The Ten Commandments.
226. The Ten Commandments of the Holy Bible are a set of material laws that are so fundamental that they are found pretty much in all of the major religions: The laws of God are brought to the earth by God’s messengers to better the world of mankind and make it easier for men to interact with one another. The Ten Commandments, some of the most fundamental laws found in the bible, are as such material laws. These laws are brought here to help mankind evolve, to help man develop civilization and to help men to get along one with another. 
Judaism: Exodus 19:25 “So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.” Exodus 20:1 “And God spake all these words, saying, 20:2 I am The LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” Exodus 20:3 “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.” Exodus 20:4 “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.” Exodus 20:5 “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I The LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My commandments.” Exodus 20:7 “Thou shalt not take the name of The LORD thy God in vain; for The LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.” Exodus 20:8 “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.” Exodus 20:9 “Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of The LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:” 20:11 “For in six days The LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore The LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Exodus 20:12 “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which The LORD thy God giveth thee.” Exodus 20:13 “Thou shalt not kill.” Exodus 20:14 “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” Exodus 20:15 “Thou shalt not steal.” Exodus 20:16 “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” Exodus 20:17 “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.”
Though these laws are material laws and subject to change with the coming of each new manifestation of God, these laws, The Ten Commandments, are so basic to the development of mankind that these laws are found in all of God’s religions:
JUDAISM: Exodus 20:2 “I am The LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.”
a. Commandment one, Thou shalt have no other gods before me: Judaism: Exodus 20:3 “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” 
Christianity: Matthew 4:10 “Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship The Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.” 
Baha’i Faith: “O my people,’ said He, ‘Worship God, ye have none other God beside Him.”
(Bahá’í Faith, Baha’u’llah, The Kitab-i-Iqan, p. 9)
BABI RELIGION: “There is none other God but Thee, the Omnipotent, the Self-Subsisting; that Thou art God, there is no God besides Thee and that all men shall be raised up to life through Thee.” “Take heed not to worship anyone but God, He Who is My Lord and your Lord. This indeed is the undoubted truth.”
(The Bab, Selections from the Writings of the Bab, pp. 1 and 100)
Babi Religion: “PRAISE be to Thee, O Lord, my Best Beloved! Make me steadfast in Thy Cause and grant that I may be reckoned among those who have not violated Thy Covenant nor followed the gods of their own idle fancy.” “With fearlessness and eloquence, he pleaded, in the midst of the assembled disciples, the Cause of his beloved Master, called upon him to demolish those idols which his own idle fancy had carved and to plant upon their shattered fragments the standard of Divine guidance.
(The Bab, Selections from the Writings of the Bab, p. 215 and Shoghi Effendi, The Dawn-Breakers, p. 266)
ISLAM: 23. “Thy Lord hath decreed that ye worship none but Him,”
(The Qur’an (Yusuf Ali tr), Surah 17)
ZOROASTRIANISM: 7. “Can they be true to thee, O Mazda (God), I know none other but you, O Right, so do ye protect us.” 28:2 “I who would serve you, O Mazda Ahura (God).
(The Zend-Avesta, Avesta – Yasnas 28 and 34)
Zoroastrianism: “Brahma and Mazda are here identified, they are the two aspects of the same reality.” (ZOROASTER, Hymns of Atharvan p. 483)
HINDUISM: “Thou art Brahma, and thou art Vishnu, thou art Mazda, thou art Rudra, thou Pragapati, thou art Agni, Varuna, Vayu, thou art Indra, thou the Moon.” “And when they say sacrifice to this or sacrifice to that god,’ each god is but his manifestation, for He is all gods.” and all worship the one God.
(Hindu, Upanishads vol. 2, Brihadaranyaka and Maitrayana-Brahmaya-Upanishad Part 1)
Hinduism: “I BRAHMA am! the One Eternal GOD, And ADHYATMAN is My Being’s name, The Soul of Souls! What goeth forth from Me, Causing all life to live, is KARMA called: And, Manifested in divided forms, I am the ADHIBHUTA, Lord of Lives; And ADHIDAIVA, Lord of all the Gods, Because I am PURUSHA, who, who begets. And ADHIYAJNA, Lord of Sacrifice,” “Those hold I very holy. But who serve- Worshiping Me The One, The Invisible, The Unrevealed, Unnamed, Unthinkable, Uttermost, All-pervading, Highest,” the one worshiped Brahma. “Those men of little minds, who worship so, Go where they worship, passing with their gods. But Mine come unto Me!” “Thus action is of Brahma, who is One, The Only, All-pervading; at all times Present in sacrifice.”
