The Baha'i Faith: The Emerging Global ReligionBaha'i Publishing, 2002 - 253 pages Explore the history, teachings, structure and community life of the world-wide Baha'i community-what may well be the most diverse organized body of people on earth-through this revised and updated comprehensive introduction (2002). Named by the Encyclopedia Britannica as a book that has made "significant contributions to the knowledge and understanding" of religious thought, The Baha'i Faith covers the most recent developments in a faith that, in just over 150 years, has grown to become the second most wide-spread of the independent world religions. |
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Page 63
... hath not obeyed God ; he that turneth away from him hath turned away from God and he that denieth him hath denied the True One . Beware lest anyone falsely interpret these words , and like unto them that have broken the Covenant after ...
... hath not obeyed God ; he that turneth away from him hath turned away from God and he that denieth him hath denied the True One . Beware lest anyone falsely interpret these words , and like unto them that have broken the Covenant after ...
Page 103
... hath taken his flight unto the Con- course on high ! And how often hath a devout believer , at the hour of his soul's ascension , been so changed as to fall into the nether- most fire ! Our purpose in revealing these convincing and ...
... hath taken his flight unto the Con- course on high ! And how often hath a devout believer , at the hour of his soul's ascension , been so changed as to fall into the nether- most fire ! Our purpose in revealing these convincing and ...
Page 134
... hath ebbed and the Book of My Revelation is ended , turn your faces towards Him [ ' Abdu'l - Bahá ] Whom God hath purposed , Who hath branched from this Ancient Root . " " . . . refer ye whatsoever ye understand not in the Book to Him ...
... hath ebbed and the Book of My Revelation is ended , turn your faces towards Him [ ' Abdu'l - Bahá ] Whom God hath purposed , Who hath branched from this Ancient Root . " " . . . refer ye whatsoever ye understand not in the Book to Him ...
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