your own
hands have fashioned! ' Baha'u'llah quoting Muhammad quoted by (Shoghi
Effendi, Messages to the Indian Subcontinent, p. 434)
Dominus vobiscum.
Richard.
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From: Gilberto Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
joining partners with God or shirk is used a bit more
joining partners with God or shirk is used a bit more generally than
that. For example it would also include ascribing attributes of God to
beings other than God. (So from a Muslim view, the typical Christian
understanding of the Incarnation). Also the Trinity (arguably)
constitutes a certain kind
It is my understanding that this phrase, joining partners with God,
means making someone God's equal. In Section XCIV of the Gleanings,
Baha'u'llah addresses this subject.
In the Hidden Words O Companion of My Throne, I personally think it is
Baha'u'llah addressing His followers
Dear Brent
You wrote:
'In the Hidden Words O Companion of My Throne, I personally think it is
Baha'u'llah addressing His followers. There are different ways of
viewing a companion to the throne. One way would be that someone is
seated on the throne with Him, but I have never viewed it this
The phrase joining partners with God is an Islamic term originally, and is
often interpreted to mean a belief that people should pray to Prophets,
Angels, Messengers to get closer to God, instead of approaching God
directly. It is condemned in the Qur'an as the only sin that God would not
forgive
The phrase joining partners with God is an Islamic term originally, and is
often interpreted to mean a belief that people should pray to Prophets,
Angels, Messengers to get closer to God, instead of approaching God
directly.
More often it refers to idolatry.
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throne
would indicate to me the position, not the Person.
campanion comes from the latin for sharing bread.
were the disciples partners in the Station of Christ,
or the infallible Guardian may be alluding to this definrtion of companion:
Companion - A term applied to a certain grade of
They did acknowledge a vague supreme
Deity, called Allah; but they joined partners with Him, lesser
deities called al ilahat -- the goddesses; Muhammad's teaching was
La ilaha illa'llah -- There is no ilah but Allah. This reminds us of
Acts 17:23: Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare
susan,
thank you. my woeful ignorance has nme recalling sadiq likeweis emenaing
friend and deriving from a tri-consonental for true.
can u give me a handle on the permutational path?
i have of late been deeply concerned with this issue--that if there is no
truth, there is no friend. and
On 3/22/08, firestorm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
susan,
thank you. my woeful ignorance has nme recalling sadiq likeweis emenaing
friend and deriving from a tri-consonental for true.
Yes, that's another root. Sadiq means righteous. But the term here is rafiq.
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Fellow Baha'is,
Please read the following from the Persian Hidden Words:
44. O COMPANION OF MY THRONE!
Hear no evil, and see no evil, abase not thyself, neither sigh and weep. Speak
no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the
faults of others that thine own
To whom do you think O COMPANION OF MY THRONE refers?
We are warned many times in the Writings to not join partners with God.
Would not a COMPANION OF HIS THRONE be at least a minor partner?
Therefore, I am thinking that this Persian Hidden Word #44 must be addressed
to the Blessed Beauty.
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