Titled, Reflections on the Life of the Spirit.
Read online at http://bahaistudies.net/ruhi/ruhi1.pdf (though it is recommended to participate in study with one's community)
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To the Collaborators[edit]
- (19 paragraphs followed by sequence 1-6)
- Paragraph 1: Intro to "collaborator" vs. "tutor"
- Paragraph 2: Importance of studying units carefully though lesser importance of reading intro for first timers
- Paragraphs 3-10: 3 levels of comprehension
- Paragraphs 11-20 (and 6 points at end): Overview of 3 units of the book
Unit 1: Understanding the Bahá'í Writings[edit]
Purpose
Practice
Section 1[edit]
Paragraph 1
Quote & Question 1 (quotation from the Advent of Divine Justice pp. 24-25)
Quote & Question 2 (quotation from the Gleanings sec. 139, p. 305)
- (see Question 1)
Quote & Question 3 (quotation from the Hidden Words from the Arabic, no. 31)
Quote & Question 4 (quotation from the Hidden Words from the Persian, no. 5)
- (see Question 1)
Quote & Question 5 (quotation from the Hidden Words from the Persian, no. 69)
- (see Question 1)
Section 2[edit]
- (see Section 1)
Question 1
- a. work ethic
- b. respect
- c. studiousness
- d. truthfulness
- e. diligence
- f. helpfulness
Question 2
Question 3
- a. impact of individual on society
- b. consensus (negative consensus)
- c. scriptural authority (one of the modes of determining truth (or "kinds of proofs"))
Question 4
- a. Teaching the Faith - see Teaching
- b. Stealing - see theft
- c. child care, education of children
- d. intercession
- e. truthfulness
- f. helpfulness, reward, pure motives
Question 5
- a. alcohol
- b. kindness
- c. egalitarianism, justice
- d. adultery
Question 6
- It is not permissible to confess to another person. See confession of sins
Question 7
- For the alternative to confessing sins to another person, see bringing oneself to account.
Question 8
- Found in section 1, quotation 5.
Question 9
- Section 1, quotations 1 and 5?
Question 10
- Section 1, quotations 3 and 5?
Section 3 [edit]
Quote & Question 1 (quotation from the Advent of Divine Justice p. 26)
Quote & Question 2 (quotation from the Advent of Divine Justice p. 26)
- (see Question 1)
Quote & Question 3 (quotation from the Gleanings sec. 136, p. 297)
Question 4
- (see Question 3)
Quote & Question 5 (quotation from the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh p. 138)
Quote & Question 6 (quotation from the Gleanings sec. 137, pp. 298-299)
Section 4[edit]
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
- a. justice, truthfulness
- b. theft, fidelity, hand
- c. fidelity, hand, trespassing (for property or chattel; as distinct from theft)
- d. pornography, chastity
- e. truthfulness
- f. honesty, soul
- g. truthfulness, spiritual progress
- h. lying
- i. theft, hunger
- j. theft
- k. theft
- l. honesty, fairness, truthfulness, heart, enlightened
Question 4
Question 5
Question 6
Section 5[edit]
Paragraph 1
Quote & Question 1 (quotation from the Gleanings sec. 132, p. 289)
Question 2
- (See Question 1)
Quote & Question 3 (quotation from the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Bahá p. 13)
Question 4
Quote & Question 5 (quotation from the Gleanings sec. 5, p. 9)
Quote & Question 6 (quotation from Paris Talks p. 2)
Question 7
Quotation from Paris Talks p. 19
Question 8
Question 9
Section 6[edit]
Question 1
Question 2
- a. patience
- b. patience
- c. courtesy
- d. fault-finding
- e. courtesy, gratitude
- f. helpfulness
Question 3
- a. consultation, opinion
- b. estrangement
- c. fault-finding
- d. travel-teaching, consultation
Question 4
- a. apathy
- b. estrangement
- c. studiousness
- d. estrangement, travel-teaching
Question 5
- a. courtesy
- b. truthfulness, conflict avoidance
- c. love, kindness, conflict
- d. kindness, speech
- e. retaliation
- f. duress, impatience, sadness
- g. mockery
- h. fault-finding, backbiting
- i. estrangement, peace-making
- j. estrangement
Section 7[edit]
4 quotations:
- From the Gleanings sec. 125, p. 265
- From the Hidden Words from the Arabic, no. 27
- From the Hidden Words from the Persian, no. 44
- From the Hidden Words from the Arabic, no. 26
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Question 4
Section 8[edit]
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Question 4
- a. backbiting, fault-finding, character assessment
- b. fault-finding, character assessment
- c. backbiting, changing negative aspects of culture
- d. secrets, backbiting
- e. backbiting, unity
- f. gossip, backbiting
- g. backbiting, capacity assessment
- h. backbiting, bringing oneself to account
- i. actions of harm to the Faith, concealing sins
- j. actions of harm to the Faith, Local Spiritual Assembly
- k. backbiting, marriage
Closing statement
- Enjoinder to Reciting the verses of God - individuals and recommendation of the Hidden Words for this purpose (as also self-recommended for the same purpose in its preamble)
Unit 2: Prayer[edit]
Unit 3: Life and Death[edit]
To-dos for this page[edit]
- Split quotations from question, as did for the quote/question in sec. 5, questions 8 and 9, since their topics may differ somewhat (quotation may have more topics than question or vice versa)
