I am powerful to do what I will, and I am the pardoner, the compassionate.

By God, the creation has never seen my like and no eye has beheld my peer, for I am powerful to do what I will, and I am the pardoner, the compassionate. Whoever denies my Cause has repudiated all the Messengers, and whoever turns away from my face has shunned the Countenance of God.

Baha'u'llah, The Surah of God

https://web.archive.org/web/20160517145913/http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/trans/vol6/surall.htm

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shun the serpent that hides within its heart a hatred for the All-Bountiful

Through the power of the All-Merciful, shun the serpent that hides within its heart a hatred for the All-Bountiful, and turn away from it, though it recite for you all that has been revealed in the Holy Scriptures and though it cling to glorious and articulate Tablets.

Baha'u'llah, The Surah of God

https://web.archive.org/web/20160517145913/http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/trans/vol6/surall.htm

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To be a Baha'i simply means to love all the world!!!!

When asked on one occasion, ‘What is a Bahá’í?,’ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá replied: ‘To be a Bahá’í simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.’ On another occasion He defined a Bahá’í as ‘one endowed with all the perfections of man in activity.’

“In one of His London talks He said that a man may be a Bahá’í even if He has never heard the name of Bahá’u’lláh. He added:

“The man who lives the life according to the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh is already a Bahá’í. On the other hand, a man may call himself a Bahá’í for fifty years, and if he does not live the life he is not a Bahá’í. An ugly man may call himself handsome, but he deceives no one, and a black man may call himself white, yet he deceives no one, not even himself.”

Quote from Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era pp 71-72

http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/o/BNE/bne-59.html

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"O wayward generation!"

“O wayward generation!” were the last words of the Báb to the gazing multitude, as the regiment prepared to fire its volley, “Had you believed in Me every one of you would have followed the example of this youth, who stood in rank above most of you, and would have willingly sacrificed himself in My path. The day will come when you will have recognized Me; that day I shall have ceased to be with you.”

http://www.bahai.org/the-bab/articles-resources/execution-the-bab

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al-Ahsai received divine knowledge from the Imam al-Hasan

In modern times, the Shaykhis, an offshoot of the Twelver Shiites, maintain an extreme belief in the infallible fourteen. The Shaykhis derive their name from Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsai (d. 1830), who taught that the infallible fourteen are the cause of the universe, in whose hands are life and death and the livelihood of men. Al-Ahsai seems to justify this belief by explaining that God is too transcendent to operate the universe personally, and therefore deputized the infallible fourteen to operate the universe on His behalf Al-Ahsai further maintains that when a believer has achieved a high degree of purity and righteousness, he will be able to receive from these fourteen divine knowledge through sufic trances or dreams. He claims that he personally received divine knowledge from the fourteen, especially from the Imam al-Hasan. Al-Ahsai relates that once he saw al-Hasan in a dream and asked him some esoteric questions. Al-Hasan placed his mouth on that of al-Ahsai and emitted into it saliva which tasted sweet, like honey. Thus, al-Ahsai received divine knowledge from the Imam al-Hasan.

Ref. : Extremist Shiites - The Ghulat Sects by Matti Moosa
https://archive.org/details/Moosa1988GhulatBeliefs_201712

Ghulat : A Shi'i term for theological extremists who go beyond what is considered reasonable in what they claim about the Prophet and Imams. The Shaykhis and Babis fall into this category. (Denis MacEoin)

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The chipped ceramic tiles, around both Shrines at Bahji and Mount Carmel, were collected & hauled by their trucks from the demolished Arab homes.

Mr Ioas was truly a gem and an incredible administrator. He used to frequent my brother Shukrullah's store in Akka, for recruiting master builders and mason master, as well as to commission him and my other brother Hasan to haul the Marble pieces Shipped from Italy to the sea port of Haifa, for the Shrine of the Bab, which they transported to the site on Mount Carmel in their own trucks. Mr Ioas frequented my brother's business for many work project, either to seek advice on procuring workers or to procure materials from what places, and often be as the go in between as Mr Ioas spoke no Hebrew or Arabic; As Shukrullah and Hasan, both born at Akka, knew and were known as staunch Baha'is, by many of its citizens and those of the surrounding areas. A few examples are; the brothers hauled the pebbles that pave the path from the Collins gate north to the entrance of the Shrine of Bahaullah. Such pebbles were collected from the seashores of lake Tiberius. The chipped ceramic tiles, around both Shrines at Bahji and Mount Carmel, were collected & hauled by their trucks from the demolished Arab homes [in Yafo mainly], Fill dirt of different colors- yellow and Red clay,fro different areas of the Gardens and especially in the gardens south east of the Old Pilgrimage House on Mount Carmel near the Shrine of the Bab; Another was hauling the hand cut stones from the Quarries of the Druz Villages of Yarka, Jules and Yanoh; the white hand cut stone which is the outer facade of most of the holy sites and buildings. Of course some of these things were done before Mr Ioas'es tenure, right after 1948, when Israel was established. I have written in my book a detailed account of Mr Ioas's relationship to my family in general, and to working with Shukrullah in particular.

