Covenant-breaking explained by Adib Taherzadeh

I will explain to you this process of Covenant-breaking and the process of throwing away somebody out of the Faith, cutting him off. As I said, like a branch which deviates and you cut it off. And when you cut it off, it drops on the ground. And for a few days, it may be green, may be a little life in it, but eventually it will perish. We don't have to fight them. We don't have to hate them. We don't have to do anything, but we do not associate with them. And the best example again to know this is to look at your own human body. The human body is the best example. If you look at human body, you will find that a healthy person can always withstand any disease or germs or anything which comes from the outside. If you're healthy, you're not going to be affected by it. We always go through these germs and through these things. You always, always throughout all around us, is full of germs and various things, but you get over it. But if ever you allow poison to enter inside your bloodstream and circulate, that's the end....

...somebody today might say, "Look, I accept all the writings, but I'll oppose anything that the House of Justice says. I'm coming to your 19-day feast, your assemblies, your communities and I'm going to oppose everything they say."

Well, this is the poison which is trying to circulate inside. And this, we will not allow to happen. It's like a cancerous disease, which happens sometimes. You may go and the doctor says, "I must cut your hand off right away." You won't object to that. You will welcome it. You'll say, "All right, cut it off." Why? Because you know that if that cancer is allowed to remain there, it's going to destroy you. This is exactly what Covenant-breaking is. But fortunately now we live at a time that we are talking about Covenant-breaking. Very few of them exist today who are opposing the House of justice. Very few of them and they are so, we are not worried about them. We are not doing anything with them. We are just leaving it to themselves. And as I said, we don't hate them. We don't associate with them. If they write me a letter, I will not answer them. I will not read it. I'll throw it away. It's poison.

...All of those who rose up against the Faith, where are they? Those Covenant-breakers of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, they're gone and forgotten and finished and part of the history. If you want to go to Akka to find out the grave of Muhammad Ali was the archbreaker of the Covenant, you won't find it. You don't know where he is even buried. Those hundreds of people who rose up against Shoghi Effendi amongst his family and others, where are they? They're gone, finished, completely finished without doing anything to them. They're gone.

(Growing in the Bahá’í Faith (Day 2) by Adib Taherzadeh)

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