God has manifested Himself

After the ascension of Bahá'u'lláh, Varqa, together with the same two children, went on pilgrimage to the presence of 'Abdu'l-Bahá. As in the past, 'Abdu'l-Bahá and His sister the Greatest Holy Leaf showed admiration and love for Ruhu'llah, and both enjoyed talking to him. One day the Greatest Holy Leaf noticed that Ruhu'llah and his older brother...

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Baha'u'llah exhorts the believers not to associate with these people

From the early days of the Faith, Bahá'u'lláh made provision for the breakers of the Covenant of God to be kept out of the community of the believers. In this Tablet, as in many others, Bahá'u'lláh exhorts the believers not to associate with these people. 'Abdu'l-Bahá describes this action as similar to that of isolating an ill person who might otherwise...

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Ibn-i-Abhar aroused the believers to great heights of spirituality and particularly prepared them for martyrdom

Ustad 'Ali-Akbar took a leading role in the building of the House of Worship. But God had other plans for him. Barely six months had passed from the laying of the foundation stone when he received a Tablet from 'Abdu'l- Baha urging him to go on a visit to Yazd in the spring. He advised him not to hesitate or delay his departure. Ustad 'Ali-Akbar immediately...

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Baha'i teacher Jamal Effendi's encounter with savage followers of Aga Khan (Ismaili Leader)

Between Kashmir and Tibet, Jamal Effendi had to encounter great numbers of the Isma'ili sect, followers of Aqa Khan-i-Mahallati. The majority of these people were bloodthirsty and savage. Because of much ill-treatment, he was disappointed and with a heavy heart... went to Balkh and Badakhshan in Afghanistan. The people in that area also treated him...

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Why Baha'is are unable to bring unity ?

“The fact that we imagine ourselves to be right and everybody else wrong is the greatest of all obstacles in the path towards unity, and unity is necessary if we would reach truth, for truth is one.” ('Abdu'l-Baha, Paris Talks, p. 136) ...

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Violent upheaval and agony because of great failure to respond to Baha'u'llah's instructions

Shoghi Effendi: "No doubt to the degree we Baha'is the world over strive to spread the Cause and live up to its teachings, there will be some mitigation of the suffering of the peoples of the world. But it seems apparent that the great failure to respond to Baha'u'llah's instructions, appeals and warnings issued in the 19th century, has now sent the...

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That which harmeth Me is the conduct of those who, though they bear My name, yet commit that which maketh My heart and My pen to lament.

Thus have We commanded the faithful when the Daystar of the world shone forth from the horizon of Iraq. My imprisonment doeth Me no harm, neither the tribulations I suffer, nor the things that have befallen Me at the hands of My oppressors. That which harmeth Me is the conduct of those who, though they bear My name, yet commit that which maketh My...

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Baha'is should not move against the opinion of the government

My object in telling the believers that they should not interfere in the affairs of government is this: That they should not make any trouble and that they should not move against the opinion of the government, but obedience to the laws and the administration of the commonwealth is necessary.-Abdul Bahahttp://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/TAB/tab-407.html...

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Our Cause grows better in a repressive environment.

He (Abdul Baha) replied that, "In principle, we prefer freedom as it is one of the divine blessings and pleases God. However, this is not because freedom helps with the diffusion and propagation of our Cause, as it is the opposite — namely, our Cause grows better in a repressive environment." https://bahai-library.com/qazvini_abdulbaha_prominent_i...

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In those days, Baha'is were secretive

In those days, Baha'is were secretive and none would dare declare his faith openly, which was only reasonable and out of necessity. If a father was a believer, he would conceal it from his sons, and if a son was a believer, he would not dare admit it to any of his family, or for that matter, to other people. Baha'is would pray behind closed doors....

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Muslim Shaykh's love for Baha'u'llah & Baha'u'llah's love for Law and Firman of Abdul Aziz!

One day I went to the Holy Presence of the Blessed Beauty and said: "the palace at Mazra'ih is ready for You, and a carriage to drive You there." (At that time there were no carriages in Akka or Haifa.) He refused to go, saying: "I am a prisoner." Later I requested Him again, but got the same answer. I went so far as to ask Him a third time, but He...

