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    Justice and Fairness to All of Creation

    Most of the articles so far in this series have been focussed implicitly or explicitly on human concerns and human relationships. However, Bahá’u’lláh’s writings also draw attention to the relationship human beings have with the natural world of which we are a part. For example, Bahá’u’lláh draws attention to the obligations that human beings have to animals. … show kindness to animals….[1] Burden not an animal with more than it can bear. We, truly, have prohibited such treatment through a most binding interdiction in the Book.[2] We may think of the concept of “burden” in a narrow sense of direct cruelty to animals; but that Bahá’u’lláh seems to intend more is suggested by the…

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