The Bahá'í Faith: The Emerging Global ReligionHarper & Row, 1984 - 226 pages Grandpa tells his two young houseguests a story about his own childhood when he was scared at bedtime. |
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Page 67
... political system with which they were famil- iar . On the contrary : Bahá'u'lláh had appeared in Persia not be- cause of any cultural superiority that nation possessed , but because of its profound moral degradation . Similarly , his ...
... political system with which they were famil- iar . On the contrary : Bahá'u'lláh had appeared in Persia not be- cause of any cultural superiority that nation possessed , but because of its profound moral degradation . Similarly , his ...
Page 160
... POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT Yet another law upon which Bahá'u'lláh placed great emphasis is the requirement that his followers strictly abstain from political involvement of any kind . At a first glance , one might expect to find the members ...
... POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT Yet another law upon which Bahá'u'lláh placed great emphasis is the requirement that his followers strictly abstain from political involvement of any kind . At a first glance , one might expect to find the members ...
Page 161
... political action , which is necessarily partisan and divisive in nature , cannot hold the answers to problems that are universal in their very essence . All political instruments , he pointed out , are limited and particular , whether ...
... political action , which is necessarily partisan and divisive in nature , cannot hold the answers to problems that are universal in their very essence . All political instruments , he pointed out , are limited and particular , whether ...
Contents
The Bábí Faith | 6 |
Baháulláh | 28 |
The Succession to Leadership | 50 |
Copyright | |
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