(Hindu, Bhagavad Gita (Edwin Arnold tr) chapters 3 and 12)
BUDDHISM: “There is an Unborn, Unoriginated, Uncreated, Unformed. Since there is an Unborn, Unoriginated, Uncreated, Unformed, therefore is escape possible from the world of the born.” “One has obtained freedom by true knowledge and become peaceful, the one who is free from gullibility, who knows the uncreated,” the one Brahma (God).
((The Eightfold Path), Buddha, Buddhist, Dhammapada – Sayings of the Buddha 2 (tr. J. Richards))
Buddhism: “I am known by uncounted trillions of names. They address Me by different names not realizing that they are all names of the one Tathagata. Some recognize Me as Tathagata, some as The Self-existent One, some as Gautama the Ascetic, some as Buddha. Then there are others who recognize Me as Brahma, as Vishnu, as Ishvara; some see Me as Sun, as Moon; some as a reincarnation of the ancient sages; some as one of ‘the ten powers;’ some as Rama, some as Indra, and some as Varuna. Still there are others who speak of me as The Unborn, as Emptiness, as ‘Suchness,’ as Truth, as Reality, as Ultimate Principle; still there are others who see Me as Dharmakaya, as Nirvana, as the Eternal; some speak of Me as sameness, as non-duality, as undying, as formless; some think of Me as the doctrine of Buddha-causation, or of Emancipation, or of the Noble Path; and some think of Me as Divine Mind and Noble Wisdom. Thus in this world and in other worlds am I known by these uncounted names, but they all see Me as the moon is seen in water. Though they all honor, praise and esteem Me, they do not fully understand the meaning and significance of the words they use; not having their own self-realization of Truth they cling to the words of their canonical books, or to what has been told them, or to what they have imagined, and fail to see that the name they are using is only one of the many names of the Tathagata, (Brahma, God).” (Buddha, Lankavatara Sutra)
“The hanif (beliefs) of the Prophet Abraham were his belief in the One and Only Allah (Al-ilh, God) and his submission to Him. Follow the religion of Abraham, a man of pure natural belief. He was not one of the idolaters.” (Hanif, writings of Abraham, Surat an-Nahl: 123)
SABEANISM: “We offer up our commemoration (our worship), our petition, our prayer, Our submission, our tabuta and our faith In Thy presence.” “Manda d – Haiyi (Haiyi, Hiia, God) Sublimest of beings, Knowledge of Life is Thy name, Truth is Thy name. Pure is Thy name, Magnified is Thy name, Honoured is Thy name, Blessed is Thy name And Abiding is Thy name. Victorious art Thou And Victorious is Thy name. Victorious are the words of Truth which proceed from Thy mouth Over all deeds,” He is, The Great Life, God is His name; the God of all names. (Sabeanism, Ginza Rba- chapter 75)
BAHA’I FAITH: “In the name of God, the One, the Incomparable, the All-Powerful, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. Praise be to God, the Eternal that perisheth not, the Everlasting that declineth not, the Self-Subsisting that altereth not. He it is Who is transcendent in His sovereignty, Who is manifest through His signs, and is hidden through His mysteries. He it is at Whose bidding the standard of the Most Exalted Word hath been lifted up in the world of creation, and the banner of “He doeth whatsoever He willeth” raised amidst all peoples. He it is Who hath revealed His Cause for the guidance of His creatures, and sent down His verses to demonstrate His Proof and His Testimony, and embellished the preface of the Book of Man with the ornament of utterance through His saying: “The God of Mercy hath taught the Qur’án, hath created man, and taught him articulate speech.” No God is there but Him, the One, the Peerless, the Powerful, the Mighty, the Beneficent.”
(Bahá’í Faith, Baha’u’llah, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf p. 1)
b. Commandment Two, Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image: Judaism: Exodus 20:4 “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:” Exodus 20:5 “Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them (idols), nor serve them: for I The LORD thy God am a jealous God…..”
CHRISTIANITY: 1 Corinthians 8:4 “We know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.” 10:19 “What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?” 10:20 “But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.” An idol is anything which stands between The Lord and yourself, that you place higher in value then your Lord; and we are not to worship idols. 1 John 5:21 “Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.”
BAHA’I FAITH: “See ye not this Sun that shineth in refulgent splendour above the All-Glorious Horizon? For how long will ye worship the idols of your evil passions? Forsake your vain imaginings, and turn yourselves unto God, your Everlasting Lord.”
