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Takfir, declaration of unbelief| |
| Author | Universal House of Justice (actual author might be, or include, the Research Department or another agency of the House) |
Title of item | Takfir, declaration of unbelief |
Subtitle of item | includes excerpts from Risáliy-i-Siyasiyyih |
| Date of this edition | 2001-04-18 |
| Language | English |
| Permission | recipient |
| Posted | 2001-06 by Jonah Winters |
| Formatted | 2001-06 by Alex Christian |
| Classified in | Letters from the Universal House of Justice and Provisional translations |
| URL | bahai-library.com/uhj_takfir_declaration_unbelief |
| Abstract | Questions from an individual about the Muslim practice of takfir, declaring someone an unbeliever, whether this is practiced in the Bahá'í Faith, and questions related to "church and state", followed by the House's response. |
| Notes | Transmitted by email. Contributed by and name retained with permission of recipient. Also available in updated Microsoft Word format, prepared by M. Thomas (2022). |
| Tags | Church and State; Context; Contradictions; Criticism and apologetics; Membership; Politics; Provisional translations; Risaliy-i-Siyasiyyih (Treatise on Leadership); World order (general) |
| Cross-references | See also Treatise on Leadership (Juan Cole, 1998), and Treatise on Leadership:
Extracts (BWC, 2001). | | Page views | 16505 hits since 2001-06 |
| Edit quality | medium: minimally proofread or edited |
| Format quality | high: well formatted |
Last edited | 2022-07-13 23:38 EST. See previous versions [archive.org]. Documents posted between 2003-2012 had various slightly different URLs and sometimes can be found in archive.org with addresses like bahai-library.com/file.php5?file=uhj_takfir_declaration_unbelief. Documents posted prior to October 2003 were at bahai-library.org [archive.org] and had completely different URLs. | | |
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