Darelene Rothwell ISLAMIC RUN GOVERNMENTS DONT RESPECT OR TOLERATE ANY OTHER FAITH.....AND THATS THE TRUTH... I BELIEVE IN FREEDOM OF WORSHIP, BUT GET REAL...WRITING OUR U. S. CONGRESSMAN WONT HELP THE BAHAI FAITH CAUSE IN IRAN. THERERE TOO BUSY FIGHTING PRESIDENT OBAMA...GOOD LOVING CHRISTIAN CONGRESSMEN, RIGHT? DONT THINK SO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Darelene, I wanted to leave your beautiful comments open for others to see on face book at least for awhile because I believe you have come straight to the point, you nailed it! Your observation that Islamic run governments don’t respect or tolerate any other faith is quite accurate. However it should be pointed out that the Islamic Faith, the Christian Faith, the Jewish Faith, etc…neither of them will accept any other Faith as valid, except their own… ” So thank you for pinpointing the central issue in the Faith of God today. Now within the Baha’i Faith the first principle of the Teaching of Baháulláh concerns the Search after Truth. “If a man would succeed in his search after truth, he must, in the first place, shut his eyes to all the traditional superstitions of the past. The Jews have traditional superstitions, the Buddhists and the Zoroastrians are not free from them, neither are the Christians! All religions have gradually become bound by tradition and dogma. All consider themselves, respectively, the only guardians of the truth, and that every other religion is composed of errors. They themselves are right, all others are wrong! The Jews believe that they are the only possessors of the truth and condemn all other religions. The Christians affirm that their religion is the only true one, that all others are false. Likewise the Buddhists and Muhammadans; all limit themselves. If all condemn one another, where shall we search for truth? All contradicting one another, all cannot be true. If each believes his particular religion to be the only true one, he blinds his eyes to the truth in the others. If, for instance, a Jew is bound by the external practice of the religion of Israel, he does not permit himself to perceive that truth can exist in any other religion; it must be all contained in his own! We should, therefore, detach ourselves from the external forms and practices of religion. We must realize that these forms and practices, however beautiful, are but garments clothing the warm heart and the living limbs of Divine truth. We must abandon the prejudices of tradition if we would succeed in finding the truth at the core of all religions….It is, therefore, clear that in order to make any progress in the search after truth we must relinquish superstition. If all seekers would follow this principle they would obtain a clear vision of the truth. If five people meet together to seek for truth, they must begin by cutting themselves free from all their own special conditions and renouncing all preconceived ideas. In order to find truth we must give up our prejudices, our own small trivial notions; an open receptive mind is essential. If our chalice is full of self, there is no room in it for the water of life. The fact that we imagine ourselves to be right and everybody else wrong is the greatest of all obstacles in the path towards unity, and unity is necessary if we would reach truth, for truth is one. (Abdul-Baha, Paris Talks, p. 136)
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 17:08:56 +0000
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