Jeg kunne godt tænke mig at gå lidt i dybden med Bahaij troen. Her er Bahá'u'lláh tanker om forholdet til Gud (den samme Gud som vi Kristne tror på):
Suffer me, O my God...
Suffer me, O my God, to draw nigh unto Thee, and to abide within the precincts of Thy court, for remoteness from Thee hath well-nigh consumed me.
Cause me to rest under the shadow of the wings of Thy grace, for the flame of my separation from Thee hath melted my heart within me. Draw me nearer unto the river that is life indeed, for my soul burneth with thirst in its ceaseless search after Thee.
My sighs, O my God, proclaim the bitterness of mine anguish, and the tears I shed attest my love for Thee.
I beseech Thee, by the praise wherewith Thou praisest Thyself and the glory wherewith Thou glorifiest Thine own Essence, to grant that we may be numbered among them that have recognized Thee and acknowledged Thy sovereignty in Thy days.
Help us then to quaff, O my God, from the fingers of mercy the living waters of Thy loving-kindness, that we may utterly forget all else except Thee, and be occupied only with Thy Self.
Powerful art Thou to do what Thou willest. No God is there beside Thee, the Mighty, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
Glorified be Thy name, O Thou Who art the King of all Kings!
Bahá’u’lláh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cJPpa3UA7k
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Bahá'u'lláh about the Suffering of Jesus Christ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wYHJZCyTqU
In His Writings about the Prophets of God Bahá'u'lláh has revealed many Tablets about the unique station of
Jesus Christ as Divine Manifestation.
Bahá'u'lláh says:
"Know thou that when the Son of Man yielded up His breath to God, the whole creation wept with a great weeping."
("Fader, i dine hænder betror jeg min ånd" (Lukasevangeliet 23,46).
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Radiant Heart. Shadi Toloui-Wallace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U141AajCCuA
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Raised as a Baha'i, I have always felt that the foundation of all faiths is love. I find that, through my music, I can express how my faith connects me to my heart.
Hendes livshistorie:
http://www.shaditolouiwallace.com/bio.html
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The words are: "O Son of Spirit! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly, and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable, and everlasting."
- Baha'u'llah, (Arabic Hidden Word #1)
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The Bahá'í view of God is essentially monotheistic.
God is the imperishable, uncreated being who is the source of all existence. He is described as "a personal God, unknowable, inaccessible, the source of all Revelation, eternal, omniscient, omnipresent and almighty".
Though transcendent and inaccessible directly, his image is reflected in his creation.
The purpose of creation is for the created to have the capacity to know and love its creator.
God communicates his will and purpose to humanity through intermediaries, known as Manifestations of God, who are the prophets and messengers that have founded religions from prehistoric times up to the present day.
God!
The Bahá'í teachings state that
there is only one God and that his essence is absolutely inaccessible from the physical realm of existence and that, therefore, his reality is completely unknowable.
Thus, all of humanity's conceptions of God which have been derived throughout history are mere manifestations of the human mind and not at all reflective of the nature of God's essence.
While God's essence is inaccessible, a subordinate form of knowledge is available by way of mediation by divine messengers, known as Manifestations of God.
The Manifestations of God reflect divine attributes, which are creations of God made for the purpose of spiritual enlightenment, onto the physical plane of existence.
All physical beings reflect at least one of these attributes, and the human soul can potentially reflect all of them.
Shoghi Effendi, the head of the Bahá'í Faith in the first half of the 20th century, described God as inaccessible, omniscient, almighty, personal, and rational, and rejected pantheistic, anthropomorphic and incarnationist beliefs.
Oneness of God
Although human cultures and religions differ on their conceptions of God and his nature, Bahá'ís believe they nevertheless refer to one and the same Being.
The differences, instead of being regarded as irreconcilable constructs of mutually exclusive cultures, are seen as purposefully reflective of the varying needs of the societies in which the divine messages were revealed.
No single faith, and associated conception of God, is thus considered essentially superior to another from the viewpoint of its original social context;
however, more recent religions may teach a more advanced conception of God as called for by the changing needs of local, regional or global civilization.
Bahá'ís thus regard the world's religions as chapters in the history of one single faith, revealed by God's Manifestations progressively and in stages.
Bahá'u'lláh (the Father) writes on this subject:
All-praise to the unity of God, and all-honour to Him, the sovereign Lord, the incomparable and all-glorious Ruler of the universe,
Who, out of utter nothingness, hath created the reality of all things, Who, from naught, hath brought into being the most refined and subtle elements of His creation, and Who, rescuing His creatures from the abasement of remoteness and the perils of ultimate extinction, hath received them into His kingdom of incorruptible glory.
Nothing short of His all-encompassing grace, His all-pervading mercy, could have possibly achieved it
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his name in Arabic: عبد البهاء; born 23 May 1844 – dead 28 November 1921), born ‘Abbás Effendí, was the eldest son of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
In 1892, `Abdu'l-Bahá was appointed in his father's will to be his successor and head of the Bahá'í Faith.
