From: bavafa@netcom.com (Hooshyar Naraghi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: The Baha'i prespective on the future of Iran
Date: 12 Sep 92 03:46:54 GMT
Organization: Visionary Futurist

In article <i.716247187@home> Mohaghegh writes:
>hakim@bigq.enet.dec.com writes:
>>one line deleted
>> "Let nothing grieve thee, O Land of Ta (Tihran) [This is the manner by
>>                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> which Baha'u'llah addresses Iran in His Writings. KH] ......
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>From (Tihran) it is obvious that he talks about Tehran and not Iran.

How do you know, jenAb-e mohaghegh? :-)  Have you done any studies of the
Baha'i Faith specially the writings of Baha'u'llah to report such obviousity?
I know, you were reading the sentence and interpreted it as it stands.

>Typical of Mr. Hakim;

I can only agree with you.  Kamran does include his brackets to _inform_
the reader of the position of the Baha'i Faith re: certain phrases in the
Baha'i writings.  It would hopefully provide a background to the reader.
Now, it is very possible one would not agree with the position of the Faith 
in regards to its own writings.  In that case, the person would bring about
reason as why s/he saw or interpreted the phrase differently, just like a
true 'mohaghegh.'

>[kamran -HFN] using every opportunity to promote something
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^ 
>which is not promotable.

Can you be kind and more straightforward to share with us what is this 
_something_ that was supposed to be promoted here?  The dilemma is while
we don't know what the hell it is, how come suddenly it is not even
promotable?  [promotable means not capable of being promoted -HFN]
Oh, well, who cares?


>and finally his own wisdom to show something false is true.
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Can you, moreover, continue to be kind and share with us what was this
_false_ something?

Let's get a little serious here [read I was not very serious so far :-) -HFN]

The subject as was clearly stated in the Subject line was how the Baha'i
Faith _prophecizes_ the future of Iran.  It's only a prophecy, a positive
one indeed.  It's not about promotion, whether it is promotable or not.
The glory of Iran in the future is a _promise_ by Baha'u'llah which is deeply
rooted in the Baha'i Faith philosophy.  The question was what people thought of
future of Iran, and Kamaran correctly and kindly _shared_ with the poster, and
the rest of the netters, what we Baha'is _believe_ in this regard.  BTW, I am
sure everyone - including you - understands that by reading one is not forced
to accept the content.  The idea is to _share_ can you but understand?

Now, if you did not care about the subject line and simply because Kamaran
posted something _about _ the Baha'i Faith you felt to comment on his wisdom,
and then brag about non-pomotability of something non-promotable, then I would
politely and humbly apologize for taking the bandwidth with my reply here.

After all we are all 'mohaghegh' in our lives, don't you agree?

Regards,
Hooshyar F. Naraghi
bavafa@netcom.com
(415) 324-1055
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