Greetings to all of the believers in the One God of Abraham, and may His Peace and Blessings be always upon us!
While meditating upon a passage from Bahá'u'lláh's Gleanings, something is weighing heavily on my heart, brothers and sisters: our disunity as the People of God. We argue and fight, kill each other, make war with one another. WE NEED TO STOP! WE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM! Surely, God — who has, through the children of one and the same man, brought forth four different religions— commands us as His Servants, His Lovers, to be one family! Understanding this, the various conflicts which have arisen among us (for any reason) MUST be extinguished. Can this happen? With every fiber of my being, I say “Yes!” How? I believe that it comes through an honest examination of not only the words of our Holy Books, but also the Spirit of those Words, and the manifestation of true devotion to them and that Spirit in our dealings with each other. In all of the Books, there is an unambiguous affirmation of the Unity of God, the Glorification of His Majesty, the Creation of all humankind by the One and the Same God, and a firm belief in the Revelation of God as given to Abraham, and in His Messengers.
So, what am I saying in all of this? In our differences, we must learn to hold our peace, not allowing them whatsoever to continue to be sources of contention and strife. In our similarities, we must rejoice, as the common Lovers of the Almighty God — Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Bahá'ís — in the spirit of unity and reconciliation! If you agree, then say so!
While meditating upon a passage from Bahá'u'lláh's Gleanings, something is weighing heavily on my heart, brothers and sisters: our disunity as the People of God. We argue and fight, kill each other, make war with one another. WE NEED TO STOP! WE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM! Surely, God — who has, through the children of one and the same man, brought forth four different religions— commands us as His Servants, His Lovers, to be one family! Understanding this, the various conflicts which have arisen among us (for any reason) MUST be extinguished. Can this happen? With every fiber of my being, I say “Yes!” How? I believe that it comes through an honest examination of not only the words of our Holy Books, but also the Spirit of those Words, and the manifestation of true devotion to them and that Spirit in our dealings with each other. In all of the Books, there is an unambiguous affirmation of the Unity of God, the Glorification of His Majesty, the Creation of all humankind by the One and the Same God, and a firm belief in the Revelation of God as given to Abraham, and in His Messengers.
So, what am I saying in all of this? In our differences, we must learn to hold our peace, not allowing them whatsoever to continue to be sources of contention and strife. In our similarities, we must rejoice, as the common Lovers of the Almighty God — Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Bahá'ís — in the spirit of unity and reconciliation! If you agree, then say so!
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