I have found it useful to think about this passage from the Gospel.
It isn't as specific as the words of the Guardian, but it's worth
remembering:
John 91 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or
I don't know if this is helpful but I wrote this as a piece on the problem of theodicy some time back. The diseases and afflictions have changed over the centuries. As our understanding of the disease process improves and newer treatments are initiated, we get better results. What appeared to be a
Regarding illness, consider Baha'u'llah's Tablet of Wisdom in the
Tablets of Baha'u'llah where He states, Nature is God's Will and is
its expression in and through the contingent world. Disease is part of
the natural world, and when linked with contingency, you have a crap
shoot. It makes no
In God Passes By, Shoghi Effendi explains that the Vazir Haji Mirza Aqasi
engineered the banishment of the Bab to the remotest outreaches in
northwest Persia. However, this isolation that the plot of the Vazir
brought about, actually allowed the Bab uninterrupted time to develop His
Faith.
My second question derives from the same sentence of the Guardian, in
which he describes the fruit of the Bab's three-year banishment to the
mountains of Adhirbayjan:
Little did he [Aqasi] imagine that the very isolation he was forcing upon
his Prisoner would enable Him to evolve the System
