Baha'ism does not distort the teachings of other religions! Lie.

 Former Baha'i scholar and historian, Denis MacEoin states:

Smith (Baha'i scholar) quotes Shoghi Effendi to the effect that Baha'ism does not distort the teachings of other religions, but does not examine the obvious distortions that Baha'i teachings create for Jews, Christians, Muslims and others. It is quite easy to see that key doctrines in all other faiths are contradicted by Baha'i beliefs and that there are no simple ways to reconcile them.

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

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How Baha'i scholar Peter Smith misleads his readers?

Denis MacEoin says:

He (Baha'i scholar - Peter Smith) writes: ‘The writings of the Bab … and to a lesser extent those of Baha’u’llah are pervaded by Islamic concepts; and many Babi and Baha’i practices bear an obvious resemblance to those of Islam’ (Smith 1996: 13). Of course, this is rather misleading. Babi and Baha’i practices and, for that matter, writings and doctrines do not just resemble those found in Islam: they are derived, sometimes wholesale, from them. Baha’ism has two hajj pilgrimages, lesser pilgrimages (ziyarat) a month-long fast, ritual prayer (salat), a system of religious law (shari‘a) an aversion to homosexuality, a stress on the divine unity, and so on, and it is only right that these debts be recognised for what they are.

Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0048721X.2012.705975

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Fulfilment of specific wishes

The religious potency of the monuments is reflected in the Baha’i lore that if one prays for the fulfilment of specific wishes at the grave of Navvab (Baha’u’llah’s first wife), she will intervene with Baha’u’llah to urge that one’s wishes be granted.

(David Michael Piff, Bahá’í Lore, Oxford, George Ronald, 2000, p. 232.)
(Margit Warburg, Citizens of the World, Page 440)

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