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• 06:45, 4 November 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder66 (Created page with "Relationship by marriage is not realized except by (payment of) dowries [note 2] (al-amhar, plural of mahr). The amount estimated for towns is nineteen mithqals of pure gold, and for villages it is (the same amount of) silver. Whoever desires more is forbidden to go beyond ninety-five mithqals. So is the matter recorded by Might. Whoever is content with the first amount (i.e., nineteen mithqals), it is better for him according to the Book. He enriches whomsoever He will...")
• 06:45, 4 November 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder65 (Created page with "Indeed, in al-Bayan He made the consent of the two parties the condition (for marriage). Since We desired love and affection and the union of the creatures, We made (marriage) dependent on the consent of the parents in addition to the two of them (the bride and groom), [note 1] lest there occur rancour and hatred. And We have other aims and so is the matter decided.")
• 06:45, 4 November 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder64 (Created page with "O multitudes of Creation, do not follow your own selves; they command passions of excess and immorality. Follow the Possessor of things Who commands righteousness and piety to you. He is the All-Sufficient without the worlds. Beware lest you corrupt the earth after it has been made good. Whoever corrupts is not one of us and we have nothing to do with him. So was the matter testified to, in truth, from the heaven of Revelation.")
• 06:44, 4 November 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder63 (Created page with "God has ordained marriage (al-nikah) for you. Beware lest you go beyond two (wives), and whoever is satisfied with one of the hand-maidens, his soul is at rest and so is hers, and one does no harm in taking a virgin into his service. [note 3] So is the matter prescribed in truth by the Pen of Revelation. Marry, O people, that there may come from you (be born of you) those who will make mention of Me among My creatures. This is My command to you; take it as a help for yo...")
• 06:42, 4 November 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder62 (Created page with "Whoever burns a house intentionally, burn him. Whoever kills a person with intent, kill him. Take the ordinances (sunan) of God with hands of power and might. Then desert the ordinances of the ignorant. If you condemn them (the incendiary and the murderer) to perpetual prison, you have done no harm according to the Book. Indeed, He is the Ruler over what He desires.")
• 06:40, 29 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder61 (Created page with "Indeed, God has commanded you to love your relatives, but He has not decreed for them a right in one's property. [note 2] He has no need of the worlds.")
• 06:31, 21 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder60/Note1 (Created page with "This may also mean that when you discharge missiles, you are to make mention of God.")
• 06:30, 21 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder53/Note1 (Created page with "As long as Baha'u'llah lives, disputed points are to be referred to him. When he dies they are to refer to his Book which will he all-sufficient.")
• 06:28, 21 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder49/Note1 (Created page with "A mithqal is approximately five grammes or one seventh of an ounce (cf. Enc. of Islam, iii, 528; E. W. Lane, Lexicon, p. 345). It is possible that the Babi mithqal is intended, in which case the amount of the fine would he about $21.")
• 06:28, 21 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder46/Note4 (Created page with "Lit.: "Delicacy," passim.")
• 06:27, 21 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder46/Note3 (Created page with "Baha'u'llah forbids the western custom of eating with the fingers, probably intending that forks and spoons be used.")
• 06:27, 21 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder46/Note2 (Created page with "The use of such vessels was forbidden by Islamic law (cf. Muslim, al-Imam Abu'l-Husayn, al-Sahih, 2 vols., A.H. 1327, Vol. ii, 203 ff.).")
• 06:26, 21 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder45/Note1 (Created page with "This command abrogates the law of al-Bayan that force was not to be used in punishment of the Babis.")
• 06:24, 21 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder44/Note4 (Created page with "Men are not to wear their hair lower than their ears.")
• 06:22, 21 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder42/Note3 (Created page with "The religious endowments are to be controlled by Baha'u'llah as long as he lives. At his death the "command" or control of them goes to the "Branches", that is, the sons of Baha'u'llah. When they die the House of Justice will assume control.")
• 06:22, 21 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder42/Note2 (Created page with "In Islam there are properties of great value which have been bequeathed by pious people to shrines, mosques, or schools and are administered by religious leaders or the state. Baha'u'llah here rules that all such endowments should "return to God", that is, to his own control.")
