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...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
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,...
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 US...
Friday, January 26, 2024
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...
Friday, January 19, 2024
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...
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Cyprus is the island of Satan
Covenant-Breakers, Pilgrims' Notes, Shoghi Effendi, Subh-i-Azal
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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...
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...
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...
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 Vahm...
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 Vahm...
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...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
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...
Monday, January 15, 2024
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...
Thursday, January 11, 2024
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...
Saturday, January 6, 2024
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...
Thursday, January 4, 2024
'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...
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
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...