کوئکر (انگریزی: Quakers) وہ لوگ ہیں جن کا تعلق دوستوں کی مذہبی سوسائٹی (Religious Society of Friends) سے ہے، جو تاریخی طور پر پروٹسٹنٹ مسیحی فرقوں کا مجموعہ ہے۔ ان تحریکوں کے ارکان ("دوست") عام طور پر ہر انسان کی باطنی روشنی سے رہنمائی حاصل کرنے کی صلاحیت پر یقین کے ساتھ متحد ہوتے ہیں، "ہر ایک میں خدا کا جواب دینا"۔ [2][3]

Religious Society of Friends
George Fox, the principal early leader of the Quakers
الٰہیاتVariable; depends on meeting
سیاسی نظامCongregational
ممتاز فیلو شپFriends World Committee for Consultation
ایسوسی ایشنBritain Yearly Meeting, Friends United Meeting, Evangelical Friends Church International, Central Yearly Meeting of Friends, Conservative Friends, Friends General Conference, Beanite Quakerism
بانیGeorge Fox
Margaret Fell
ابتداMid-17th century
England
الگ ازکلیسیائے انگلستان
علاحدگیاںShakers[1]

مزید دیکھیے

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  1. Michael Bjerknes Aune؛ Valerie M. DeMarinis (1996)۔ Religious and Social Ritual: Interdisciplinary Explorations۔ SUNY Press۔ ص 105۔ ISBN:978-0-7914-2825-2
  2. Fox، George (1903)۔ George Fox's Journal۔ Isbister and Company Limited۔ ص 215–216۔ This is the word of the Lord God to you all, and a charge to you all in the presence of the living God; be patterns, be examples in all your countries, places, islands, nations, wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people and to them: then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in every one; whereby in them ye may be a blessing, and make the witness of God in them to bless you: then to the Lord God you will be a sweet savour, and a blessing.
  3. Hodge, Charles (12 مارچ 2015). Systematic Theology (انگریزی میں). Delmarva Publications, Inc. p. 137. This spiritual illumination is peculiar to the true people of God; the inward lihgt, in which the Quakers believe, is common to all men. The design and effect of the "inward light" are the communication of new truth, or of truth not objectively revealed, as well as the spiritual discernment of the truths of Scripture. The design and effect of spiritual illumination are the proper apprehension of truth already speculatively known. Secondly. By the inner light the orthodox Quakers understand the supernatural influence of the Holy Spirit, concerning which they teach, – (1.) That it is given to all men. (2.) That it not only convinces of sin, and enables the soul to apprehend aright the truths of Scripture, but also communicates a knowledge of "the mysteries of salvation." ... The orthodox Friends teach concerning this inward light, as has been already shown, that it is subordinate to the Holy Scriptures, inasmuch as the Scriptures are the infallible rule of faith and practice, and everything contrary thereto is to be rejected as false and destructive.