Thursday, 24 March 2016

DECONSTRUCTING AND RECONSTRUCTING THE SHARI'A:

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...

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...