No man can obtain everlasting life, unless he becomes a Baha'i

No man can obtain everlasting life, unless he embraceth the truth of this inestimable, this wondrous, and sublime Revelation.

- Baha'u'llah

http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/GWB/gwb-92.html

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'Abdu'l-Bahá had always attended the mosque.

Ruhiyyih Khanum :

He [Shoghi Effendi] refused to go to the Mosque. 'Abdu'l-Baha had always attended the mosque. He felt it was wise at that time. The family were virtually prisoners and he felt it was wise not to offend the authorities in the Holy Land.

Everything in [the] Faith is new. The past is destroyed. It is a new age, new Faith, something new and glorious is born. It was all in the teachings but the veil had not been torn in the Holy Land. It was torn in Persia. Then Shoghi Effendi said, "I will not go to the Mosque" and the veil was torn.

https://bahai-library.com/rkhanum_kampala_1958_jan

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Practice of 'Dissimulation' among Baha'is

The topic of taqiyya (dissimulation) among Baha'is is a complex one. Historically it has been alternatively practiced under the name of hikma (wisdom) and condemned. Until the British occupation of Palestine in World War I, Abdu'l-Baha outwardly lived as a Muslim, attending Friday prayers and even writing the Sultan a letter claiming that his tariqa had led many Americans to Islam. Shoghi Effendi, however, denied the voting rights of any Baha'i who denied his religion. Further, after the revolution in Iran, for a period of time any Iranian Baha'i who left Iran via Tehran's airport were denied administrative rights by the Universal House of Justice due to the reason that to able to leave Iran via that route they would have had to deny their affiliation to the Baha'i Faith.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OnThisDateInBahai/

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