The Body of God: Major themes in Bahá’u’lláh's Suríh of the Temple
Channel: Association for Bahá’í Studies
Date: 2022-09-21

John S. Hatcher - 2022 ABS Conference

One Bahá’í belief essential to understanding a major theme of the Súriy-i-Haykal is the concept of how God delegates authority to humankind. Stated as a concomitant of the methodology by which God gradually advances society age to age through the advent of the Manifestations, this law is best described as gradualness or Qadar. Simply put, learning is constrained by degree, by the fact that, though ultimately destined to succeed, the path to the Lesser Peace necessitates that we acquire new learning and implement it by degrees, whether as individuals or as a global community.