Dear David: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, David Friedman wrote: > Dear Sandra, > > >As for bathing, it appears to me that Baha'u'llah is actually > >endorsing what we now call a "shower". The (nearly) bottom > >line of this passage is: > > > >"If the bather, instead of entering the water, wash himself by > >*pouring it upon his body*, it shall be better for him and > >shall *absolve* him of the need for bodily *immersion*." > > Yes, but isn't that talking about the foul water from the Persian baths? I > don't see clean water showers as having anything to do with what Baha'u'llah > is talking about there. > -------------- Sandra is correct. The part about the fetid Persian baths is just a parenthetical sentence. The "it" in "pouring it upon his body" refers to "water" i.e., the kind of water that He wants you to bathe in, not the kind of malodorous dirty water that He wants you to avoid.
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