{"id":7294,"date":"2021-04-10T12:24:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T08:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=7294"},"modified":"2022-06-11T12:24:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T08:54:44","slug":"contradictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=7294&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"CONTRADICTIONS \u2013 PART 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

RELIGION MUST BE IN CONFORMITY WITH SCIENCE AND\u00a0REASON<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Bah\u0101\u2019u\u2019ll\u0101h<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cContradiction has and will not ever have a way in the sanctified realm of the Divine Manifestations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: Bah\u0101\u2019u\u2019ll\u0101h, Bad\u012b`, p. 126.<\/p>\n

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If Religion Contradicts Reason Which One Is Incorrect?<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

`Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101<\/a>: If religion contradicts science and reason, that religion is an illusion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf religious matters are against science and reason, they are illusions,\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: `Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101, Kha\u1e6d\u0101b\u0101t (Tehran), vol. 2, p. 147.<\/p>\n

Bah\u0101\u2019u\u2019ll\u0101h and `Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101: If religion contradicts science and reason, the human mind is to be blamed.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes, a weak intellect cannot perceive [a concept]. In such a case, intellect has a shortcoming by being imperfect, not religion,\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: `Abd al-\u1e24am\u012bd Ishr\u0101q Kh\u0101war\u012b, Pay\u0101m-i malak\u016bt, p.93 (citing `Abd al-Bah\u0101)<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the fundamental teachings of Bah\u0101\u2019u\u2019ll\u0101h is that true science and true religion must always be in harmony. Truth is one, and whenever conflict appears it is due, not to truth, but to error,\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: J. E. Esslemont, Bah\u0101\u2019u\u2019ll\u0101h and the New Era, p.197.<\/p>\n

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Is Science Good or Bad?<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

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`Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101: The difference between man and animal is science and reason.<\/p>\n

Reference: `Abd al-\u1e24am\u012bd Ishr\u0101q Kh\u0101war\u012b, Pay\u0101m-i malak\u016bt, p. 92.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe highest virtue of the human world is science for it is the discovery of the truth of things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: `Abd al-\u1e24am\u012bd Ishr\u0101q Kh\u0101war\u012b, Pay\u0101m-i malak\u016bt, p. 81.<\/p>\n

The B\u0101b: Teaching anything but my books is forbidden.<\/p>\n

Reference: `Al\u012b Mu\u1e25ammad B\u0101b<\/a>, Farsi Bay\u0101n, unit 4, chap. 10.<\/p>\n

All non-B\u0101b\u012b books must be burned.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe utterance of the [book or religion] of Bay\u0101n in the day of the appearance of his Highness A`l\u0101 (meaning the B\u0101b) was to behead, burn the books, destroy the monuments, and massacre [everyone] but those who believed [in the B\u0101b\u2019s religion] and verified it,\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference:`Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101, Mak\u0101t\u012bb (Egypt: 1330 AH), vol. 2, p. 266<\/p>\n

\u201cThe unbelievers and the faithless have set their minds on four things: first, the shedding of blood [beheading]; second, the burning of books; third, the shunning of the followers of other religions; fourth, the extermination of other communities and groups. Now however, through the strengthening grace and potency of the Word of God these four barriers have been demolished, these clear injunctions have been obliterated from the Tablet and brutal dispositions have been transmuted into spiritual attributes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: Bah\u0101\u2019u\u2019ll\u0101h, Tablets of Bah\u0101\u2019u\u2019ll\u0101h Revealed After the Kit\u0101b-i-Aqdas, p. 91.<\/p>\n

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Is B\u0101bism a True Religion: Books and Teaching<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

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`Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101: \u201cIf religious matters are against science and reason, they are illusions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: `Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101, Kha\u1e6d\u0101b\u0101t (Tehran), vol. 2, p. 147.<\/p>\n

The B\u0101b: Do not teach but my books, do not argue but by my words, do not own but my writings.<\/p>\n

\u201cTeaching a book other than the book of Bay\u0101n is not allowed unless it has in it what is related to speculative theology (kal\u0101m). [Teaching] those [sciences] which have been invented such as logic (man\u1e6diq), principles of jurisprudence (u\u1e63\u016bl), and other [sciences], are not permitted for those who have faith,\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: The B\u0101b, Farsi Bay\u0101n, unit 4, chap. 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not argue but by the verses [of the Bay\u0101n] for whoever does not argue using them has no knowledge, and do not mention any miracle [but this book]!\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: The B\u0101b, Arabic Bay\u0101n, unit 6, chapter 8.<\/p>\n

\u201cChapter six of the sixth unit which is about destroying all books but those that have been written or will be written about this Order (meaning the Bab\u2019s creed),\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: The B\u0101b, Farsi bay\u0101n, unit 6, chap. 6.<\/p>\n

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Is B\u0101bism a True Religion: Destroy Anyone and Everything Non-B\u0101b\u012b<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

`Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101: \u201cIf religious matters are against science and reason, they are illusions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: `Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101, Kha\u1e6d\u0101b\u0101t (Tehran), vol. 2, p. 147.<\/p>\n

The B\u0101b: Destroy anyone and anything non-B\u0101b\u012b.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe utterance of the [book or religion] of Bay\u0101n in the day of the appearance of his Highness A`l\u0101 (meaning the B\u0101b) was to behead, burn the books, destroy the monuments, and massacre [everyone] but those who believed [in the B\u0101b\u2019s religion] and verified it,\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: `Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101, Mak\u0101t\u012bb (Egypt: 1330 AH), vol. 2, p. 266<\/p>\n

