Iskandar Hai, M.D. wrote:
Dear Janine,
In a sense he is right that the Baha'i Faith is a re-iteration of Islam
but then in that sense the Baha'i Faith is a re-iteration of Judaism,
Christianity, etc., as we believe that the foundation of all religions is
one. The essential and fundamental tenets of all faiths are the same. They
all teach one creator God, and they all teach love and fellowship, etc.,
and they all prohibit murder and theft, etc., etc. In that sense Islam is
a re-iteration of the religion of Abraham, of Moses, of Jesus, etc., etc.
There is much more here than meets the eye of 'man'. The 'Word' of God
is an active force IMHO.
Without recognition of the active force it is a 'dead letter'.
"Consider at all times the sovereignty exercised by the Ideal King, and
behold the evidences of His
power and paramount influence. Sanctify your ears from the idle talk of
them that are the symbols of
denial and the exponents of violence and anger. The hour is approaching
when ye will witness the
power of the one true God triumphing over all created things and the
signs of His sovereignty
encompassing all creation. On that day ye will discover how all else
besides Him will have been
forgotten and come to be regarded as utter nothingness.
It should, however, be borne in mind that God and His Manifestation can,
under no circumstances,
be dissociated from the loftiness and sublimity which They inherently
possess. Nay, loftiness and
sublimity are themselves the creations of His Word, if ye choose to see
with My sight not with yours."
(Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 72)
"Praise be unto Thee, O my God! Thou art He Who by a word of His mouth
hath revolutionized
the entire creation, and by a stroke of His pen hath divided Thy
servants one from another. I bear
witness, O my God, that through a word spoken by Thee in this Revelation
all created things were
made to expire, and through yet another word all such as Thou didst wish
were, by Thy grace
and bounty, endued with new life" (Baha'u'llah, Prayers and Meditations
by Baha'u'llah, p. 42}
Thus, IMHO, much more than a simple re-iteration is at work here. Only
one who is fixated
with the letters on a page would come to the conclusion that a
Manifestation is just re-iterating
what He said before. A believer is a lover. Not being able to recognize
the language of love is
a proof of no longer being a lover."Be thou assured in thyself that
verily, he who turns away
from this Beauty hath also turned away from the Messengers of the past
and showeth pride
towards god from all eternity to all eternity" [Baha'u'llah]
Albert
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