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David,
Perhaps we are confusing humility with taraf, which can only be understood in the
context of Persian culture. Humility and taraf are not exactly the same.
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, in spite of that, we can certainly try to understand each other's cultures
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sensitive to Mirza Abu'l Fadl's cultural sensibilities. Of course, `Abdu'l-Baha, not
Mirza Abu'l Fadl, was out Exemplar. As the Master was sensitive to a person's cultural
sensibilities, so should we.
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unity. However, the unqualified use of the phrase, all religions are one, reflects a
absence of critical thinking.
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is to encourage an
unrepentant questioning attitude, one which I try to practice myself. There is
nothing, in my view, that should not be subject to deconstruction.
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prophecies) or will (decreed prophecies) occur. The full or partial
veiling may prevent complete understanding until after the prophecy, or a portion of
the prophecy (as in the case of prophetic types), has been fulfilled and explained
by the Prophet or His successors.
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in prophecy, I bought him a copy of _Some
Answered Questions_.
Few prophecies, especially biblical number prophecies, have obvious explanations.
You have to *make* them fit.
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to Weber's formal
or instrumental rationality (Zweckrationalitäet).
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), that the dead (those who are not in Christ) should
bury the dead (this man's father who was both physically and spiritually dead). In
other words, it may have been an example of double entendre.
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or a parable. However, either way, I think the point of the story is
to convey the urgency of spreading the Gospel of the Kingdom. Those who were not
Christians (the dead) had time for burying bodies. This man, who was a Christian, did
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, there is no universal requirement. However, the review systems in
different countries may have their own policies.
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rank is not dependent on one's role.
I agree - except for martyrdom.
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associated with those conditions. However, even if, heaven knows why, one
restricts it to administrators, I am not convinced that this was Grossmann's point.
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Araya is one of several people involved in Ken Wilber's integralism movement. Here is
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, October 2, 1951, and cited:
Lights of Guidance, p.630
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Don,
At 08:39 AM 1/17/2004, you wrote:
If a rank order is to be insisted upon, I would say he has it backwards.
That is my impression, too.
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So to me, a true Bahai administrator does display the same characteristic of
devotion and consecration as a martyr does.
Perhaps to some degree, but does that rank an administrator three or four levels above
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Thanks. I ordered the book and added the website to my liberal Islam links page:
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http://www.cbc.ca/national/
There is also this brief bio:
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I just watched the complete The National newscast from the CBC (RealVideo). Irshad
Manji is briefly shown at the end of the newscast (an excerpt from her commentary
earlier in the week). Following that, a few letters are read from viewers responding
to her positions.
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didn't use nonmarital sexual
relations or even fornication?
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Max,
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The laws on adultery in Aqdas and their relevant punishments are for non-married
people only.
In order to qualify as adultery, at least one of the parties has to be married.
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On the unity of religions, I believe Abdul-Baha talks about the unity of foundation
of religions, as you know.
I agree. There is a oneness of truth, irrespective of the immediate source, not a
unity of contemporary religions.
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that Baha'u'llah came to unite
all religions. In response, I pointed out what, to me, appeared to be the absurdity of
that position. However, I then discussed how there should be a unity in diversity,
within the Baha'i community, between those with differing nonessential beliefs.
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teachings, which may change from one
Dispensation to the next.
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Beyond that, Mark did not make it clear what he meant by unity of religions.
IMO, there is no such thing as the unity of religions.
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be refuted. I have never had
much of a problem doing it myself! However, I accept His interpretations, not because
I am persuaded by them, but because I recognize His authority to make them.
Aside from that, I try to avoid prophecy as a proof of the Baha'i Revelation.
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. In all of his translations, they have been removed.
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those who do *not* attend AA meetings have a better success rate in abstaining from
alcohol than those who do. Also, the AA view that an alcoholic must never again drink
or risk relapse, however admirable that might be from a Baha'i perspective, has not
been supported.
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Ahang,
At 05:25 PM 12/14/2003 -0500, you wrote:
By the way it's available in English, though I don't recall the translator(s).
It is translated by Franz Rosenthal. I have a copy in my library.
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of the Guardianship is not necessarily the same as
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We are not left high and dry.
Of course, I never said were were left high and dry. However, the Baha'i Covenant,
as the House has explained, is not dependent on the continuance of the Guardianship.
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by all the Prophets.
