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1 October 2023

• 06:2306:23, 1 October 2023 diff hist +636‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder41 ‎ Created page with "A certain man has been puffed up by learning and has been deprived thereby of My Self-Subsistent Name, and whenever he hears the sound of footsteps behind him, he thinks himself bigger than Nimrod. [note 2] Say: Where is he (Nimrod), O rejected one (al-mardud)? By God, he is certainly in the lowest hell-fire! Say: O assembly of the learned, [note 1] do you not hear the scratching of My Most High Pen? Do you not see the Sun rising from the most splendid (al-abha - from t..."

29 September 2023

• 17:2017:20, 29 September 2023 diff hist +17‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder40/Note1 ‎ Created page with "Lit.: "wretched"." current
• 17:1917:19, 29 September 2023 diff hist +32‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder40 ‎No edit summary current
• 17:1817:18, 29 September 2023 diff hist +35‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder38/Note5 ‎ Created page with "That is, when Baha'u'llah will die." current
• 17:1817:18, 29 September 2023 diff hist +32‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder38 ‎No edit summary current

16 September 2023

• 10:5910:59, 16 September 2023 diff hist +126‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Template ‎No edit summary
• 10:5810:58, 16 September 2023 diff hist +346‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder37/Note4 ‎ Created page with "Baha'u'llah was in Baghdad, Iraq, with his brother Subh-i-Azal from 1852 to 1863, when they were deported to Adrianople, here referred to as the "Land of the Secret", because it was there that the secret of his being a new Manifestation was divulged. Then in 1868 he and his followers were sent to Acre, which he calls "This Illumined Spectacle"." current
• 10:5710:57, 16 September 2023 diff hist +63‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder37/Note3 ‎ Created page with ""Bleating," i.e., the clamour raised by opponents of the Truth." current
• 10:5610:56, 16 September 2023 diff hist +490‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder37/Note2 ‎ Created page with "The word amr means "a command, a thing" and is also used by Baha'is to designate their religion or cause. The meaning here seems to be that anyone who claims command before the end of a thousand years is a false prophet. To prevent someone from appearing after a few years with the claim that he is a new Manifestation, and the interpretation of a "thousand years" as meaning a thousand days or something else, Baha'u'llah insists that the plain meaning of the words is the c..." current
• 10:3310:33, 16 September 2023 diff hist +96‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder37 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3110:31, 16 September 2023 diff hist +227‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder36/Note1 ‎ Created page with "In Islamic land, it is customary to say, "I take refuge in God!" when one expresses horror at the thought of something. The earth would be horrified that a person who did not love Baha'u'llah should pollute it by sitting on it." current
• 10:3010:30, 16 September 2023 diff hist +84‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder36/Note4 ‎ Created page with "Presumably this refers to one of the mystics who claimed to have esoteric knowledge." current
• 10:3010:30, 16 September 2023 diff hist +295‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder36/Note3 ‎ Created page with "The Arabic dictionaries translate this word "deceiver, seducer". But the Persian word ghurur is "pride" and maghrur is "a proud man". Perhaps he has deceived himself into thinking he is something when he is nothing. Baha'u'llah, being a Persian, seems to have used the word in the Persian sense." current
• 10:3010:30, 16 September 2023 diff hist +224‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder36/Note2 ‎ Created page with "On entering a room, people leave their shoes near the door, hence the lowest place near this is called the "row of sandals". Some sitting here hope that the host will say, "Come up higher" and they will thus get more honour." current
• 10:2910:29, 16 September 2023 diff hist +128‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder36 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2810:28, 16 September 2023 diff hist +193‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder35/Note1 ‎ Created page with "Presumably the meaning is that Baha'is are to serve the Cause in such manner that they will not he made sad by the opposition of unbelievers. Perhaps "signs" instead of "verses"; and so often.)" current
• 10:2710:27, 16 September 2023 diff hist +32‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder35 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2610:26, 16 September 2023 diff hist +38‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder30/Note1 ‎ Created page with "By Tablet is probably meant the Aqdas." current
• 10:2610:26, 16 September 2023 diff hist +32‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder30 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2510:25, 16 September 2023 diff hist +85‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder29/Note1 ‎ Created page with "Nine is the numerical equivalent of Baha' (b-2, h-5, a-1, '-1, which add up to nine)." current
• 10:2510:25, 16 September 2023 diff hist +32‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder29 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2310:23, 16 September 2023 diff hist +125‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder24/Note3 ‎ Created page with "Evidently when there are no heirs of the classes mentioned, all the property goes to the House of Justice (see Note 3, p.31)." current
• 10:2310:23, 16 September 2023 diff hist +32‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder24 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2210:22, 16 September 2023 diff hist +21‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder23/Note2 ‎ Created page with "Lit.: "has no heirs."" current
• 10:2210:22, 16 September 2023 diff hist +32‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder23 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1610:16, 16 September 2023 diff hist +305‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder20/Note1 ‎ Created page with "Baha'u'llah says that when he heard the protests of unborn children that they would not get enough of the inheritance, he doubled the amount for children and decreased the amounts for others. He does not state here what the proportion will be, but it is given in a Persian book called Question and Answer." current
