Covenant-breaker might be a lamb in front of you, telling you by heart Bahá’u’lláh’s words but he is a wolf.

When Covenant-Breakers passed through Peru and contacted the media, Mas’ud immediately gathered the youth and the community to advise them:

One of the many experiences with Mr Khamsi that reinforced my knowledge about the Covenant was when a newspaper published Covenant-breakers’ material. Some Bahá’ís received letters from the Covenant-breakers and their letters began to spread. He spoke about the Covenant-breakers directly, openly, and talked about the faithfulness that we should have to the Universal House of Justice. He was very emphatic, talking without hesitations, about the love to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the love to Shoghi Effendi and the love to the Blessed Beauty. One of the things that Mr Khamsi said very clearly was that the Covenant-breaker “might be a lamb in front of you, telling you by heart Bahá’u’lláh’s words but he is a wolf. You have to pay attention to your ears, to any key word that he might say and right there you point”. His words were a blessing. He was always protecting the youth from what might come.

(The Khamsis: A Cradle of True Gold by Boris Handal)

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/h/handal_khamsis_cradle_gold.pdf 

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Fund Donation A Special Gift For Ayyam-i-Ha

Want to give a special present for Ayyam-i-Ha? Why not send a contribution to the National Baha'i Fund in honor of a friend or relative? The Office of the Treasurer will send him or her an attractive engraved card telling of your special gift. Be sure to include the recipient's name and address with your contribution!

(The American Bahá’í, February, 1978)

https://bahai.works/The_American_Bahá’í/Volume_9/February/Text

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Baha’u’llah’s words to a Baha’i child

And yet heedless thou didst remain, and when fully grown, thou didst neglect all My bounties and occupied thyself with thine idle imaginings, in such wise that thou didst become wholly forgetful, and, turning away from the portals of the Friend, didst abide within the courts of My enemy.

(‘Abdu’l-Baha Compilation, p. 14 (UK and USA))

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a sacred gift to the American Bahá’i Community... lock of Baha'u'llah's hair

The Guardian in 1937, sent a sacred gift to the American Bahá’i Community through Millie. This was the lock of Baha’u’llah’s hair that had been preserved by the Greatest Holy Leaf, to be placed beneath the dome of the American Bahá’i Temple. She presented the gift during the 1938 National Bahá'i Convention mounted in a silver frame, the first of many sacred gifts from the guardian to become part of the National Bahá’i Archives.

https://bahai-library.com/francis_collins_biography

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Nineteenth-century Islam witnessed the emergence of several messianic movements... It was only in Shi'i Iran that a movement appeared which broke entirely from Islam

Beginning in 1844 as a reactionary messianic movement within Shi'ism, Babism had, by 1848, attempted the abrogation of the Islamic legal system and, within another year, proclaimed the replacement of Islam by a new divine revelation. This extraordinary development, which was cut short by the physical repression of the Babis by 1852, was based on a series of claims to original charismatic authority by the founder of the movement, Sayyid 'Ali Muhammad Shirazi, the Bab. Although he finally claimed to be a divine ‘manifestation’ sent by God with a new book and law, Shirazi had commenced his mission by urging no greater claim than that of representative or ‘gate’ (bab) of the Imam –– something not very far removed from what was later asserted of the supreme marja' or what is today claimed for Khumaini by many of his followers. Baha'ism, which emerged out of Babism in the 1860's, was based on a similar claim to divine authority superseding that of the past, and achieved an even further-reaching charismatic breakthrough. In the end, the Baha'is claimed for their movement the status of a new religion, independent of Islam, a claim which has been furthered to some extent by the relative success of their missionary enterprises outside Iran throughout this century.

Apart from their undoubted intrinsic interest, Babism and Baha'ism seem to me to be significant in the present context for a number of reasons. It is, first of all, worth noting that, although nineteenth-century Islam witnessed the emergence of several messianic movements, such as the Mahdiyya of the Sudan or the Ahmadiyya in India, all of these remained within the bounds of Islam, from their own point of view, at least. It was only in Shi'i Iran that a movement appeared which broke entirely from Islam and, in the end, successfully established itself as a new and, in some areas, even a rival religion.