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‘Muhammad Shah issued Our death warrant, but instead his own life came to an end’ - “Go; have some watermelon.’’

While I was living in Mosul (in Iraq) I had been afflicted with indigestion and vowed at that time that I would never touch watermelon again unless Bahá’u’lláh Himself told me to. One afternoon I was in Mazra’ih. The Blessed Beauty, seated near the small pool, had just mentioned that ‘Muhammad Shah issued Our death warrant, but instead his own life...

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When you begin to eat, begin with My Name

"When you begin to eat, begin with My Name El Abhá, and finish with the Name of God [“Yá Bahá’ul’Abhá” or “O Glory of the All-Glorious!"] the Possessor of the Throne and the earth." (Provisional Translation of the Lawh-i-Tibb (Tablet of Medicin...

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We must build up our own Baha’i system, and leave the faulty systems of the world to go their way.

"We are not the ones, as individual Bahá’ís, to judge our government as just or unjust—for each believer would be sure to hold a different viewpoint, and within our own Bahá’í fold a hotbed of dissension would spring up and destroy our unity. We must build up our own Bahá’í system, and leave the faulty systems of the world to go their way. We cannot...

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no one but guardian can reinstate a Covenant-breaker.

April 11,1949 to the NSA. The Guardian has, within the last few years, considered the National Assemblies strong enough to wield the instrument of sanction in the sense of depriving a Baha'i of his voting rights. But no one but himself can pronounce a person to be in that diseased condition we call 'Covenant-breaking', and no one but he can reinstate...

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the inhabitants of America... would have, by now, been attracted to the Kingdom of God...

"O ye friends and maid-servants of the Merciful! Praise be to God, ye are the fish of one ocean, the birds of one rose-garden, the trees of one orchard and the flowers of one paradise. Then why this difference? Why this lack of harmony? Wherefore this condition?Verily, verily, I say unto you, were it not for this difference amongst you, the inhabitants...

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majority of the human race would have embraced the Cause of God if....

'We have already stated in a previous volume[1] that in some of His Tablets Bahá'u'lláh has clearly indicated that if the believers had carried out His teachings faithfully, lived their lives in accordance with the divine standards and achieved absolute detachment from earthly things, they would have moved the peoples of the world and the majority...

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Allahu Abha should be found upon the lips everytime

The Greatest Name should be found upon the lips in the first awakening moment of early dawn. It should be fed upon by consistent use in daily invocation, in trouble, under opposition, and should be the last word breathed when the head rests upon the pillow at night. It is the name of comfort, protection, happiness, illumination, love and unity. (‘Abdu’l-Bahá,...

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Abdul Baha ridiculing and making fun of the son of one of the covenant breakers for sucking a goat's penis

“This egotistical man had two dimwitted and unintelligent sons: Husayn and Hasan. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá used to relate to this effect, “When speaking with Me, Siyyid Mihdí would greatly extol and praise Hasan’s astuteness, saying that the lad was most intelligent. There was a herd of goats at Bahjí. [While playing,] each of the Bahá’í kids was holding the udder...

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He stressed that Baha'is of Christian background should accept these principles concerning Islam

While walking with us in the gardens of the Shrine during our second meeting with him, Shoghi Effendi spoke of Muhammad, Whose station was lofty and great, as the recipient of a Divine Revelation. He returned to this theme on a later occasion, saying that the believers should be aware, and believe, that Islam is the origin of the Baha'i Faith, that...

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Baha'u'llah and Muhammad “associated” with each other in Baha's dream!

Here is Baha’u’llah’s personal account of that particular dream, in this provisional translation by Necati Alkan: One day I saw in a dream that I associated with His Holiness, the Apostle (Muḥammad), may the souls of all else but Him be sacrificed for His sake. Words were revealed and utterances were made manifest from that Dawning-Place of God’s...

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Huququ’llah will contribute to the spiritualization of humanity

The Institution of Huququ’llah will, during the course of this Dispensation, contribute to the spiritualization of humanity through the promotion of a new attitude to the acquisition and use of material resources. It will provide the material resources necessary for great collective enterprises designed to improve all aspects of life and will be a...

