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Self-mortification

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Contents

  • 1 Self-mortification prohibited
  • 2 Those who imposed mortifications have not been remembered by God; good deeds depend on God's acceptance
  • 3 Many souls have endured mortifications of the flesh and yet failed to enter into the Kingdom
  • 4 Self-mortification introduced to Christianity from idolaters
  • 5 See also

Self-mortification prohibited[edit]

"At a meeting at His home that afternoon, the Master answered many questions. Among His pronouncements was the prohibition of self-mortification. He directed that the health and strength of the body be preserved, saying that the more the physical body improves, the more it is capable of making spiritual progress."

(Mahmúd's Diary, June 25, 1912)

Those who imposed mortifications have not been remembered by God; good deeds depend on God's acceptance[edit]

"How many a man hath secluded himself in the climes of India, denied himself the things that God hath decreed as lawful, imposed upon himself austerities and mortifications, and hath not been remembered by God, the Revealer of Verses. Make not your deeds as snares wherewith to entrap the object of your aspiration, and deprive not yourselves of this Ultimate Objective for which have ever yearned all such as have drawn nigh unto God. Say: The very life of all deeds is My good pleasure, and all things depend upon Mine acceptance. Read ye the Tablets that ye may know what hath been purposed in the Books of God, the All-Glorious, the Ever-Bounteous. He who attaineth to My love hath title to a throne of gold, to sit thereon in honour over all the world; he who is deprived thereof, though he sit upon the dust, that dust would seek refuge with God, the Lord of all Religions."

(Bahá'u'lláh, Kitáb-i-Aqdas, par. 36)

Many souls have endured mortifications of the flesh and yet failed to enter into the Kingdom[edit]

"O ye peoples of the Kingdom! How many a soul expended all its span of life in worship, endured the mortification of the flesh, longed to gain an entry into the Kingdom, and yet failed, while ye, with neither toil nor pain nor self-denial, have won the prize and entered in."

('Abdu'l-Bahá, Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá)

Self-mortification introduced to Christianity from idolaters[edit]

"...when the Greeks and Romans became Christians, some of the idolatrous customs were incorporated into Christianity. For example, the adornment of churches with images, self-mortification, abstinence, monks' habits, the lighting of candles in church, the ringing of the bell in the steeple and others. These are all from idolaters."

('Abdu'l-Bahá, Mahmúd's Diary, June 26, 1912)

See also[edit]

  • Tattoo
  • Asceticism
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