No One Has the Right to See Covenant-Breakers Without Permission

"No one has any right to see the Covenant-Breakers without the permission of the N.S.A., and Mrs. … in doing so should realize she is putting herself in contact with a dangerous, contagious, spiritual disease, as the Master pointed out over and over again! She is also disobeying express instructions of the Master and the Guardian by contacting Covenant-Breakers."

(From a letter written on behalf of the Guardian to two individual believers, May 5, 1947)

https://bahai.works/Lights_of_Guidance/Believers_Forbidden_to_Associate_with_Covenant-Breakers

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we have been given the gift of being able to see through the eyes of the House of Justice and listen through the ears of the House of Justice.

"We don't want to be like those people who want to see God with their own eyes, or hear His melody with their own ears, because we have been given the gift of being able to see through the eyes of the House of Justice and listen through the ears of the House of Justice." -Baha'i Counselor Rebeque Murphy

http://bahairants.com/highlight-from-us-national-convention-335.html
To hear this section of her talk go to:

http://media1.bahai.us/tab/Highlights/Sunday/30_Counselor_Murphy_Rema...
(Link now defunct)

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Videos of former Baha'is

1) Emily Armstrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkxaFpZoAfY
2) Elliott Hulse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXz5JJzHXD8
3) Dr. Jane Ansah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay9WFWwaoRo
4) Dale Husband
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmgmocliRec
5) Cate Eliz Ruth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kutTUgGhnk
6) Christian Ex-Bahai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS-KugDC9Bc
7) Mahshid Ziyaee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYm0qrapVi8
8) Rezvan Moradi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2tDDMJx48I
9) Wahid Azal
https://www.youtube.com/user/wahidazal/videos
10) Elliott Hulse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXz5JJzHXD8
11) Luke - Lukandon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MTlZUbfotc

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Israelis hope to use Baha'i connections in the future

"While considerable numbers of Persian/Iranian Jews had converted to the Baha’i faith in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it is not clear how many of them, if any, moved to Palestine prior to 1948 to form an integral part of the Baha’i community in Haifa or Acre. The emigration of Persian Baha’is to Palestine took place during the period of the First Aliyah (1882–1903), when thousands of mostly European Jews took up new lives in Palestine themselves; hundreds of Persian Jews also moved to Palestine during this period. Indeed, perhaps taking note of this considerable immigration, Baha’u’llah announced ‘the imminent return of the Jews to the land of Israel’ in a letter to French Jewish leader Edmund de Rothschild in 1891. However, there is virtually no mention of Baha’i adherents of Jewish background or descent living in Palestine/Israel in the voluminous correspondence of state officials (or in news reports) either immediately prior to or after 1948. Nevertheless, Israeli officials in and after 1948 were well aware that many Persian Jews had converted to the Baha’i faith in Iran itself decades earlier, and hoped to make use of such connections in the future."

-Randall S. Geller, The Baha’i minority in the State of Israel, 1948–1957

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Him Whom God will make manifest

Husayn Milani, who helped rescue the body of the Bab.

One of the followers of the heretic Usku, among whom he was known as Imam Humam Aba-‘Abdi’llah al-Husayn, Husayn Milani was living in Tabriz at the time of the Bab’s execution and played a role in the rescue of the Bab’s remains. It is reported that he removed the Bab’s remains from the moat and conveyed them to the shop of Haji Muhammad-Taqi Milani or, according to another account, his own shop. It is said that he was one of those who claimed to be Him Whom God will make manifest after the Bab’s death and that he acquired a following.

In August1852 he was living in Tehran and was arrested after the attempted assassination of the Shah. Fadil Mazandarani states he was executed in Niyavaran the same day as Haji Sulayman Khan, which would have made him one of the earlier martyrs of that month and thus presumably one of the better known Babi’s of Tehran. A platoon of soldiers stripped him and killed him with bayonets. (Malik-Khusravi, Tarikh 3:259. Momen, Babi:142.)

https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/bhpapers/vol6/waless/waless.htm

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Baha'u'llah lived for a time as a Sufi and picked up ideas from his Naqshbandi teachers

Baha'u'llah lived for a time as a Sufi and picked up ideas from his Naqshbandi teachers in Kurdistan, Baghdad, and possibly elsewhere (see Cole 1984) He had earlier had an affiliation to the Iranian Ni'matullahi brotherhood. Many of his writings are saturated with Sufi belief, just as the Bab’s are filled with occult and magical conceits.