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Baha’i Chaplains

The National Assembly now wishes to select, train and authorise a further group of volunteers from England and Wales to act as Chaplains in the NHS. Over the next few years the responsibilities of Bahá’í Chaplains in the NHS may well build up from the present small scale voluntary posts to possibly full-time paid NHS posts, for which trainees with...

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Abdul Baha looks at Qaim-Maqam's picture every morning when He wakes-up.

You might like to know that there are several Tablets from ʻAbduʼl-Bahá in which he praises the Qáʼim-Maqám for his keen intellect and outstanding character. In one of them, He mentions that a portrait of the Qáʼim-Maqám hangs in His bedroom, and that He looks at it every morning when He wakes. In some of His Tablets, ʻAbduʼl-Bahá even quotes—both...

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They that have forsaken their country in the path of God...

"They that have forsaken their country in the path of God and subsequently ascended unto His presence, such souls shall be blessed by the Concourse on High and their names recorded by the pen of Glory among such as have laid down their lives as martyrs in the path of God, the Help in peril, the Self - Subsistence."-Baha'u'llah https://bahai-libra...

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The Holy Spirit Itself hath been generated through the agency of a single letter revealed by Baha'u'llah

In the Súratu’l-Haykal, one of the most challenging works of Bahá’u’lláh, the following verses, each of which testifies to the resistless power infused into the Revelation proclaimed by its Author, have been recorded: “Naught is seen in My temple but the Temple of God, and in My beauty but His Beauty, and in My being but His Being, and in My self but...

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I am God, I have created manifestations in the world of being...

Beware lest ye speak of duality in regard to My Self, for all the atoms of the earth proclaim that there is none other God but Him, the One, the Single, the Mighty, the Loving. From the beginning that hath no beginning I have proclaimed, from the realm of eternity, that I am God, none other God is there save Me, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting;...

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Baha'is take help of Mohammad Reza Shah's dream to prove that he was a Shi'i ruler who persecuted Baha'is for their beliefs!

The Shah’s degree of belief in Shi’ism can also be seen clearly in this speech: I was stricken with typhoid fever, and at the height of the illness, I dreamed of Imam Ali one night … He gave me a cup containing a liquid to drink, and I did that, and my health improved… In the summer, when we were going to visit the Shrine of Emamzadeh Davood, I fell...

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According to Abdul Baha, Tahirih recognized the Bab through a dream

“One night when it was getting along toward dawn she laid her head on her pillow, lost all awareness of this earthly life, and dreamed a dream; in her vision a youth, a Siyyid, wearing a black cloak and a green turban, appeared to her in the heavens; he was standing in the air, reciting verses and praying with his hands upraised. At once, she memorized...

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Why sleep?

If a man sleep, it should not be for pleasure, but to rest the body in order to do better, to speak better, to explain more beautifully, to serve the servants of God and to prove the truths. When he remains awake he should seek to be attentive, serve the Cause of God and sacrifice his own stations for those of God. When he attains to this station,...

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Nothing but ignorance became apparent of Baha'u'llah.

According to the testimony of Mulla Muhammad Ja'far Naraqi: Very often topics of (religious) science were discussed between me and the claimant (Baha'u'llah). Nothing but ignorance became apparent of him. So often, I would ask him a question and it would come to pass with (his) silence." http://www.bayanic.com/lib/fwd/tazkereh/Tazkereh-FWD.h...

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How Tahirih was convinced that the Bab’s message was truth?

One night when it was getting along toward dawn she laid her head on her pillow, lost all awareness of this earthly life, and dreamed a dream; in her vision a youth, a Siyyid, wearing a black cloak and a green turban, appeared to her in the heavens; he was standing in the air, reciting verses and praying with his hands upraised. At once, she memorized...

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It is not true that Qurrat al-‘Ayn laid aside the veil!

For if we look at other accounts of Qurrat al-‘Ayn, there is reason to believe that matters are not as straightforward as they seem. The British Orientalist Edward Browne’s collections of various historical materials suggest that in one of his conversation with a well-known Babi it was remarked that Qurrat al-‘Ayn never intentionally took off the veil.33...

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The highest levels of spiritual comprehension (Erfan)!

One Baha'i Scholar on "Baha'i Studies" Facebook Group wrote this: The Most Great Spirit is a poetic term Bahaullah used to refer to himself for people who were unaware (as an introduction). Elsewhere Bahaullah clarifies that he [the most great spirit] created the holy spirit, and that he is the one who spoke TO moses from the Burning Bush. And in...

