Abdul Baha - "The Christ of this generation"

The station of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was the central point about which Bahá’ís in New York City were unclear. Even a believer as experienced as Edward Getsinger, who had been to ‘Akká three times for a total of six months and who had listened to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá numerous times as well as having studied with numerous Persian teachers, continued to equate ‘Abdu’l-Bahá...

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Station of Abdul Baha!!

Whether in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the most weighty and sacred of all the works of Bahá’u’lláh, or in the Kitáb-i-‘Ahd, the Book of His Covenant, or in the Súriy-i-Ghusn (Tablet of the Branch), such references as have been recorded by the pen of Bahá’u’lláh—references which the Tablets of His Father addressed to Him mightily reinforce—invest ‘Abdu’l-Bahá...

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The Twelfth Imam - Bayani perspective

The Twelfth Imam lived during the entire period of the Minor Occultation (874 CE to 941 CE) until the beginning of the Greater Occultation just after the passing of the 4th gate, Abu'l-Hasan 'Ali ibn Muhammad al-Samarri (ر), in 329 AH/941 CE when He Himself ascended to the realms of Divine Power, Eternal Subsistence and Glory. He archetypally and metaphysically...

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How they converted the innocent people?

Baha'is went from house to house up and down the road, asking blacks "if they believed in peace, brotherhood, and equality." If they answered: "yes", they were told that they were Baha'is and should Sign a declaration card. Seeberger claims that these blacks were not told of any restrictions resulting from membership in the Faith and were led to believe...

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Mason Remey

The establishment of the council as the forerunner of the UHJ as well as the appointment of its president was very explicit and formal if we can accept that this was the embryonic UHJ whose president can only be the guardian according to the Will and Testament of Abdu'l-Baha. Here are some useful extracts from Shoghi Effendi and some historical information:9th...

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There are no officers in this Cause.

Relative to certain matters which came up, Mr. A. W. Randall quoted the following words from Abdul-Baha: "There are no officers in this Cause. I do not and have not appointed any one to perform any special services, but I encourage every one to engage in the service of the Kingdom. The foundation of this Cause is purely a democracy, and not a theo...

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Babi revolts - Origins of Bahaism

In Iran the despotic court continued to rule as before, with little attention to the new ideas of liberalism abroad and even at home which had been brought back by Persians who had travelled or lived in Europe. The year 1850 saw the execution of a religious heretic called the Bab, or “the Gate," at Tabriz. This was the origin of a religious movement...

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Influence of Mir Damad and Mulla Sadra on Babism and Bahaism

There is no space to catalogue the religious teachers of the Safavid period or their teachings. The philosophical writings of Mir Damad (d. ca 1631) and Mulla Sadra of Shiraz (di ca 1641) have been characterized by some scholars as the bases on which the movements of Babism and then Bahaism were built, but this is a matter of much dispute.(Routledge...

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Introduction of the Babi faith and the Babi revolts.

The interaction of internal discontent with growing foreign influences produced a series of social-religious movements in Iran, the most important of which was that of the Babis. Much has been written about the Babis and their successors the Baha'is and we shall but briefly review their history here. 'Ali Muhammad, called the Bab or 'Gate', was born...

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The Baha'i religiolect

There is abundant evidence recorded in the literature of the Baháʼí Faith – a religion only some 170 years old – which demonstrates that it has a religiolect all its own. Take the following sentence, for instance:The Blessed Beauty, a Manifestation of God, was born in the Cradle of the Faith.This sentence is written entirely in English, but the terms...

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Shoghi's stand towards modernization of the Arab world and his hate towards Islamic institutions

However, Shoghi Effendi’s writings went even further: the major difference between the tenets of Ottoman reformers and the views he expressed is that in his, Islam features as the factor behind the East’s obscurantism and as a bar to progress, whereas in theirs, it had a role as a unifying factor capable of modernization and reform (Makdisi 2002)....

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Two pillars upon which Shoghi Effendi's Baha'i narratives were constructed.

The late nineteenth-century writings on Persia of British author George Nathaniel Curzon were especially chosen to aid this project. Gesturing to the Aryan-Persianism explored earlier in the century by John Malcolm, Henry Rawlinson, Arthur Gobineau, Ernest Renan, and latterly Edward Granville Browne, Curzon suited Shoghi Effendi’s preference for authors...

