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Siamo uno – Bahá’u’lláh sull’unicità dell’umanità
Shoghi Effendi, il nipote di Bahá’u’lláh, descrisse l’unicità dell’umanità come il “fulcro” degli insegnamenti di Bahá’u’lláh. Quando il figlio di Bahá’u’lláh, Abdu’l Baha, viaggiò nell’Occidente all’inizio del XX secolo, spesso iniziava i suoi discorsi con il principio dell’unicità dell’umanità. Perché questo e il primo dei principi di Bahá’u’lláh. Quando lo studioso inglese Edward Granville Browne visitò Bahá’u’lláh, verso la fine della sua vita, il tema dell’unità fu il cuore dalle parole che Bahá’u’lláh gli ha detto. That all nations should become one in faith and all men as brothers; that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened; that diversity of religion should cease,…
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The Duty of Kindness and Sympathy Towards Strangers and Foreigners
It is hardest to write of those things about which we feel most deeply. Today I wish to write about someone whose words and life have profoundly influenced and inspired me. That person is Abdu’l Baha: the son of the founder of the Baha’i Faith and its leader from 1892 to 1921. I wish to address particularly what Abdu’l Baha had to say about the issue of ‘foreignness’. One hundred years ago, on 16 and 17 October 1911, he gave his first recorded talk to the people of Paris. The theme of his talk was “the duty of kindness and sympathy towards strangers and foreigners”. What did Abdu’l Baha see…