| 单词 | Bahai |
| 例句 | After a decade or so of debauched agnosticism, Wilson drifted back to the religion he grew up in and is now one of the most visible members of the Bahai faith. For 'Backstrom's Rainn Wilson, oddball roles just come naturally 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z The 48-year-old, a devout Bahai, first broke through as Arthur Martin, a wonderfully creepy mortuary intern on the HBO drama "Six Feet Under." For 'Backstrom's Rainn Wilson, oddball roles just come naturally 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Sanchez read several short blessings, the first a traditional Bahai passage in a nod to Mr. Wiley’s religion, the next a Buddhist blessing representing Ms. Lomborg’s faith. The Vibe Was Electric and That Was Before the Coffee Buzz 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z On Twitter, where he has 4 million-plus followers, Wilson shares links about Bahai beliefs in between lighthearted quips about "The Hobbit" and the Seattle Seahawks. For 'Backstrom's Rainn Wilson, oddball roles just come naturally 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z State Department’s annual International Religious Freedom Report criticizes Morocco for restrictions on native Christians, Shi’ite Muslims and members of the Bahai faith. Christians want marriages recognized in Morocco 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z His bohemian parents were adherents of the Bahai faith, which teaches unity among world religions; they eventually relocated to suburban Seattle, by which point Wilson was "used to being the odd duck." For 'Backstrom's Rainn Wilson, oddball roles just come naturally 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z The inter-religious meeting was attended by leaders representing Mongolian Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, evangelical and Orthodox Christians, Mormons, Hindus, Shintos, Bahais and shamans. Pope Francis and Mongolia's Catholics under one roof at papal Mass 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z Francis listened intently as a dozen faith leaders — Jewish, Muslim, Bahai, Hindu, Shinto and evangelical Christian among them — described their beliefs and their relationship with heaven. Pope joins shamans, monks and evangelicals to highlight Mongolia’s faith diversity, harmony 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z Speakers called out the full range of religious persecution by authoritarian governments, shining a light on the plight of Tibetan Buddhists, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Bahais, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Yazidis and Falun Gong followers and Unificationists. Conference promotes religious freedom as a human right 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Iran arrests Bahai members: Iran has arrested several members of the Bahai faith on spying charges, authorities said. World Digest: Aug. 2, 2022 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Merchant, a leader in the minority Bahai community in New Delhi, needed prompting in remembering Garcetti’s name — he knew it was someone from California. Waiting for Garcetti: India evaluates its ties with a post-Trump U.S. 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z He’s gone on to publish several other fiction books that explore the difficulties of being part of persecuted ethnic minority groups in Iran, such as Armenians and Bahais. Banned books, forbidden topics: Some writers aim to smuggle what Iran censors 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Many of the refugees are Armenian Christians; others resettled under the program include Jews, Zoroastrians, Bahais and Mandaeans. After Trump administration reopens their cases, Christian refugees from Iran land in L.A. 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z In addition to Armenian Christians such as Garmemasihi, others resettled under the program include Jews, Zoroastrians, Bahais and Mandaeans. Iranian refugees find their American dreams put on hold — in Vienna 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Bahais called the arrests part of a long pattern of persecution by Iran's Shiite theocracy. World Digest: Aug. 2, 2022 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z He settled in Palm Beach County, Fla., focusing on his golf swing and practicing the Bahai faith that he said brought him “balance” in a profession plump with egos. Vic Damone, popular 1950s crooner and nightclub star, dies at 89 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z These include members of persecuted religious minorities such as the Bahai community and those who have experienced human rights abuses for their peaceful activities. Opinion | The many implications of Pence’s promise to Iranians 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Most of the teenagers in the “junior youth empowerment” groups run by Bahai believers in the District are not members of the faith, based on the Bahai tenet of treating equally people of all religions. Bahais mark 200th birthday of their messenger, whose focus on equality resonates today 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z In a country where religion is marked on each citizens’ identity card, Egypt’s Shia and Bahai minorities also face daily persecution and are prevented from building places of worship. 'A great project for all Egyptians': Egypt to repair synagogue in city of eight Jews 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Iran's Intelligence Ministry said the suspects were linked to the Bahai center in Israel and had collected and transferred information there. World Digest: Aug. 2, 2022 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z The seven Bahai leaders are expected to be released next year. Opinion | Two shining lights in an Iranian prison’s darkness 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Reciting a prayer before meals is also traditional in other religions, including Islam, Hinduism and Bahai. When it comes to saying grace, Americans are still united 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z “Universal participation is absolutely necessary to build a better world. It’s not in the hands of only Bahais.” Bahais mark 200th birthday of their messenger, whose focus on equality resonates today 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Trump’s executive order provides an exception for “religious minorities,” a category that could include Christians fleeing largely Muslim countries as well as other groups including Yazidis and Bahais that face persecution in the Mideast. Here's everything Donald Trump has tweeted since he became president 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The Bahai international governing body has long been based in Haifa, Israel. World Digest: Aug. 2, 2022 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Zarang immigrated to the U.S. as a refugee nearly two decades ago, fleeing religious persecution in Iran because of his Bahai faith. L.A.'s Iranian American community reacts to President Trump's travel ban 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z The suspicion apparently stems from a belief among Iranian hard-liners that the Bahai are linked to Zionism because the faith’s headquarters is in Haifa, Israel. Trump's refugee policy raises a question: How do you tell a Christian from a Muslim? 