With great appreciation

Hossein Ashchi

http://bahai-covenant.blogspot.com/2010/05/leroy-ioas-champion-charters.html

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Redolent Droplet, the miserable Avarih

After the passing of our kind Father, 'Abdu'l-Bahá', the Centre of the Covenant, - may My spirit be a sacrifice to His lovers! - certain degraded, vain and unfaithful ones, among them their chief, the Great Raven, the Redolent Droplet, the miserable Avarih*, -- what an uproar they caused! What foul noises were raised by them! What senseless ravings were disseminated by them! What plottings were conceived by them! What staunch efforts they exerted in order that the Sacred Cord of the Divine Testament be broken apart and a breach be created in the divine Guardianship, so that they might be able to accomplish what the wicked groups of the past failed to achieve. But God did cut off their tongue. And soon will God cause them to join the company of those who acted unjustly in the past and waxed vainglorious. Then they will learn their true abode!

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*Jináb-i-'Abdu'l-Husayn-i-Avarih, who was formerly known a respected teacher and historian of the Faith. Shoghi Effendi details his Covenant-breaking activities and denounces him in a message dated October 17th, 1927. See Bahá'í Administration, pp. 137-139.

https://bahai-library.com/shoghieffendi_tarikhiyyih_ahd_mithaq

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Lawh-i-Times (Tablet to the Times)

O 'Times', O thou endowed with the power of utterance! O dawning place of news! Spend an hour with the oppressed of Irán, and witness how the exemplars of justice and equity are sorely tried beneath the sword of tyrants. Infants have been deprived of milk, and women and children have fallen captive to the lawless. The blood of God's lovers hath dyed the earth red, and the sighs of His near ones have set the universe ablaze.

O newspapers published throughout the cities and countries of the world! Have ye heard the groan of the downtrodden, and have their cries of anguish reached your ears? Or have these remained concealed? It is hoped that ye will investigate the truth of what hath occurred and vindicate it...

https://bahai-library.com/bahaullah_lawh_times_london

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By what proof can ye establish the truth of Muhammad, Whom we sent aforetime?

If He Who hath come unto you with clear verses be not the True One from God, even as ye proclaim this day from your seats of worldly honour, then by what proof can ye establish the truth of Muhammad, Whom we sent aforetime? Be fair in your judgement, O concourse of ill-wishers!

- Days of Remembrance (Selections from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh for Bahá’í Holy Days)

http://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/days-remembrance/days-remembrance.docx?fa27a24c

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Muhammad, the Apostle of God, cried out from the midmost heart of Paradise,

This is the Day whereon Muhammad, the Apostle of God, cried out from the midmost heart of Paradise, saying: “O peoples of the earth! By God, the Beloved of the worlds and the Desire of every understanding heart is come! He, verily, is the One to Whose voice I hearkened on My Night Journey but Whose beauty I was not to behold until the days attained their consummation in this Day, a Day which is the adornment of all the days of God, the Sovereign Lord, the Almighty, the All-Praised.”

- Days of Remembrance (Selections from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh for Bahá’í Holy Days)

http://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/days-remembrance/days-remembrance.docx?fa27a24c

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They that remain heedless of God in this Day are in truth lost !

They that remain heedless of God in this Day are in truth lost in the drunkenness of their desires and perceive it not.

- Days of Remembrance (Selections from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh for Bahá’í Holy Days)

http://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/days-remembrance/days-remembrance.docx?fa27a24c

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mouth of God!

Every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God is endowed with such potency as can instill new life into every human frame, if ye be of them that comprehend this truth.

- Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh

http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/GWB/gwb-74.html

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Baha'u'llah assures Bayanis with a "Humiliating chastisement in the life to come"!

