Are there other passages in the Bahai writings which also use
extremely superlative terms to describe either the highest of virtues
or the worst of sins, but they are talking about something other than
honesty on the one hand, or lying on the other?
"The worst human quality and the most great sin is backbiting."
--'Abdu'l-Baha, cited in J.E. Esslemont, "Baha'u'llah and the New
Era," p. 83.
-Gilberto
On 7/19/06, Michael Alcorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Consider that the worst of qualities and most odious of attributes, which is
the foundation of all evil, is lying. No worse or more blameworthy quality
than this can be imagined to exist; it is the destroyer of all human
perfections, and the cause of innumerable vices. There is no worse
characteristic than this; it is the foundation of all evils. Notwithstanding
all this, if a doctor consoles a sick man by saying: "Thank God you are
better, and there is hope of your recovery," though these words are contrary
to the truth, yet they may become the consolation of the patient and the
turning-point of the illness. This is not blameworthy.
(Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith - Abdu'l-Baha Section, p. 321)
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Subject: Re: Unity and Truth
I'm trying to see if it
is possible to come up with a formulation which is an accurate
description of the Bahai attitude on this subject.
-Gilberto
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