Re: Recommendation of Roy Mottahedeh's Introduction on jurisprudence

2006-04-24 Thread smaneck
sometimes it is the contrast between Islamic law > and > Baha'u'llah's approach, or how jurisprudential terms of art are > used in > Islam and the Baha'i Faith, that would clarify and provide > perspective on > Baha'i law for the friends. Dear Brent, How would you describe those difference

Re: Mashriqu'l-Adkhar

2006-04-24 Thread Ehsan Bayat
Dear Susan,   thank you for enlightening me, i was not aware. best wishes Ehsan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Ehsan, I would be real careful about using Sen McGlinn's essays on the Mashriqu'lAdkar as sources. As you may well be aware the Sen McGlinn is no longer considered a Baha'i and his tr

Re: Mashriqu'l-Adkhar

2006-04-24 Thread smaneck
Dear Ehsan, I would be real careful about using Sen McGlinn's essays on the Mashriqu'lAdkar as sources. As you may well be aware the Sen McGlinn is no longer considered a Baha'i and his treatment of the Mashriq has been condemned in the April 7, 1999 letter from the Universal House of Justic

Re: Pigeon memory

2006-04-24 Thread Hasan Elias
Does anyone is surprised that the Master compared the memory of pigeon with men? or that a octopus has 3 times the neurons of men?Hasan Elias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: 'Abdu'l-Bahá said:   The human reality discovered and brought them out from the plane of the invisible to the plane

Re: Whoso claimeth a revelation direct from God, seers, poets, etc.

2006-04-24 Thread Hasan Elias
David Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Good points.  I now see there isn't any room for that possibility.   //   Hi David, I don't see this as white and black   But to pretend they [the bahá’ís] are perfect [now], that the Bahá'ís of the future will not be a hundred times

Re: Whoso claimeth a revelation direct from God

2006-04-24 Thread David Friedman
Good points.  I now see there isn't any room for that possibility.Need more speed? Get Xtra Broadband!     The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto ("e-mail") is sent by the Johnson County Community College ("JCCC") and is intended to be confidential and f