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web link	bahai-library.com/bibliography/BIB27732
reference type	Electronic Book Section
title	Injustice Against Bahá’u’lláh and the Evolution of Human Rights
book title	Bahá'í-Inspired Perspectives on Human Rights
author	Barnes, Kiser
authority control	Kiser Barnes
year	2014
date	2014/06/23
publisher	Juxta Publishing
place published	[Place not stated]
abstract	At this time in history when “justice is awakening,” a yearning for it lies at the heart of the evolving moral and legal framework for the protection of individuals from government injustice associated with religious belief, race, gender, cultural and civilization orientations, and age. While justice is not the only value vital to removing injustices, the range of meaningful application of the concept is extremely wide. Its postulates include human rights as a means of preventing abuses by oppressive governments. In connection with a primary purpose of the Prophets' advent, which, according to the Bahá’í writings, is to “transform ignorance into wisdom, injustice into justice, error into knowledge, cruelty into affection,” and the persecution of the Bahá’í Faith that drew into its vortex the Person of Bahá’u’lláh, the Founder of the Bahá’í Faith (1817-1892), this paper suggests that His response to the wrongs inflicted upon Him by the tyrannical mid-nineteenth century rulers of Persia and the Ottoman Empire is a part of humanity’s quest for global justice, of which the remarkable evolution of human rights is an element. It is impossible to understand the transformation without looking to His exceptional life story.
notes	Published as part of Juxta Publishing's online continuation of Bahá'í-Inspired Perspectives on Human Rights.
keywords	HUMAN RIGHTS; JUSTICE; BAHA'U'LLAH; SUFFERING
URL	http://perspectives.juxta.com/2014/06/barnes_injustices_against_bahaullah_20140623215519/
pages	29
section	10.
access date	Language: English

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