-Denis MacEoin, Making the invisible visible: introductory books on the Baha'i religion (the Baha'i Faith)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0048721X.2012.705975

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Dissimulation of Baha'u'llah and Abdul Baha in Palestine

"...both Baha’u’llah and his son and successor made efforts to appear palatable to Sunni Muslim authorities in Palestine. Both frequented Friday prayers at local mosques and both dressed and were bearded in the manner of many Muslim clerics. In addition, neither taught or propagated the tenets of their faith among Palestinian Muslims, apparently to avoid causing offense."

-Randall S. Geller, The Baha’i minority in the State of Israel, 1948–1957

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329816410_The_Baha'i_minority_in_the_State_of_Israel_1948_-_1957

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MacEoin on Baha'u'llah's Claims to Divinity

The precise nature of Bahāʾ Allāh's claims is difficult to establish. The official modern Bahāʾī doctrine rejects any notion of incarnationism and stresses instead his status as a locus of divine manifestation (maẓhar ilāhī), comparable to a mirror with respect to the sun (see Shoghi Effendi The World Order of Bahāʾuʾllāh, rev. ed. [Wilmette, 1969], pp. 112–114). Nevertheless, it is difficult to avoid the suspicion that he himself made much more radical claims than this in parts of his later writings. The following statements are, I think, explicit enough to serve as examples: 'he who speaks in the most great prison (i.e. Acre) is the Creator of all things and the one who brought all names into being' (letter in Bahāʾ Allāh Āthār-i qalam-i aʿlā, vol. 2 [Tehran, n.d., being a repaginated reprint of a collection of writings originally preceded by the Kitāb al-aqdas, first printed Bombay, 1314/1896], p. 177); 'verily, I am God' (letter in Ishrāq Khāvarī Māʾida, vol. 7, p. 208); 'the essence of the pre-existent (dhāt al-qidām) has appeared' (letter to Ḥājī Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Khalīl Qazvīnī in ibid., vol. 8, p. 113); 'he has been born who begets not nor is begotten' ('Lawḥ-i mīlād-i ism-i aʿẓam' in ibid., vol. 4, p. 344, referring to Qurʾān sūra 112); 'the educator of all beings and their creator has appeared in the garment of humanity, but you were not pleased with that until he was imprisoned in this prison' ('Sūrat al-ḥajj' in Bahāʾ Allāh Āthār-i qalam-i aʿlā, vol. 4 [Tehran, 133 badīʿ/1976–77], p. 203).

-The Messiah of Shiraz, Brill, 2009, p. 500, note 16.

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What is unity?

In the Tablet of Ittihad, Bahá'u'lláh describes in some detail several features of unity. He states that unity in the first place is the unity of religion, meaning that people must follow the same religion which is His Faith in this day. He declares that when the majority of the people in a country embrace His Cause, then the government will be able to put into practice His teachings and commandments. He asserts that in past dispensations such a unity has always brought victory to the Cause of God.

https://bahai-library.com/rev_bahaullah_4/taherzadeh_revelation_bahaullah_4.txt

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Every house that is raised up will one day fall to ruin

"...Every house that is raised up will one day fall to ruin, except the house of God; that will grow more massive and be better guarded day by day. Then serve the Court of God with all your might, that you may discover the way to a home in Heaven, and found an edifice that will endure forever."

-Baha'u'llah

https://bahai-library.com/rev_bahaullah_4/taherzadeh_revelation_bahaullah_4.txt

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Shi'ih - Sunni

In the Tablet of Salman Bahá'u'lláh explains that in the Islamic Dispensation the letter of negation stood above that of affirmation. Those among the followers of Muhammad who disregarded His wishes about the appointment of His successor and violated His wishes after His passing, dominated over the faithful ones and ruled over them for centuries.

https://bahai-library.com/rev_bahaullah_4/taherzadeh_revelation_bahaullah_4.txt

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Christians and Muslims

They have rejected the bounty of God and His proofs and have repudiated the testimony of God and His signs. They have gone astray and have caused the people to go astray, yet perceive it not. They worship vain imaginings but know it not. They have taken idle fancies for their lords and have neglected God, yet understand not. They have abandoned the most great Ocean and are hastening towards the pool, but comprehend not. They follow their own idle fancies while turning aside from God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

-Baha'u'llah (Lawh-i-Ishraqat)

https://bahai-library.com/rev_bahaullah_4/taherzadeh_revelation_bahaullah_4.txt

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