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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