(ISLAM IN THE MODERN WORLD, Edited by DENIS MACEOIN AND AHMED AL-SHAHI, ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: POLITICS OF ISLAM)

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Cyprus is the island of Satan

Shoghi Effendi spoke first and asked me if I was coming from England. I answered, “Bale, Qorban! (Yes, my Beloved!)” He inquired about the unity and activities of the Baha’is in England, and I replied that yes, they were united in London where I had spent much time. Then the Beloved Guardian, Shoghi Effendi, congratulated me on my decision to pioneer to Cyprus and expressed the wish that I start corresponding with the Baha’is of Iran to encourage them to pioneer to this country as well. He said he had encouraged American, British, and Iranian Baha’is to pioneer there. Cyprus was the island where Mirza Yahya Azal, Baha'u'llah's half-brother and a Covenant-Breaker, had been banished by the Turkish government and lived for over forty years, and he explained that the name of the island had been known as the ‘sheytan jazirasi’ (the island of Satan) and wanted to know if I knew that. I replied, “Yes, my beloved.” Then he indicated that now the Baha’is must change it into the ‘island of Rahman’ (the island of the Clement One).

(The Memoirs of Shamsi Sedaghat by Shamsi Sedaghat edited by Hillary Chapman - 2023)

https://bahai-library.com/sedaghat_chapman_memoirs

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I knew he had read materials from Covenant-breakers. I told him that he would not find his answers by reading misleading sources.

Mr. and Mrs. Horton and their child came to the Center that evening for the fireside. This time he began to ask questions on the authority of Shoghi Effendi and why some people had rejected him. Right away I knew he had read materials from Covenant-breakers. I told him that he would not find his answers by reading misleading sources. He had been to the National Library and taken out The Divine Art of Living and Baha’u’llah and the New Era as well. Mr. Horton asked why there were no sects in the Faith since they existed in all other religions. I explained that Baha’u’llah and ‘Abdu’lBaha had written Wills and Testaments and appointed a successor after themselves thereby safeguarding the unity of the Faith. He reiterated the point that he felt he needed to understand the Faith well before accepting it and asked for patience. He said that he had first heard of the Faith from a talk by Dr. Elsie Austin to a group of lawyers in which she said that she had always been ready to challenge and make arguments until she asked herself whether she was coming to Baha’i meetings to argue or to discover the truth. As a result, she decided to inquire from the bottom of her heart, and gradually she was convinced. During our conversation, Mr. Glenford Mitchell arrived and joined our discussion. He said that Mr. Horton should investigate the Faith freely and try to coordinate what his heart was telling him with what his mind could accept.

(The Memoirs of Shamsi Sedaghat by Shamsi Sedaghat edited by Hillary Chapman - 2023)

https://bahai-library.com/sedaghat_chapman_memoirs

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More buildings to be built on Mount Carmel

On the ninth day of my pilgrimage, January 19th, 1955, we were again in the presence of Ruhiyyih Khanum when the Guardian arrived. She joined him, and then I proceeded to the door of his room. When I heard him say, “Befarmaid, Befarmaid!” I entered, greeted him, and took a seat. He wanted to know what I had done that day. I told him that we had visited the archives, and he wanted to know which archives—the small or main one. I answered that we had seen the main one. He wanted to know if we had seen the photograph of His Holiness Baha’u’llah, the painting of His Holiness the Bab, and the picture of the Master, and I answered that we had seen them all. He recounted how he had gathered many Holy relics and kept track of the names of the donors, writing these out in English and in Farsi and how he was busy erecting the buildings of the World Center which would consist of multiple buildings. The first would be the International Archives building. In the second and third epochs of the history of the Faith, the other buildings would be built. This construction would continue until the Golden Age. Mr. Remey, the Hand of the Cause of God, had designed the Archives building, the significance of which was not yet known to the believers but would be in the future.

(The Memoirs of Shamsi Sedaghat by Shamsi Sedaghat edited by Hillary Chapman - 2023)

https://bahai-library.com/sedaghat_chapman_memoirs

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Baha'i scholar about the Babi laws

Some legalistic directives of the Bab are demanding, harsh, sometimes disturbing, and definitely revolutionary. Some may never have been intended to be carried out, though the Bab did expect his followers to obey or implement his new law and legalistic religious directives.

