Reading the Sacred Scriptures by Fiachra Long Siobhán Dowling Long

Author:Fiachra Long,Siobhán Dowling Long
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

In a third sense, Baha’u’llah asserts that these words mean the laws and teachings of each religious dispensation since these are a source of spiritual illumination:

In another sense, by the terms “sun”, “moon”, and “stars” are meant such laws and teachings as have been established and proclaimed in every Dispensation, such as the laws of prayer and fasting. These have, according to the law of the Qur’ān, been regarded, when the beauty of the Prophet Muhammad had passed beyond the veil, as the most fundamental and binding laws of His Dispensation. To this testify the texts of the traditions and chronicles, which, on account of their being widely known, need not be referred to here. Nay rather, in every Dispensation the law concerning prayer hath been emphasized and universally enforced …

It is unquestionable that in every succeeding Revelation the “sun” and “moon” of the teachings, laws, commandments, and prohibitions which have been established in the preceding Dispensation, and which have overshadowed the people of that age, become darkened, that is, are exhausted, and cease to exert their influence.

Baha’u’llah 1989, pp. 38–39, 41

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