(Bahá’í Faith, Baha’u’llah, The Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 33)
BABI RELIGION: “Take heed not to worship anyone but God, He Who is My Lord and your Lord. This indeed is the undoubted truth.”
(The Bab, Selections from the Writings of the Bab, p. 100)
Babi Religion: “Each day of that memorable gathering witnessed the abrogation of a new law and the repudiation of a long-established tradition. The veils that guarded the sanctity of the ordinances of Islam were sternly rent asunder, and the idols that had so long claimed the adoration of their blind worshippers were rudely demolished.”
The Bab: (Shoghi Effendi, The Dawn-Breakers, p. 293)
ISLAM: 17. “For ye do worship idols besides Allah (God), and ye invent falsehood. The things that ye worship besides Allah have no power to give you sustenance: then seek ye sustenance from Allah, serve Him, and be grateful to Him: to Him will be your return.” 39. “These are among the precepts of wisdom, which thy Lord Has revealed to thee. Take not, with Allah, another object of worship, lest thou shouldst be thrown into Hell, blameworthy and rejected.” 30. “Shun the abomination of idols, and shun the word that is false.”
(The Qur’an (Yusuf Ali tr), Surahs 17, 22 and 29)
ZOROASTRIANISM: “Let no thought of Angra Mainyu (the devil) ever infect thee, so that thou shouldst indulge in evil lusts, make derision and idolatry, and shut (to the poor) the door of thy house.”
(Zoroaster, The Zend-Avesta, Avesta Fragments)
HINDUISM: “Those men of little minds, who worship so, Go where they worship, passing with their gods. But Mine come unto Me! Blind are the eyes Which deem the Unmanifested manifest, Not comprehending Me in my true Self!” “Thus action is of Brahma (Vishnu, God), who is One, The Only, All-pervading; at all times Present in sacrifice.” “Pass by (a mound of) earth, a cow, an idol,” worship none of these.
(Hindu, Bhagavad Gita (Edwin Arnold tr) chapters 3, 4 and 7)
BUDDHISM: 4. “The wise student will conquer this world and the world of death and the gods. The wise student will find the clear path of truth, as a skillful person finds the flower.” “This is the Way made known by Me.”
(Buddhist, Dhammapada – Sayings of the Buddha 2 and 3 (tr. J. Richards))
SABEANISM: “They have forsaken images, pictures and idols of clay, gods (made) of blocks of wood, and vain rites.” (Sabeanism, Ginza Rba- chapter 35)
Sabeanism: “And Thou hast spoken to us with Thy Word And hast commanded us with Thy commandment – ‘Be My glory and I will be your Glory. Be my light and I will be your Light. And my name shall be in your mouths And I will be with you.’ Thou art He who overthrowest (false) gods in their high-places And bringest reproach on the divinity of (false) deities.” (Sabeanism, Ginza Rba- chapter 75)
BAHA’I FAITH: “God grant you may be graciously aided under all conditions to shatter the idols of superstition and to tear away the veils of the imaginations of men. Authority lieth in the grasp of God, the Fountainhead of revelation and inspiration and The Lord of the Day of Resurrection.”
(Baha’u’llah, Tablets of Baha’u’llah, p. 58)
c. Commandment Three, Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: Judaism: Exodus 20:7 “Thou shalt not take the name of The LORD thy God in vain; for The LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.” Christianity: 1 Timothy 6:1 “The name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.”
ISLAM: “It is not right…..to speak against God.” “Nor say against God aught save the truth.”
(The Qur’an (E.H. Palmer tr), Sura 4 – Women and 7 – Al Aaraf)
Islam: “God bids you not to do abomination; do ye say against God that which ye do not know?” “Was there not taken from them a covenant by the Book, that they should not say against God aught but the truth?”
(The Qur’an (E.H. Palmer tr), Sura 7 – Al Aaraf)
ZOROASTRIANISM: “And we worship that reward and that health, that healing and that progress, that growth and which are acquired by us, by the memorized recital of the good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, for the withstanding of evil thoughts, and words, and deeds; yea, for the undoing of all treacherous thoughts (directed) against Me, and of all false words, and unfair deeds.”
(Zoroaster, The Zend-Avesta, Avesta – Visperad 20)
Zoroastrianism: Denkard. Zoroaster, “Antagonism to God, lead to wretchedness and are pertaining to disobedience towards God,”
HINDUISM: “Speaking evil is forbidden here once more in order that it should be particularly avoided.” “And he shall not speak evil of the gods (God) or of the king.” “Speaking evil has been forbidden, in connection with the means of salvation.”