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Incest!?

...the text of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas forbids a man to marry his father’s wife (i.e. his stepmother), and the Guardian has indicated that likewise a woman is forbidden to marry her stepfather. http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/KA/ka-2.html...

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Ninety-five times Allahu Abha

It hath been ordained that every believer in God, the Lord of Judgement, shall, each day, having washed his hands and then his face, seat himself and, turning unto God, repeat “Alláh-u-Abhá” ninety-five times. Baha'u'llah, Kitab-i-Aqdas http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/KA/ka-4.html...

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Petition of Baha'is of Shushtar, Iran, March, 1867, to U.S. Government

"An extraordinary document reached Beirut April 3rd, addressed to the United States consul, from fifty-three Persians in Bagdad [actually from Shushtar, Iran, via Baghdad], petitioning the United States Congress for the release of their leader, Beha Allah, the Babite Persian reformer, who appeared in 1843,* and was followed by thousands, 30,000 of...

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What happened when Avarih's 'evil whisperings' reached the ears of the loyal and vigilant followers of Baha'u'llah?

No sooner had his evil whisperings reached the ears of the loyal and vigilant followers of Baha'u'llah, than they arose with overwhelming force and unhesitating determination to denounce him as a dangerous enemy seeking to undermine the faith and sap the loyalty of the adherents of the Cause of God. Shunned by the entire body of the believers, abandoned...

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In 1864, Baha'u'llah and his entourage had rented a mansion, It had thirty inner, private rooms on three storeys.

By August, 1864, Baha'u'llah and his entourage had rented a mansion, called the house of Amru'llah, near the Sultan Selim mosque at the center of the city. It had thirty inner, private rooms on three storeys. The public portion of the house had four or five reception salons, as well as many bedrooms. Baha'u'llah and his family lived on the upper floor...

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you expel God from his House!

Say: O people, you are so wrapped in dense veils that you expel God from his House and yet make mention of his names at morn and eventide. Say: Blinded be the eyes that open every morning and yet shall never fall upon my glorious and refulgent Beauty, deaf be the ears that hear every sound but neglect to hearken to my wondrous and sweet melodies,...

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I am powerful to do what I will, and I am the pardoner, the compassionate.

By God, the creation has never seen my like and no eye has beheld my peer, for I am powerful to do what I will, and I am the pardoner, the compassionate. Whoever denies my Cause has repudiated all the Messengers, and whoever turns away from my face has shunned the Countenance of God. Baha'u'llah, The Surah of God https://web.archive.org/web/20160517145913/http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/trans/vol6/surall.htm...

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shun the serpent that hides within its heart a hatred for the All-Bountiful

Through the power of the All-Merciful, shun the serpent that hides within its heart a hatred for the All-Bountiful, and turn away from it, though it recite for you all that has been revealed in the Holy Scriptures and though it cling to glorious and articulate Tablets.Baha'u'llah, The Surah of Godhttps://web.archive.org/web/20160517145913/http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/trans/vol6/surall.htm...

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To be a Baha'i simply means to love all the world!!!!

When asked on one occasion, ‘What is a Bahá’í?,’ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá replied: ‘To be a Bahá’í simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.’ On another occasion He defined a Bahá’í as ‘one endowed with all the perfections of man in activity.’“In one of His London talks He said...

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"O wayward generation!"

“O wayward generation!” were the last words of the Báb to the gazing multitude, as the regiment prepared to fire its volley, “Had you believed in Me every one of you would have followed the example of this youth, who stood in rank above most of you, and would have willingly sacrificed himself in My path. The day will come when you will have recognized...

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al-Ahsai received divine knowledge from the Imam al-Hasan

In modern times, the Shaykhis, an offshoot of the Twelver Shiites, maintain an extreme belief in the infallible fourteen. The Shaykhis derive their name from Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsai (d. 1830), who taught that the infallible fourteen are the cause of the universe, in whose hands are life and death and the livelihood of men. Al-Ahsai seems to justify this...

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The chipped ceramic tiles, around both Shrines at Bahji and Mount Carmel, were collected & hauled by their trucks from the demolished Arab homes.