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In rare instances.
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any reasonable person can (and should) refute.
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-Baha was reported to have used this
phrase, He generally did so in connection with something like the foundation of
Without a qualifier, this term is, IMO, nonsensical.
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understanding the principle rather easy and useful.
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Richard,
At 01:00 PM 12/10/2003 -0800, you wrote:
Or at the very least, explain its meaning, as you very competently did.
Thanks, or at least my understanding of it.
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Hi, Faruq,
To my understanding, the basic definition of Tilawat is to follow. Its use as a
reference to reading or chanting is similar to the English expression, Follow along
with me as we read.
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melodrama, here...
I think that Don made a good point about similarities to interpretive reading. I once
judged a student interpretive reading competition. Some of them were quite good.
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However, the Prayer for the Dead is a congregational obligatory prayer. Salat does not
include du`a or munajat (regular prayer).
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. Do you have those dictionaries?
Here is a web source:
Tilawat means to follow close/come after. When we read (do tilawat) we follow the
sequence of ideas and notions presented in what is read.
http://www.free-minds.org/articles/quranic/salat_mirghani.htm
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to the reverential reading, or chanting, of a Holy Book.
Literally, it translates as walking behind or following (someone).
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Susan,
At 12:20 AM 12/8/2003 -0500, you wrote:
You might think of it as reciting in the sense of 're-cite.'
In the sense of dhikr or zakkar (adhkar)?
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with the capacity required for so great and far-reaching a change.
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society?
There are several contenders, ranging from the disciples of
Avicenna ('Ibn SInA) to those of MullA SadrA, to the 'irfAnI (gnostic) teachings of
Shaykh 'Ibn ArabI (i.e., Akbarianism). However, I don't think anyone knows for sure.
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that true wisdom (Arabic, hikmat) was derived from a
combination of reason and intuition.
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If you ever want to put your translations on a web site, I would be willing to create
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individual believer
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Susan,
Actually, that statement was not exactly what you had been looking for. I will try
again.
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area?
I don't think we can always determine the reasons for events. Sometimes the best we
can do is to try to learn from them and to react virtuously.
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of science in its own magisterium or
office. However, looking back at my message, I didn't phrase it very well.
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race),
and, at other times, we mean a particular segment of that population, i.e., as defined
by the social construction of physical traits. Likewise, the common sense of species
is a biologically distinct population.
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Badi,
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The Mandaeanism emerged of the esoteric Judaism and Abraham is the predecessor of
the primitive Judaism.
Yes, and in the Kitab-i-Badi, Baha'u'llah refers to John the Baptist as the founder of
the Sabi'In/baptist (Mandaean) religion.
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Jim,
At 10:49 AM 10/12/03 -0500, you wrote:
Mark, you wrote my name at the beginning of your previous post, but I couldn't find
anything in it addressed to me. Did I miss something?
I was replying to this message from you:
http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist/m40393.html
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Susan,
At 04:04 PM 10/10/03 -0400, you wrote:
Love and Estrangement with the Baha'i community
That is one of the books I was thinking about in the first category. It is, of course,
not academic, and it also avoids specifics (probably unavoidably).
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not as comfortable or secure to the fundamentalist or
neo-evangelical looking for an easy believism or instant Christianity. However, it
is biblical.
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to Baha'i texts. Of course, there would need to be some modifications based
on their substantiated authorships.
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non-Christians will be instantaneously
consumed in a lake of fire. There is no Jehovah's Witness doctrine of eternal
hellfire, as understood by most Christian fundamentalists and neo-evangelicals.
Do you know of a denomination which believes that only 144,000 will be saved?
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David,
At 07:09 AM 9/29/03 +, you wrote:
They give their membership as 144,000, which is obviously absurd, but I think I
know where they got that number from.
Yes, the BUPC bases it on the Book of Revelation and on the additive value of the
individual digits (9).
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Don,
Moses Berg
Correction, either David Berg or Moses David, but not Moses Berg. He actually used
both names.
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of two things: verbal inerrancy (or verbal
inspiration) and a rejection of context (that letters written to Corinth and Ephesus
are meant for all of us, for instance).
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year) sociology
university or college students, through Kendall-Hunt, with two of my colleagues. It is
now going into its second printing. In fact, I just received my first pay check from
them (not much unfortunately).
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was what you meant.
You are using the term literalism differently than I am.
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