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Condemning the Islamic world

Behind Shoghi Effendi’s heavily derivative style of writing drawn from eighteenth-century and Victorian prosody with its syntactically complex sentences and Latinate vocabulary can be discerned a mindset to which the term “self-orientalizing” Westerner can most effectively be applied. Having had no direct personal contact with the land of his ancestors,...

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Shoghi Effendi discarded eastern dress (with the exception of a karakul hat) and cutting off intercourse with locals altogether received mainly British and Zionist VIPs

An ethnic Iranian born in Palestine in 1897 and brought up in a predominantly Persian speech-community, associating in his early adult years with British colonial administrators, high-ranking military officers, orientalists, and Western Bahai figures from wealthy and professional backgrounds, as a religious leader Shoghi Effendi occupied a niche and...

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Endorsing Western rule in the East under the rubric of "obedience to rulers"

Bahai leaders, however, have had very little to say about imperialism and the dominion of the West, and tended to endorse Western rule in the East under the rubric of “obedience to rulers”. Orientalism being the dominant apparatus for relaying notions about the East in the era of Empire, depictions of Islam as a backward, stagnant element in eastern...

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New religion from the Middle East entered the Christian world

As followers of a new religion from the Middle East, Bahais entered the space already opened in the United States by nineteenth-century Christian millenarian movements. New religious sects—Mormons, Adventists, Jehovah’s witnesses—shared a common heritage with respect to the millennium and the expectancy it generated for the return of Christ.(What Is...

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Short introduction of the Baha'i Faith by Geoffrey Nash

In the topic I have chosen to write about postcolonial analysis alerts us to the imperial dimensions behind the birthing of a new eastern religion. The focus here is on the nineteenth-century Islamicate world and on a faith which traces its origin to an Iranian Mahdi. Ali Muhammad Shirazi, or the Bab as he is more generally known, was the founder...

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Official Baha'i translations

One non-Baha'i scholar states:I have read most of the books by the central figures and Shoghi Effendi I could find. I just think that there is a clear difference in vision between all of them. On top of that I have read many writings of the Bab and Baha'u'llah in Arabic, which are infinitely better for understanding their teachings than translations.For...

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How do you explain this Baha'is?

The Bab instituted a law that you should not hurt children as one of these children could be He whom God shall make manifest. He also declared semen to be clean, in contrast with the Quran, because each sperm cell could be the one He whom God shall make manifest. Baha'u'llah was older than the Bab. How then do you explain th...

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Let deeds, not words, be your adorning! - Woe to you, O swine!

From Suratu’l Nus’h, قل أفّ لك يا خنزير وبما اكتسبت أيداك بحيث جرّبت سيف نفسك على وجه الله واستكبرت على الله المهيمن العزيز القدّوس.Provisional TranslationSay: Woe to you, O swine! For what your hands have wrought to the extent that you have drawn the sword from its sheath towards the Countenance of God, and waxed arrogantly against God, the Help in...

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Baha'u'llah's law does not consider semen unclean, Pork is allowed and the concept of "uncleanness" is abolished.

One of the major reforms in the Bahá’í teachings involves the laws of cleanliness, which were instituted in various faiths, including Hinduism and Judaism. In The Most Holy Book, Bahá’u’lláh revokes the notion of the uncleanness of various objects and people, specifically “of semen [and] of certain objects for purposes of prostration”. This serves...

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Baha'u'llah's attitude

I noticed in doing a critical analysis of the Kitab-i-Aqdas in the fall of 2017 how incredibly entitled he seemed to be. At one point, he scolded the Emperor of the Austria-Hungary Empire for not seeing him when the Emperor visited Palestine. Uh, he wasn't a Baha'i, he was most likely a Christian going to visit holy sites associated with his own religion......

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Treasury Tells Baha'is to Hire More Israelis if Status Pact Is to Be Renewed.

The Finance Ministry is threatening to torpedo a status agreement between the Bahai World Center and the Israeli government unless the Bahai agree to hire Israelis at their centers in the Haifa region in place of current workers who are mainly Bahai volunteers from around the world, sources told Anglo File.https://www.haaretz.com/1.5286...

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Shoghi Effendi's love for Switzerland

Shoghi Effendi loved nature. Whenever he felt the need for a rest it was not to the big cities that he went but to the mountains of Switzerland where he bicycled and climbed... His travels to Africa were for the love of nature and the simple life. (Lowell Johnson, Our Beloved Guardian, p. 41)His one single personal hobby was photography; he took superlatively...

