THE BAHÁ'ÍS
OF TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA
"Let your vision be world embracing"
--Bahá'í Scripture
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Introduction |
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Some Bahá'í Teachings |
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The Golden Rule |
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Local Activities |
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Links to Some Bahá'í Sites |
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The Golden Rule in the World's Religions
Baha'is respect and believe in each of the Messangers of God, who were the Founders of the word's religions. These Messengers have all spoken the same truth, which is the Word of God, revealed throughout time to the entire world family.
"Light it good in whatsoever lamp it is burning. A rose is beautiful in whatsoever garden it may bloom. A star has the same radiance if it shines from the east or the west. Be fee of prejudice so that you will love the Sun of Truth from whatsoever point in the horizon it may arise." --Bahá'í Scripture
"Blessed is he who preferreth his brother before himself."
-- Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 71
"Become a source of comfort to one another."
-- Selection from the Writings of the Bab, p. 129
"No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself."
-- Sunnah, Hadith
"And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them."
-- New Testament, Luke 6:31
"Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful"
-- Udanavarga 5:18
"Let no man do to another what would be repugnant to himself."
-- Mahabharata 5:5-7
" That mature alone is good which refrains from doing unto others whatsoever is not good itself."
-- Dadistan-I-Dinik 94:5
"What is hateful to you, do not to your fellow man."
-- Talmud: Shabbat 31a
"Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee."
-- Old Testament, Genesis 13:8