(Hindu, The Dharma Sutras, Apastamba Prasna I and 2, Patala 2 and 11, Khanda 5 and 31)
BUDDHISM: “Undisturbed shall our mind remain, no evil words shall escape our lips; friendly and full of sympathy shall we remain, with heart full of love, and free from any hidden malice; and that person shall We penetrate with loving thoughts, wide, deep, boundless, freed from anger and hatred.” “He avoids vain talk, and abstains from it. He speaks at the right time, in accordance with facts, speaks what is useful, speaks about the law and the discipline; his speech is like a treasure, at the right moment accompanied by arguments, moderate and full of sense.”
((The Eightfold Path), Buddha, the Word (The Eightfold Path))
Buddhism: “The one I call holy speaks true words that are useful and not harsh so that no one is offended.” “Speak not harshly to anyone,” including God.
(Buddhist, Dhammapada – Sayings of the Buddha 2 and 3 (tr. J. Richards))
BABI RELIGION: “The King had been apprised of this petition, he gave orders to submit the sectary to torture. They wanted to extract from him some curse against the Báb. He refused consistently. They wanted to obtain information about the people with whom he had had contact during his journey to Tihran. He did not give it to them, and he showed under torture great courage and an invincible will.” “The judgement seems simply to make the prisoner curse the Báb, which if he refuses to do, is punished by death, probably being blown from a cannon’s mouth. Their modes of killing these poor hunted Bábís, have been dreadful. Some have been beaten and stoned to death, others shot over and over again, and others cut to pieces.”
(The Babi and Baha’i Religions, pp. 255 and 394)
BAHA’I FAITH: “Speaking against God means to keep far from Him — to deny Him — this is the same as cursing Him.”
(Bahá’í Faith, Compilations, Baha’i Prayers 9, p. 50)
d. Commandment Four, Remember the sabbath day: Judaism: Exodus 20:8 “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.” Exodus 20:9 “Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:” Exodus 20:10 “But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:” Exodus 20:11 “For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Christianity: Christ changed the law of the Sabbath day when he started healing on the Sabbath day. Matthew 12:11 “And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?” Matthew 12:12 “How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.” Matthew 12:8 “For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.”
e. Commandment Five, Honour thy father and thy mother: Judaism: Exodus 20:12 “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which The LORD thy God giveth thee.” Christianity: Luke 18:20 “Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.”
ISLAM: 23. “Thy Lord hath decreed that ye worship none but Him, and that ye be kind to parents. Whether one or both of them attain old age in thy life, say not to them a word of contempt, nor repel them, but address them in terms of honor.” 24. “And, out of kindness, lower to them the wing of humility, and say: ‘My Lord! bestow on them Thy Mercy even as they cherished me in childhood.”’
(The Qur’an (Yusuf Ali tr), Surah 17)
ZOROASTRIANISM: 7. “This I ask Thee, tell me truly, Ahura (God). Who created together with Dominion the precious Piety? Who made by wisdom the son obedient to his father? I strive to recognize by these things thee, O Mazda, creator of all things through the holy spirit.”
(Zoroaster, The Zend-Avesta, Avesta – Yasna 44)
HINDUISM: 233. “By honouring his mother he gains this (nether) world, by honouring his father the middle sphere, but by obedience to his teacher the world of Brahman.” 234. “All duties have been fulfilled by him who honours those three; but to him who honours them not, all rites remain fruitless.”
(Hindu, Laws of Manu chapter 2)
Hinduism: “Please my kind and loving parents, I would follow him today.” “Cause not grief and death’s black shadows on thy parents.”
(Hindu, Mababharata (R. Dutt, abridged tr))
BUDDHISM: “To the one who always reveres and respects the aged, four things increase: life, health, happiness, and power.”
(Buddhist, Dhammapada – Sayings of the Buddha 2 (tr. J. Richards))
Buddhism: 23. “Good is filial devotion to one’s mother in the world, and devotion to one’s father is good.”
(Buddhist, Dhammapada – Sayings of the Buddha 1 (tr. J. Richards))
Buddhism: 23. “Happy is it to honour mother. Happy is it to honour father. Happy is it to honour ascetics. Happy is it to honour the Noble Ones.”
