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According to Bahá'u'lláh’s teachings, resurrection is the birth of the individual into spiritual life. It comes through the gift of the Holy Spirit bestowed upon man by Christ and the other Messengers of God in whatever age they may appear. The grave from which the individual arises is the grave of ignorance and negligence of God. The sleep from which he awakens is the dormant spiritual condition in which many await the dawn of the new Day of God. This dawn, or coming of the Messenger of God, illuminates all who live on the face of the earth. Everyone, except those who are spiritually blind, will see and recognize it. (109:4) The present Day of resurrection is not a day of twenty-four hours, but an era which has already begun. It will last as long as men are being called from their graves of spiritual death or lack of faith and belief. The Messenger of God for this day, Bahá'u'lláh, is calling upon all men to arise from their graves of doubt and error, just as Christ called to them in the reign of the Roman Caesars. (109:5) This is the true meaning behind "being born again". From spiritual death man is brought to spiritual life. Jesus said: "Ye must be born again." Whoever was quickened by His Word attained to new life and to resurrection. It is the same in this day. Bahá'u'lláh has breathed the Words of God upon humanity, and all those who are quickened by this life-giving spirit, attain to the Day of resurrection and are thus delivered from the graves of spiritual death. (109:6) There is a verse concerning this truth in the sacred Scriptures of Islam, which says: (109:7) When the Qa'im (Promised One) riseth that day is the Day of resurrection.31 (109:8) This is the day when new "life" has been bestowed upon man by God’s Messenger; therefore, man has been rescued from "death".
(109:9)
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