Tony, thank you for reading carefully my understanding of the Baha'i Writings on this topic, and I appreciated your stories about Muffin which also demonstrate that animals express divine attributes too - by instincts, instead of choice, but they are teachers for us just the same. Warm Regards, Dan...

Jonah, Thank you for finding those other resources on that topic. The link to notes recorded by Ahmad Sohrab of what `Abdu'l-Baha apparently said as well as the other link to a very complete compilation of Baha'i Writings on animals, are quite useful. This other quotation does not modify my central...

Do Animals Go to Heaven? This entry was prompted from questions from a friend interested in the Faith and I did a quick search on Library but didn't find any answers to the question of my satisfaction. There was a thread that occured in 2002 on this topic (though is now closed) with a nice compilat...