• 10:1610:16, 16 September 2023 diff hist +775‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder20/Note2 ‎ Created page with "Baha'u'llah here quotes the law of inheritance given by the Bab. Instead of using numerals he uses the letters of the Arabic alphabet and words from which the numerical value can be derived. The arrangement was for the property of the deceased to be divided into nine unequal parts. Two parts were used for funeral expenses and the balance divided as follows among the heirs: - (1) To Children 9/42 or 540/2520 (2) To Husbands or Wives 8/42 or 480/2520..." current
• 10:1610:16, 16 September 2023 diff hist +64‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder20 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1410:14, 16 September 2023 diff hist −1‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder18/Note1 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1310:13, 16 September 2023 diff hist +43‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder18/Note1 ‎ Created page with " Presumably the place where Baha'u'llah is."
• 10:1310:13, 16 September 2023 diff hist +32‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder18 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1210:12, 16 September 2023 diff hist +53‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder16/Note3 2 ‎ Created page with ""Days of giving," that is, the five intercalary days." current
• 10:1110:11, 16 September 2023 diff hist +231‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder16/Note2 ‎ Created page with "The Arabic letter al-ha', which means "him "or " his ", also has the numerical value of five. It may here refer to Him (God) or to "hospitality". The five days are to be a time of rest and kindness to others before the fast begins." current
• 10:1110:11, 16 September 2023 diff hist +459‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder16/Note1 ‎ Created page with "The arrangement is that, beginning with the Iranian New Year (Nawruz, which usually falls on 21st March), there will be eighteen months of nineteen days each. Then will come the five intercalary days. After them will begin the nineteenth month, the month of fasting. Immediately after it will come the next Nawruz, the feast of the New Year, according to ancient Iranian custom. The Arabic Nayruz is from the Persian Nawruz (cf. E. W. Lane, Lexicon, p. 2783)." current
• 10:1010:10, 16 September 2023 diff hist +776‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder16/Note3 ‎ Created page with "This passage is translated by E.G. Browne in A Traveller's Narrative, p. 423. "From all this it would seem that the restoration of the old Persian solar year in place of the Arabian lunar year; the solemn sanctioning of the great national festival of the Nawruz, which corresponds with the beginning of the solar year, the quickening of the earth after its winter torpor, and the entry of the Sun into the sign of Aries; the division of the year into nineteen months of ninet..." current
• 10:1010:10, 16 September 2023 diff hist +130‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder16 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 16 September 2023 diff hist +122‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder14/Note2 ‎ Created page with "This expression is said to mean sitting on the floor with one's feet crossed under him and his hands resting on his knees." current
• 10:0710:07, 16 September 2023 diff hist +32‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder14 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0610:06, 16 September 2023 diff hist +46‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder13/Note1 ‎ Created page with "It seems that by "Book" the Aqdas is intended." current
• 10:0510:05, 16 September 2023 diff hist +32‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder13 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 16 September 2023 diff hist +214‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder12/Note4 ‎ Created page with "Under certain conditions in Islam group worship, as in the mosque on Friday, is favoured (cf. Qur'an, 62:9 and Wensinck, op. cit., 192 f.), but Baha'u'llah abrogated this with the exception of prayer over the dead." current
• 10:0410:04, 16 September 2023 diff hist +32‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder12 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 16 September 2023 diff hist +164‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder11/Note3 ‎ Created page with "Islam requires special prayers to be said at the time of wonders like earthquakes and eclipses (cf. Wensinck, op. cit., p.65 f.). This is not necessary for Baha'is." current
• 10:0210:02, 16 September 2023 diff hist +32‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder11 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0110:01, 16 September 2023 diff hist +156‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder10/Note2 ‎ Created page with "In Islam it is forbidden to perform prostrations on certain things even though they are ceremonially pure. "The Book" in this case is presumably the Qur'an." current
• 10:0010:00, 16 September 2023 diff hist +87‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder10/Note1 ‎ Created page with "Both boys and girls come to maturity according to the Baha'i law at the age of fifteen." current
• 10:0010:00, 16 September 2023 diff hist +64‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder10 ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5809:58, 16 September 2023 diff hist +187‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder9/Note4 ‎ Created page with "Touching hair or bones (or buttons made of bones) render worship void in Islam (cf. A.J. Wensinck, A Handbook of Early Muhammadan Traditions, p. 191). Baha'u'llah here abrogates this law." current
• 09:5809:58, 16 September 2023 diff hist +31‎ Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder9 ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5709:57, 16 September 2023 diff hist +215‎ N Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder8/Note3 ‎ Created page with "In Islam the saying of the words "Allahu akbar" (God is most great) is called the takbir. Cf. Enc. of Islam, iv, 627. Instead of saying "Allahu akbar" as Muslims do, Baha'is say "Allahu abha" (God is most splendid)." current