(The Bab and the Babi Community of Iran, Edited by Fereydun Vahman)

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I am but the Tree [the Burning Bush] on Sinai.

"... I am but the Tree [the Burning Bush] on Sinai. At that time [the divine word] was created in it, now it has been created in Me."    

It is clear from these remarks that the Bab regarded himself as the light that shone upon Moses on Mount Sinai.

(The Bab and the Babi Community of Iran, Edited by Fereydun Vahman)

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Baha'i enclave in Tehran where the remains of the Bab had been secretly kept for some time.

Thus Zikrullah Khadem was reared in a spiritual household and was trained in the love of God by a father who received his own lessons from the Center of the Covenant Himself, ‘Abdu’l-Baha. The family lived in Tehran at the Hayat-i-Bagh, an enclave of Baha’i homes around a large garden, which had been purchased at the instruction of ‘Abdu’l-Baha and where the remains of the Bab had been secretly kept for some time. There great Baha’i figures, such as the poets Nayyir, Sina, and Na’im, could often be found teaching the Faith.

(Zikrullah Khadem, The Itinerant Hand of the Cause of God by Javidukht Khadem)

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Baha'i faith is a soft cult

The point is that the Bahá'í Faith is not a "traditional" cult, where you are completely enslaved, such as Scientology does, but this is a "soft" cult, where you are seduced through their "innocent" ideas of world peace, equality, unity of mankind etc. HOWEVER, as soon as you join it, you start to be immersed in a toxic dynamic where you should live to proselytize ("to teach" the Faith ) and your life starts to be watched and eventually controlled through "lovely advises". The brainwashing inside the Faith comes with a shape of "submission to God" where you should face a constant struggle to accept all absurdities that are told as if they were nothing but a product of your lack of comprehension on this great plan from God to humanity where you have to dedicate to "deepening" more and more (i.e. brainwash yourself).

Another point is the total dissonance between reality and the fantasy created in the mind of the Bahá'ís, blinding their eyes completely. The homophobia from Shoghi Effendi, the misogyny from Abdul-Bahá all totally corroborated by the UHJ, are not seen as such by the Bahá'ís, but as part of the "wisdom" inside a "divine plan" to humanity, thus, despite the homophobic letters from Shoghi Effendi and the misogynistic positions from Abdu'l-Baha, they are not homophobic neither misogynist, you know? This is how a perfect CULT acts.

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The Universal House of Justice is infallible.

The Universal House of Justice is infallible. In the Tablet of Carmel Baha’u’llah refers to the Ark which will sail upon Mount Carmel. Shoghi Effendi states, ‘Baha’u’llah refers to an Universal House of Justice “Ark”, whose dwellers are the men of the Supreme House of Justice. The “sailing of the Ark” of His laws is a reference to the establishment of the Universal House of Justice, ...” In His Will and Testament ‘Abdu’l-Baha states that the Universal House of Justice, with the Guardian, is ‘under the care and protection of the Abha Beauty, under the shelter and unerring guidance of His Holiness, the Exalted One ... Whatsoever they decide is of God. Whoso obeyeth him not, neither obeyeth them, hath not obeyed God; whoso rebelleth against him and against them hath rebelled against God; whoso opposeth him hath opposed God; ...

(A Basic Baha'i Dictionary by Wendi Momen)

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The Bab was reading the Bible in his prison.

Gobineau has written of the Bāb having come into contact with Jews and Christians in his youth, while Keddie states that “the Bāb was probably influenced by Christian ideas.”

 (The Bab and the Babi Community of Iran, Edited by Fereydun Vahman)

"He was seen by some Armenian carpenters, who were sent to make some repairs in his prison, reading the Bible, and he took no pains to conceal it, but on the contrary told them of it."

(DR. CORMICK ON THE BAB, PERSONAL INTERVIEW BY W. A. SHEDD)

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The Bab was not the promised one of Shi'i Islam

The simple fact that the Bab was killed in 1850 should have destroyed his credibility. He was supposed to be the Mahdi, a Messianic figure awaited by Shia Muslims who would conquer all the enemies of Islam and bring peace and unity to the world. The Mahdi was also known as the Hidden Imam, a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad who was born around 260 A H (~260 Years after Islam was founded) and disappeared while still a Child.