\u201cThe unbelievers and the faithless have set their minds on four things: first, the shedding of blood [beheading]; second, the burning of books; third, the shunning of the followers of other religions; fourth, the extermination of other communities and groups. Now however, through the strengthening grace and potency of the Word of God these four barriers have been demolished, these clear injunctions have been obliterated from the Tablet and brutal dispositions have been transmuted into spiritual attributes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: Bah\u0101\u2019u\u2019ll\u0101h, Tablets of Bah\u0101\u2019u\u2019ll\u0101h Revealed After the Kit\u0101b-i-Aqdas, p. 91<\/p>\n

\u201cYou must destroy everything [non-B\u0101b\u012b?] that you have written and you must argue using the Bay\u0101n,\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: The B\u0101b, Arabic Bay\u0101n, unit 6, chap. 6.<\/p>\n

\u201cChapter six of the sixth unit which is about destroying all books but those that have been written or will be written about this Order (meaning the Bab\u2019s creed),\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: The B\u0101b, Farsi bay\u0101n, unit 6, chap. 6.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fifth chapter of the fifth unit which is about the decree of taking the property of those who do not believe in [the religion] of Bayan and giving it back if they become believers in this religion, except in the lands where taking [property] is not possible,\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: The B\u0101b, Farsi Bayan, unit 5, chap. 5<\/p>\n

\u201cChapter six of the sixth unit which is about destroying all books but those that have been written or will be written about this Order (meaning the Bab\u2019s creed),\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: The B\u0101b, Farsi bay\u0101n, unit 6, chap. 6.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sixteenth chapter of the seventh unit which is about [the decree] that all rulers who rise who are [followers] of the religion of the Bayan, leave no-one in their land who is not a follower of this religion. This is compulsory upon all the people too,\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: The B\u0101b, Farsi Bay\u0101n, unit 7, chap. 16<\/p>\n

\u201cHe who acquires a position of ruling is a manifestation of God\u2019s wrath and if possible for him, must ot leave [alive] on earth anyone but the B\u0101b\u012bs!\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: The B\u0101b, Lau\u1e25 haykal al-d\u012bn, unit 4, chap. al-Bah\u0101.<\/p>\n

\u201cMake everyone accept the [religion of] Bay\u0101n and do not accept from them jewels that would amount to the whole earth as payment so that they are excused from becoming B\u0101b\u012bs,\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: The B\u0101b, Lau\u1e25 haykal al-d\u012bn, unit 5, chap. al-L\u0101d.<\/p>\n

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Is B\u0101bism a True Religion: Food and Medicine<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

`Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101: \u201cIf religious matters are against science and reason, they are illusions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: `Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101, Kha\u1e6d\u0101b\u0101t (Tehran), vol. 2, p. 147.<\/p>\n

The B\u0101b: Do not buy, sell, or use medicine. Not drinking donkey milk will make you pious.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou must not possess, buy, sell, or use medicine, intoxicants, and higher than those!\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: The B\u0101b, Arabic Bay\u0101n, unit 9, chap. 8<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not drink donkey milk! And do not load it and other animals with what they cannot bear. This is what God has made incumbent upon you so that you may become pious!\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: The B\u0101b, Arabic Bay\u0101n, unit 10, chap. 15.<\/p>\n

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Is B\u0101bism a True Religion: Guidelines for Going on Journeys<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

`Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101: \u201cIf religious matters are against science and reason, they are illusions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: `Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101, Kha\u1e6d\u0101b\u0101t (Tehran), vol. 2, p. 147.<\/p>\n

The B\u0101b: \u201cDo not go on journeys but [1] for the sake of God and [2] if you are going to (visit) He Whom God Shall Make manifest or [3] (visiting) those who have faith in him. And He orders you to take the leaves of trees and eat them [!] and walk above [!] the earth with your legs!\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: The B\u0101b, Lau\u1e25 haykal al-d\u012bn, unit 6, chap. al-Bad\u012b.<\/p>\n

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Is B\u0101bism a True Religion: Some Miscellaneous Laws<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n

`Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101: \u201cIf religious matters are against science and reason, they are illusions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: `Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101, Kha\u1e6d\u0101b\u0101t (Tehran), vol. 2, p. 147.<\/p>\n

The B\u0101b: Renew your books every 202 years by throwing them in water or giving them to someone else.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn every dispensation, God loves that everything becomes renewed. It is because of this that he has ordered that once in every 202 years every person renew what books he possesses by either putting them in fresh water or bestowing them to someone else!\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: The B\u0101b, Farsi Bay\u0101n, unit 7, chap. 1<\/p>\n

If you truly believe in God you must not ride cows or make them carry loads.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not ride cows and do not put loads on them if you (truly) believe in God and His signs,\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: The B\u0101b, Arabic Bay\u0101n, unit 10, chap. 15.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not wear clothes that will frighten children!\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: The B\u0101b, Arabic Bay\u0101n, unit 7, chap. 6.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not buy or sell the four elements (earth, air, fire, and water)!\u201d<\/p>\n

Reference: The B\u0101b, Arabic Bay\u0101n, unit 9, chap. 11.<\/p>\n

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