Hezbu’llah’s warning to Baha’is
October 1st, 2007This declaration is titled “the first warning”, and begins by calling on “elements of prostituted Baha’is”, “spies of world domination” and “foreign traitors.”
It reads in part: “You thought that we would allow the country of the Imam Zaman [the Imam of the Age] to be a safe haven for you to propagate empty and void ideas authored by western imperialism, and like the idol-worshiping regime of Pahlavi, once again, for you to
suck the blood of people and seize control of the nation’s economy.”
It continues, “For as long as the blood of [Imam] Husayn flows through our veins and hope of appearance of the illustrious Lord of the Age remains in our minds, we, the Hezbu’llah, will not allow the elements of the fifth column, who are enemies of Islam and Muslims, to arise and plunder and destroy our Islamic and Iranian beliefs and culture.”
Then there’s this curious statement: “On numerous times we have asked the authorities to stop you, the traitors! However, apparently, they do not have a hearing ear.”
It seems through this statement the perpetrators are attempting to portray their anti-Baha’i activities as non-governmental and representing the will of the people.
This warning-poster concludes with an ominous statement that if the Baha’is do no remain quiet and silent, there will be “another round.” This is a coded message meaning blood of Baha’is will flow.
It is also important to note that the stamp of the local judiciary of Najaf-Abad is on this warming.
A few days after this posting, using heavy equipments and bulldozers, the Baha’i cemetery of Najaf-Abad was completely destroyed, even trees were uprooted. This heinous crime follows a similar wave that took place in Yazd some weeks earlier. And a similar poster was given to
the Baha’is of Vilashahr.
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Do you have a copy or a link to this document? Thanks….
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I’d also like to have more specific informations on this documento, if possible.
Thank you.
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We need a word-for-word translation of this document. Thanks so much for bringing it to our attention.
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It must take great courage to confront the dead. These are the actions of cowardice and ignorance, nothing more. No educated believer of Islam would ever condone such acts, but rather deem them as a great shame and embarrasment to what is a peaceful and divinely ordained religion.
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R.A. is right about the religious diseases of the day: cowardice and ignorance. I will add to this social amnesia. People forget that no religion in history was unopposed. No prophet was ever initially accepted, specially in the land of his birth. History repeats itself and the perpetrators of hatred due to ignorance and cowardice will be remembered by future generations to be on the wrong side of history. The Baha’is will be ready to embrace those perpetrators of hatred!
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Perhaps the warning of the Lord of the Age is sufficient for Hezbullah:
O people of the Qur’án! Ye are as nothing unless ye submit unto the Remembrance of God and unto this Book. ~Selections from the Writings of the Báb p. 61
Shí’ites should have learned from the martyrdom of Imam Husayn that belief is not destroyed by blood-letting. How they will mourn, in the Hereafter, when they see that the hatred they unleashed was directed at the returned Husayn! The beauteous countenance of Bahá’u'lláh is untarnished by these storms and blasts of hatred; it only causes the ‘throne of Islam’ which was thrown down, to remain down.
Ya Bahá’ul-Abhá! Make me as firm as possible in Thy Covenant!
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Ask them then as to how they interpret that which has been revealed from the kingdom of glory unto the Arabian Prophet and what do they say the meaning of Intermediate is. If Prophethood has been sealed with Him, how is the Prophet’s nation said to be intermediate amongst the nations? In this wise ascertain the limit of their cognizance…” ~Bahá’u’lláh, (Surih of Patience, provisional translation )
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“…Because these teachings were contrary to the interests and the despotism of the Sháh of Persia and the Sultán of Turkey, they arose in opposition and oppression. With all their power they girded their loins to uproot and efface the Cause of God. But the Cause of Bahá’u’lláh was victorious and the fame of His Revelation spread worldwide. Every opponent was overthrown and humiliated because this Cause was supported by the All-Powerful and because His teachings answer the need of the age to promote human happiness and provide supreme guidance.” ~‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Mahmúd‘s Diary, p. 417
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