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"liberation of Palestine" by the British forces

No need to dwell on the energetic steps which the English believers as soon as they had been apprized of the dire peril threatening the life of `Abdu'l-Bahá undertook to insure His security; on the measures independently taken whereby Lord Curzon and others in the British Cabinet were advised as to the critical situation at Haifa; on the prompt intervention...

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Weigh not the Book of God with... sciences

Weigh not the Book of God with such standards and sciences as are current amongst you, for the Book itself is the unerring Balance established amongst men. In this most perfect Balance whatsoever the peoples and kindreds of the earth possess must be weighed, while the measure of its weight should be tested according to its own standard, did ye but...

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Fanaticism - growing tendency in the Baha'i community

We must beware of thinking that fanaticism is something which is only practiced by others. On the contrary, it is a universal human frailty, namely the high virtue of steadfastness taken to an extreme, an evil from which even we, who call ourselves Baha'is, are not immune.There is a growing tendency in the Baha'i community to allude to "covenantal...

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Sen McGlinn’s "weak" arguments about the separation of Church and State and the Baha'i position on this issue.

As R. Danesh wrote: “..., the terms Baha’i State and Baha’i theocracy appear in authoritative Baha’i Writings and the Universal House of Justice has spoken of a future that will see the union of spiritual and civil authority.” [“Church and State in the Baha’i Faith: An Epistemic Approach” 2008.] With regard to Sen’s arguments and position, Danesh uses...

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Baha'u'llah revealed Himself to a humanity who had "attained the stage of maturity."

 After all, Baha'u'llah revealed Himself to a humanity who had "attained the stage of maturity."(Gleanings 33:2; see also Kitab-i-Aqdas 149)(Loyalty to the Covenant and Critical Thought - A Commentary by Udo Schaefer)See also...https://bahaitexts.blogspot.com/2018/07/hundreds-of-thousands-of-verses-written.h...

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The "Baha'i state" will function, "in all religious and civil matters, in strict accordance with the laws and ordinances in the Kitab-i-Aqdas".

The Kingdom of Bahá’u’lláh“With regard to the question about the manner in which the laws of the Universal House of Justice will be enforced on the peoples of the world, this needs to be understood within the context of the gradual evolution of the Faith and the emergence of the world commonwealth. From the extract from "Messages to the Bahá'í World,...

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A considerable number of Baha'is accepted Mason Remey

Surely, there is a reason why the Covenant breaking followers of Mason Remey, despite their fallacious arguments, managed to win over a considerable number of people.-Loyalty to the Covenant and Critical Thought - A Commentary by Udo Schae...

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Blending of Church and State in the future Baha'i world.

He [Bahá'u'lláh] has ordained and established the House of Justice, which is endowed with a political as well as a religious function, the consummate union and blending of church and state. This institution is under the protecting power of Bahá'u'lláh Himself. A universal, or international, House of Justice shall also be organized. Its rulings shall...

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al-ulama fil baha (The learned in Baha)

See Kitab-i-Aqdas, verse 173. The learned in Bahá’: al-‘ulamá’ fi’l bahá’. The Arabic term ‘ulamá’ (from ‘ilm=knowledge) denotes those who know, who are qualified by their knowledge. In the Bahá’í community there are no formal criteria for becoming one of the “learned”, or a scholar of the Faith. The only qualification is deep knowledge of the Cause....

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Udo Schaefer & Peter Khan about Baha'i Scholarship and why "a number of very capable and sincere people severed their connection with the Faith"

I know only too well whereof I speak. Over a period of five decades, I have had repeated, painful experiences with the anti-intellectualism in our community.This is obviously a world-wide phenomenon in Baha'i communities. Peter Khan writes "... I saw around me ... in both Australia and the United States, a number of very capable and sincere people...

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Not allowing women in the House of Justice is a superstition.

God has endowed man with intelligence and reason... If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science, they are mere superstitions and imagination... If religious belief and doctrine is at variance with reason, it proceeds from the limited mind of man and not from God; therefore, it is unworthy of belief and...

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"think of ways of imparting the message to prominent people"

Abdu'l Baha exhorted the believers to "think of ways of imparting the message to prominent people, for once such persons have given their allegiance to the Faith, they will cause the people to be led, troop after troop, to the wellspring of unfailing guidance."(Compilation - Teaching Prominent People (London 1990), p. 1.)(Loyalty to the Covenant and...

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Loyalty to the testimony of our faith is the prerequisite for any intellectual reflection.

