Baha'u'llah's Education

On the strength of the Persian Bayan, Unity (Wahid) II, chapter (BAB) 1; II. 17; vi.1; vi.8, “verses revealed through the power of the true Faith (Fitra) are the chiefest proof and greatest argument” of a divine mission. The power of the true Faith is identical with the illiteracy (Ummiyya) of the prophet Muhammad.The same criterion or standard is...

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"my master, my support, my teacher, Sayyid Kazim al-Rashti"

Finally, this book, on the proper method of search, is kept brief for those possessed of insight. In it is that which will suffice for the pure amongst the believers in the divine unity. The particulars have been fully written about by my master, my support, my teacher the pilgrim Sayyid Kazim al-Rashti, may God lengthen his life and bring forth from...

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"four pillars" of the Shaykhi sect

Indeed, [true] Religion is supported (mutaqawwam; QWM) by four pillars.1) Tawhid (affirming the divine unity)2) Nubuwwa (prophethood)3) Walaya (guardianship), and4) Shi'a (the community of true believers) (The Bab's Risalah fis-Suluk ila Allah) https://bahai-library.com/pdf/l/lawson_babs_epistle_2005....

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According to Baha'u'llah, Who is a learned person and who is an illiterate?

Consider, how can he that faileth in the day of God’s Revelation to attain unto the grace of the “Divine Presence” and to recognize His Manifestation, be justly called learned, though he may have spent aeons in the pursuit of knowledge, and acquired all the limited and material learning of men? It is surely evident that he can in no wise be regarded...

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Bahaism is a chameleon changing its colour to suit its environment.

Bahaism is a chameleon changing its colour to suit its environment.(Jalal S.Azal)The Babi-Baha'i movements underwent an odyssey from militancy in the 1840s to pacifist, liberal globalism under Baha'u'llah and thence in the twentieth century to two contending emphases: a liberal stream that maintains a universalist and tolerant outlook and a conservative...

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Baha'u'llah is actually the Bab.

Bahá’u’lláh claims:"Thus doth the Tongue of God proclaim to all beings that verily I am He that liveth in this Horizon which hath in truth been manifested, Who among the Concourse on high hath been named the Most Exalted 'Alí [the Báb], and Who in the cities of Names beareth the glorious name of Abhá [Bahá’u’lláh]."https://journal.bahaistudies.ca/...

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put all non-Babis to death

In what is probably the last substantial work of the Bab, the Haykal al-din (The Temple of Religion, 1850) the waging of a kind of holy war is spelled out when the Bab states that a future Babi king should, as a manifestation of the 'wrath of God' (qahr Allah), put all non-Babis to death.(The Messianic Roots of Babi-Baha'i Globalism, by Stephen La...

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striking of necks, the burning of books and papers, the destruction of shrines

In a letter apparently addressed to the Baha'is of either Baghdad or Shiraz (madinat Allah), he (Abdul Baha) puts forward the view that, in every religious dispensation, a particular teaching was given special emphasis. Thus, in the time of Moses, obedience and submission to God were stressed; in the days of Jesus, moral behaviour, friendship, harmony,...

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How Moojan Momen misleads the less-informed reader?

Shoghi Effendi insisted that new Baha’is should leave their churches (and mosques and synagogues), indicated that believers should not celebrate Christmas and other religious festivals, and inveighed against the various rituals and the clergy of other faiths. Momen knows all this (he has written books on world religions and even one on Buddhism), so...

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Fear and anguish are womanly qualities

O friends! Fear and anguish are womanly qualities...(Tablet of Medicine, by Bahá'u'lláh)https://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_lawh_tibb_anonym...

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Unity of Religions! How is that possible?

The doctrine of mazhariyya, which turns all religious founders into ‘Manifestations of God’ derives from the esoteric systems of Shi'ism and Sufism, which means that most Sunni Muslims will find it repugnant. Other components of the world religions, from the Jewish halakha to the crucifixion (which Baha’is accept, but which Muslims deny) to the Trinity...

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Talisman investigation

Since the Talisman investigation, there have been no further threats to name online dissidents as covenant-breakers. Instead, three such critics have been summarily dropped from the membership rolls, with the explanation that their “behavior and attitude” disqualifies them. The UHJ has further explained to inquirers about these cases that had these...

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Shoghi Effendi maintained contact with a number of prominent people including Zionists

In addition to Queen Marie, the Guardian corresponded with, among others, Grand Duke Alexander of Russia, Princess Kadria of Egypt, Princess Marina of Greece, Lord Lamington, and Professor Norman Bentwich (attorney-general of Mandatory Palestine and a lifelong Zionist). He sent personal messages to the Universal Congress of Esperantists from 1927 to...

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Baha'i groups

But we must consider also those groups before 1957 that continue to be active, as to their continuing exploits (the Azalis and Free Baha’is of Germany, the latter otherwise known as the World Union for Universal Religion and Universal Peace [(WURUP)]. A recent group in America is the Reform Baha’is, founded by Frederick Glaysher. Then there are those...

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"God as changing his mind"

These Baha'is, with international headquarters in Haifa, Israel, after not finding a will of Shoghi Effendi wherein he appointed a successor, were crushed in the realization that he had no sons and had declared all other believed qualified candidates as covenant-breakers.’ ‘They merely accepted what they believed to be the facts at issue. In spite...

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"Extraordinary moment of spiritual force flowing through the Master."

 Mrs. Gibbons, a Bahá’í, had written the Master before his coming to the United States, requesting that her own daughter be allowed to paint his portrait. In his reply he consented to this request and added, according to Mrs. Gibbons, that Juliet Thompson would paint a portrait of him. Juliet Thompson had long dreamed that she would paint the...

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UHJ will rule over mankind.

And it is that institution which is assisted today by all the powers of earth and heaven to rule over mankind. And it shall rule over mankind. And a time will come that the kings and rulers of the world will go there and pay homage to the House of Justice. Already, we are told by Shoghi Effendi that this thing will come in its own time. He describes...

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