THE BĀBI AND BAHĀ’I SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM OF IMMUTABILITY*
For well over a century now, Muslims have struggled in countless ways to
reinterpret, protect, deconstruct, modernize or stabilize their faith in
response to sometimes overwhelming pressures from an outside world intent on
ceaseless material and social adventure. A majority have opted for a broadly
conservative stance that tolerates...
Thursday, 24 March 2016
Bayan-i-Farsi (Translation) Chapter One
EXORDIUM. TRANSLATION
In the Name of God, the Inaccessible, the Most Holy. Praise and sanctification are due to the regal substance of holiness, glory, and majesty, Who has existed eternally and will continue to exist in the being of His own Essence, Who has always been and always will be exalted in His own eternity, far above the comprehension of all things. He did not create the sign of His...
Bayan-i-Farsi (Translation) Chapter Two
Chapter Two, Section One
In explanation of the recognition of the Proof and the Evidence. The substance of this chapter is that God, the Knowing, glorified be His station, sends down His Proof in every dispensation according to whatever is the highest degree of exaltation wherein the people of that dispensation pride themselves. Thus, for example, in the time when the Qur’ān was sent down, all...
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