The foundation of our faith, our thoughts and intellectual endeavors, is the Covenant of God, established by Bahá’u’lláh, and embodied in his scripture, as well as the authoritative interpretations by ‘Abdu’l-Baha- and Shoghi Effendi. Firmness and loyalty to the Covenant and obedience to the holy writings and the institutions of the community...

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What holds back the development of the Cause of Baha'u'llah?

One danger is that an ultra-conservative attitude, mistrustful of any critical thought, makes unjust claims to interpretative authority and strives to maintain everything the way it is, by disallowing critical questions and by ‘keeping the lid on.’ Such a fundamentalist stance attempts to disallow critical questions from being asked, and holds back...

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Sen McGlinn about "Shoghi Effendi's surprise at the strange beliefs of Western Baha'is"

Shoghi Effendi was often surprised at the strange beliefs of Western Bahais, and when speaking in person he could be almost scathing about their foolishness. “The chatter of idle minds” in the example you gave may not be what he actually said however - the report might be spun to support one faction in the American Bahai community against another....

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The Baha'i world government of the future

The following two passages were quoted in a 5 July 1982 letter to an individual on behalf of the House of Justice:“As regards the International Executive referred to by the Guardian in his "Goal of a New World Order", it should be noted that this statement refers by no means to the Bahá'í Commonwealth of the future, but simply to that world government...

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Baha'u'llah and Shoghi Effendi about philosophy

One important discipline that helps our dialogue with academics is philosophy. One encounters repeatedly the misunderstanding that Baha'u'llah has called philosophy a science that "begins with words and ends with words". This is absolutely wrong, as Shoghi Effendi has encouraged us to study philosophy...(Loyalty to the Covenant and Critical Thought...

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Qur'an is our Old Testament

... this must include an intimate knowledge of the Writings of the Bab, Baha'u'llah, 'Abdu'l-Baha and the clarifications and the writings and explanations of Shoghi Effendi. There is also a need for a deep knowledge and profound understanding of Islam, for the Qur'an is, so to speak, our Old Testament.(Loyalty to the Covenant and Critical Thought by...

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Baha'i - Israel relations

Former Baha'i Michael Zargarov says: The Baha’i administration is very Kiss-Ass when it comes to Israel. They bend over backwards to appease the Zionists…and in return are given land which has been expropriated from Palestinians. Currently, they are building a new Shrine for Abdu’l Baha on farm land stolen from Palestinians, who were forced to move…so...

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A Baha'i who practiced dissimulation

To add to the difficulty of identifying Najmābādī’s religious affiliation, we should mention here that his grandson considered him a secret Bahā’ī. For Afsaneh Najmabadi’s account of her father’s opinion of his own grandfather, Shakh Hādī Najmābādī being a Bahā’ī who practiced dissimulation, See Zohreh T. Sullivan, “Interview with Afsaneh Najmabadi,”...

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'Abdu'l-Baha berated Jews for not accepting Christ:

When you [the Jewish people] glorify and honor the memory of Christ, rest assured that the Christians will take your hands in real fellowship. All difficulty, hesitancy and restraint will vanish. Consider the troubles and persecutions heaped upon you in Russia for your fanaticism of unbelief. And you must not think that this is ended.This humiliation...

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Facts that the Baha'is under the bogus UHJ will not tell to the people

Let's start with the facts the Bahá'ís under sans-guardian UHJ will not tell to the people:a) The continuing Guardianship was totally expected until the passing of Shoghi Effendi. In the book 'World Order of Bahá'u'lláh', Effendi wrote about "the deeds of its present and future Guardians" and that "Divorced from the institution of the Guardianship...

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Baha'i statistics

Baha'is always claim the Faith is booming in Africa and the Pacific but never provide any hard statistics so I would hazard a guess it just isn't, but the lack of a strong media presence and independent statistical data through a solid census allows the Baha'is to claim whatever they want about the third world whereas in the first world any bogus claims...

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When the Baha'i State will be established...

Early in 1933, a Bahai wrote to Shoghi Effendi asking, “Is the universal Tribunal, sometimes called by the Master the International Court of Arbitration, identical with the Universal House of Justice? Or is it to be a separate judicial body, with jurisdiction to pass upon all disputes between nations and outside the control of the Universal House?”...

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The Baha'i Faith failed me during my youth

Baha'u'llah, Abdul Baha, and Shoghi Effendi correctly predicted that there would be a great cultural deterioration in the West, and this is something we must give all three of them immense credit for, because they were 100% correct. People now hate good music and love bad music, and they hate intelligent moral people and love stupid immoral people....

