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• 07:23, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 18:20, 29 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder40/Note1 (Created page with "Lit.: "wretched".")
• 18:18, 29 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder38/Note5 (Created page with "That is, when Baha'u'llah will die.")
• 11:58, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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".")
• 11:57, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder37/Note3 (Created page with ""Bleating," i.e., the clamour raised by opponents of the Truth.")
• 11:56, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 11:31, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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.")
• 11:30, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder36/Note4 (Created page with "Presumably this refers to one of the mystics who claimed to have esoteric knowledge.")
• 11:30, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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.")
• 11:30, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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.")
• 11:28, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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.)")
• 11:26, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder30/Note1 (Created page with "By Tablet is probably meant the Aqdas.")
• 11:25, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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).")
• 11:23, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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).")
• 11:22, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder23/Note2 (Created page with "Lit.: "has no heirs."")
• 11:16, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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.")
• 11:16, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 11:13, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder18/Note1 (Created page with " Presumably the place where Baha'u'llah is.")
• 11:12, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder16/Note3 2 (Created page with ""Days of giving," that is, the five intercalary days.")
• 11:11, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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.")
• 11:11, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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).")
• 11:10, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 11:07, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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.")
• 11:06, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder13/Note1 (Created page with "It seems that by "Book" the Aqdas is intended.")
• 11:04, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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.")
• 11:02, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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.")
• 11:01, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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.")
• 11:00, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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.")
• 10:58, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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.")
• 10:57, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page 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).")
• 10:55, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder7/Note2 (Created page with "This means that this command may even oppose the laws of other religions.")
• 10:50, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder/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.")
• 10:50, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder/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.")
• 10:49, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder/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.")
• 10:48, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder/Note1 (Created page with "Both boys and girls come to maturity according to the Baha'i law at the age of fifteen.")
• 10:48, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder/Note/1 (Created page with "Both boys and girls come to maturity according to the Baha'i law at the age of fifteen.")
• 08:37, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder40 (Created page with "Say: Do not rejoice in what you possess at nightfall, when at sunrise another will possess it. Thus does the Knower, the Omniscient One, inform you. Say: Have you seen that your possessions remain or are loyal to you? No! By My soul, the Merciful. If only you were of the just! The days of your life pass as pass the winds. The carpet of your glory shall fold up as did that of the ancients. Think, O people! Where are your past days? Where are the eras that have elapsed...")
• 08:33, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder39 (Created page with "People are asleep. Were they to wake they would hasten with all their hearts to God, the Knower, the Wise One. They would throw away what they have, even were it all the treasures of the present world, that their Master may remember them with a word from Him. Thus He who has knowledge of the Unseen announces to you in a Tablet what appeared in the realm of possibility and what only His Self, the Overseer of the Worlds, has examined.")
• 08:32, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder38 (Created page with "O people of the earth, when the sun of My beauty goes down [note 5] and the heaven of My temple is hidden, do not be troubled. Arise to the help of My Cause and the exaltation of My Word among the worlds. We are with you in all circumstances. We shall help you with Truth. We have been able. Whoever knows Me let him arise to My service with an arising at which the hosts of heavens and earths do not cause him to sit down.")
• 08:31, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder37 (Created page with "Whoever claims Command (amr) before the completion of a thousand years is a false liar. [note 2] We ask God to help him to return. If he repents, He is the Relenting One. If he persists in what he has said, one who will have no mercy on him will be sent against him. He is the Strong in punishment. Whoever explains this verse or interprets it in any other way than that plainly sent down, he will be deprived of the Spirit and Mercy of God, which preceded the worlds. Fe...")
• 08:29, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder36 (Created page with "Some people sit in a Row of Sandals (saff al-ni'al),[note 2] seeking the seat of honour (sadr al-jalal). Say: Who art thou, O careless, conceited man (al-gharrar)? [note 3] Of them there is he who claims the Hidden (al-batin) and the Hidden of the Hidden. [note 4] Say: O liar, by God, what thou hast is husks. We have left it for you as bones are left for the dogs. By God, the Truth, if one were to wash the feet of everybody in the world and worship God in thickets an...")
• 08:27, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder35 (Created page with "O creatures of the Merciful One, rise to the service (khidma) of the Cause that griefs caused by those who disbelieved in the Rising-place of the Verses (al-ayat) may not overtake you.[note 1] When the Promise came and the Promised One appeared, the people disagreed and each faction held to its own opinions and illusions.")
• 08:26, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder34 (Created page with "The kissing of hands is forbidden in the Book. This (kind of reverence for religious leaders) is what you were forbidden by your Lord, the Mighty, the Wise. No one need beg forgiveness of another. Repent to God for yourselves. He is the Mighty and Relenting Giver and Forgiver.")
• 08:25, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder33 (Created page with "O People of al-Baha', it has been made incumbent on everyone of you to work at something, in artisan crafts, in gain or something like that. We have made your working at them your very worship ('ibada) of God, the Real One. O people (ya qawm), think upon the mercy and benefits of God. Then thank Him at eventide and sunrise. Do not waste your time in idleness and laziness. Work at something that will benefit you and others. Thus decided the Command in this Tablet, which...")
• 08:24, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder32 (Created page with "God has ruled that those of you who are able - except the women - make the Pilgrimage (hajj) to the House. God has exempted the women as a mercy on His part. He is the Munificent One, the Generous One.")
• 08:24, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder31 (Created page with "O multitude of Creation, furnish houses (of worship) in the most complete way possible in the name of the Possessor of Religions in the lands. Decorate them with what is fitting, not with pictures and statues. Then make mention in them of your Lord, the Merciful, with joy and sweetness (bi l-rawh wa l-rayhan). Is it not by mentioning him that breasts are enlightened and eyes are consoled?")
• 08:23, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder30 (Created page with "God has ordained that in every city they make a House of Justice, and the souls according to the number of al-Baha' will assemble in it. There is no harm if the number increases. They shall see as though they are entering the presence of God, the High, the Most High. And they shall see Him who is not seen. They must be stewards of the Merciful among (those in the realm of) the possible and agents of God for the whole earth. And God has ordained that they shall consult a...")
• 08:23, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder29 (Created page with "Say: This is the Hidden knowledge which never changes because it begins with al-ta' (nine),[note 1] which indicates the treasured, manifest, well-fortified and unapproachable Name. The inheritance which We have assigned especially for the offspring is of the favour (fadl) of God that they may thank their Lord, the Merciful, the Compassionate. These are the stipulations of God. Do not transgress them because of your own passions. Follow what you are commanded to do by...")
• 08:22, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder28 (Created page with "All this is to be paid after God receives His rights and the debts are paid, if there are any, as well as providing the things necessary for the shroud, the burial, and the carrying (of the body) with honour and glory. So ruled the Possessor of the Beginning and the Return.")
• 08:21, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder27 (Created page with "If weak (minor) offspring are left behind, their wealth is to be given to a guardian to trade with until they reach maturity, or to a company. Appoint to the guardian a proper amount from what he has made by trading and gain.")