The Tabernacle of Unity
Notes
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From the Lawḥ-i-Maqṣúd; cf. Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitáb-i-Aqdas (Haifa: Bahá’í World Centre, 1988), p. 171.
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The “Necessary Being” (vájibu’l-vujúd) refers to God; this term was used by Muslim philosophers such as al-Fárábí and can be traced to Aristotle.
9
Taqvá, translated here as “righteousness”, has further connotations of piety, fear of God, and right conduct that cannot all be conveyed with a single word in English.
10
In Islamic law, religious principles (uṣúl; lit. “roots”), concern the sources of the law that can be explicitly derived from the Qur’án and the Ḥadíth, whereas secondary laws and ordinances (furú‘; lit. “branches”) are deduced from the former through the discipline of jurisprudence (fiqh)
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