Baha'i Faith: The Sinking Titanic
Bahai Faith – the harbinger of a United World, Unity of Mankind and New
World Order is presently suffering from the same ailments that it was supposed
to remove. Differences are galore and individual ambition to rise in
administration hierarchy is apparent. Much as the Universal House of Justice
(UHJ), the central governing body of the Bahais at Haifa, Israel,
would try to cover this weakness, the internet (and not the Bahai Faith) has
made the world smaller and informative. As the happenings in the Faith spread
through internet (blogs, facebook, emails and web-sites), the reality of the
present status of Faith stands exposed.
An analysis of the information available reveals following fronts where the
Bahai Faith (read Bahai Administration) stands with its hand in shame :
1. Bahai Administration – Indeed the functioning of all Administrative
bodies, headed by the UHJ, have become a centre for nepotism and mal-practices.
Elections are controlled and manipulated. The present axis of evil at the UHJ
is Farzam-Faredon-Payman, all with Persian background and LOYALTY. Indeed the
control is so strict that any sign of difference in opinion is crushed with
negative publicity of the individual daring to express his opinion. Shameless
propagation is apparent before key elections. Bahais who have lived with Bahai
values and idealism towards the advise of the founding father, Bahaullah, are
side lined as being irrelevant, non-progressive and negative. There is a
virtual moral collapse due to this approach by administrative bodies. What more
evidence is required about the spiritual status, when even the numbers related
to devotions held, classes conducted and seekers induced into the Faith are
manipulated and inflated!!!
2. Bahai Campaigns – The grossly inflated news about teaching campaigns have
only 10% truth. Those few that venture for such campaigns are doing it more to
justify their place in the Faith than with true devotion. More time is spent in
story-telling, singing, dancing and partying than the spread of the Faith. At
the end of the session, the contact(s) get an impression that the Faith is more
like an NGO or a Social Club than a Faith with a serious message. Also
contributing to this failure is lack of knowledge of those who set out for such
campaigns. They are so distant from knowledge of History and the Faith
principles that they mumble their own interpretations. On occasions, the
message conveyed by different Faith members contradict, making the campaigns
look mocking. All these campaigns are announced in publications, as grand
success, just for the sake of competing with a neighbouring assembly and to
satisfy individual egos.
3. Motivation of Local Assembly Members – The Local Spiritual Assemblies
(supposed to be the key link in the administrative system linking individuals
belonging to a local community with the central UHJ, are occupied by such
members who cannot meet regularly even once in two weeks. The priorities are
their professions, their families and their excursions. The average attendance
of LSA members in meetings of LSA is 50%. The efficiency of the system in plain
terms is reduced thus by 50% (100% attendance is seen when certain dignitary
happens to come on inspection visit!!!). The effectiveness of the remaining 50%
can be gauged when one sees that most members present come late. The LSA
meetings start atleast 45 minutes after schedule, but ends on time in another
45 minutes. The meetings include lavish snacks and gossiping of members of
community as hidden agenda and balance time for the official agenda.
4. Independent Investigation of the Truth and the Internet - A principle
which underlies all campaigns stops after a seeker has entered the Faith. Now
he has to digest only what is fed. Thanks to the internet, such Investigators
of Truth, can access to several nagging questions like – Was the faith left
sans guardian (without a Guardian) by the founding fathers? Is it true that the
Bahai Faith does not have sects? What is the ideology of other sects? If the
Faith has come to remove differences, why is there a ban on interaction with
other sects of the Faith? If the Faith encourages upliftment of women, why are
they denied position in the UHJ? Indeed with a click of a button, several embarrassing
truths emerge. The Faith and its administration have failed to curb the impact
of internet on minds of the Faith members.
5. Failure in Court Cases – Attempts made at censuring different schools of
thought and sects have miserably failed. With each court verdict, not only is
the Faith retreating several steps but also facing an embarrassing exodus of
Faith members. One doubts the wisdom of the administrators in challenging
differences of opinion, use of “Bahai” word by other sects and Guardians of
other Bahai sects, when the founding fathers had always preached tolerance and
restraint. In today’s democratic society, filing such cases appear primitive.
It makes one wonder, if the Bahai Faith is really a religion of the new era?
6. Conduct of Bahais – The morality and conduct of not several but most of
the Bahais, some of them include important personalities and Councellors,
leaves a lot to be desired. Some have been arrested on grounds of false travel
papers and forged documents, some have been nabbed on espionage charges and
others on flouting laws of the land.Most of the counselors have a divorced
life. Eloping has become almost a law and not an exception. Faith.
Extra-marital affairs are common (and for certain position-holding individuals
legalized by the Faith), consuming alcohol has become a habit and is publicly
displayed and divorce on the rise. One can imagine the rot when such behavior
is gaining prominence in the small numbers that the Faith presently has.
It is a shame that due to this the Faith has been banned in several
countries. Their moral class teachers are arrested, Ruhi activity is look with
suspicion and the Intellgence services of various countries have opened a
special cell to monitor the activities of Faith.
7. Excommunication – The height of intolerance is ex-communication of those
sincere Bahais who have stood-up to challenge the present situation. They are
termed as traitors of the Cause and Breakers of Covenant. Their administrative
rights are snatched and they are ex-communicated. Abusive languages for
respected Bahais have become a common phenomena in the letters of UHJ. Threat
of being Excommunication is almost a routine affair of UHJ. So demoralizing is
the situation that we find numbers in other sects of the Bahai Faith rising day
by day while UHJ dominated Faith continues to dwindle in numbers.
The above are sure signs of downfall! The Bahai Faith will decrease in
influence in next few years, and this is irreversible.
The Sinking of Titanic of Bahai Faith is immininet
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