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I read dear Gilberto's letter:
khazeh:
> *** The Revelation of Baha'u'llah ... abrogates none of the religions
> that have preceded it,
Gilberto:
> >>What do you mean by "abrogate" here? There are certainly Bahais who
> >>have given the clear impression that the Bahai faith abrogated the
> >>Babi faith and that the Babi faith abrogated Islam.<<
Mark:
> "Abrogation" refers to legislation.
Gilberto:
I'm asking khazeh what he meant. [Gilberto]
Dear Gilberto, My dear Gilberto, I have no specific meaning or intention.
Together we can explore the texts as to what the Author meant. But my method
is perhaps slightly different in that I go back iteratively to the text and
hope heuristically the text to help us. In just the same way more or less as
you [dear Gilberto have certain principles of Islam established in your
mind]. So I can look again at these three central passages.
NUMBER ONE
The verb ABROGATE here has connotations [family of meaning] with the verb
OUST [in the first of the three passages]
The Faith standing identified with the name of Baha'u'llah disclaims any
intention to BELITTLE ANY OF THE PROPHETS GONE BEFORE HIM, TO WHITTLE DOWN
ANY OF THEIR TEACHINGS, to obscure, however slightly, the radiance of their
Revelations, to oust them from the hearts of their followers, TO ABROGATE
THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THEIR DOCTRINES, TO DISCARD ANY OF THEIR REVEALED BOOKS,
OR TO SUPPRESS THE LEGITIMATE ASPIRATIONS OF THEIR ADHERENTS. Repudiating
the claim of any religion to be the final revelation of God to man,
disclaiming finality for His own Revelation, Baha'u'llah inculcates the
basic principle of the relativity of religious truth, the continuity of
Divine Revelation, the progressiveness of religious experience. HIS AIM IS
TO WIDEN THE BASIS OF ALL REVEALED RELIGIONS AND TO UNRAVEL THE MYSTERIES OF
THEIR SCRIPTURES. He insists on the unqualified recognition of the unity of
their purpose, restates the eternal verities they enshrine, coordinates
their functions, distinguishes the essential and the authentic from the
nonessential and spurious in their teachings, separates the God-given truths
from the priest-prompted superstitions, and on this as a basis proclaims the
possibility, and even prophecies the inevitability, of their unification,
and the consummation of their highest hopes.
(Shoghi Effendi: The Promised Day is Come, Page: 108)
The other TTWO PASSAGES follow
I beg you with all affection, humility, and genuineness of purpose, and
purity of intention that we look at the above and the other two carefully,
attentively, and openly.
The Promise of God in 29:69 is undoubted
029.069
YUSUFALI: And those who strive in Our cause,- WE WILL CERTAINLY GUIDE THEM
TO OUR PATHS: For verily God is with those who do right.
PICKTHAL: As for those who strive in Us, WE SURELY GUIDE THEM TO OUR PATHS,
and lo! God is with the good.
SHAKIR: And as for those who strive hard for Us, We will most certainly
guide them in Our ways; and God is most surely with the doers of good.
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