• 06:20, 21 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder41/Note2 (Created page with "Nimrod, according to Islamic tradition, disputed with Abraham and claimed to have the power of life and death (cf. Qur'an 2:260 and Enc. of Islam, iii, 842 ff.). Baha'u'llah says that there is a man who, when he hears the sound of the footsteps of his disciples following him, is so puffed up with pride that he is prouder than Nimrod.")
• 06:20, 21 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder41/Note1 (Created page with "By al-'ulama', the theologians of Islam are intended.")
• 06:34, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder60 (Created page with "When in hunting you use birds of prey, make mention of God. [note 1] Then whatever they catch for you is lawful, even though you find it dead. Indeed, He is the Omniscient, the Knower. Take care not to be wasteful in that (hunting); hold to the Path of Justice and Equity in all matters. Thus does the Rising-place of Manifestation command you, if you are of those who know.")
• 06:34, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder59 (Created page with "Look to the Mercy of God and His benefits. He commands you what yet benefits you, since He has no need of the worlds. Your evil deeds will not harm Us, just as your good deeds do not benefit Us. We invite you only for the sake of God. Every knowing person who sees bears witness to that.")
• 06:33, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder58 (Created page with "Beware lest affairs of self and passion divide you. Be like the fingers of the hand and the limbs of the body. Thus does the Pen of Revelation warn you, if you are of the believers.")
• 06:33, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder57 (Created page with "Hospitality has been prescribed (as an obligation), once every month, even though it be with water only. God desired to bring hearts together even, if necessary, it be by the causes of heavens and earths.")
• 06:32, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder56 (Created page with "As for the commandments about wounds and blows, they differ just as there is a difference in the intensity (of wounds and blows). The Rewarder has ruled that for every degree there is a fixed fine. Indeed, He is the Mighty, Powerful Ruler. If We wished We might truly go into detail as a promise on Our part. He is the Learned One who fulfills (His promises).")
• 06:32, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder55 (Created page with "Do you know from what horizon your Most Splendid (abha) Lord calls you? Did you know by what Pen your Lord, Possessor of the Names, commands you? No! And by My Life, if you had known, you would have forsaken the present world, coming with your hearts to the side of the Beloved. The shaking of the Word has taken hold on you because the great world has been shaken by it, and how (not) this small world? Likewise rains of My generosity have fallen from the heaven of My prov...")
• 06:31, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder54/Note2 (Created page with " Evidently this means to soar above the word of change to the changeless world of Reality.")
• 06:30, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder54 (Created page with "O multitudes of the earth, by God, the Truth, there have burst forth sweet palatable rivers from rocks which took of the sweetness of the explanation of your Lord, the Chooser, while you have been careless. Leave what you have! Then fly with the minions of Separation beyond Innovation. [note 2] Thus commands the Possessor of Invention, who by the moving of His Pen turns worlds upside down.")
• 06:30, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder53 (Created page with "If you differ on a matter, bring it back to God while the sun shines from the horizon of this heaven. Whenever it sets, go back to that which was sent down from Him. [note 1] It is sufficient for the worlds. Say: O People, be not troubled when the kingdom of My Manifestation has disappeared and the waves of the sea of My Explanation are calm. Indeed, in My Manifestation there is wisdom and in My Disappearance there is another wisdom. No one knows this except God, the Om...")
• 06:29, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder52 (Created page with "We have returned a third of all the fines to the Resting-place of Justice. We admonish its men to do absolute justice, that they spend all that has been collected by them in the way commanded by a Wise Knower. O men of (the House) of Justice, be shepherds of the sheep of God in His kingdom and keep them from the wolves who appear in garments (of sheep), just as you keep your sons. Thus does the faithful Adviser advise you.")
• 06:28, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder51 (Created page with "We have made it lawful to you to listen to (singing) voices and to songs. Beware lest listening take you beyond the bounds of good breeding and dignity. Rejoice in the joy of My Greatest Name with which hearts are entranced and the minds of those brought near (to God) are attracted. We have made (music) a ladder for the ascent of spirits to the highest Horizon. Do not make it a wing (janah) of the self and passion. I dislike that you be among the ignorant.")