Mr Ioas was truly a gem and an incredible administrator. He used to frequent my brother Shukrullah's store in Akka, for recruiting master builders and mason master, as well as to commission him and my other brother Hasan to haul the Marble pieces Shipped from Italy to the sea port of Haifa, for the Shrine of the Bab, which they transported to the site...

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Redolent Droplet, the miserable Avarih

After the passing of our kind Father, 'Abdu'l-Bahá', the Centre of the Covenant, - may My spirit be a sacrifice to His lovers! - certain degraded, vain and unfaithful ones, among them their chief, the Great Raven, the Redolent Droplet, the miserable Avarih*, -- what an uproar they caused! What foul noises were raised by them! What senseless ravings...

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Lawh-i-Times (Tablet to the Times)

O 'Times', O thou endowed with the power of utterance! O dawning place of news! Spend an hour with the oppressed of Irán, and witness how the exemplars of justice and equity are sorely tried beneath the sword of tyrants. Infants have been deprived of milk, and women and children have fallen captive to the lawless. The blood of God's lovers hath dyed...

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By what proof can ye establish the truth of Muhammad, Whom we sent aforetime?

If He Who hath come unto you with clear verses be not the True One from God, even as ye proclaim this day from your seats of worldly honour, then by what proof can ye establish the truth of Muhammad, Whom we sent aforetime? Be fair in your judgement, O concourse of ill-wishers!- Days of Remembrance (Selections from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh for Bahá’í...

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Muhammad, the Apostle of God, cried out from the midmost heart of Paradise,

This is the Day whereon Muhammad, the Apostle of God, cried out from the midmost heart of Paradise, saying: “O peoples of the earth! By God, the Beloved of the worlds and the Desire of every understanding heart is come! He, verily, is the One to Whose voice I hearkened on My Night Journey but Whose beauty I was not to behold until the days attained...

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They that remain heedless of God in this Day are in truth lost !

They that remain heedless of God in this Day are in truth lost in the drunkenness of their desires and perceive it not. - Days of Remembrance (Selections from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh for Bahá’í Holy Days) http://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/days-remembrance/days-remembrance.docx?fa27a24c...

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mouth of God!

Every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God is endowed with such potency as can instill new life into every human frame, if ye be of them that comprehend this truth. - Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/GWB/gwb-74.html...

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Baha'u'llah assures Bayanis with a "Humiliating chastisement in the life to come"!

O people of the Bayán, I adjure you by your Lord, the God of mercy, to look with the eye of fairness upon this utterance which hath been sent down through the power of truth, and not to be of those who see the testimony of God yet reject and deny it. They, in truth, are of those who will assuredly perish. The Point of the Bayán hath explicitly made...

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one of the verses of My Revelation is better than...

To read but one of the verses of My Revelation is better than to peruse the Scriptures of both the former and latter generations. This is the Utterance of the All-Merciful, would that ye had ears to hear!- Baha'u'llah, Kitab-i-Aqdas http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/KA/ka-7.h...

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There are many instances that Baha'u'llah explicitly claims he is God

Baha'is will tell you that Baha'u'llah is not God, however there are many instances that Baha'u'llah explicitly claims he is God. These quotes are ignored by Baha'is and they usually act as if they don't exist. The concept of God in Baha'ism seems extremely contradictory at first but a careful study of Baha'u'llah's writings shows that he would...

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Children of Covenant-breakers

"..children of Covenant-breakers, who have grown up with and still associate with their parents, are probably thoroughly infused with the Covenant-breaking spirit, and the friends must not associate with them until the Hands of the Cause have ascertained that these children have understood the sin of their parents and dissociated themselves from them."...

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The final cleansing, after more than sixty-five years, of the immediate surroundings of the holiest Spot in the Baha'i world.

Steps have also been taken to register the title-deeds of a centrally located plot, originally owned by a Covenant-breaker, and abutting on the International Archives, in the name of the Israel Branch of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the British Isles. A further blow has been struck at the remnants of the implacable enemies...

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Baha'u'llah's prophecy of establishment of a Jewish State

Fulfillment of prophecies uttered by Founder of Faith and Center of His Covenant culminating in establishment of Jewish State, signalizing birth after lapse of two thousand years of an independent nation in the Holy Land, the swift unfoldment of historic undertaking associated with construction of superstructure of the Bab's Sepulcher on Mount Carmel,...

