Presented at Session #109
Ridwan Renewed: The Semitic-Abrahamic religions and Babi-Baha’i concepts of Ridvan
Bosch Bahá'í School, Santa Cruz, USA · May 16–20, 2012
Abstract
"And a Ridwan from God is supremely great" (Qur'an 9:72b) "O people of the earth! ... God promised both the male and female believers among the people of the covenant (ahl al-`ahd) what pertains to the [messianic] Dhikr (Remembrance) the most transcendent Paradises (al-jannat al-`aliyya) and blessed dwelling places (masakin tayyibat) in the Greatest Ridwan of God for such is indeed the Greatest Attainment (al-fawz al-akbar) in the Book of God (the Bab, from Surat al-Qist (I), `The Surah of the Balance', Qayyum al-asma' LXX [70]; cf. Q. 9:72).
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