all counselors are the same.
Again I would agree with you in many respects.
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what you think about it.
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have been doing a great job. To me it shows
stupidity of a decision by an LSA to require all children class teachers to
pass Book 3 or now a days Book 5.
It would be similar to tell a Baha'i Teacher not to teach the Faith unless
he/she has finished book 2 and book 6.
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such a concept that I
consider is not really healthy for the progress of the Faith.
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basically religious. I suppose at the same time governments will continue
providing charitable institutions for those needy ones.
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of Buddhism, etc. But for now
I was told that we should stick to books 1 - 7 that we have.
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your comments on this topic as it
has always been a controversialquestion for me specially after Islamic
revolution in Iran.
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have been right all these
years. Anyway this is not yet so clear for me, I need to study much more to
understand what sort of government a Baha'i state in some distant future
would have.
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his young 9
years old daughter to a rich man almost the same age as himself?
I believe there are so many laws in Shariah which are not compatible with
democracy.
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rights to follow freely what Islam teaches. I
am not sure what is your understanding of a good Islamic country.
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Islamic governments and Islamic parties say that they are just accountable
to God not to people.
Dear Firouz,
Don't we say the same thing about own institutions?
warmest, Susan
Dear Susan,
Yes, The Universal House of Justice is accountable to God on religious
matters but not on political matters
Dear Firouz,
I don't really see any clear distinction between religion and politics in
the Baha'i Teachings either accept that matters of legislation rest with
our
elected Assemblies, not the Learned. Abdu'l-Baha insisted that the clergy
should be separate from the state, but Baha'u'llah placed
not win the election. They will create hell for
their Sunni brothers. Sunnis in Iraq know this well and that's why the
majority of Sunnis are boycotting the election. Actually Sistani is one of
the few clergy who is in favor of separation of religion from politics.
regards,
Firouz
trying to find
more and more recruits to start new Ruhi book 1 book 2, etc. I haven't seen any
enrollment this year and no teaching going on here.
regards,
Firouz
Well, there's the rub Hasan. Here in the US our enrollment rates have
been steadily decreasing as Ruhi is being implemented
Ronald Stephens:
But the theory of the ether was disproven by a specific scientific
experiment, the Michelson-Morley experiment. It is virtually impossible that
this could be overturned.
Firouz:
Just a few months ago I read in some American Science Journal that the
theory of ether could
always consult and provide our
feedback to the House in order for them to make the best decision. If we do
not do our job properly, the House would not be in a position to provide the
best advice for us. We Baha'i grassroots should play more proactive roles in
our Baha'i life.
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Firouz
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