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The Lord of Hosts has come, His Name is Bahaullah.
1/22/2008 1:03:38 PM
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Hello everybody. Now I am here again. I hope you are all well and healthy and happy.
If you are not happy you should be happy for here are the greatest news, once again. Bahaullah is the Promised One of all ages. This is my firm conviction and my great joy. And I just want you too to be happy at this News.See what other Prophets have looked forward to and prophesied. See how His Writings, which I have shown, in parts, repeatedly, are described. If you have not read yet what I have presented in my previous articles,- parts of His Scriptures- return to my earlier excerpts from Hidden Words, and prayers for exemple.
The following are excerpts from 'Bahaullah and the New Era', to give you a foretaste of this Introductory book about the Bahai Faith.
" Bahaullahs mission in the world is to bring about Unity - Unity of all mankind in and through God. He says:-'Of the Tree of Knowledge the All-Glorious fruit is this exalted word; Of one Tree are all ye fruits and of one Bough the leaves. Let not man glory in this that he loves his country, but let him rather glory in this that he loves his kind.'
Previous Prophets have heralded an age of peace on earth, good-will among men, and have given Their lives to hasten its advent, but each and all of Them have plainly declared that this blessed consummation would be reached only after the 'Coming of the Lord' in the latter days, when the wicked would be judged and the righteous rewarded.
Zoroaster foretold three thousand years of conflict before the advent of Shah Bahram, the World-Savior, Who would overcome Ahriman, the spirit of evil, and establish a reign of righteousness and peace.
Moses foretold a long period of exile, persecution and oppression for the children of Israel, before the Lord of Hosts would appear to gather them from all the nations, to destroy the oppressors and establish His Kingdom on earth.
Christ said: 'Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword (Matt.x,34), and He predicted a period of wars and rumors of wars, of tribulations and afflictions that would continue till the coming of the Son of Man 'in the glory of His Father'.
Muhammad declared that, because of their wrongdoings, Allah had put enmity and hatred among both Jews and Christians that would last until the Day of Resurrection, when He would appear to judge them all.
Bahaullah on the other hand, announces that He is the Promised One of all these Prophets - the Divine Manifestation in Whose era the reign of peace will actually be established. This statement is unprecedented and unique, yet it fits in wonderfully with the signs of the times, and with the prophesies of all the great Prophets. Bahaullah revealed with incomparable clearness and comprehensiveness the means for bringing about peace and unity amongst mankind.
It is true that, since the advent of Bahaullah, there have been, until now, war and destruction on an unprecedented scale, but this is just what all the prophets have said would happen at the dawn of the'Great and terrible Day of the Lord', and is therefore, but a confirmation of the view that the 'Coming of the Lord' is not only at hand, but is already an accomplished fact. According to the parable of Christ, the Lord of the vineyard must miserably destroy the wicked husbandman before He gives the Vineyard to others who will render Him the fruits in their seasons. Does not this mean that at the coming of the Lord dire destruction awaits those despotic governments, avacarious and intolerant priests, mullas, or tyrannical leaders who through the centuries have, like wicked husbandmen, misruled the earth and misappropriated its fruits?
There may be terrible events, and unparalleled calamities yet awhile on the earth, but Bahaullah assures us that erelong. 'these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.' War and strife have become so intolerable in their destructiveness that mankind must find deliverance from them or perish.
'The fulness of time' has come and with it the Promised Deliverer!
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The writings of Bahaullah are most comprehensive
in their range, dealing with every phase of human life, individual and societal, with things material and things spiritual, with the interpretation of ancient and modern scriptures, and with prophetic anticipations of both the near and distant future.
The range and accuracy of His knowledge was amazing. He could quote and expound the Scriptures of the various religions with which His correspondents or questioners were familiar, in convincing and authoritative manner, although apparently He had never had the ordinary means of access to many of the books referred to. He declares in The Epistle to the son of the Wolf, that He had never read the Bayan, although in His own Writings He shows the most perfect knowledge and understanding of the Babs Revelation. (The Bab, as we have seen, declared that His Revelation, the Bayan, was inspired by and emanated from 'Him Whom God shall make Manifest'!) With the single exception of a visit from Professor Edward Granville Brown, to whom in the year 1890 He accorded four interviews, each lasting twenty to thirty minutes, He had no opportunities of intercourse with enlightened Western thinkers, yet His Writings show a complete grasp of social, political and religious problems of the Western world, and even His enemies had to admit that His wisdom and knowledge were incomparable. The wellknown circumstances of His long imprisonement render it impossible to doubt that the wealth of knowledge shown in His Writings must have been acquired from some spiritual source, quite independent of the usual means of study or instruction and the help of books and teachers.
(When asked whether Bahaullah had made a special study of Western writings and founded His teachings in accordance with them 'Abdu'l-Baha said that the books of Bahaullah, written and printed as long ago as the 1870ies, contained the ideals now so familiar to the West, although at that time these ideas had not been printed or thought of in the West)!
Sometimes He wrote in modern Persian, the ordinary language of His fellow countrymen, which is largely mixed with Arabic. At other times, as when addressing learned Zoroastrians, He wrote in the purest classical Persian. He also wrote with equal fluency in Arabic, sometimes in very simple language, sometimes in classical style somewhat similar to that of the Qouran. His perfect mastery of these different languages and styles was remarkable because of His entire lack of literary education.
In some of His Writings the way of Holiness is pointed out in such simple terms that 'the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein' (Isaiah xxxv,8). In others there is a wealth of poetic imagery, profound philosophy and allusions to Muhammadan, Zoroastrian and other scriptures, or to Persian and Arabic literature and legends, such as only the poet, the philosopher or the scholar can adequatedly appreciate. Still others deal with advanced stages of the spiritual life and are to be understood only by those who have already passed through the earlier stages. His works are like a bountiful table provided with foods and delicacies suited to the needs and tastes of all who are genuine truth seekers.
It is because of this that His Cause had effect among the learned and cultured, spiritual poets and wellknown writers. Even some of the leaders of the Sufis and of other sects, and some of the political ministers who were writers, were attracted by His words, for they exceeded those of all other writers in sweetness and depth of spiritual meaning."
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