"There is no free speech in the real world and you will be suppressed for telling the truth that is not supported by the system."
-Nasim Aghdam
-Nasim Aghdam
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Some scholarly and academic sources against the Baha'i faith
Books:
1) What is the Baha'i faith? by William Miller
2) Making the invisible visible by Denis MacEoin
3) Religion and Cyberspace by Morten T. Hojsgaard, Margit Warburg
4) Citizens of the World by Margit Warburg
5) The sources for early Babi doctrine and history by Denis MacEoin
6) The Messiah of Shiraz by Denis MacEoin
7) The Baha'i Faith in America by William Garlington
8) Resurrection and Renewal - The Making of the Babi Movement in Iran, 844-850 by Abbas Amanat
9) Nuqtat'ul-Kaf by Edward Browne
10) New History of Ali Mohammed The Bab by Edward Browne
11) Materials for the study of the Babi religion by Edward Browne
12) Baha'is in Exile by Vernon Elvin Johnson
13) The Religion of the Bayan and the claims of the Baha'is by Jalal S. Azal
14) A lost history of the Baha'i faith by Shua'u'llah Behai
15) Broken Silence - The story of today's struggle for religious freedom by Mirza Ahmad Sohrab
16) The Bahai Religion and its Enemy the Bahai Organization by Ruth White
17) The Complete Call to the Heaven of the Bayan by August J. Stenstrand
18) Twelve Principles: A Comprehensive Investigation on the Baha'i Teachings by Masoud Basiti, Zahra Moradi, Hossein Akhoondali
19) A Fraudulent Testament Devalues the Bahai Religion into Political Shoghism by Hermann Zimmer
20) History and Doctrines of the Babi Movement by Maulana Muhammad Ali of the Ahmadiyya Movement
21) Abdul Baha's grandson - Story of a twentieth century Excommunication by Mirza Ahmad Sohrab
22) Abdul Baha's Questioned Will and Testament by Ruth White
23) Modernity and the Millennium by Juan R. I. Cole
24) Baha'i Leads Out of the Labyrinth by Ruth White
25) Baha'i: A Christian Response to Baha'ism by Francis Beckwith, 1985
Articles:
1) Baha’ism: Some Uncertainties about its Role as a Globalizing Religion by Denis MacEoin
2) The Baha'i Faith in America, 1893-1900: A Diffusion of the American Religious Zeitgeist by Joshua Rager
3) The Baha’i minority in the State of Israel, 1948–1957 by Randall S. Geller
4) The Baha'is of Iran - The Roots of Controversy by Denis MacEoin
5) The Babi concept of Holy War by Denis MacEoin
6) Challenging apostasy: Responses to Moojan Momen’s ‘Marginality and Apostasy in the Baha’i Community’ by M. Stausberg
7) Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in Nineteenth-Century Shi'ism - The Cases of Shaykhism and Babism by Denis MacEoin
8) Fundamentalism in the contemporary U.S. Baha'i community by Juan R. I. Cole
9) The Baha'i Community of Acre by Erik Cohen
10) The Azali-Baha'i crisis of September, 1867 by Juan R. I. Cole
11) Half the Household Was African: Recovering the Histories of Two Enslaved Africans in Iran, Haji Mubarak and Fezzeh Khanum by Anthony A. Lee
12) The illegitimacy and fraud of the bogus UHJ is exposed through Ali Nakhjavan's blatant perversion of the truth by Nosrat Bahremand
13) An Examination of Suppression and Distortion in 20th Century Baha'i Literature by Vance Salisbury
14) Race, Immorality and Money in the American Baha’i Community by Juan R. I. Cole
15) The Baha'i Faith in America as Panopticon, 1963-1997 by Juan R. I. Cole
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Abdul Baha's stand on domestic violence
“Hold thy husband dear and always show forth an amiable temper towards him, no matter how ill tempered he may be. Even if thy kindness maketh him more bitter, manifest thou more kindliness, more tenderness, be more loving and tolerate his cruel actions and ill-treatment”.
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Lights of Guidance, p. 226)
Women should be obedient to their husbands:
“O Handmaids of the Self-Sustaining Lord! Exert your efforts so that you may attain the honour and privilege ordained for women. Undoubtedly the greatest glory of women is servitude at His Threshold and submissiveness at His door; it is the possession of a vigilant heart, and praise of the incomparable God; it is heartfelt love towards other handmaids and spotless chastity; it is obedience to and consideration for their husbands and the education and care of their children; and it is tranquility, and dignity, perseverance in the remembrance of the Lord, and the utmost enkindlement and attraction”.
(Universal House of Justice, Lights of Guidance, p. 225)
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Lights of Guidance, p. 226)
Women should be obedient to their husbands:
“O Handmaids of the Self-Sustaining Lord! Exert your efforts so that you may attain the honour and privilege ordained for women. Undoubtedly the greatest glory of women is servitude at His Threshold and submissiveness at His door; it is the possession of a vigilant heart, and praise of the incomparable God; it is heartfelt love towards other handmaids and spotless chastity; it is obedience to and consideration for their husbands and the education and care of their children; and it is tranquility, and dignity, perseverance in the remembrance of the Lord, and the utmost enkindlement and attraction”.
(Universal House of Justice, Lights of Guidance, p. 225)