Baha'i laws are inconsistent

Oddly enough, there are occasional inconsistencies between the reformist letters of Bahāʾ Allāh’s later period and the legalist text of the Aqdas. The liberalizing emphasis on the equality of men and women is ill-matched by the law of marriage (which allows a man two wives), or regulations such as that awarding a man’s house and clothing to his male, not female, heirs, even should there be no male offspring; the tolerance towards other religions that is shown in the injunction to mix freely with their followers jars with the law that disallows a teacher from taking his share in an inheritance should he be a non-Bahāʾī; and the general distaste for violence shown in the abolition of jihad and wider exhortations to peaceful behaviour sit a little uneasily with the ruling that arsonists are themselves to be burned.

(The Messiah of Shiraz - Studies in Early and Middle Babism by Denis Martin MacEoin)