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...should he perpetrate an act contrary to the interests of either the state or religion...

Baha'u'llah declared : "This brother of Mine," He further declared to that official, "this Mirza Musa, who is from the same mother and father as Myself, and who from his earliest childhood has kept Me company, should he perpetrate an act contrary to the interests of either the state or religion, and his guilt be established in your sight, I would...

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Baha'u'llah claims that he is the return of Imam Husayn

In Addressing himself more directly to the Ithna ‘Ashari Shi’i sect which is predominant in his native Iran, Baha’u’llah writes in "Lawh-i-Husayn": GL:12: Consider the eagerness with which certain peoples and nations have anticipated the return of the Imam Husayn, whose coming, after the appearance of the Qa'im, hath been prophesied, m days past,...

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God should test His creatures, and they should not test God!

Muslim ulama said, 'We are not contented with this; we do not acknowledge the reality of his mission by virtue of his wisdom and righteousness. Therefore, we ask him to show us a miracle in order to satisfy and tranquilize our hearts.'Baha'u'llah replied, "Although you have no right to ask this, for God should test His creatures, and they should not...

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Baha'u'llah receives "offers" from Russia and Britain

"The Russian Minister, as soon as he was informed of the Imperial decision, expressed the desire to take Baha'u'llah under the protection of his government, and offered to extend every facility for His removal to Russia. This invitation, so spontaneously extended, Baha'u'llah declined, preferring, in pursuance of an unerring instinct, to establish...

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Baha'u'llah's knowledge of the unseen!

Baha’u’llah explicitly states that He sees "all that which hath appeared in the world and is revealed in the Holy Books and Scriptures" (TB:149), and furthermore, He writes of a Tablet revealed by the Bab, "We read the Tablet ere it was revealed, while ye were unaware, and We had perfect knowledge of the Book when ye were yet unborn." (KA:176) If...

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Baha'u'llah's miracle superior than Bab's Miracle!

Now it is time for some definitions: What is a verse? According to the Bab's "Bayan-i-farsi"(VI:l), a verse, called "bayt" in Arabic, is composed of 30 letters. There are 4600 verses in the 114 chapters (Surah=chapter) of the Quran. These were revealed over a period of some 22 years, from the first revelation to Muhammad c.610 A.D. and the last revelation...

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Hundreds of thousands of verses written by Baha'u'llah were thrown into the River!

Referring to the prolific nature of Baha’u’llah's revelation of verses, Shoghi Effendi writes "that during the first two years after His return from His retirement, according to the testimony of Nabil, who was at that time living in Baghdad, the unrecorded verses that streamed from His lips averaged, in a single day and night, the equivalent of the...

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Baha'u'llah proved his "prophethood(?)" to Sunnis!

The Sunni clerics and students who asked Baha'u'llah to elucidate the meaning of Futuhat-i-Makkiyyih asked Him to compose "a poem in a rhyme and meter identical with that of the longer of the two odes, entitled Qasidiy-i-Ta'iyyih composed by Ibn-i-Farid...This request was complied with, and no less than two thousand verses, in exactly the manner they...

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Baha'ullah renounced the Bab in order to save his own skin

Baha'ullah's brother-in-law worked for the Russian embassy in an eminent capacity. The Baha'is have omitted this significant detail from their histories because it throws a monkey wrench in everything else they say, but the fact is widely documented. It was for this reason that he was allowed out of Iran and to exile in Iraq (and not execution like...

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The Cause of God hath never had any place for denouncing others as infidel

O ye beloved of the Lord! The Cause of God hath never had any place for denouncing others as infidel or profligate, nor hath it allowed anyone to humiliate or belittle another. Contend and wrangle not with any man, and seek ye not the abasement of any soul. Disparage not anyone's name, and wish no harm upon anyone. Defile not your tongues with calumny,...

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These were the twelve imams, whose virtues have covered pages and filled tomes...

Mirza Abu'l Fadl writes : Know, my beloved friend, that whenever an animal or beast is mentioned in prophecies, this refers to kings and states. Moreover, as can be gathered from the holy Book of Certitude, the Kitab-i-Iqan, often "heavens" refers to the heavens of God's Cause and the heavens of religion.[3-19] "Sun" symbolizes the Sun of Reality,...

