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Monthly Archives: September 2008
Our Daily Bread: They Who Know what God Knows
September 14th, 2008 at 4:06 pm » Comments (0)
Today we're having more fun with Bahá'u'lláh's Book of Certitude ... Bahá'u'lláh cites verse 3.7 (3.6 according to some) of the Qur'án twice in his Book of Certitude. Here's how Shoghi ...more »Our Daily Bread: Noah’s Genocidal Prayer
September 13th, 2008 at 1:37 am » Comments (2)
With Hurricane Ike threatening Texas, who better to remind us of the wrath of God then Noah? The Kitáb-i-Íqán tells us that Noah had plenty of time to build his ...more »Our Daily Bread: The Glory of Martyrs
September 11th, 2008 at 9:43 pm » Comments (0)
On this inauspicious date, we'll endure two bloodstained slices in honor of the victims of the Twin Towers, from the Arabic Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh: O SON OF MAN! Ponder and ...more »Our Daily Bread: Uncertainty as Blasphemy
September 10th, 2008 at 11:23 am » Comments (1)
Bahá'u'lláh's Book of Certitude, considered by many Bahá'ís to be his premier work, is primarily concerned with arguing that his predecessor, the Báb, was indeed what he claimed to be: ...more »Our Daily Bread: Zero-sum Salvation
September 9th, 2008 at 4:19 pm » Comments (0)
Salvation, as religions generally have it, is a fundamentally selfish pursuit. One can make a strong case, though, that in Zoroastrianism, personal salvation ultimately depends on world renewal, that is, ...more »Our Daily Bread: Narcissus
September 8th, 2008 at 2:03 pm » Comments (0)
It is evident that, for all of his faults, Bahá'u'lláh had no lack of self-esteem: Would ye laugh to scorn and contend with Him, a single hair of Whose head excelleth, ...more »Gods of Wisdom
September 8th, 2008 at 1:19 pm » Comments (0)
The wise (sophos) is one only. It is unwilling and willing to be called by the name of Zeus. —Heraclitus Zarathashtra worshiped something he called "Lord Wisdom" (Mazda). He called his ...more »Our Daily Bread: From Divorce to Global Prosperity
September 5th, 2008 at 6:29 am » Comments (0)
In the Sura of Women, Gabriel instructs men on marital separation (divorce?): And if a woman fears ill usage or desertion on the part of her husband, there is no blame ...more »Verses from the Cow
September 5th, 2008 at 3:05 am » Comments (0)
Here be Bahá'u'lláh's most commonly cited verses from the Sura of the Cow, his favorite chapter of the Qur’án. Although they had before prayed for victory over those who believed not, ...more »Top Ten Suras
September 5th, 2008 at 1:17 am » Comments (0)
It's official! Here are the top ten suras in the Qur'án, according to Bahá'u'lláh: The following list was compiled by calculating the ratio of citations to each sura in Bahá'u'lláh's writings ...more »