• 06:27, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder50 (Created page with "Beware lest praises of glory (subuhat al-jalal) hinder you from the purity of this sweet water (zuhal hadha l-silsal). Take the bowls of prosperity on this morning in the name of the Breaker of the Morning Dawn (faliq al-sabah). Then drink in remembrance of Him, the Mighty Inventor (al-badi').")
• 06:27, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder49 (Created page with "God has commanded that every adulterer and adultress pay a fine (diya - blood money) to the House of Justice. The sum is nine mithqals of gold. [note 1] For the second offence double the punishment. This is what the Possessor of Names commanded for this world, and for the world to come a degrading punishment has been destined for them. Whoever is overcome by a sin, let him repent and turn back to God. He, indeed, forgives whom He wills and He is not to be questioned ab...")
• 06:26, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder48 (Created page with "It has been ordained for every father to educate his son and daughter in learning, handwriting and other things defined in the Tablet. Whoever neglects what he has been commanded, the Stewards must take from him whatever is necessary for their education: that is, if he is rich. Otherwise, their education is referred to the House of Justice. We have made it the shelter (ma'wa) of the poor and the needy. Whoever educates his son or any one's sons, it is as though he had e...")
• 06:26, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder47 (Created page with "The Rising-place of Command has no partner in the Very Great Preservation from Error (al-'isma al kubra). He is, indeed, an Appearing-place. He does what He wishes in the Kingdom of Creation. God has reserved this Station exclusively for Himself. And a portion in this Great and Unapproachable Dignity has not been destined (quddira) for anyone else. This is the command of God. It was concealed in the veils of the Unknown. We manifested it in this Manifestation. By it We...")
• 06:25, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder46 (Created page with "There is no harm in using vessels of gold and silver [note 2] if one desires to do so. Beware of dipping your hands in large plates (al-sihaf) and basins (al-suhun). [note 3] Hold to what is closer to cleanliness. [note 4] He desires to show you the customs of the people of Paradise (ahl al-ridwan) in His Impregnable, Unapproachable Kingdom. Hold fast to cleanliness in all circumstances, lest the eyes fall on that which you and the people of Paradise abhor. Whoever tra...")
• 06:25, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder45 (Created page with "Banishment and prison have been commanded (as punishment) for the thief. For the third offence put a sign on his forehead. [note 1] Thus he will be known, so that the cities and the provinces of God do not receive him. Beware lest pity (al-ra'fa) take hold on you in (following) the religion of God. Do what you have been commanded to do by the Tender-hearted (al-mushfiq), Merciful One. We have disciplined you with the rods of Wisdom and commandments that you may keep y...")
• 06:24, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder44 (Created page with "Do not shave your heads. God has adorned them with hair. In that there are certainly signs to him who considers the requirements of nature (al-tabi'a) from the standpoint of the Possessor of Mankind. Indeed, He is the Mighty, the Wise. It is not fitting to go beyond the limits of the ears. [note 4] This is what the Master of the worlds commanded.")
• 06:24, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder43 (Created page with "Neither show grief nor joy in times of calamity. Seek that which is between two extremes, which means the remembering (of God) when in that state and the being aware of what the outcome may be. So does the Omniscient Knower announce to you.")
• 06:23, 1 October 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder42 (Created page with "The religious endowments (al-awqaf) [note 2] given especially for charity have been returned to God, the Appearing-place of Verses (mazhar al-ayat). No one may spend them except after permission of the Rising-place of Revelation. After him the command goes back to the Branches, [note 3] and after them to the House of Justice. If His Cause is established throughout the lands, let them spend the endowments in the high places of this Cause and for what they were commanded b...")
• 06:23, 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...")
• 17:20, 29 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder40/Note1 (Created page with "Lit.: "wretched".")
• 17:18, 29 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder38/Note5 (Created page with "That is, when Baha'u'llah will die.")
• 10:58, 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".")
• 10:57, 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.")
• 10:56, 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...")
• 10:31, 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.")
• 10:30, 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.")
• 10:30, 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.")
• 10:30, 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.")
• 10:28, 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.)")
• 10:26, 16 September 2023 Trident765 talk contribs created page Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder30/Note1 (Created page with "By Tablet is probably meant the Aqdas.")