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Authoritarians love the idea of "unity"

No one can deny that when everyone agrees, this is unity, and when there are non-conformists, there is potential for disunity. Authoritarians hate non-conformists and therefore they love the idea of unity.This is one of the reasons why Baha'i authorities have made sort of an idol out of unity. If the masses worship the Unity Idol, then any time someone...

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Mirza Muhammad Ali would have saved the Baha'i Faith

If the Baha'i's had obeyed Baha'u'llah, and turned to Mirza Muhammad Ali after Abdul Baha's death, the Baha'i Faith would have been saved from a lot of the insanity that is rampant in the Baha'i community today. The Baha'i Faith today is effectively in the process of killing itself, as any intelligent person will witness. Muhammad Ali offered an interpretation...

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Shua Ullah Behai on the lack of progress of the Baha'i Faith in America

It is nearly half a century since [the Baha’i] principles were introduced in the United States of America, but with all the efforts that have been made we have not progressed as we should.... The time has come that we should arise from our slumber and pull the wool off our eyes and see the defect which is causing our stagnation. Avoiding questioners,...

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If you want to join the Baha'i Faith...

If you want to join the Baha’i Faith, here are some things you will have to accept. There’s no room for discussion.Misogyny: No woman will ever be allowed to be elected to the Faith’s highest governing body. If you truly believe in equality, this is not the place for you, nor for 50% of humanityMagical thinking: Open, curious intellectual debate and...

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Was Shoghi Effendi a closeted Homosexual?

According to research done by Jackson Armstrong-Ingram (primarily based on letters of the Afnan family and other firsthand accounts) and Mildred Mottehedeh who confided to Michael Zargarov and several others, Shoghi was a homosexual who struggled with his condition for his whole lifetime. There have also been suggestions that George Townsend was perhaps...

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In spiritual matters we need not obey the Government

In administrative matters we must obey the Government, in spiritual matters we need not obey. If the Government says dont meet such a person, we must obey. It does not mean we have antagonism towards him, but if the Government requires us to denounce him, speak evil of him, this is violating a spiritual principle. The law may say we discourage you...

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Example of Baha'u'llah's innate knowledge - "As some had questioned Us concerning him, We felt it necessary to refer to his books, in order that We might answer Our questioners"

For instance, a certain man,[1] reputed for his learning and attainments, and accounting himself as one of the pre-eminent leaders of his people, hath in his book denounced and vilified all the exponents of true learning. This is made abundantly clear by his explicit statements as well as by his allusions throughout his book. As We had frequently heard...

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Most of the laws of the Kitab-i-Aqdas are designed for the future when the Baha'i Faith becomes the religion of the land

"The study of the Writings of Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha makes it clear that most of the laws of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, apart from those which are of a spiritual nature, or in conformity with the conditions prevailing at the time, are designed for the future when the Baha'i Faith becomes the religion of the land It is then that these laws will be fully...

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Names of some prominent former-Baha'is from western countries

Names of some former-Baha'is from western countries (most of whom were scholars)1) Denis MacEoin2) Juan Cole3) Frederick Glaysher4) William Garlington5) Karen Bacquet6) Jenifer Tidwell7) Eric Stetson8) Dr. Phyllis Bernard9) Steven Scholl10) John Ford Coley11) Francesco Ficicchia12) Phoebe Hearst13) Hermann Roemer14) Dann May15) K. Paul Johnson16) Dermod...

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Sen McGlinn about the unwisdom of the Baha'is

Very often it is the unwisdom of the friends that puts up barriers, holding back people who might otherwise investigate Baha'u'llah and his teachings for themselves. There are multiple causes, but reliance on bad texts and bad translations, and the misattribution of texts, is one of them - causing dissagreements in the community and statements about...

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Sen McGlinn about the US Baha'i community

Baha'i scholar Sen McGlinn states that he and Moojan Momen agrees that "there has been a marked ‘change of culture’ in the Baha’i community over the past 10–15 years, associated with the introduction of ‘Ruhi method’ catechism classes. Over the same period, there has been a marked fall in enrollments and an increase in formally notified withdrawals...

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700,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes after the establishment of Israel in 1948.

