tag name: Uncleanness (impurity) type: Religion, general web link: bahai-library.com/tags/Uncleanness_(impurity) variations or mis-spellings: ritual uncleanness; ritual impurity related tags: Purity notes: "... God hath ... as a bounty from His presence, abolished the concept of “uncleanness,” whereby divers things and peoples have been held to be impure. He, of a certainty, is the Ever-Forgiving, the Most Generous. Verily, all created things were immersed in the sea of purification when, on that first day of Riḍván, We shed upon the whole of creation the splendors of Our most excellent Names and Our most exalted Attributes. This, verily, is a token of My loving providence, which hath encompassed all the worlds..." – Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Aqdas, ¶ 75 "The concept of ritual “uncleanness,” as understood and practiced in some tribal societies and in the religious communities of certain earlier Dispensations, has been abolished by Bahá’u’lláh. He states that through His Revelation “all created things were immersed in the sea of purification.” (See also notes 12, 20, and 103.)" – Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Note 106
"... the division of humankind into the “clean” and the “unclean,” ... is abolished..." – Universal House of Justice, letter dated 27 April 1995.
references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unclean; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_purification; bahai9.com/wiki/Ritual_uncleanliness; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Uncleanness
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