tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post2982870520847721619..comments2023-09-25T12:44:07.828-07:00Comments on Baha'i Faith - Its origin and its role: The failed Office of Guardianship in the Baha'i faith.Naser Emtesalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174192365767859976noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post-48602660306217091162017-10-29T23:41:48.247-07:002017-10-29T23:41:48.247-07:00Few months ago I made a video on Shoghi, you may l...Few months ago I made a video on Shoghi, you may like to see it here:<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFeo-aQ7DWUNaser Emtesalihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11174192365767859976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post-89335243005407128252017-10-29T12:08:15.971-07:002017-10-29T12:08:15.971-07:00There is also this:
http://bahaileaders9.blogspot....There is also this:<br />http://bahaileaders9.blogspot.com/2016/03/shoghi-effendi-was-dictator.html<br /><br />{{{Perhaps the clearest illustration of the Baha’i Guardian’s attitude can be found in a polemical, triumphalistic history of the Baha’i faith he wrote called God Passes By. In the following passage of that book, he indulges in bone-chilling schadenfreude, recounting with relish the misfortunes, illnesses and deaths of some of the people he considered to be “Covenant-breakers” and taking comically immature potshots at their memory:<br /><br />{{[Mohammed Ali Bahai’s] brother, Mirza Diya’ullah,[16] died prematurely; Mirza Aqa Jan [Kashani], his dupe, followed that same brother, three years later, to the grave;... Mirza Muhammad- ‘Ali’s half-sister, Furughiyyih,[17] died of cancer, whilst her husband, Siyyid ‘Ali [Afnan], passed away from a heart attack before his sons could reach him, the eldest being subsequently stricken in the prime of life, by the same malady. Muhammad-Javad-i- Qazvini,[18] a notorious Covenant-breaker, perished miserably. ... Jamal-i-Burujirdi,[19] Mirza Muhammad Ali's ablest lieutenant in Persia, fell a prey to a fatal and loathsome disease; Siyyid Mihdiy- i-Dahaji,[20] who, betraying ‘Abdu’l-Baha, joined the Covenant-breakers, died in obscurity and poverty, followed by his wife and his two sons;...<br /><br />[Mohammed Ali Bahai] was stricken with paralysis which crippled half his body; lay bedridden in pain for months before he died; and was buried according to Muslim rites, in the immediate vicinity of a local Muslim shrine, his grave remaining until the present day devoid of even a tombstone—a pitiful reminder of the hollowness of the claims he had advanced, of the depths of infamy to which he had sunk, and of the severity of the retribution his acts had so richly merited.[21]}}<br /><br />As for Shoghi Effendi himself, he and his wife found themselves unable to have children. With no heirs, and having excommunicated every living descendant of Baha’u’llah but himself, there was no one eligible to be appointed as his successor in accordance with the provisions of the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, so the office of the Guardianship became permanently vacant upon his passing. He died suddenly of the Asian flu, at the age of 60, while visiting London in 1957. His grave is located in that city instead of among the Baha’i shrines in Israel, because, according to Baha’i law, a body cannot be moved more than one hour’s journey from the place of death.[22] He failed to leave a will, violating Baha’u’llah’s command that “Unto everyone hath been enjoined the writing of a will,”[23] and thus the Baha’is had no clear guidance for how their faith should be led without a second Guardian after his passing.}}}<br /><br />A clear case of "what goes around comes around". The Guardian was as cursed as the people he himself stigmatized. He deserves nothing but contempt for his hypocrisy!<br /><br />Dale Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13222134168858352370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post-45224622718380730622017-10-29T11:43:53.247-07:002017-10-29T11:43:53.247-07:00I wrote two blog entries detailing these same issu...I wrote two blog entries detailing these same issues.<br /><br />https://dalehusband.com/2008/09/07/the-fatal-flaw-in-bahai-authority/<br /><br />https://dalehusband.com/2010/03/21/bahais-must-reject-the-guardianship/<br /><br />Also, I wrote this:<br />https://dalehusband.com/2017/06/28/facts-worth-repeating-about-shoghi-effendi/<br /><br />Shoghi Effendi was as two-faced as it gets, making himself look humble before most Baha'is, while treating his own relatives like dirt and insulting them in public statements. Two of the worst examples involve a brother of his and a cousin of his marrying non-Baha'is. There is no prohibition of Baha'is marrying non-Baha'is, but Shoghi Effendi expelled the cousin because his new wife was the daughter of a Muslim and Palestinian activist, while he attacked his new sister-in-law as merely a "low-born Christian girl". The arrogance of that comment alone should sicken anyone who takes seriously the Baha'i claims about the oneness of humanity and the oneness of religion.Dale Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13222134168858352370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post-3685121289295614012017-10-29T11:39:09.576-07:002017-10-29T11:39:09.576-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Dale Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13222134168858352370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post-27376525230492876492017-10-29T11:26:20.854-07:002017-10-29T11:26:20.854-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Dale Husbandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13222134168858352370noreply@blogger.com