(Buddhist, Dhammapada – Sayings of the Buddha 3 (tr. J. Richards))
SABEANISM: “Great First Word, which assured me sight in mine eyes, pour wisdom into my heart! Open the eyes of my understanding! Be there forgiveness of sins for me, and for my father and mother, for my wife and children, for my priests and for all souls who stood for the Name of Life (Haiyi, God) and were firm in the sign of Manda-d-Hiia with a sincere and believing heart.” (Sabeanism, Ginza Rba- chapter 171)
BABI RELIGION: “IT is seemly that the servant should, after each prayer, supplicate God to bestow mercy and forgiveness upon his parents. Thereupon God‘s call will be raised: ‘Thousand upon thousand of what thou hast asked for thy parents shall be thy recompense!‘ Blessed is he who remembereth his parents when communing with God. There is, verily, no God but Him, the Mighty, the Well-Beloved.”
(The Bab, Selections from the Writings of the Bab, p. 93)
BAHA’I FAITH: “O My people! Show honour to your parents and pay homage to them. This will cause blessings to descend upon you from the clouds of the bounty of your Lord, the Exalted, the Great.”
(Bahá’í Faith, Compilations, Lights of Guidance, p. 229)
f. Commandment Six, Thou shalt not kill: Judaism: Exodus 20:13 “Thou shalt not kill.” Christianity: Luke 18:20 “Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.”
ISLAM: 151. “Take not life, which Allah (God) hath made sacred, except by way of justice and law: thus doth He command you, that ye may learn wisdom.”
(The Qur’an (Yusuf Ali tr), Surah 6)
Islam: 68. “Invoke not, with Allah, any other god, nor slay such life as Allah has made sacred.”
(The Qur’an (Yusuf Ali tr), Surah 25)
ZOROASTRIANISM: 15. “I renounce with vehemence the murderous.” “The first time he shall smite a faithful man, the first time he shall wound a faithful man, he shall pay for it as for willful murder.”
(Zoroaster, The Zend-Avesta, Avesta – Yasna 10 and Avesta Fragments)
Zoroastrianism: Denkard. Zoroaster, “Be it known that to kill a man unlawfully is to kill through sheer passion. And all (those who do so) are of the nature of Demons and Drujs. The qualities pertaining to Demons and Drujs, greed, evil-thought, anger, spite, jealousy, and other evil passions which lead men on to sin and the infliction of harm, proceed from Demons.”
HINDUISM: “A person who, before initiation, drinks spirituous liquor, commits murder or other mortal sins, becomes an outcast, and is liable to perform the penances prescribed for initiated sinners.”
(Hindu, The Dharma Sutras, Gutama 2)
Hinduism: “Metrical Code of Laws speaks of the old Manu as of a person different from himself, when he says ‘Not to kill, not to lie, not to steal, to keep the body clean, and to restrain the senses, this was the short law which Manu proclaimed amongst the four castes.”
(Hindu, The Dharma Sutras, Introduction to Apastamba)
BUDDHISM: “He avoids the killing of living beings and abstains from it. Without stick or sword, conscientious, full of sympathy, he is anxious for the welfare of all living beings.-He avoids stealing, and abstains from taking what is not given to him. Only what is given to him he takes, waiting till it is given; and he lives with a heart honest and pure.”
((The Eightfold Path), Buddha, the Word (The Eightfold Path))
Buddhism: “There is the principal of not deceiving nor telling lies. There are also the rules that one should refrain from killing, stealing and adultery and one should not even have thoughts about any of these things.” (Buddha, Surangama Sutra)
Buddhism: 26. “Abandoning violence to all living creatures moving or still, he who neither kills or causes killing – that is what I call a brahmin.”
(Buddhist, Dhammapada – Sayings of the Buddha 1 (tr. J. Richards))
Buddhism: “There is the principal of not deceiving nor telling lies. There are also the rules that one should refrain from killing, stealing and adultery and one should not even have thoughts about any of these things.” (Buddha, Surangama Sutra)
BABI RELIGION: “No one is to be slain for unbelief, for the slaying of a soul is outside the religion of God; … and if anyone commands it, he is not and has not been of the Bayan, and no sin can be greater for him than this.”
The Bab: (Shoghi Effendi, The Dawn-Breakers, p. 329)
Babi Religion: Baha’i Faith: “It is better to be killed than to kill.”
(Moojan Momen, The Babi and Baha’i Religions, p. xxvii)
BAHA’I FAITH: “Ye have been forbidden to commit murder or adultery, or to engage in backbiting or calumny; shun ye, then, what hath been prohibited in the holy Books and Tablets.”