After the Bab was killed, Baha'u'llah reinvented the Bab to be a 19th Century version of John the baptist (who was Jesus' forerunner and was martyred). Then he claimed to be the one to come after the Bab. And then Baha'is claimed there never was a Mahdi to begin with!

Go figure.

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'Abdul-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi had closer relations with British settlers and Zionists.

'Abdul-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi had closer relations with British settlers and Zionists, and due to this fact, they managed to get many advantages and benefits with the Israeli government.

On February 23, 1914, at the eve of World War I, 'Abdu'l-Bahá had hosted Baron Edmond James de Rothschild, a member of the Rothschild banking family who was a leading advocate and financier of the Zionist movement, during one of his early trips to Palestine. (Star of the West. Vol. 9) an article in the "Star of the West" quoted 'Abdu'l-Bahá praising the Zionist movement, proclaiming that "There is too much talk today of what the Zionists are going to do here. There is no need of it. Let them come and do more and say less" and that "A Jewish government might come later." in the 1880s most of the village land of al-Samra was purchased by Bahá'u'lláh, with the villagers continuing to farm as tenant farmers. In the 1920s, this land was sold by Shoghi Effendi to the Jewish National Fund. On April 21, 1948, the Arab village of al-Samra, where ‘Abdu’l-Bahá had owned land and grown grain, was depopulated. It was registered in the "All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948"

"Sir Arthur Wauchope (administrator sympathetic to Zionist aspirations), Colonel Symes (the British colonial Governor of the Palestine North District from 1920 to 1925) and Keith-Roach he British (Colonial administrator during the British mandate on Palestine, who also served as the governor of Jerusalem from 1926 to 1945) had a personal liking for Shoghi Effendi and who, one suspects, understood how heavy the burden was that rested on the shoulders of the young man who was the Head of the Bahá'í Faith. It was during the period of his administration that some of the greatest victories in winning concessions from the authorities took place, the most important of these, next to the right of the Community to obey some of its own laws governing personal status, being the exemption from taxation of the entire area surrounding the Shrine of the Bab on Mt. Carmel." (Priceless Pearl - Ruhiyyih Khanum; Chap.10)

ALL closer personal relations made by 'Abdul-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi were drawn with British settlers and supporters/investors of Zionist movement as the Rothschild family, but despite of that, the Bahá'í Faith do not take sides on the Israel-Palestine conflict, right??? LOL

https://www.reddit.com/r/exbahai/comments/wpxwai/leftist_exbahais_do_you_not_see_the_parallels/ke47cki/

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Why Baha'u'llah arose, with a divine power and might?

All the powers and nations are convinced that the aim of this community (the Bahais) is the harmony and unity of the world. They never join in corruption. They want to become the cause of the life of the world and the means of safety; awakening the souls and the cause of the spirituality of the creatures; life-givers and not life-takers. In the beginning of the Cause, the Babis (Ezelis) brought affairs to such a state that safety was utterly lost and they put the lives and property of all at stake. What a dilemma it was! What implications, vice and immorality took place! All of the people became assured that the Babis (Ezelis) were the enemies of the lives, property and the honor of humanity and that they were blood-thirsty, immoral and evil-doers. In Teheran, during the incident of the Shah (Nasser-el-Din Shah was shot by a boy), I remember hearing an akhond (Mohammedan priest) crying, 'O people! If you want to worship God and the prophet, if you want to protect your lives, property and honor, kill these Babis. They are the enemies of your possessions and of your honor. They are against the laws and religion.' All of these events took place, because Mirza Yahya (Ezel), Seyed Mohammed, Mullah Djaffar Naraki and such men, held disreputable gatherings every night and day. They were engaged in immorality and vice. This is why, in the history of the people, those calumnies were attributed to the origin of the Cause. They wrote that the Babis allowed each woman to have nine husbands. Therefore the Blessed Beauty arose, with a divine power and might. He removed all of those implications, unfurled the banner of holiness, pitched the tent of universal peace and called the people to faithfulness, good morals and peace.

(Abdul Baha, Star of the West)

https://bahai.works/Star_of_the_West/Volume_9/Issue_3/Text

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