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I read this written by dear Mark** What can be said is that some of the NT writers apparently believed that prophets, as they understood the concept, would continue. (There is a debate among the various Christianities as to how long that would occur. Some believe that prophecy, like tongues, ended with the canonization of "the Bible.") These "Prophets" were expected to operate within a Christocentric context. In other words, just as Islam is Qur'anocentric, most of the Christianities are Christocentric.** I liked what Mark has written. The Holy Qur'an and the Bible are my favourite Books [apart from the Holy Writings of this Revelation]. I read them a lot. In relation to the Holy Qur'an, some Passages [more than a third] are everlasting in their implications. They infuse the soul with God's Presence, God's Personality, His Attributes. Who cannot be moved by such a verse to the end of his or her life: 2: 186 AND IF My servants ask thee about Me - behold, I am near; I respond to the call of him who calls, whenever he calls unto Me: let them, then, respond unto Me, and believe in Me, so that they might follow the right way. 002.186 YUSUFALI: When My servants ask thee concerning Me, I am indeed close (to them): I listen to the prayer of every suppliant when he calleth on Me: Let them also, with a will, Listen to My call, and believe in Me: That they may walk in the right way. The peoples of the World did CALL for the Promised One. In Islam they said: O God hasten His Coming. Imam Al-Mahdi [Ajjal God Ta'ala Farajahu Sharif - May God approach His Appearance] In Christianity they prayed: "Thy Kingdom Come." There are other verses nearly less than a third that talk about the Events of the Latter Day, the Great Yawm, Yawm al Az.eem. THE DAY OF THE TWO TRUMPET BLASTS. *** 039.068 YUSUFALI: The Trumpet will (just) be sounded, when all that are in the heavens and on earth will swoon, except such as it will please God (to exempt). THEN WILL A SECOND ONE BE SOUNDED, when, behold, they will be standing and looking on! PICKTHAL: And the trumpet is blown, and all who are in the heavens and all who are in the earth swoon away, save him whom God willeth. Then it is blown a second time, and behold them standing waiting! SHAKIR: And the trumpet shall be blown, so all those that are in the heavens and all those that are in the earth shall swoon, except such as God please; then it shall be blown again, then lo! they shall stand up awaiting. 039.069 YUSUFALI: And the Earth will shine with the Glory of its Lord: PICKTHAL: And the earth shineth with the light of her Lord, THEN WILL A SECOND ONE BE SOUNDED referring to Baha'u'llah as innumerable Bahai students have discovered themselves on reflection. The third part of the Holy Book of the Qur'an refers to temporal events at the time of the Prophet which have some signification some lesson for humanity. http://www.geocities.com/masad02/066.html The Message of the Quran Muhammad Asad AT-TAHRIM (PROHIBITION) THE SIXTY-SIXTH SURAH Total Verses: 12 MEDINA PERIOD IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE: (1) O PROPHET! Why dost thou, out of a desire to please [one or another of] thy wives, impose [on thyself] a prohibition of something that God has made lawful to thee? 1 But God is much-forgiving, a dispenser of grace: (2) God has already enjoined upon you [O believers] the breaking and expiation of [such of] your oaths [as may run counter to what is right and just]: 2 for, God is your Lord Supreme, and He alone is all-knowing, truly wise. Now it is clear that this Holy Sura refers to specific events, specific situations, specific circumstances. Or the Sura 80 The Message of the Quran Muhammad Asad 'ABASA (HE FROWNED) THE EIGHTIETH SURAH Total Verses: 42 MECCA PERIOD Introduction REVEALED at a very early stage of the Prophet's mission, this surah has always been designated by the predicate with which its first sentence opens. The immediate cause of the revelation of the first ten verses was an incident witnessed by a number of the Prophet's contemporaries (see verses 1-2 and the corresponding note 1 below). IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF GRACE: 80: 1 HE FROWNED and turned away 80: 2 because the blind man approached him!* http://www.geocities.com/masad02/080.html In His Will and Testament the Book of His Covenant Baha'u'llah reveals: The aim of this Wronged One in sustaining woes and tribulations, in revealing the Holy Verses and in demonstrating proofs hath been naught but to quench the flame of hate and enmity, that the horizon of the hearts of men may be illumined with the light of concord and attain real peace and tranquillity (Baha'u'llah: Tablets of Baha'u'llah, Page: 219) __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, use subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu/read/?forum=bahai-st News - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
