Tablet catalog
Baptism and the Changing Law of God
OOL 05 00220 Phelps: AB 00211
AB 00211•‘Abdu’l-Bahá•Persian
Baptism and the Changing Law of God
Some Answered Questions #020
800 words

تغیر احوال و تبدل و انقلاب زمان از لوازم ذاتیهء ممکنات است و لزوم ذاتی از حقیقت اشیاء

Question:
Is the purification of baptism useful and necessary or is it useless and unnecessary? If the former, why was it abrogated despite its necessity? And if the latter, why did John practice it despite its being unnecessary?
Translation:
Official translation
The change and transformation of conditions and the succession and revolution of ages are among the essential requirements
# Name Source Translations
#1 Some Answered Questions, Baptism and the Changing Law of God Source Persian Translations Arabic
# Name Source Translations
#1 مفاوضات - ضرورة التعميد Source Persian Translations English
# Name Source Translations Resources
#1 مفاوضات - ضرورت تعميد Source Persian Translations English Arabic Resources
MFD. Mufáviḍát-i-‘Abdu’l-Bahá. Mir'at, 1993. Original Persian text of SAQ. In this catalog each of the 84 chapters is given its own ID.  https://www.bahai.org/fa/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/ and https://bahai-library.com/bahailib/1541.pdf
MFD#20
https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/SAQ/saq-71.html
SAQ. Some Answered Questions. Revised translation, U.S. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 2014. English translation of MFD. In this catalog each of the 84 chapters is given its own entry. https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative- texts/abdul-baha/some-answered-questions/
SAQ#20
http://www.bahai.org/r/332904480