Following the establishment of the State of Israel, the 1948 Arab-Israeli war broke out.Nakba, or “catastrophe”, is observed to remember the expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians from their homes after the establishment of Israel in 1948.Many Palestinians recall locking their houses for the last time in May of that year, convinced they would return in...

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"Fatimih will appear unveiled as the sign of his return"

One of the major Shi'ite beliefs concerning Fátimih is that with the reappearance of the Twelfth or Hidden Imám, the Imám Mihdí, Fátimih will appear unveiled as the sign of his return and the day of resurrection. Her unveiling will be as the removing of the seal, identified with Muhammad as the seal of the prophets. With this unveiling, Fátimih will...

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Baha'i temples are "silent teachers"

Bahá'í temple is a “silent teacher” of the Bahá'í faith.Warburg, Margit (2006). Citizens of the World: A History and Sociology of the Bahaʹis from a Globalisation Perspective. Brill. p. 493. ISBN 978-90-04-14373-9.The Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (Baha'i Temple) is called the "silent teacher" because it transmits an influence on its own which both leads outsiders...

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Shoghi Effendi excommunicated his cousin Munib Shahid just for marrying against his wish.

“Not content with this, Ruhangiz, Shoghi Effendi's eldest sister, did not rest until she arranged another marriage between her cousin, Hasan Shahid and the granddaughter of the notorious Siyyid Ali. But in order not to degrade the family of the Master in public by announcing them all as Covenant-breakers, Shoghi Effendi acted with great patience and...

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Fundamentalism in the Teachings of Baha'u'llah

The Faith claims that its teachings constitute "the sole panacea for the innumerable ills afflicting our present-day world" (Directives from the Guardian, p. 74). In other words, it is not just the answer to all of our problems, but the only answer to all of our problems. Such a belief is, in fact, extremely fanatical and reminiscent of current...

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Divorce rate in the U.S. Baha'i community

An internal Baha'i household survey done in 1987 found that the divorce rate in the U.S. Baha'i community was higher than that in American society as a whole. The report was never released to the public.My own suspicion is that the high divorce rate has several causes. First of all, Baha'is are encouraged to utopian ways of thinking. Two young people...

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What Muslims (Shi'is) need to know about the Baha'is?

1) Baha'is hate Muslims.2) They believe that all Muslims (Shi'ites) must be punished for their crime of persecuting the Bab, Baha'u'llah and their followers.3) Baha'is work (directly / indirectly) for the change of Iranian regime.4) Baha'is favor and promote US sanctions on Iranian people.5) Baha'i collect and share a lot of data (many times sensitive)...

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Guardianship according to the Will and Testament of Abdul Baha

In his Will, 'Abdul-Bahá established the institution of the Guardianship, which is a hereditary leadership position. He appointed Shoghi Effendi as the first Guardian, and said that the Guardian should appoint his successor, either from his first-born son, or if he were found lacking, from among the male descendants of Bahá'u'lláh. The appointment...

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How many Baha'is are there in the world today?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baháʼí_Faith_by_country&oldid=989542553#Figures_from_various_countr...

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Shoghi Effendi had difficulty in securing suitable secretarial support.

Shoghi Effendi is known to have written some 26,000 letters to the Bahá’í world: those directed to the Antipodes, approximately 700, appear in the present volume. These include 81 that appeared in Letters of the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand, as well as 82 published in Arohanui: Letters from Shoghi Effendi to New Zealand. A select number of...

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An intermediary step between Islam and the ultimate abandonment of religious belief

ʻAbdu'l-Bahá emphasized Baháʼís "seek freedom and love liberty, hope for equality, are well-wishers of humanity and ready to sacrifice their lives to unite humanity" but on a more broad approach than the Young Turks. He had favorable relations with Abdullah Cevdet, one of the founders of the Committee of Union and Progress, who would go on trial for...

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Excommunication for associating with a Covenant-breaker

Parvine Afnan Shahid, the daughter of the marriage between two grand-children of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was determined by the Universal House of Justice to be a covenant-breaker in 1996, since by virtue of her continued association with this lady, another Bahá’í was declared a covenant-breaker. (Letter of Universal House of Justice to National Spiritual Assembly...

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Baha'i issue in Iran explained by a former Persian Baha'i

In Iran, Baha'i faith is mostly frowned upon for the following reasons:1- It is viewed as a cult. Whether some people feel offended by the word 'cult' or not, that is how most Iranians see them. You can also see the testimonies of people on /r/exbahai for more info.2- Historically, the leaders have flourished under the protection of Iran's...

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