...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...
Monday, July 23, 2018
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...
Sunday, July 22, 2018
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...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
What happened when Avarih's 'evil whisperings' reached the ears of the loyal and vigilant followers of Baha'u'llah?
Abuse, Covenant-Breakers, Punishment, Shoghi Effendi
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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...
Sunday, July 15, 2018
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...
you expel God from his House!
Baha'u'llah, Godhood, Juan Cole, Provisional Translation
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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,...
I am powerful to do what I will, and I am the pardoner, the compassionate.
Baha'u'llah, Godhood, Juan Cole, Provisional Translation
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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...
shun the serpent that hides within its heart a hatred for the All-Bountiful
Baha'u'llah, Godhood, Juan Cole, Provisional Translation, Punishment
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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...
Friday, July 13, 2018
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...
"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...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
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...
Monday, July 9, 2018
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...
Redolent Droplet, the miserable Avarih
Abuse, Covenant-Breakers, Provisional Translation, Shoghi Effendi
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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...
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...
Saturday, July 7, 2018
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...
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...
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...
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...
Baha'u'llah assures Bayanis with a "Humiliating chastisement in the life to come"!
Azali, Bab, Baha'u'llah, Covenant-Breakers, Punishment
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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...
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...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
There are many instances that Baha'u'llah explicitly claims he is God
Bab, Baha'u'llah, Godhood, Personal Observations, Subh-i-Azal
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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...
Monday, July 2, 2018
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."...
Sunday, July 1, 2018
The final cleansing, after more than sixty-five years, of the immediate surroundings of the holiest Spot in the Baha'i world.
Abuse, Covenant-Breakers, Israel, Muhammed Ali (Ghusn)
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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...
Baha'u'llah's prophecy of establishment of a Jewish State
Baha'u'llah, Israel, Jews, Prophecy, Shoghi Effendi
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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,...
...should he perpetrate an act contrary to the interests of either the state or religion...
Baha'i Law, Baha'u'llah, Dissimulation, Punishment
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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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Baha'ullah renounced the Bab in order to save his own skin
Azali, Bab, Baha'u'llah, Dissimulation, Personal Observations
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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...