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CHAPTER 2: THE BAB:( 3) THE FORERUNNER
Verily the oppressor hath slain the Beloved of the worlds that he might
thereby quench the Light of God amidst His creatures and withhold mankind
from the Stream of Celestial Life in the days of his Lord, the Gracious,
the Bountiful
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Elementary education should be general.
In the new and wondrous Dispensation now commencing, women are to have fuller freedom.
The poor are to be provided for out of the common treasury, but begging is strictly forbidden, as is the use of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes.
The guiding motive of the true Babi must be pure love, without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
Thus He says in the Bayan:-- So worship God that if the recompense of thy worship of Him were to be the Fire, no alteration in thy worship of Him would be produced.
If you worship from fear, that is unworthy of the threshold of the holiness of God....
So also, if your gaze is on Paradise, and if you worship in hope of that; for then you have made God's creation a Partner with Him .-- Babis of Persia, II, Prof.
E.G.Browne, J.R.A.S., vol.xxi, p.
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