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Mirza Abu'l Fadl about Shi'i Imams

You know that after the ascent of Jesus into the heavens of God's presence (or, to put it more clearly, from the time these revealed prophecies descended) until the dawn of the morn of the Day of God, no one arose with prophethood or guardianship to bear witness to the unity of God and to the truth of His prophets and messengers, from Adam to Christ,...

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All Gods became Gods...

All Gods became Gods from the flow of my affairs and all Lords became Lords by the overflowing of my decree (kul al-ulūh min rashḥi ‘amrī ta’llahat wa kul al-rubūb min ṭafḥ ḥukmī tarabbat).`Abdu’l-Bahā, Makātīb (Egypt: Maṭba`atu Kurdistān al-`Ilmiyya (Published by Faraj-Allāh Dhakī), 1330 AH), vol. 2, p. 2...

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Baha'u'llah "returns from Age to Age"!

Consider the Words of Baha'u'llah when He is speaking as the Universal Manifestation of God, Who "returns from Age to Age". For example, He refers to the Bab as "My previous Manifestation..." And even refers to, among Others, John the Baptist being "Him" Who was beheaded, then Jesus being "Him" Who was crucified... "Praise be to Thee, O Lord My God,...

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Baha'is awaiting 'enormous bloodshed throughout the world'.

Once Varqa asked Baha'u'llah, "How will the Cause of God be universally adopted by mankind?" Baha'u'llah said that first, the nations of the world would arm themselves with infernal engines of war, and when fully armed would attack each other like bloodthirsty beasts. As a result, there would be enormous bloodshed throughout the world. Then the wise...

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Baha'u'llah admits that Muhammad is the seal of both prophets and messengers!

"Salutations be upon the Master of the World and the Teacher of the Nations (Muhammad) by whom came to an end Messengership and Prophethood and [salutations] be upon his progeny and companions." (Baha'u'llah, Ishraqat wa chand lauh digar, p. 293) (اشراقات و چند لوح دیگر ص 293)"السّلام علی سيّد العالم و مربّی الامم الّذی به انتهت الرّسالة و النّبوّة...

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Baha'u'llah and his followers committed many murders in Iraq

According to Baha'u'llah's own sister Baha'u'llah and his followers committed many murders in Iraq: "They gathered a group of hooligans from different provinces of Iran and from the same places fugitives who had never believed in any religion and had no faith in any prophet and had no work but manslaughter and had no occupation but stealing peoples’...

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A fraction of the total numbers of unique works have been published in the original languages or translated into Western languages.

The UHJ states in one of its letter: For Bahá’u’lláh, nearly 20,000 unique works have been identified. Most of these Writings have been collected; however, 865 are known to have been revealed, but the texts are not available. Close to 15,000 of the collected works have been authenticated by the Archives Office to date. For the Báb, over 2,000...

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Baha'i authorities shield Western believers by not providing translations...

June 6. On this date in 2013, the Universal House of Justice sent an email to an individual believer concerning the number of texts written by the Báb, Bahá’u’lláh, 'Abdu’l-Bahá, and Shoghi Effendi, noting "A fraction of the total numbers of unique works have been published in the original languages or translated into Western languages." The Kitáb-i-Aqdas,...

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Shaykh Ahmad’s doctrines prepared the way...

The sense of messianic anticipation within Shi‘ism was intensified by the spread of the doctrines of the Shaykhi School, named for Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa’i (1753-1826). He advanced a metaphorical interpretation of certain traditional tenets of Islam, claiming that the Hidden Imam existed not on earth but in a spiritual realm where he guided the faithful...

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If the veil were lifted, and the full glory of the station of those that have turned wholly towards God...

If the veil were lifted, and the full glory of the station of those that have turned wholly towards God, and have, in their love for Him, renounced the world, were made manifest, the entire creation would be dumbfounded.- Baha'u'llah(Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'll...

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"We must strive unceasingly and without rest" to convert everyone to Baha'ism

We must strive unceasingly and without rest to accomplish the development of the spiritual nature in man, and endeavor with tireless energy to advance humanity toward the nobility of its true and intended station. - Abdu’l-Bahá http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/PUP/pup-24.h...

