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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Unquestionably, all will come under the shadow of the Cause of God.

"...the Cause has reached its present degree because it is confirmed. The hosts of the Supreme Concourse assist it and the powers of the Kingdom of Abha confirm it. Unquestionably, all will come under the shadow of the Cause of God."

(Abdul Baha, Star of the West)

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

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The Azalis wanted Abul-Fazl's book very much

The sheikh of Islam, of Caucasia, wrote against the Cause. Some of the friends answered him. Sheikh of Islam wrote a second time a criticism. After that, Agha Mirza Abul-Fazl wrote a full, convincing answer. It surprised the sheikh.

It was amusing and the joke is here, that the Ezelis wanted Abul-Fazl's book very much. Finally, one of the friends asked, "Well, you are Babis; what is in this book that you want so much?" They replied, "For its good arguments in behalf of his highness, the Supreme (the Bab). And for these arguments, we want the book."

(Talk given by Abdul-Baha, in his home, Haifa, January 22, 1914.)

https://bahai.works/index.php?title=File:SW_Volume9.pdf&page=26

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why the violators of the Covenant should be avoided by loyal believers

The three were continually manipulated, their feelings exacerbated from day to day, until all three reached a crisis of faith and were near collapse.

If anyone cares to ask why the violators of the Covenant should be avoided by loyal believers, this one sad episode would be answer enough. Khan came to see from this and other episodes that the violators are the serpent, the believers the hypnotized dove. Or to use another metaphor, the violators are sick with a mortal disease, and if the believers, by associating with them, hope to bring them back to health, all that happens is the believers are infected themselves. He noted that once the Covenant-breakers had won over a soul, they would cast that soul out. After all, what had they to give? Loyalty and love? They would not be faithful to anyone else, he reasoned, those who were not faithful to Bahá’u’lláh. And they were not outside enemies of the Faith, Sauls who might one day become Pauls. They were not those backsliders, ineffectuals, who quietly drop away. These were contaminators and killers—they were what the Qur’án calls ‘the diseased of heart’.[76] ‘… guide into the torment of the Flame’, the Qur’án says of Satan, ‘whoever shall take him for his Lord.’[77] Satan, the dark side of man, will seize a soul, then cast him out, and tell him, ‘I cannot aid you, neither can ye aid me. I never believed that I was His [God’s] equal …’[78] Nor should anyone imagine that these persons are stupid: English has preserved a tribute to their mental powers in such expressions as ‘fiendish ingenuity’ and ‘diabolical intelligence’.

(Summon Up Remembrance by Marzieh Gail, Oxford: George Ronald, 1987)

https://bahai-library.com/pdf/g/gail_summon_up_remembrance.pdf

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This photograph Mírzá Asadu’lláh showed about everywhere, and the believers rewarded him with funds.

Khan had also learned from a confidential source that during this visit Mirza Asadu’llah had been entrusted with a secret mission by ‘Abdu’l-Baha. This assigned task was to meet with certain Persian Baha’is and receive from them a box containing the holy remains of the Bab, carefully hidden ever since His body and that of His companion, crushed by the bullets into a single mass, had been cast out onto the edge of the moat at Tabriz on the day of the martyrdom (July 9, 1850) and removed by the faithful in the middle of the second night. To protect the sacred dust from the ever-watchful mullas of Shiah Islam, the remains had been concealed in one place after another: here in a private home, there in a shrine, finally in and near the capital, until 1899. Let alone the mullas, the believers themselves were also a danger to the holy remains, because they were irresistibly drawn in great crowds to whatever spot was rumored to be the hiding place.

When Mirza Asadu’llah, together with his son Aminu’llah, later known as Dr Farid, was on his way back from Persia and, still obligated to exercise the greatest precaution, had stopped in Beirut, he called in six other believers, so that there would be eight with himself and his son, and had a group photograph taken, together with the sacred box. Beneath the group he wrote this verse from the Qur’an: ‘... on that day eight shall bear up the throne of thy Lord.’ This photograph Mírzá Asadu’lláh showed about everywhere, and the believers rewarded him with funds.

(Summon Up Remembrance by Marzieh Gail, Oxford: George Ronald, 1987)

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Number Nineteen

Turning now to the mystic number nineteen: it is found in the sacred formula of Islám which contains nineteen letters as does the Bismi’lláhi’l-Amana‘i’l-Aqdas of the Báb, and it is from these that the Nineteen “Letters of the Living” are derived: each letter represents a holy person surrounding the manifestation of the Báb.

(THE RELATION OF THE BÁB TO THE TRADITIONS OF ISLÁM BY WANDEN MATHEWS LAFARGE)

https://bahai.works/Bahá’í_World/Volume_3/The_Relation_of_the_Báb_to_the_Traditions_of_Islám

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how few are those that have inclined their ear to its voice!

The Pen of the Most High is unceasingly calling; and yet, how few are those that have inclined their ear to its voice!

(Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh by Bahá’u’lláh, XCVI (Selection 96))

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