| In Religion |
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| In Bahá'í: |
| From the Kitáb-i-Aqdas: |
| 74. QUESTION: Concerning the definition of old age. |
| ANSWER: To the Arabs it denoteth the furthest extremity of old age, but for the people of Baha it is from the age of seventy. |
| (Baha'u'llah, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p. 128) |
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| 4. Exemption from offering the Obligatory
Prayers is granted to: |
| b. Those who are over 70. |
| (Baha'u'llah, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p. 146) |
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| 5. Exemption from fasting is granted to: |
| c. Those who are over 70. |
| (Baha'u'llah, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p. 148) |
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| 14. He hath exempted from this those who are weak
from illness or age # 10 |
| The exemption of those who are weak due to illness or
advanced age from offering the Obligatory Prayers and from
fasting is explained in Questions and Answers. Bahá'u'lláh indicates that in "time of ill-health it is not permissible to observe
these obligations" (Q and A 93). He defines old age, in this
context, as being from seventy (Q and A 74). In answer to a
question, Shoghi Effendi has clarified that people who attain
the age of seventy are exempt, whether or not they are weak.
Exemption from fasting is also granted to the other
specific categories of people listed in the Synopsis and
Codification, section IV.B.5. See notes 20, 30 and 31 for
additional discussion. |
| (Baha'u'llah, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p. 170) |
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| Fasting is enjoined on all the believers once they attain
the age of 15 and until they reach the age of 70 years. |
| (Baha'u'llah, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, p. 177) |
| [ABG] |
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| In Islam: |
| In Islamic history and in Islamic interpretation the number 70 or 72 is most often and generally hyperbole for an infinite amount: |
- There are 70 dead among the Prophet Muḥammad's adversaries during the Battle of Badr.
- 70 of the Prophet Muḥammad's followers are martyred at the Battle of Uhud.
- In Shia Islam, there are 70 martyrs among Imam Hussein's followers during the tragedy of Karbala.
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| In Christianity: |
- In Matthew 18:21-22, Jesus tells Peter to forgive people seventy times seven.
- In Luke 10:1-24, Jesus appoints Seventy Disciples and sends them out in pairs to preach the Gospel.
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| In Jewish Tradition: |
- Seventy souls went down to Egypt to begin the Hebrews' Egyptian exile (Genesis 46:27).
- There is a core of 70 nations and 70 world languages, paralleling the 70 names in the Table of Nations.
- There were 70 men in the Great Sanhedrin, the Supreme Court of ancient Israel. (Sanhedrin 1:4.)
- According to the Jewish Aggada, there are 70 perspectives ("faces") to the Torah (Numbers Rabbah 13:15).
- Seventy elders were assembled by Moses on God's command in the desert (Numbers 11:16-30).
- Psalm 90:10 allots three score and ten (70 years) for a man's life, and the Mishnah attributes that age to "strength" (Avot 5:32), as one who survives that age is described by the verse as "the strong".
- Ptolemy II Philadelphus ordered 72 Jewish elders to translate the Torah into Greek; the result was the Septuagint (from the Latin for "seventy"). The Roman numeral seventy, LXX, is the scholarly symbol for the Septuagint.
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| In Other Fields: |
| In the Far Eastern culture of China, Japan, Korea, etc., 70 years old is called the Rare Age of the Olden Times (古稀 Guxi in Chinese, 古稀 Koki in Japanese, 고희 Gohui in Korean, etc.), as written in one of Du Fu's poems. |
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