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From: <nima_hazini@my-deja.com> Subject: Re: The root of the problem Date: Monday, September 13, 1999 1:56 AM Susan, > Well, if you reject the Will and Testament and the Covenant, you are >entitled to say that Nima. It was 'Abdul-Baha who forbade this, as I'm >sure you know. Come again? I didn't reject anything. But now you're turning around introducing the tried and true ultra-orthodox ploy on the narrow reading of the WT of AB argument, and then you'll turn around later, I guess, and impute I'm a cb because I don't read it like you do?! Homey don't play that game. Sorry, try something better, Susan. The doors of ijtihad as far as specific points of the Baha'i sharia are closed. That's it. Everything else as far as the Kitab-i-Iqan is concerned is wide open. But since ya'll subscribe to the "we'll take it from here Baha'u'llah" school of thought, you dismiss Baha'u'llah's fundamental importance and what He said in the greater scheme of things and especially His foundational critique of religious absolutism in the Kitab-i-Iqan. As such you have all misappropriated Baha'u'llah. Thus, to Baha'u'llah we shall return. <snip> > Because when we ignore 'Abdul-Baha's wishes we ignore Baha'u'llah as >well. It was They who estalished this system of authoritative >interpretation. No one's ignoring `Abdul-Baha. But it would stand to reason that ya'll have ignored His Father. Regards, Nima Sent via Deja.com https://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't. Homepage |