(Bahá’í Faith, Baha’u’llah, The Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 26)
g. Commandment Seven, Thou shalt not commit adultery: Judaism: Exodus 20:14 “Thou shalt not commit adultery.” (do not commit adultery or fornication) Christianity: Mark 10:19 “Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.” Romans 13:9 “For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
ISLAM: 32. “Nor come nigh to adultery: for it is a shameful (deed) and an evil, opening the road to other evils.”
(The Qur’an (Yusuf Ali tr), Surah 17)
Islam: 3. “Not to commit illegal sexual intercourse.” (do not commit adultery or fornication)
(Islam, Hadith, Bukhari Vol 1, Book 2, # 17)
ZOROASTRIANISM: “May all virtuousness (abstain from adultery) of all good ones of the earth of seven climes reach the width of the earth, the length of the rivers, the height of the sun in their original form. May it be righteous, live long. Thus may it come as I wish.”
(The Zend-Avesta, Khorda Avesta – Book of Common Prayer pt. 1)
HINDUISM: 352. “Men who commit adultery with the wives of others, the king shall cause to be marked by punishments which cause terror, and afterwards banish.”
(Hindu, Laws of Manu chapter 8)
BUDDHISM: “There is the principal of not deceiving nor telling lies. There are also the rules that one should refrain from killing, stealing and adultery and one should not even have thoughts about any of these things.” (Buddha, Surangama Sutra)
Buddhism: “He avoids unlawful sexual intercourse, and abstains from it. He has no intercourse with such persons as are still under the protection of father, mother, brother, sister or relatives, nor with married women, nor female convicts, nor, lastly, with betrothed girls.”
((The Eightfold Path), Buddha, the Word (The Eightfold Path))
SABEANISM: “Have no liking for a seductive woman. Love not treacherous spirits and seductive courtesans. Love not lust,” (Sabeanism, Instruction from Adam)
BABI RELIGION: “Thus, at a formal level, the Báb advocated marriage, either monogamously or in a limited form of polygamy; concubinage and adultery were forbidden;”
(Peter Smith, The Babi & Baha’i Religions, p. 46)
BAHA’I FAITH: “Ye have been forbidden to commit murder or adultery, or to engage in backbiting or calumny; shun ye, then, what hath been prohibited in the holy Books and Tablets.”
(Bahá’í Faith, Baha’u’llah, The Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 26)
h. Commandment Eight, Thou shalt not steal: Judaism: Exodus 20:15 “Thou shalt not steal.” Christianity: Luke 18:20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
ISLAM: “Allah’s (God‘s) Apostle said while a group of his companions were Around him, ‘Swear allegiance to me for:”’ 1. “Not to join anything in worship along with Allah.” 2. “Not to steal.” 3. “Not to commit illegal sexual intercourse.” 4. “Not to kill your children.” 5. “Not to accuse an innocent person, to spread such an accusation among people.” 6. “Not to be disobedient (when ordered) to do good deed.” “The Prophet added: ‘Whoever among you fulfills his pledge will be rewarded by Allah. And whoever indulges in any one of them (except the ascription of partners to Allah) and gets the punishment in this world, that punishment will be an expiation for that sin. And if one indulges in any of them, and Allah conceals his sin, it is up to Him to forgive or punish him in the Hereafter.”’
(Islam, Hadith, Bukhari Vol 1, Book 2, # 17)
Islam: 12. “O Prophet! when believing women come to thee to take the oath of fealty to thee, that they will not associate in worship any other thing whatever with Allah, that they will not steal, that they will not commit adultery (or fornication), that they will not kill their children, that they will not utter slander, intentionally forging falsehood, and that they will not disobey thee in any just matter — then do thou receive their fealty, and pray to Allah for the forgiveness (of their sins): for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”
(The Qur’an (Yusuf Ali tr), Surah 60)
ZOROASTRIANISM: 41. “It is forbidden to steal,”
(Zoroaster, The Zend-Avesta, Avesta – Vendidad 3)
HINDUISM: 2.30 “Self-restraint in actions includes abstention from violence, from falsehoods, from stealing, from sexual engagements, and from acceptance of gifts.”
