Jafar Kazzab

The brother of Imám Ḥasan ʻAskarí, known to Twelver Shíʻihs as “Jaʻfar-i-Kadhdháb” (“Jaʻfar the Liar”). In this tablet, Baha’u’llah dismisses this tenet of Shíʻih eschatology by establishing the truth of Jaʻfar’s reply to the question about his brother’s son.https://adibmasumian.com/translations/existence-of-qa...

Read More

A Baha'i who had secret "spiritual marriage" met Abdul Baha in Akka

Phelps (a New York lawyer and religious writer who studied the Bahā'ī Faith and the Radha Soami movement) and Sanghamitta (first woman to convert to Buddhism on American soil) visited `Abdu'l-Bahā in ‘Akkā and stayed with "the Master" for over a month, questioning him extensively. Except for a brief incident wherein Sanghamitta got extremely irritated...

Read More

All the people of the world will become Baha'is

All the people of the world will become believers. Should you compare the beginning of the Cause with its position today, you would see what a quick influence the Word of God has, and now the Cause of God has encompassed the world... Unquestionably, all will come under the shadow of the Cause of God.(Abdu'l-Baha, Quoted in the book by Dr. J.E. Esslemont,...

Read More

These Baha'is were expelled on the grounds that they disobeyed the Baha’i leadership, while others became agnostics or nominal Muslims.

A number of these graduates (Baha’is who entered the American University of Beirut) were expelled on the grounds that they disobeyed the Baha’i leadership while others became agnostic or nominal Muslims.(Footnote 7, The Iranians of AUB and Middle Class Formation in the Early Twentieth-Century Middle East, Farzin Vejdani, Department of History, Ryerson...

Read More

Francesco Ficicchia on Baha'ism

"Like a restrictive, fundamentalist Islām, Bahā'ism is based on a theocratic doctrine of state and society (dīn wa daula) and aims to integrate all of humanity into a single state structure in which sovereignty rests solely with God. Religion thus becomes the sole guideline for all areas of life, such that there can only be a God-willed order to which...

Read More

Denis MacEoin about Udo Schaefer and Gollmer

In 1995 Udo Schaefer, German Bahá'í author and lawyer who served on the NSA of Germany, authored Desinformation als Methode as a refutation to Francesco Ficicchia's Der Bahá'ismus — Weltreligion der Zukunft?. Although Der Bahá'ismus was never translated into English, Schaefer's Desinformation als Methode was published in 2001 in English as Making the...

Read More