`Abdu'l-Bahá was born in Tehran to an aristocratic family of the realm. At the age of eight his father was imprisoned and the family's possessions were looted, leaving them in virtual poverty.
Along with his father, `Abdu'l-Bahá was exiled to Baghdad where the family lived for nine years.
In 1863 Bahá'u'lláh was again exiled to Constantinople.
During the 1860s the family was banished from Constantinople to Adrianople, and then finally to the
penal-colony of Acre, Palestine when he was 24.
During his youth he was faithful to his father and was regarded as an outstanding member of the Bahá’í exile community. As a teenager he was his father’s amanuensis and was regularly seen debating theological issues with the learned men of the area.
With his father's death in 1892, and his appointment as head of the Bahá’í faith, there was much opposition to him, including virtually all his family members.
Notwithstanding this, practically all of the worldwide Bahá’í community accepted his leadership.
In 1908, at the age of 64 and after forty years imprisonment, `Abdu’l-Bahá was freed by the Young Turks and he and his family began to live in relative safety.
His journeys to the West, and his "Tablets of the Divine Plan" spread the Bahá'í message beyond its middle-eastern roots, and his Will and Testament laid the foundation for the current "Bahá'í administrative order.
Many of his writings,
prayers and letters are extant, and his discourses with the Western Bahá'ís emphasize the growth of the faith by the late 1890s. `Abdu'l-Bahá's given name was `Abbás, but he preferred the title of `Abdu'l-Bahá (servant of the glory of God).
He is commonly referred to in Bahá'í texts as "The Master", and received the title of KBE after his personal storage of grain was used to relieve famine in Palestine following World War I, but never used the title.
http://abdulbahawest.blogspot.dk/2010_03_01_archive.html
http://www.bahaiface.com/
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Om Bahaulah (the Farther, the founder)
Bahá'í healing prayer for women
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhhJMOwVWlM
Uploadet den 07/01/2011
"Glory be to Thee, O Lord my God! I beg of Thee by Thy Name through which He Who is Thy Beauty hath been stablished upon the throne of Thy Cause, and by Thy Name through which Thou changest all things, and gatherest together all things, and callest to account all things, and rewardest all things, and preservest all things, and sustainest all things - I beg of Thee to guard this handmaiden who hath fled for refuge to Thee, and hath sought the shelter of Him in Whom Thou Thyself art manifest, and hath put her whole trust and confidence in Thee.
She is sick, O my God, and hath entered beneath the shadow of the Tree of Thy healing; afflicted, and hath fled to the City of Thy protection; diseased, and hath sought the Fountainhead of Thy favors; sorely vexed, and hath hasted to attain the Wellspring of Thy tranquillity; burdened with sin, and hath set her face toward the court of Thy forgiveness.
Attire her, by Thy sovereignty and Thy loving-kindness, O my God and my Beloved, with the raiment of Thy balm and Thy healing, and make her quaff of the cup of Thy mercy and Thy favors. Protect her, moreover, from every affliction and ailment, from all pain and sickness, and from whatsoever may be abhorrent unto Thee.
Thou, in truth, art immensely exalted above all else except Thyself. Thou art, verily, the Healer, the All-Sufficing, the Preserver, the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Merciful."
(Bahá'u'lláh, Bahá'í Prayers, p. 99)
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Baha'i Prayer for Detachment (Music by Bahareh Khademi)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B6AAc-sOac
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Uploadet den 14/08/2011
With thanks to my first 99 subscribers-you have encouraged me.
With love and gratitude to
my mom Sally, born August 15, a joyous and enthusiastic
believer in Baha'u'llah since 1963, who
ascended to the spiritual worlds in 2004.
I'm so glad she gave me a
Baha'i prayer book when I was a child and Baha'i writings to read throughout the years, and started me on a rewarding life of being part of Baha'i communities around the world.
"O God, my God! Fill up for me the cup of detachment from all things, and in the assembly of Thy splendors and bestowals, rejoice me with the wine of loving Thee. Free me from the assaults of passion and desire, break off from me the shackles of this nether world, draw me with rapture unto Thy supernal realm, and refresh me amongst the handmaids with the breathings of Thy holiness.
O Lord, brighten Thou my face with the lights of Thy bestowals, light Thou mine eyes with beholding the signs of Thine all-subduing might; delight my heart with the glory of Thy knowledge that encompasseth all things, gladden Thou my soul with Thy soul-reviving tidings of great joy, O Thou King of this world and the Kingdom above, O Thou Lord of dominion and might, that I may spread abroad Thy signs and tokens, and proclaim Thy Cause, and promote Thy Teachings, and serve Thy Law and exalt Thy Word.
Thou art, verily, the Powerful, the Ever-Giving, the Able, the Omnipotent."
('Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'í Prayers, p. 57)
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Bahá'í Prayer for guidance, understanding and unity (chanted in Persian)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVecoQdUcAg
Uploadet den 14/01/2011
Beautiful Persian Chanting from the writings of Abdu'l Baha." chanted by Parviz Mohajer, Flute Iraj Taheri.
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