O people of the Bayán, I adjure you by your Lord, the God of mercy, to look with the eye of fairness upon this utterance which hath been sent down through the power of truth, and not to be of those who see the testimony of God yet reject and deny it. They, in truth, are of those who will assuredly perish. The Point of the Bayán hath explicitly made mention in this verse of the exaltation of My Cause before His own Cause; unto this will testify every just and understanding mind. As ye can readily witness in this day, its exaltation is such as none can deny save those whose eyes are drunken in this mortal life and whom a humiliating chastisement awaiteth in the life to come.

- Baha'u'llah, Kitab-i-Aqdas

http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/KA/ka-7.html

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one of the verses of My Revelation is better than...

To read but one of the verses of My Revelation is better than to peruse the Scriptures of both the former and latter generations. This is the Utterance of the All-Merciful, would that ye had ears to hear!

- Baha'u'llah, Kitab-i-Aqdas

http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/KA/ka-7.html

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There are many instances that Baha'u'llah explicitly claims he is God

Baha'is will tell you that Baha'u'llah is not God, however there are many instances that Baha'u'llah explicitly claims he is God. These quotes are ignored by Baha'is and they usually act as if they don't exist. The concept of God in Baha'ism seems extremely contradictory at first but a careful study of Baha'u'llah's writings shows that he would change his claims depending on the audience: In his private tablets he openly claims to be God and yet in others he acts as if he is a normal person like all others. On the other hand Baha'i scripture and law clearly shows that Baha'u'llah considered himself God. I will show you a few examples:

• In his poem called the ODE of the Dove Baha'u'llah explicitly claims that he is the creator of Gods: " 110. My raining Cause made deities divine; all Lords have by My ample order thrived" Another translation states: "All Gods became Gods from the flow of my affairs and all Lords became Lords by the overflowing of my decree"
• You can find a bunch of quotes where Baha'u'llah makes explicit claims of being God here and here for example:

1. 'he who speaks in the most great prison (i.e. Acre) is the Creator of all things and the one who brought all names into being' (letter in Bahá' Allah Athar-i qalam-i a'la vol. 2 [Tehran, n.d., being a repaginated reprint of a collection of writings originally preceded by the Kitab al-aqdas, first printed Bombay, 1314/1896], p. 177);
2. 'verily, I am God' (letter in Ishraq Khavari Ma'ida, vol. 7, p. 208);
3. 'the essence of the pre-existent (dhat al-qidam) has appeared' (letter to Haji Muhammad lbrahim Khalil Qazvini in ibid, vol. 8, p. 113);
4. 'he has been born who begets not nor is begotten' ('Lawh-i milad-i ism-i a'zam' in ibid, vol. 4, p. 344, referring to Qur'an sura 112);

'the educator of all beings and their creator has appeared in the garment of humanity, but you were not pleased with that until he was imprisoned in this prison' ('Surat al-hajj' in Bahá' Allah Athar-i qalam-i a'la, vol. 4 [Tehran, 133 badi' /1976-77], p. 203).

• The Baha'i prayers: These are compulsory prayers that must be recited while Baha'is face Baha'u'llah or his grave. All kinds of thorny issues arise here. The first: when Baha'u'llah was alive and moving around you had no idea which direction to face. The second issue: how did Baha'u'llah recite these prayers? Which direction did he face? There is not a single documented instance of anyone ever seeing Baha'u'llah recite the Baha'i prayers. Why should he when he considers himself God.
• The Baha'i pilgrimage: Copied from the Muslim annual hajj pilgrimage. Muslims flock every year to the House of GOD, and Baha'is must flock to the House of Baha'u'llah in Baghadad (which was razed to the ground and doesn't exist) So why substitute God's house with Baha'u'llah's house for pilgrimage if you don't consider yourself anything but God?
• In previous religions God is considered the revealer of books but in Baha'ism, Baha'u'llah is considered the revealer of books. Again, an act that was solely reserved for God is now reserved for Baha'u'llah.

Openly stating that Baha'u'llah is God is taboo in Baha'ism and they try to hide this matter with great care. In fact, as you have observed even some of the ex-Baha'is here don't know about this matter. I wouldn't expect Baha'u'llah to make a claim less than God for Baha'ism is based on Babism and its founder the Bab who too considered himself and his successor (Azal) to be God. The Bab openly stated this in his will:
“Name of Azal, testify that there is no God but I, the dearest beloved. Then testify that there is no God but you, the victorious and permanent.” (The Bab's will)

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