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Some lesser known facts about the Baha'i Faith

1) Women are not allowed to serve the most Supreme Administrative Body, the Universal House of Justice. So there is no Equality of Men and Women.2) Baha'is are working to establish a Baha'i inspired New World Order, a Baha'i Super-state, headquartered in Haifa, Israel.3) Baha'is shun (ex-communicate) Covenant-Breakers and execrate them.4) Baha'is persecute...

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Khadijih Khanum’s marriage with Bab as described by her to Munirih Khanum.

While I was there I said to the wife of the Bab: "We have talked enough of these other matters. I beg of you to tell us of your life, and of your meeting with the Bab, and of your marriage to Him."She said:I cannot recall everything, but because of your request I will relate all that I remember. The Bab's father, Aqa Sayyid Muhammad Rida, was my cousin....

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The Turkish Government exacted a promise from Baha’u’llah that no teaching should be given to the dwellers in that country.

“The Turkish Government, entirely misunderstanding the matter, gave ear to the false statements of prejudiced and bigoted religionists, and fearing any innovation, exacted a promise from Baha’u’llah that no teaching should be given to the dwellers in that country, where the Holy Ones were held as prisoners and exiles. ‘Abdu’l-Baha also continued to...

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Mashriqu'l-Adhkar must be raised up near Baghdad

Mirza Muhammad-'Ali, the Afnan...The other revered Afnan and the friends in India felt it advisable to send his blessed remains to Iraq, ostensibly to Najaf, to be buried near the Holy City; for the Muslims had refused to let him lie in their graveyard, and his body had been lodged in a temporary repository for safekeeping. ... in the end it proved...

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Ruhiyyih Khanum was a "shield in warding off the darts of Covenant breakers"

In a cable to the National Spiritual Assembly of Canada, Shoghi Effendi designated her as "my helpmate, my shield in warding off the darts of Covenant breakers and my tireless collaborator in the arduous tasks I shoulder." https://bahai-library.com/khanum_guardian_bahai_fa...

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Men of ill will

There are several statements in the Sacred Scriptures of our Faith which are related to this general subject, and one in particular is found in "The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh", ("The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh", p. 117) as follows: "My fears are for Him Who will be sent down unto you after Me Him Who will be invested with great sovereignty and mighty...

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The Ultimate Baha'i Delusion

There are certain things that immediately come to mind. 1) There are numerous delusions stemming from gross ignorance among most believers of basic, fundamental facts about Babi and Baha'i history (not trivial details and minutia). I am thinking here specifically about the Babi uprisings and the reasons for Bahaullah's arrest, exile, and later house...

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Ziyaratnamih specifically written for Subh-i-Azal by the Bab

Among several visitation tablets (i.e. the genre of prayer known as Ziyarah) specifically written for Subh-i-Azal, the Bab ends these prayers with the following refrain: "...And God hath cursed the people who have sought to destroy Thee! And God hath cursed the people who have oppressed Thee! And God hath cursed the people who have conspired to shed...

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Baha'u'llah is the Lord of Hosts, the Heavenly Father, (and this is) the day when men will come face to face with the Godhead.

One night, it is related, Prince Kamran Mirza called Mulla Muhammad-Rida to his own private apartments to have dinner with him. Dinner over, he suddenly turned to the prisoner with this abrupt question: 'Akhund! Tell me: whom do you consider Baha'u'llah to be--an Imam or a Prophet?' Not at a loss for an answer, Mulla Muhammad-Rida replied: 'Your Royal...

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whatever I say is what will be!

In his memoires (p 394) Afroukhteh writes : Abdul Baha claims: "I don't claim sinlessness. I am the first of sinners but the Ancient Beauty has bestowed upon me a station, and therefore whatever I say is what will be."...

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God will verily inspire them with whatsoever He willeth

It is incumbent upon the Trustees of the House of Justice to take counsel together regarding those things which have not outwardly been revealed in the Book, and to enforce that which is agreeable to them. God will verily inspire them with whatsoever He willeth, and He, verily, is the Provider, the Omniscient. (Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh) http://www.bahai.org/the-universal-house-of-justice/articles-resources/from-writings-bahaullah...

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