{"id":631,"date":"2004-03-07T19:07:20","date_gmt":"2004-03-07T17:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/631"},"modified":"2004-03-07T19:07:20","modified_gmt":"2004-03-07T17:07:20","slug":"my-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/631","title":{"rendered":"My own words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#8220;Praise be to God,&#8221; He said, &#8220;that whatever is essential for the believers in this Revelation to be told has been revealed. Their duties have been clearly defined, and the deeds they are expected to perform have been plainly set forth in Our Book. Now is the time for them to arise and fulfil their duty. Let them translate into deeds the exhortations We have given them.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>(Bah&#8217;u&#8217;llah in The Dawn-Breakers, p. 582)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>If I had to choose to speak with my own words or to share the words of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bahai.org\/article-1-3-0-2.html\">Baha&#8217;u&#8217;llah<\/a>, what do you think I would choose?<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iranian.com\/Women\/2004\/March\/Share\/index.html\">8 year old bride<\/a>.  This story is heartbreaking&#8230;nothing new in the history of the world, but I wanted to share nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Praise be to God,&#8221; He said, &#8220;that whatever is essential for the believers in this Revelation to be told has been revealed. Their duties have been clearly defined, and the deeds they are expected to perform have been plainly set&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bahai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}