The latest act in this campaign against the Baha’is was a poster distributed recently in the town of Karaj, outside of Tehran. An image of this poster is shared below and a translation follows, offered as an example of such mischaracterizations by the clergy in Iran. In a near future we will offer blog postings exposing lies and false descriptions in this distributed poster, and present the true nature of the Baha’i teachings.
And although the clergies have titled this document as “True Face of Baha’is”, this is pure deception and future blogs will explain the nature of Baha’i teachings and laws.
Translation of the above-mentioned poster against the Baha’is follows:
“True Face of Baha’is”
Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi has stated: “These people are considered religious heretics and they must be avoided. No business transaction or marriage is permitted with them.”
Since the foundational belief of Baha’is centers on misleading Muslims from the straight path and creating division among them, and Baha’is greatly insist in presenting whatever is accepted in Islam as unworthy and according to Baha’u’llah’s teachings all the sayings of God and the Prophet are completely reversed. In truth, in his books Baha’u’llah has brought a series of teachings all void, devoid of meaning, frivolous, bereft of literary value, and filled with errors – and he has presented these as the principles of the Baha’i faith. So that the reader will be better informed some of them will be discussed below:
1. No one should criticize monarchs or governments of their time and a Baha’i is not permitted to interfere in political matters, otherwise he will be expelled from the Baha’i community. (This holds true even if a tyrannical monarch is the seat of authority. It is interesting that the Universal House of Justice constantly encourages Iranian to interfere in political matters and to uproot the Islamic Republic, and the very foundational teachings of Baha’is is political in nature and they have no thoughts other than elimination of Islam.)
2. Baha’u’llah presented himself as effulgent of God and claimed that God has entrusted him with creation and the order of universe.
3. With appearance of the Bab and Baha’u’llah, the Islamic shari‘ih [jurisprudence] was annulled and the period of Muhammad’s prophethood came to an end.
4. Each year has 19 months, and each month consists of 19 days. The period of Fasting is 19 days and occurs in the month before Naw-Ruz.
5. Pilgrimage is to the house of Ali-Muhammad Bab in Shiraz or the house of Mirza Husayn-Ali Baha in Iraq, and a specific time has not been designated for it.
6. One may marry one’s daughter, sister or other family members. The sole exception is marrying one’s step-mother. This act takes place under the supervision of the Universal House of Justice. (The enormous building of the House of Justice was constructed at the cost of $250 million dollars and direct support of Yitzhak Rabin, the former prime minister of the Zionist regime, and under the care of two Iranian Baha’i escapees named engineer Hossein Amanat and Dr. Fariborz Sahba.)
7. All things are clean and nothing is unclean, not even urine, refuse, dog, pig or semen.
8. Consent of parents of the bride and groom is unnecessary for marriage.
9. Obligatory prayers should not be offered in congregation, except the Prayer for the Dead. Baha’is have three obligatory prayers. First one is the long obligatory prayer which is to be offered once in every 24 hours and has completely invented genuflections and verses. The second obligatory prayer is the medium one, offered in the morning, noon and night. The third is the short obligatory prayer and offered at the time of sunset. Of course reciting one of these three prayers will suffice. And if one were to chose the short obligatory prayer it is almost like not praying at all. The Qiblih [the Point of Adoration] is the burial spot of Mirza Husayn-Ali Baha in Akka, Israel.
10. If one does not have water for ablution, then he may repeat five times, “In the Name of God, the Most Pure, the Most Pure.”
11. The age of maturity of girls and boys is 15.
End of Translation.
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Bill
3 October, 2007
One sees here the tremendous ignorance of supposedly educated clerics. This is a mixture of truths and complete fabrication. That Baha’is have different places for pilgrimage, different rites for pilgrimage, a different calendar, different obligatory prayers, different age of maturity, and different ablution regulations, is to be expected. After all, the Baha’i Faith is not Islam, but a new revelation. The Prophet Muhammad changed the Qiblah from Jerusalem to Mecca. Should that have been a reason to reject the holy Prophet? By this logic, Christianity and Judaism must also be condemned as having requirements for these things that are also different from Islam.
But parental consent IS required for marriage (no matter one’s age). A Baha’i may not marry his close relatives (the brief statement in the Kitab-i-Aqdas is a direct reference to the passages in the Qur’an in which prohibited marital relations with specific categories of relatives are laid out); likewise in many other places, Baha’u'llah specifically sets out proper behavior that is very strict about chastity, faithfulness, and avoidance of fornication and other sins. No Baha’i thinks that urine and refuse are a mark of hygienic cleanliness. The Baha’i view is that these things are not RITUALLY unclean, that is, if some urine or semen or dirt has gotten on one’s clothes without one’s knowledge, this does not nullify one’s prayer.
This broadside is representative of the literalistic distortion that these clerics already apply to their own faith and now seek to apply to the Baha’i teachings in order to make the Baha’i Faith seem silly. But to any knowledgeable person, the only silliness is what is coming out of the minds of the abject and foolish, those who seek to aggrandize themselves and pretend wisdom while parading their ignorance.
k1
4 October, 2007
Unfortunately for the ones publishing such a poster, this clearly exposes them as either ignorant or as people who wilfully distort the truth. Statements such as “one does not require the consent of ones’ parents for marriage” is obviously untrue.
One can therefore say that these authorities have little credibility when they publish *any* document/opinion/poster and this poster is a clear demonstration that their statements about any issue cannot be fully trusted, even on simple, clear issues.
henry
4 October, 2007
Dear Friends,
Clearly those sad individuals are ignorant, not only of the Glory of God, but of what is good for them. In this poster they mix what is true with what is false, presumably a conscious act. If they reflect on the true laws that Baha’u'llah gave the world they would surely realise that it would save them from their sad state. The most unfortunate reality is that by doing this they are not challenging the Baha’is in Iran, or anywhere in the world… they are challenging God who created them. They need our prayer, not our anger. May God, the ALL Glorious, Guide them in His true path.
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R.A.
5 October, 2007
This is not a display of ignorance, but outright deceit and willful manipulation of Baha’i text. The Islamic clergy have always had access to the Baha’i holy writings and are well informed about its laws and spiritual teachings. Half truths are a devious and not easily detectable means of manipulating the ignorant masses.
The ignorance displayed is in the assumption that no one is observing these acts of depravity and that such tyrranical authority can only move towards an end. There has been no criminal act left uncomitted by these people, including the very same accusations they are so confidently voicing.
Bill
5 October, 2007
Yes, R.A., you are right that there is willful deceit and manipulation here. In a sense, I was being charitable in characterizing this as ignorance. Baha’u'llah wrote in one of His Tablets of the clerics: “From them mischief hath proceeded, and on them will it recoil.”
77
7 September, 2008
stupid peop^le anyone is free to do what he or she want ….
we are not god to judge someone
77
7 September, 2008
someone say oh R.A YOU ARE RIGHT . other say thsi one is right …. other say this an other say this .
and juste god who is right and know where is the right .
we we judge others , why ??????
someone is free to do , to blieve , to think … like he/she want … one think that he *she must not do is to judge or hurt others who blive and think others things ….
and lets to god to judge us
sama
31 December, 2008
I just dont know what to asay and what to do.how can they write these kinds of things about us?
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