tag name Decline and renewal of religion type: Religion, general web link bahai-library.com/tags/Decline_and_renewal_of_religion related tags - Religion; – Concepts, Religious; Abrogation; Changeless Faith of God; Changing and unchanging parts of religion; Disintegration and integration; Progressive revelation; Recurrent events; Renewal referring tags Abrogation and confirmation of laws; Day of Resurrection (or Day of Judgment); New creation (phrase); Spring Inventory subject Cycles in the physical and spiritual worlds; Progressive revelation; renewal of religion selected quotations
(authoritative sources)These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts:
"... Religion is verily the chief instrument for the establishment of order in the world and of tranquility amongst its peoples. The weakening of the pillars of religion hath strengthened the foolish and emboldened them and made them more arrogant. Verily I say: The greater the decline of religion, the more grievous the waywardness of the ungodly. This cannot but lead in the end to chaos and confusion..."
– Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, Kalimát-i-Firdawsíyyih (Words of Paradise), ¶19
"... In the beginning, this tree was full of vitality and laden with blossoms and fruit, but gradually it grew old, spent, and barren, until it entirely withered and decayed. That is why the True Gardener will again plant a tender sapling of the same stock, that it may grow and develop day by day, extend its sheltering shade in this heavenly garden, and yield its prized fruit. So it is with the divine religions: With the passage of time, their original precepts are altered, their underlying truth entirely vanishes, their spirit departs, heresies spring up, and they become a body without a soul. That is why they are renewed..."
– `Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, ¶43.10 The Two Kinds of Prophets"... The spiritual cycles associated with the Prophets of God proceed in like manner. That is, the day of the advent of the Holy Manifestations is the spiritual springtime. It is divine splendour and heavenly grace; it is the wafting of the breeze of life and the dawning of the Sun of Truth. Spirits are revived, hearts are refreshed, souls are refined, all existence is stirred into motion, and human realities are rejoiced and grow in attainments and perfections. Universal progress is achieved, the souls are gathered up, and the dead are quickened to life—for it is the day of resurrection, the season of commotion and ferment, the hour of joy and gladness, and the time of rapture and abandon..."
– `Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, ¶14.7 Material and Spiritual Cycles
references www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Renewal religion; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Renewal
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