(Hindu, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali)
BUDDHISM: “Lay members should abstain from all unkindness, stealing, unchastity, lying, duplicity, slander, frivolous talk, covetousness, malice, currying favor, and false teachings. Disciples should strictly observing all the precepts given by the Tathagatas, they should endeavor, by their example, to induce all beings to abandon evil and practice the good.” (Buddha, Diamond Sutra)
Buddhism: There is the principal of not deceiving nor telling lies. There are also the rules that one should refrain from killing, stealing and adultery and one should not even have thoughts about any of these things. (Buddha, Surangama Sutra)
Buddhism: “He avoids the killing of living beings and abstains from it. Without stick or sword, conscientious, full of sympathy, he is anxious for the welfare of all living beings.-He avoids stealing, and abstains from taking what is not given to him. Only what is given to him he takes, waiting till it is given; and he lives with a heart honest and pure.”
((The Eightfold Path), Buddha, the Word (The Eightfold Path))
Buddhism: There is the precept of not taking anything that does not rightfully belong to you. (Buddha, Surangama Sutra)
Buddhism: “There is the precept of not coveting (or taking) that which does not rightfully belong to you.” (Buddha, Surangama Sutra)
BABI RELIGION: “It is the institution of ‘Madakhil’ and of illicit pickings and stealings that is the root of the evil.”
The Bab: (Shoghi Effendi, The Dawn-Breakers, p. xlv)
BAHA’I FAITH: “Exile and imprisonment are decreed for the thief, and, on the third offence, place ye a mark upon his brow so that, thus identified, he may not be accepted in the cities of God and His countries.”
(Bahá’í Faith, Baha’u’llah, The Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 35)
i. Commandment Nine, Thou shalt not bear false witness (tell no lies): Judaism: Exodus 20:16 “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” Tell no lies. Christianity: Matthew 19:18 “Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,” “Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
ISLAM: 42. “Cover not Truth with falsehood, nor conceal the Truth when ye know (what it is).”
(The Qur’an (Yusuf Ali tr), Surah 2)
Islam: 5. “Not to accuse an innocent person (to spread such an accusation among people).” “They will not utter slander, intentionally forging falsehood,”
(Hadith, Bukhari Vol 1, Book 2, # 17, Qur’an Yusuf Ali tr, Surah 60)
ZOROASTRIANISM: 11. “He (Ahura Mazda, God) smites Pride; He smites Scorn; He smites Hot Fever; He smites Slander; He smites Discord; He smites the Evil Eye. He smites the most lying words of falsehood.”
(Zoroaster, The Zend-Avesta, Khorda Avesta – Book of Common Prayer pt. 1)
Zoroastrianism: 11. “But these that are of an evil dominion, of evil deeds, evil words, evil Self, and evil thought, Liars, the Souls go to meet them with evil food; in the House of the Lie they shall be meet inhabitants.” “the spirit of the Liar, cringing and cowering, shall fall down into destruction.”
(The Zend-Avesta, Avesta – Yasnas 49 and 53)
HINDUISM: 15. “We sing to thee with favour Destroy the cursing Raksasas: preserve us, O rich in friends, from guile and scorn and slander.” “He shall bring evil on the evil-plotter whoever turns against us sin and outrage. Destroy this calumny of him,” “So mighty Thou protectest us from slander, O Champion,”
(Hindu, Vedas, Rig Veda – Books 4, 5 and 6)
Hinduism: 6. “May all thy fateful toils which, seven by seven, threefold, lie spread out, ensnare him that speaks falsehood: him that speaks the truth they shall let go! 7. With a hundred snares, O Varuna, surround him, let the liar not go free from thee, O thou that observest men! The rogue shall sit, his belly hanging loose, like a cask without hoops, bursting all about! 8. With (the snare of) Varuna which is fastened lengthwise, and that which (is fastened) broadwise, with the indigenous and the foreign, with the divine and the human, 9. With all these snares do I fetter thee,”
(Hindu, Vedas, Atharva Veda)
BUDDHISM: “Lay members should abstain from all unkindness, stealing, unchastity, lying, duplicity, slander, frivolous talk, covetousness, malice, currying favor, and false teachings. Disciples should strictly observing all the precepts given by the Tathagatas, they should endeavor, by their example, to induce all beings to abandon evil and practice the good.” (Buddha, Diamond Sutra)
Buddhism: “Thus, he never knowingly speaks a lie, neither for the sake of his own advantage, nor for the sake of another person’s advantage, nor for the sake of any advantage whatsoever.” “He avoids tale-bearing, and abstains from it. What he has heard here, he does not repeat there, so as to cause dissension there; and what he heard there, he does not repeat here, so as to cause dissension here.”
