tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post1805105920278244853..comments2023-09-25T12:44:07.828-07:00Comments on Baha'i Faith - Its origin and its role: Kitab-i-Aqdas - The first translated Elder-Miller VersionNaser Emtesalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174192365767859976noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post-64616503002372083952017-09-03T23:36:01.372-07:002017-09-03T23:36:01.372-07:00The fact that your comment was "anonymous&quo...The fact that your comment was "anonymous" is enough to discredit it, you coward!Dale Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13222134168858352370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post-68874314702563897032014-02-24T22:05:51.385-08:002014-02-24T22:05:51.385-08:00I didn't say "translation." I said &...I didn't say "translation." I said "commentary." <br /> <br />Here, fool:<br /> <br />www.YogaSutras.com<br /><br />J. Curtis Lee Mickunashttp://www.bahaiface.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post-36053203369074155492012-06-23T00:28:32.704-07:002012-06-23T00:28:32.704-07:00And where are these great translations? Show us th...And where are these great translations? Show us the books , publish them right here, so we can have a long hard look at them.<br />Keep investigating, maybe you will find some more interesting things out there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post-5139744018274018202012-03-26T14:54:32.905-07:002012-03-26T14:54:32.905-07:00Ah, but I'm very contented with my life.
You ...Ah, but I'm very contented with my life. <br />You see, I used to say those Baha''i "prayers for contentment." <br />But somehow unlike most Baha'is, for me they actually worked.<br /><br />Now, the race- and nation-killing Baha'i Faith is only one of a dozen side hobbies of mine. My main work is writing a better Yoga-Sutra commentary, and a few other things -- anonymous.<br /> <br />Talk about "get a life."J. Curtis Lee Mickunashttp://www.bahaiface.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post-853080060738553372012-03-24T10:23:54.768-07:002012-03-24T10:23:54.768-07:00lol J. Curtis its sad when i come upon people like...lol J. Curtis its sad when i come upon people like you. go do something else with your life mateAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post-17827182052178777642012-03-20T04:48:35.268-07:002012-03-20T04:48:35.268-07:00The "truth" of the "Baha'i reve...The "truth" of the "Baha'i revelation" is that your admin. suppressed the Baha'i revelation (the Kitab-i-Aqdas) for 120 years, considering it embarrassing, and knowing that it would destroy membership enrollments if the revelation were revealed.<br /><br />"Pride"? Have you ever read any of the outlandish things your "Blessed Beauty" says about himself?<br /><br />J. Curtis Lee MickunasJ. Curtis Lee Mickunashttp://www.bahaiface.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post-24275198852338680782012-03-19T14:46:21.607-07:002012-03-19T14:46:21.607-07:00I think the lack of response to your inflammatory ...I think the lack of response to your inflammatory ignorance and hate pandering is evidence enough of the truth of Baha'u'llah's revelation. Those who truly follow His path cling not to enmity and selfish pride (your true motive), but to unity and forgiveness (a Christian characteristic). Blessings and peace!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post-60515307123085023302012-03-17T15:21:47.022-07:002012-03-17T15:21:47.022-07:00Hello Naser--
Thank you for posting excerpts from...Hello Naser--<br /><br />Thank you for posting excerpts from BahaiFace.com. There have been corrections to that page since you found it. The first paragraphs are given below (also found at the link you gave.) In particular, the very FIRST paragraph below should be substituted for the 1st non-bold paragraph in your display. It turns out an Aqdas was translated into English already by 1901 by an Anton Haddad! (The Baha'i suppression was even more extreme than thought! I never heard of either translations when I was in the Baha'i Faith!) This is an important correction. Please make appropriate or desired updates to your page from the paragraphs below, or from any other material of interest at the current page. <br />http://bahai-faith-bahaullah.com/Bahai_Faith_Kitab_i_Aqdas_Most_Holy_Book.html<br /><br />Thanks for spreading this.<br />J. Curtis Lee Mickunas <br />||| ||| |||<br /><br />The Elder & Miller translation was the second time the Baha'i Faith's mysterious "Most Holy Book" became available in English. But like the Haddad translation produced in 1901, The Baha'i administration ignored it and quietly let it die to the memory of their membership. They did not publish it to the Baha'is. Rather, to protect their nascent religious movement in the west, they deprived Baha'is of their own central scripture for the first 120 years of their projected "thousand year" dispensation.<br /><br />It did not contain the necessary translation "treatment" to keep it from damaging the religion's reputation. Either the Baha'i-positive Haddad version or the scholarly Elder-Miller translations would have adversely affected membership if the Baha'i leadership had not successfully directed followers away from them. Right up until 1991, when the Baha'i administration belatedly came out with their version, most Baha'is believed the administration when they said "It hasn't been translated yet." <br /><br />....<br /><br />Baha'is believe their "Most Holy Book" was God's guidance to mankind for the next thousand years. Naturally, by lacking their own scriptural guidance, what developed as "the Baha'i Faith" ended up substantially at variance with the religion depicted in the "Most Holy Book." This "revelation" by the Baha'i founder Baha'u'llah is believed to have been completed by 1873, thus 139 years have already passed and Baha'is are still not wearing sable or marking thieves on the forehead. <br /> <br />Elder and Miller were two English orientalists and Arabic scholars, Elder an author of an Arabic grammar who had spent 50 years in the near east. Miller was living in Persia and exposed to Baha'is, was keenly interested in the them, and interviewed early Baha'is and Babis. I am fortunate to possess an original first edition hardcover copy of the rare 1961 book (shown here). It's old enough to be printed in hot lead type. Why is it rare? Because Baha'is sought to suppress it. Book suppression is common with Baha'is. They even extirpated the writings of their own ostensible prophet-founder, The Bab, so well that no copy of his central scripture, the Bayan, is known to exist. Baha'is even have the habit of confiscating books they deem to be adverse to their growth. I recall going through the estate of a famous early Baha'i Ruth Moffett and finding many "no no" books about the Baha'i Faith that she had removed from libraries over the years. Baha'i book purging is one reason that hardcover copies of Elder & Miller's Aqdas are so rare today.<br /> <br />As with the 1901 Haddad translation, after Elder-Miller's translation was published in 1961 western Baha'is were kept in the dark about its existence. I was an active Baha'i for nearly 15 years and never heard of it...<br /><br />Delete this post if you like.J. Curtis Lee Mickunashttp://www.bahaiface.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post-45021065027699679152012-03-14T10:35:59.145-07:002012-03-14T10:35:59.145-07:00I hate this Ban'a'naI hate this Ban'a'naAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com