On 5/5/06, Tim Nolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Janine,
> He feels that the Bahai faith is just a
> reiteration of Islam, nothing new.
I don't like absolute claims and so I probably wouldn't say that there
is *nothing* new. But the Bahai faith and the Babi faiths definitely
had antecedents within Islam. (most immediately, there was the Shaykhi
movement for instance) The Bahai faith didn't spring out of a vacuum.
The Baha'i Faith has an explicit, written
Covenant, which preserves the unity
of the Baha'is. Islam doesn't have this, which is > why there are rival
Islamic factions.
Even during the lifetime of the prophet there were differences of
opinion and understanding, but Muhammad (saaws) was tolerant enough to
allow for that. It is only human to see things from different
perspectives. And Bahais definitely differ among themselves.
The Baha'i Covenant also provides a source of
continuing, unerring divine
guidance, after the Founder is no longer
physically present.
Why does the guidance have to be "unerring"?
Baha'u'llah forbids religious warfare, Muhammad
did not forbid this.
The Bahai writings allow for something called "righteous warfare" and
I've never heard a convincing explanation for how it is significantly
different from other just war theories in a moral sense.
-G
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