InvestigateTruth
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Do you understand what taking credit means?
Attribute the progress to ...means taking credit.
take credit for something. to allow people to believe that one has done something praiseworthy, whether or not one has actually done it. I can't take credit for the entire success.
I think I know why you think a Baha'i takes credit from Bahaullah.
You see, in your sect of Hindusim, according to wikipedia you 'believe that Shiva is All and in all, the creator, preserver, destroyer, revealer and concealer of all that is.[15][14] He is not only the creator in Shaivism, he is the creation that results from him, he is everything and everywhere. Shiva is the primal soul, the pure consciousness and Absolute Reality in the Shaiva traditions'.[14]
You believe that God is also the creation, in addition to creator. In that case, when you see that as not separated from God, I would feel, you would be also taking credit for the things of God.
But in Baha'i Faith, it is believed the Creator is separate from His creation. There is no similarities between Him and any of His creation. At best, when a person, achieves the highest spiritual station, he comes to THE VALLEY OF TRUE POVERTY AND ABSOLUTE NOTHINGNESS. But this station is a very rare station. Bahaullah says:
This station is the dying from self and the living in God, the being poor in self and rich in the Desired One. Poverty as here referred to signifieth being poor in the things of the created world, rich in the things of God’s world. For when the true lover and devoted friend reacheth to the presence of the Beloved, the sparkling beauty of the Loved One and the fire of the lover’s heart will kindle a blaze and burn away all veils and wrappings. Yea, all he hath, from heart to skin, will be set aflame, so that nothing will remain save the Friend.
On the other hand I have to say, in a sense you are right that some Baha'is may feel proud and consider themselves better than others. This is certainly a defection. The Baha'i Writings states that at the end, the Baha'i people are not any better than the people of the past. We believe there is only one Perfect Being, who is God, and when He manifests Himself, or wishes to protect a chosen prophet, He does protect them against error or sin. But people like Abdulbaha are rare. We had only one in Baha'i Faith.