((The Eightfold Path), Buddha, the Word (The Eightfold Path))
Buddhism: “There is the principal of not deceiving nor telling lies. There are also the rules that one should refrain from killing, stealing and adultery and one should not even have thoughts about any of these things.” (Buddha, Surangama Sutra)
SABEANISM: “I strive with a pious and believing heart for the love of precious Truth (and) perform the works Of right-dealing (trustworthy) Man.” “For my heart hath testified to the First Life.” “Behold me, who have sought purification before Thee! Look on me, my deeds, I am Thy servant and Thy child. Now I humble myself… to Thy name, for I have been true to thy name, and speak (it) in my heart and talk (of it) in my mind. And I subdue my form and my loins,” I stay away from love of self and pride. “I shall be pure in all my words (thoughts); and life.” (Sabeanism, Ginza Rba- chapters 1, 77, 92 and 410)
Sabeanism: “Let healing be theirs by virtue of the Word of Truth.” (Sabeanism, Ginza Rba- chapter 20)
BABI RELIGION: “He who speaks the Truth be made known, and he that speaks falsely shall be condemned to eternal misery and shame. Then shall the way of Truth be revealed and made manifest to all men.”
(H. M. Balyuzi, The Bab – The Herald of the Days, p. 72)
BAHA’I FAITH: “According to the direct and sacred command of God we are forbidden to utter slander,” “The individual must be educated to such a high degree that he would rather have his throat cut than tell a lie, and would think it easier to be slashed with a sword or pierced with a spear than to utter calumny…..”
(Bahá’í Faith, Abdu’l-Baha, Baha’i World Faith, p. 440 and Selections from the Writings of Abdu’l-Baha, p. 136)
j. Commandment Ten, Thou shalt not covet: Judaism: Exodus 20:17 “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.” Christianity: Romans 13:9 “For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
ISLAM: 32. “And in no wise covet those things in which Allah (God) hath bestowed his gifts more freely on some of you than on others: to men is allotted what they earn, and to women what they earn: but ask Allah of His bounty: for Allah hath full knowledge of all things.”
(The Qur’an (Yusuf Ali tr), Surah 4)
ZOROASTRIANISM: 5. “In the reign of Yima swift of motion was there neither cold nor heat, there was neither age nor death, nor envy.”
(Zoroaster, The Zend-Avesta, Avesta – Yasna 9)
Zoroastrianism: 34. “They ever go wandering about on the way of desire,” 35. “They are tossed in doubt by evil Passion,” 36. “They clothe themselves with spite, in the course of strife, for the sake of vanishing goods;” 37. “They are intoxicated with pride in their youth,” 38. “And shall be full of regrets at the end of their time.”
(Zoroaster, The Zend-Avesta, Avesta Fragments)
HINDUISM: 5. “Coveting the property of others, thinking in one’s heart of what is undesirable, and adherence to false (doctrines), are the three kinds of (sinful) mental action.” “Do not covet our cattle, our men, our goats and sheep!”
(Hindu, Laws of Manu 12 and Vedas, Atharva Veda Hindu)
BUDDHISM: “Do not aspire for supreme enlightenment in any spirit of covetousness or acquisitiveness; they never think of merit and its commensurate reward.” (Buddha, Diamond Sutra)
Buddhism: 2. “Don’t indulge in careless behaviour. Don’t be the friend of sensual pleasures.” 25. “One should not underestimate what one has got, and one should not live envying others. A bhikkhu who envies others does not achieve stillness of mind in meditation.”
(Buddhist, Dhammapada – Sayings of the Buddha 1 (tr. J. Richards))
Buddhism: There is the precept of not coveting (or taking) that which does not rightfully belong to you. (Buddha, Surangama Sutra)
SABEANISM: “no man will covet his neighbour’s goods.” (Sabeanism)
Sabeanism: “Have no liking for a seductive woman. Love not treacherous spirits and seductive courtesans. Love not lust,” (Sabeanism, Instruction from Adam)
Sabeanism: “Praise Thee, for amongst them all hatred, Envy and dissensions exist not. The Place which is all portals of radiance, light and glory Praiseth Thee.” (Sabeanism, Ginza Rba- chapter 75)
BABI RELIGION: “God‘s chosen companions has no desire to safeguard its own property, much less to covet the property of others.”
(Shoghi Effendi, The Dawn-Breakers, p. 329)
BAHA’I FAITH: “O QUINTESSENCE OF PASSION! Put away all covetousness and seek contentment; for the covetous hath ever been deprived, and the contented hath ever been loved and praised.”
(Bahá’í Faith, Baha’u’llah, The Persian Hidden Words)