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z The Bahai faith is one of the youngest world religions — on Sunday, it will celebrate the birthday of its messenger, Baha’u’llah, who was born just 200 years ago. Bahais mark 200th birthday of their messenger, whose focus on equality resonates today 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Mona was left with only one option for continuing her studies - a clandestine university for Bahais, and it was an unforgettable experience. Weekend Edition: The week's best reads - BBC News 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Iran bans Bahai, a religion founded in the 1860s by a Persian nobleman considered a prophet by his followers. World Digest: Aug. 2, 2022 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Holmes was raised in the Bahai faith, a religion that promotes racial equality and believes “racism is the most vital and challenging issue facing America.” Love, faith and muffins: One woman’s recipe for bringing together a racially divided America 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z In 2010, seven Bahai leaders in Iran were sentenced to 20-year prison terms on charges of spying for Israel, which international human rights groups described as baseless. Trump's refugee policy raises a question: How do you tell a Christian from a Muslim? 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z He too was imprisoned and harassed for much of the next 40 years, while he wrote the works that became the basis of the Bahai faith. Bahais mark 200th birthday of their messenger, whose focus on equality resonates today 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z His daughter Faezeh Hashemi attracted the ire of hardliners when she met a leader of the Bahai religious minority - which Iran's leadership regards as a heretical sect - last year. Tributes for ex-Iran President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani - BBC News 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Sikh, Hindu and Bahai faith leaders are all expected to participate in the rally, which organizers say is a rejection of hateful rhetoric and incidents of mass violence and terrorism. Mosques lead interfaith rally against terrorism at Capitol 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z Larkin’s team networks with a dozen religious groups that also include Sikh, Bahai, Chaldean and Coptic Christians. Police in Las Vegas forge close ties to the city’s Muslim community 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z This Saturday marks the eighth anniversary of the arrests of the Iranian Bahai leadership, called the Yaran. Human rights remain nonexistent for Iran’s Bahai population 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Bahai communities — some still persecuted in the Middle East, many thriving in tolerant nations — gather for worship in almost every country. Bahais mark 200th birthday of their messenger, whose focus on equality resonates today 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Former members of the Shah's government were the first targets of their revolutionary justice, but the Bahais were also high on the list. Inside Iran’s Revolutionary Courts - BBC News 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z He will defend the persecution of the Bahai religious minority. Mr. Zarif’s disconnect on human rights 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Bahai, now around 40 years old, had already spent much of her life defying taboos in Afghanistan, where women are widely regarded as inferior to men and discouraged from working outside the home. Afghanistan's only woman taxi driver steers change 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z In March, a report of the U.N.’s special rapporteur for human rights in Iran noted not only the general decline in respect for human rights but also the continued targeting of Bahais. Human rights remain nonexistent for Iran’s Bahai population 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z They include journalists, lawyers, human rights activists, bloggers, feminists, Christian priests, Sunni clerics, the entire leadership of the Bahai faith in Iran, and others. Iran 'will never build nuclear arms' 2013-09-18T23:11:02Z But they also include journalists, lawyers, human rights activists, bloggers, feminists, Christian priests, Sunni clerics, the entire leadership of the Bahai faith in Iran, and others. Iran's Hassan Rouhani: Key challenges 2013-08-01T12:37:04Z But they also include journalists, lawyers, human rights activists, bloggers, feminists as well as others such as Christian priests, Sunni clerics and the entire leadership of the Bahai faith in Iran. Challenges facing Iran's Hassan Rouhani 2013-06-16T18:38:12Z When I shared a cell in Tehran’s Evin Prison with Mahvash and Fariba, they faced charges including spying for Israel, where Bahai headquarters are located, insulting religious sanctities, and spreading corruption on earth. Silenced in Iran 2013-06-04T08:45:00Z Sadly, the situation of Iran’s roughly 300,000 Bahais is no better today. Human rights remain nonexistent for Iran’s Bahai population 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Other beliefs that often elude census-takers are Shintoism, Jainism, the Bahai faith, Sikhism, Wicca and Zoroastrianism. Religious belief: Faiths and the faithless 2012-12-19T16:07:14Z It cited the restoration of 20-year sentences for seven Bahais charged with spying for and collaborating with Israel as well as the imprisonment of Yousof Nadarkhani, a Christian pastor sentenced to death for apostasy. Religious freedoms deteriorated in China last year, U.S. says 2012-07-30T16:46:55Z As people search for happiness and freedom, spiritual traditions are flourishing, including Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism and folk religions, as well as Christianity and even Bahai. Letter from China: Mao's Spell and the Need to Break It 2011-12-28T11:27:51Z They replied that they loved Iran and wanted to serve not only Bahais there but also the entire nation. Silenced in Iran 2013-06-04T08:45:00Z Persecution continues in elementary and secondary education, he added, and “it would continue in higher education but Bahais are banned from university, and those Bahais who are discovered are removed.” Human rights remain nonexistent for Iran’s Bahai population 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The sisters are both Iranian-born American citizens and members of the Bahai faith, whose members have been persecuted in Iran since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Abused and Used: Potent Pills, Few Rules in State?s Treatment of the Disabled 2011-12-23T05:09:15Z He jokes about, among others, Muslims but is himself a Bahai. Correction: Omid Djalili 2011-12-01T16:06:02Z All religious minorities in Iran, particularly Bahais, Sufis, Christians and Jews, were targeted for discrimination in Iran, the report said. US sounds alarm on threats to religious freedom in post-revolt Arab nations 2011-09-13T16:29:49Z Silenced in Iran: The Plight of Bahai Prisoners of Conscience Four years after she was freed from Iranian prison, Roxana Saberi calls for her fellow prisoners be released as prisoners of conscience. Silenced in Iran 2013-06-04T08:45:00Z Its Specific Claims 61 Unification of Mankind—Divisions in Persia—Of Bahais—Compulsory uniformity—One Language—Peace Movement—History of—Abdul Baha on war—Bahaism dogmatic and boastful. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The churches and mosques, as well as the gold-domed Bahai shrine and its stunning gardens, are pilgrimage sites for visitors from around the world, all under the protection of the Jews. A. B. Yehoshua Reflects on Haifa, Israel 2011-06-05T14:00:00Z Mr Khanjani is one of seven imprisoned leaders of Iran's Bahai community, the country's largest non-Muslim religious minority, which Iran's Shia Muslim political and religious establishment views as a heretical sect. Minority report 2011-05-14T14:17:49Z One of her brothers swore that no child of hers would be a Bahai. On Religion: A Woman?s Persecution, and a Daughter?s Deliverance 2011-05-07T00:01:02Z The Bahai faith was founded in Iran in the 19th century and activists say more than 300,000 adherents live in Iran today. Seven Baha'is get 20-year terms in Iran: spokesmen 2010-08-09T16:13:00Z At present there are Bahai congregations in sixteen of the United States, in Canada, Hawaii, South Africa, England, Germany and Russia, as well as in India and Burmah. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z One cellmate is being detained for her work on an exchange program for maternal and child health experts; others seem guilty of little else than their Bahai faith, considered heretical by the Islamic Republic. Death to the Dictator! by Afsaneh Moqadam - Between Two Worlds by Roxana Saberi 2010-07-16T17:03:00Z Iranian officials dismiss claims of systematic discrimination against Bahais and say no groups are persecuted on religious grounds. Minority report 2011-05-14T14:17:49Z The story, as revealed over several hours by Mrs. Sabet, began on the day 40 years earlier in Tehran when, as a 15-year-old, she converted from her family’s Muslim faith to the Bahai religion. On Religion: A Woman?s Persecution, and a Daughter?s Deliverance 2011-05-07T00:01:02Z Bani Dugal, representative of the Bahai International Community to the United Nations, issued a statement Sunday calling the sentences "a deeply shocking outcome to the case of these innocent and harmless people." Seven Baha'is get 20-year terms in Iran: spokesmen 2010-08-09T16:13:00Z Fortunately besides the older Babi books, there is an abundance of Bahai literature. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z A group of seven Bahai leaders were put on trial on Jan. 12 on charges of threatening national security. 2010-02-11T07:36:00Z The Bahai religion is banned by the Islamic revolutionary leadership of Iran which considers it heretical. 2010-01-12T17:16:00Z What the family had not evidently anticipated was that their chosen groom, Abdolreza Arash, would accept his wife as a Bahai. On Religion: A Woman?s Persecution, and a Daughter?s Deliverance 2011-05-07T00:01:02Z The opposition Jaras Web site reported last week that more than 180 people, including 17 journalists, 10 advisers to the opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi and 12 members of the Bahai faith, were arrested afterward. 2010-01-11T04:07:00Z Nearly all of the many articles which have appeared in periodical literature have been from the pens of Bahais, though often not so ostensibly. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Twelve other Bahais were detained during the mass arrests that began after the antigovernment demonstration on Dec. 27, the statement said. 2010-01-08T07:23:00Z "The United States strongly condemns the Iranian government's decision to commence the espionage trial against seven leaders of the Iranian Bahai community," said US State Department spokesman PJ Crowley. 2010-01-12T17:16:00Z Then she used what little money she had to take buses from city to city, staying a handful of days with Bahai families in each. On Religion: A Woman?s Persecution, and a Daughter?s Deliverance 2011-05-07T00:01:02Z Bahais are an open community, located worldwide, with the greatest concentration of believers in South Asia. The 2008 CIA World Factbook Besides all this, I have been in personal contact with Bahais in Persia for a generation. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z I trust in the providence of God that thou mayest ascertain what is worthy and fitting for Bahais, and that day by day the love of God may increase in the hearts. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas "We are deeply concerned about Iran's ongoing persecution of Bahais and treatment of other members of religious minorities who continue to be targeted solely on the basis of their beliefs," Mr Crowley added. 2010-01-12T17:16:00Z What you need is to get away from Dave and travel, yes, and go to every dog-gone kind of New Thought and Bahai and Swami and Hooptedoodle meeting you can find. Main Street Everybody is either Buddhist or 'Bahai'—if that's the right way to spell it. Delia Blanchflower My language teachers were Bahais, one of them a convert to Christianity. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The light of God is verily shining in the face of the man who is of the Kingdom, spiritual, heavenly, divine and Bahai. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas It is interesting to reflect, as our Baha correspondent suggests, on the possible consequence of this projection of militarism into the very centre fount of the Bahai faith in universal peace.' The Reconciliation of Races and Religions Bahai of Bahá'i: ascertains the unity of all religious doctrines as these embody ideals of spiritual truth. The Civilization of Illiteracy More Jews have become Christian since Baha was born than have become Bahais from all races and religions outside of Persia. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Regarding their numbers, the Bahais have indulged in gross exaggeration. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Praise be to God that thou has become famous throughout the regions as a Bahai. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas The Muslim brothers who may join the Bahais will not find it hard to shake off their moral weaknesses, and own themselves brothers of their servants. The Reconciliation of Races and Religions While denying miracles, Bahais lay much stress, as we have seen, on minute fulfillments of prophecies. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z This belittling of Christ—His life and work and influence—shows that a spirit antagonistic to Christ really animates the Bahai leaders, in spite of their professions to the contrary. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z "Millions" is the usual figure used by American Bahais. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z However, the gathering of some of the friends there will be a cause of enkindling the fire of the love of God and the organization of a Bahai meeting will be harmless. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas One may therefore expect that most Indian Vedantists will, on entering the Bahai Society, make known as widely as they can the beauties of the Bhagavad-Gita. The Reconciliation of Races and Religions Notwithstanding these repudiations of Pantheism, nearly every investigator finds it at the basis of Bahai teaching. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Sin is little dwelt upon in Bahai literature, and the word repentance is seldom used. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Dreyfus writes,12 "Probably half the population of Persia is Bahai." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Thou hast written regarding the correspondence with other parts, that from now on it will be carried under the name of The Bahai Assembly of Washington. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas In some respects I should have preferred a Manifesto representing the lofty views of the present Head of another Society of Friends—the Bahai Fraternity. The Reconciliation of Races and Religions Bahais, even Persian Bahais, are familiar with the Bible. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Bahais in America have already organized separate meetings for worship in all places where they have a score or more members. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The inference is plain that no native of Acca had become Bahai through forty years of contact with Baha and his seventy followers. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Regarding the statement that hath been given out as the saying of His Majesty the Shah: This hath no connection whatever with the Bahais; nay, rather it hath meant the Babis. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas I venture to remark that the favourite name of the Bahais among themselves is 'Friends.' The Reconciliation of Races and Religions Each will be composed of nine or more Bahai men elected by the people. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The Bahai "houses" will conduct and control religion for the world. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z I. First of all, Bahais claim that a new religion is needed. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z His Imperial Majesty did mean these souls, that is, the Babis, not the Bahais. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas The parallel statement is as follows, according to the same Bahai scholar. The Reconciliation of Races and Religions No Bahai may publish anything on religion without first submitting it to him for censorship. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Such a command is made applicable to all Bahais.241 In the good time coming there will be a graduated hierarchy—local, national, universal—who will bring "all secular affairs under spiritual guidance." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z One chapter in Thornton Chase's "The Bahai Revelation" is headed "The Bahai Revelation is needed." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Sixty years have rolled by and the Bahais have been the object of the sword of affliction and the target of the arrows of oppression. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas A Bahai scholar furnishes me with another passage— 'God knoweth in what age He will manifest him. The Reconciliation of Races and Religions As Christians have Carnival week before Lent, followed by Easter rejoicings, and as Moslems have the Oruj Bayram, so Bahais have five days of feasting before the Fast. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z This extends through a Bahai month of nineteen days, March 2-20, and is followed by the Noruz or Vernal Equinox. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Not one of these is new; not one owes its position in the world of thought or activity to the Bahai propaganda. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The writer complains of the Ottoman government and its treatmet towards the Bahai community. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas Bahai teaching will then escape the danger of being not quite conscious enough of its debt to the past. The Reconciliation of Races and Religions This name is graven on the breastpins of Bahais, and as a monogram on rings, with two stars alongside it, one of which represents the Bab and the other Abdul Baha. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z During the past fifty years the Bahais have not been much molested. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Bahais' claims, if admitted, would lead to the superseding of Christianity. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z These are the results of the divine advices and exhortations, and the epitome of the teachings of the Bahai Cycle. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas At one time, when he was being transferred from one prison to another, many days' journey away, he and his fellow-prisoner, another Bahai, were carried on donkeys, head downwards, with their feet and hands secured. The Reconciliation of Races and Religions The Bahai historian282 states that "on rare occasions certain Ulema, for their own personal and private advantage, molest one or two individuals of the sect." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z In Persia the Bahais have no part in the movements which have terminated in corruption. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The present attitude of Bahais in maintaining connection with Christian Churches and at the same time worshipping Baha and propagating Bahaism is one of intellectual stultification or of moral blindness. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z As to the question that the holy and spiritual souls influence, help and guide the creatures after they have cast off this elemental mould—this is an established truth of the Bahais. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas I remarked upon his cheerful appearance, and added, "But all you Bahais look happy." The Reconciliation of Races and Religions To the same effect are the words of the Bahai Remey,287 "The Bahais had remained neutral in the struggle for constitutional liberty and the renewal of Persia." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z It is plain that the constitutionalists regarded the Bahais as their opponents, and Mohammed Ali Shah counted them as his supporters. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z In the case of the latter the cause of this is often moral obliquity or fear; with deceived Christian brethren it is probably ignorance; by the Bahai propagandist it is allowed from astute policy. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Be not sorry on account of the limited extent of the progress of the Bahai Cause in that country246 . Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas It is this sense of historical continuity in which the Bahais appear to me somewhat deficient. The Reconciliation of Races and Religions The Bahais have taken no part whatever in political questions and disturbances. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z M. H. Ford, a Bahai writer,290 states the fact in detail. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Instead of beginning a book, as the Moslems do, "In the name of God," the Bahais begin, "In the Name of our Lord El Baha." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Thou hast observed how extensive is the love of the Bahais and that the foundation is love. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas Could Indians and English be really united except by the help of the Bahais? The Reconciliation of Races and Religions In Chicago the first Bahai missionary to America confirmed this fact which he had heard from Acca. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Remey shows the affiliation of the Bahais with the Shah, and his satisfaction with them. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Thornton Chase, exceeding the others in his extravagant language, declares that "were all the books of former days lost and forgotten, the whole of true religious teaching could be found in the 'Bahai Revelation.'" Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z As the power of love among the Bahais is in the utmost degree and superior to that in other religions, it is even the same in other relations, for the cause of all is Love. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas In criticizing it, we may admit that the gift of second sight was possessed by the Bābī and Bahai leaders. The Reconciliation of Races and Religions We found the Bahais in the utmost peace and happiness. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The political influence of the Bahais has been grossly exaggerated. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z But after all we need not wonder so much at the delusion of the Bahais in exalting Baha, for we are familiar with Dowie and Zion City, and with Joseph Smith and the Mormons. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Consider what a difference exists between his country and thine and what a great effect this Bahai spirit hath manifested that an oriental sacrificed his life for an Occidental! Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas Of this the Bahai temples—be they few, or be they many—are the symbols. The Reconciliation of Races and Religions They must decree and judge according to Bahai revelation. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Remember that all the members are to be Bahais. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z It is curious to note how the Bahais have outdone Mohammed. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z He had confided to his son, Abbas Effendi Abdul-Baha, the work of spreading the religion and continuing the connection between the Bahais of all parts of the world. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas Alas! the brightness of the day has been darkened for the Bahai Brotherhood all over the world. The Reconciliation of Races and Religions "All legislative and administrative functions," says Dreyfus,307 "shall assume a sacred character" under the control of the Bahai House of Justice. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The Bahais claim to have no priests and no hierarchy. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z But Babis and Bahais add rapidity of composition as an additional sign or miracle. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z In point of fact, there are Bahais everywhere, not only in Mohammedan countries, but also in all the countries of Europe, as well as in the United States, Canada, Japan, India, etc. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas Suppose, for example, that the small minority of Bahais now in Persia should become a majority, with a Bahai Shah, Bahaism would become the established religion. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z But either the other religions must be judged by Bahai courts, or separate courts must be set up for them. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The latter would be entirely Bahai and either lording it over or in conflict with the civil administration. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z However that may be, the Bahais contradict him and pronounce the "verses" of Azal good for nothing. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Regarding arrangements for the Bahai Sunday meeting for the purpose of worship, this is very suitable. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas This would be a continuation of the present confusion of Persian conditions, only with the Bahais in control. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z My first thought on reading these statements was one of surprise, for they contradict my observations during thirty years' residence in Persia, in close touch with Bahais. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z A considerable body of Bahai literature and "revelation" is accessible. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Professor Browne70 vetoes its claim to superiority, saying: "I do not admit that the Bahai or any other religion can supply a rule of life higher than that which Christ has given us." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z This is the station of the spiritual ones; this is the honor of the Bahais; this is the glory of the sincere ones and this is the sovereignty of the unitarians. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas The "Kitab-ul-Akdas" decrees "that every father must educate his sons and daughters in learning and in writing" and also in the Bahai religion. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z But, notwithstanding this law, most Persian Bahais have allowed their girls to grow up in ignorance, while educating many of their boys. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Lately American Bahais have begun to stir them up. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Remey72 says: "The Universal Religion is what the Bahai movement offers to the world." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z You also ask about the eventual victory of spirituality in the Bahai age. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas It raises funds in America for Bahai schools and hospitals. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Its missionaries make their reports of their work in the Bahai News or Star of the West, of Chicago. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The American Bahai missionaries are residing in Teheran and Tabriz,323 directing the propaganda and working for the elevation of the girls and women through the Bahai religion. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The only inclusion it offers is by accepting the divine character and mission of Baha and Abbas;76 in other words, by becoming Bahais. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z But the Bahai engagement is the perfect communication and the entire consent of both parties. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas But Bahai law does not permit a wife to have two husbands. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z I will now give some details from the history of the Babi and Bahai "Manifestations" to show their practice in regard to marriage. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Bahai writers generally omit this information in describing his life and character. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Let such double-faced Bahais read Remey's article in the Star of the West,77 entitled "Let the New follow the New," and they will see how untenable is their position. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Khosroe was a Zoroastrian Bahai of Bombay, India, who left his home and went to Lahore to nurse Mr. Sydney Sprague who was sick of a fever. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas The ease with which desertion may be practiced under Bahai law is seen in the conduct of Doctor Kheiralla, one of the first apostles of Bahaism to America, and founder of the Chicago Assembly. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Already several American Bahais have married Persian women, and Persian men American women. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z One American Bahai woman has married a Japanese. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Bahais must be severed from all and everything that is past—things both good and bad—everything. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z In Teheran a lady, unveiled, and her husband entertained the Bahais. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z This incident shows how little change has been affected in the social habits of Bahai women in sixty years after Kurrat-ul-Ayn. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z From one point of view it is no argument against the truth of Bahaism that Bahais fail to live up to its precepts and principles, for this can be said of all religions. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z But the claims of Bahai writers make it necessary to consider their conduct. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z We, too, say, "Let a Bahai stand for Bahaism." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The Bahai historians say:381 "They are remarkable only for their charity, kindliness, purity, godliness, rectitude, sincerity, integrity, generosity, chastity and strict avoidance of all forbidden things." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Professor Browne389 informs us that it was very difficult to obtain a Babi book from Persian Bahais and next to impossible to get a glimpse of one at Acca, where the Bahais had them concealed. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Subh-i-Azal made the accusation "that the Bahais had tampered with the Bab's writings to give colour to their own doctrines and views." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Expediency, which rules Bahai practice, required that an incomplete "Divine Revelation" should reach Russia. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The Star of the West, a magazine of the American Bahais, is published every nineteen days, and bears the Bahai calendar on its editorial page. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Though Baha's Tablets are regarded as "Holy Books" in the highest sense, yet the Bahais commit the grave offense of changing them so as to misrepresent facts. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Why will not Bahai writers give the facts straight? Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z It arouses one's indignation to read Bahai literature, in which they claim credit for all that is noble in Babi annals, such as the martyrdoms, and yet they disparage and deny the Babis. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z This is taught and practiced by Shiah Moslems,453 and it is continued with all its offensiveness against good morals by Bahais. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The Bahais suppressed this portion from expediency, and it appears thus mutilated in Baron Rosen's translation.87 Is not this a high-handed way to deal with God's Word, as they profess to regard it? Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z This account is given by a faithful Bahai. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z But the continual attacks of the Bahais against the Jews will exasperate our co-religionists, who will cast them out finally. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Its contributions are acknowledged, and its work reported through the Star of the West as Bahai work. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z These quotations show the vindictive spirit of the Bahai leaders. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z It is to be composed of nine or more Bahai men. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The reports given by Bahai travellers are glowing, but long residents in Persia have no such a tale to tell. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Sixteen of the Bahais were confined in prison for six months and the seven for terms of seven to fifteen years, afterwards reduced by one-third. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z I was informed of one person whom the Bahais at Acca reported as a suicide, but who in reality had been murdered by them. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Psychological attestation of the accusation against the Bahais, of assassination, is seen in their doctrine of the power and prerogative of the "Manifestation," and the inference made by the Bahais from that doctrine. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z It appears that Bahais have a new alphabet, different from that of the Babis. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z These principles are boldly interpreted and applied by the Bahais to the subject under discussion. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z A Bahai acquaintance of Doctor Frame, of Resht, told him558 "without any appearance of shame, that he paid so much to have a persecutor removed." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Certain facts regarding the Imams revealed in the dark annals of Islam show what historical precedents the Babis and Bahais had back of them. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Our reply is, that both sides have been heard, and examined, and that some of the most damaging testimony is from Bahais themselves. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z His investigations and comments have given offense to the Bahais, while his praises of them often wound the Christian reader. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z If the Bahais had the longer dagger, the Azalis did not lack the bitter pen. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z M. Asad Ullah writes: "He sees the Moslem, the Christian and the Bahai, all with one eye,—he is equally kind to all." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Letters were sent by each party to the Persian Bahais, involving them in the quarrel. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Another result in Persia was the permanent estrangement of a considerable number of Bahais who lapsed into scepticism. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z C. M. Remey91 says: "The Bahai cause stands for the unity of all religions, political unity of nations, the social unity of all classes, peoples and races." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z After this the controversy took on a doctrinal aspect and all questions of Abbas' supremacy and misconduct were thrashed out between the American Behaists and Bahais. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z This is called the 19th day Unity Feast and is celebrated at the beginning of every Bahai month. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Chase is the first American Bahai to be canonized. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z This revered personage was the first Bahai believer in America. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z So in Rangoon, says Mr. Sprague,97 "I attended a Bahai meeting at which six of the great world religions were represented united in the wonderful bond of friendship and unity." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Thus the Bahai sacred number will be exhibited everywhere. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The Bahais still continue to proselyte through Ethical Culture and Theosophic Societies and on the platform of peace congresses. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z For it is common for Bahais in Persia to quote their law, in speaking to a Christian, as meaning that a man may take an additional wife if the first one is childless. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z It is well to note the sentiment of Oriental Bahais with regard to plural marriage. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z But Bahai writers mean rather that Bahaism is to be the bond of unity by all races and religions accepting Baha. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Thus Bahai precepts tend in some degree to the liberation of woman, though they fall much behind high Christian ideals and customs. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The Persian women, described so graphically by Mr. Shuster in "The Strangling of Persia,"366 who formed clubs and took such an active and heroic part in the constitutional agitation, were not Bahai women. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The Bahai women, as well as the men, were forbidden by Abdul Baha to take part in the struggle for constitutional liberty.367 Professor Browne laments the lack of patriotism shown in their conduct. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Still the Bahais deserve some credit for the movement for the uplift of Persian womanhood. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The unity in Bahai Assemblies is on so small a scale as to be not worthy of mention. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z In a few instances I have heard of Bahai women, in company of their husbands, receiving gentleman visitors, but these wives had resided in Russia. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The future Bahai State and community is to be under the administration of Boards—called Houses of Justice, local, national, and universal. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z This law evidently did not suit the notion of some of the American Bahai sisters, so they made bold to inquire about it. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Like the ordinary Moslem he was well pleased to sit down to eat with the foreign ladies but never arranged that the American Bahai men should sit down to meals with his ladies. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The Court will be called the House of Justice and will be composed entirely of Bahais. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z One characteristic of the Bahai leaders is dishonesty in dealing with their history. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z But its facts did not suit the Bahais. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The Bahais tried to get rid of the question by suppressing all mention of him, even of his name, and "of all documents tending to prove the position which he undoubtedly held." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z An adequate and not improbable explanation411 would be that one letter was prepared for the perusal of his Majesty and the other for the Bahais, to impress them with the boldness of their prophet. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z In the first place, Bahai teachings on peace are but an echo of Christian hopes and doctrines of "peace on earth: good will to men." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z When the Tablet was sent to Russia, this section was suppressed by Bahais. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Enough has been said to show the truth of the charge that the Bahais deal dishonestly with the documents of their alleged revelation. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Bahais make false representation of facts in political history. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Confirmation of this comes from conversations with Bahais. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Bab," writes: "The Bahais are strongly antagonistic alike to the Sufis and the Mohammedans, but for quite different reasons. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Another misrepresentation fostered by them is that of calling the Babi martyrs Bahais. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z If then the Bahais repudiate them, they must not appropriate their glory, for the old Babis, with all their faults, were at least heroic. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Some years ago a Bahai was called before the Governor of Tabriz and questioned, "Are you a Bahai?" Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z "It is written in the Koran not to curse, I am not a Bahai." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Yet the claim is put forth by Bahais, and, more strangely, it is accepted by some Christians, that the two religions are not antagonistic, and may be held at one time by the same person. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z It were scarcely necessary to note that some Babis and Bahais have denied their faith, except to correct the mistake of travellers, but the fact that denial is permitted and approved is important. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Direct inquiry is made, "Are you a Bahai?" Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Its organizing body, committee to draft its constitution, its executive, are Bahais, yet its circular sets forth seventeen purposes for its existence without naming the propagation of Bahaism as one of them. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z So do the schools of Christian Missions, but they are none the less Christian schools, and the "Orient-Occident" schools are distinctively Bahai. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z It was simply hearing an idea with which I was familiar in the writings of the Bahais. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Bahai schools are hotbeds of proselytizing, and must be so by their nature. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The Bahai school in Teheran worked under cover for some years. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z This institution is not generally known as a Bahai School. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z However, it is in the hands of the Bahais. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Sydney Sprague says: "The true Bahai is also the truest Christian." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Doctor Shedd says, "Christian Mission work is openly Christian, that of Persian Bahais is professedly Mohammedan." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z They deny in public that they are Bahais from fear of the Mussulmans, who detest the new religion. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The Report of the Bahais to the United States Census Board says, "One may be a Bahai and still retain active membership in another religious body." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z In the Jam-i-Jamsied, Calcutta, March 28, 1914, Dr. E. C. Getsinger boasts to the Parsees, "The American Bahais have established schools in Persia, and have sent American teachers to those schools." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z In accordance with this idea, Thornton Chase and some Bahais in America continued to worship and teach in Christian churches, and to have their dead buried by pastors. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Any one who is acquainted with Bahais in Persia knows that this is the spirit that animates them, that they revile the Mutasharis and Sheikhis and especially their mullahs. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z They are brotherly and helpful to their own particular sect of Bahais, vindictive to all who have opposed them. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z In the statements of Bahais which I quoted above, they laid claim to superior chastity and sobriety. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Bahai law follows the Moslem law in prohibiting the use of alcohol as a beverage, as did the law of the Bab. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Remey says: "Bahais consider all religions to be, from a spiritual standpoint, one religion." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z My observation leads me to believe that Bahais are more addicted to the use of intoxicants than Moslems are. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Regarding the relation of Bahais to wine and opium, we have an impartial witness who writes his experience without prejudice or motive. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Read the volume from page 475 to 540 and see how many of the Bahais lived in the habitual use of wine and opium. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z "A Bahai dervish was engaged in smoking an opium pipe." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The Bahai propaganda in India," says Sprague, "has not the difficulty that besets a Christian missionary, that of pulling down: his duty is only to build on what is already there. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Browne even joined the Bahais in the use of opium and almost became a victim of the habit. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Maybe some such incidents are the basis of the Moslem accusations against the Bahais of using hashish on neophytes. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The Persian Bahais are yet in the bonds of iniquity. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The Bahai freedom runs to license, and hence as a reform leaves men worse rather than better. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z "The key-note of Bahai teaching is identical with the Christian, but in Christianity it was so forgotten that it came almost as a fresh, new illumination from Baha." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z There is undoubtedly a generous fellowship in the Bahai community, but there is no moral principle.... Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Mr. Phelps' plea, on account of the character of the Bahais, begs the question. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The subsequent history, however, casts back its reflection upon the murder-plots at Adrianople, and in its lurid light the character of the Bahais grows darker. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Azal said to Captain Young, a British officer in Cyprus,531 "About twenty of my followers were killed by the Bahais." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Bahais reject metempsychosis, but they have a doctrine of "Return," which must be borne in mind. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z A variation of this story is found in a work by an American Bahai, Mary H. Ford, called "The Oriental Rose." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z It was not, as is commonly represented by Bahais, the act of an unbalanced, weak-minded individual, but the revengeful plot of a number. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The sailors rescued him.545 This tendency to suicide reveals an astonishing degree of fanaticism among the Bahais. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z It deserves to be emphasized that the cause of the Bahai leaders being restricted to Acca was not religious persecution by Moslems but their own quarrellings. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z In accordance with this theory of the "Return," Abdul Baha wrote to the Bahai Council of New York: "I am not Christ; I am not eternal." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z In Persia, where Bahais number a hundred thousand, a small, but influential minority rejected the authority of Abbas Effendi. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Another Bahai libelled this man to his employers in hope of injuring him. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Doubtless helped thereto by poverty, he made his submission to Abdul Baha, and published a confession, called "An Epistle to the Bahai World." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z He showed me a trunk full of Bahai manuscripts and documents, and allowed me to read his translation into English of the "Kitab-ul-Akdas." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The same Christ which was in Jesus is again manifest in the Bahai Revelation. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Their press at Chicago publishes the Star of the West, formerly the Bahai News. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z It is issued monthly, that is, every nineteen days, according to the Bahai calendar. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Besides the Bahai Publishing Society, another agency is the Orient-Occident Unity,—first organized in 1909 as the Persian American Educational Society. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The work of the American Bahais there is of little importance. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Our Bahais further tell us that the "New Jerusalem," the new heaven and the new earth, mean the new dispensation, the new laws of Baha. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z "But the presence of American Bahais in Persia or the value of an American newspaper is not their direct influence, but the impression they give that America has largely accepted Bahaism." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z In the United States this Unity poses as philanthropical, not revealing in its constitution, circulars and appeals for funds its Bahai connection. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The reporters took the exaggerated statements of the Bahais without sifting. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z His meetings and addresses were of two kinds: for the public and for the Bahais. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z "No," says the Bahai, "the destroying is figurative, and means simply the abrogation of their authority." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z He spoke of brotherly love extensively yet never about the violent quarrels that abound in Bahai annals. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z I questioned the men and found that six of them were Bahais and fourteen, like me, were visitors. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z I conversed with several of the Bahai ladies, two of whom acted as instructors of the meeting. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The next man, a Bahai, told me the number was about one hundred and fifty. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z It should be borne in mind that Oriental Bahai writers have read Keith on Prophecy in Persian and the publications of the Mission Press at Beirut. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z In Persia a Bahai affirmed before the crowd that one-half of Chicago was Bahai. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z That the Bahai propaganda has nothing special to boast of in the United States is evident when we compare its results with those of other religious fads. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z It is unnecessary now to catalogue the various Protestant pulpits and platforms in Great Britain, and in America where, with readings from the Bahai "revelations" and flattering introductions, place was given to the "false Christ." Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The Bahais present were very much upset and protested that his picture would be scattered all over the country in the movies. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z There are more Christians in Korea than Bahais in Persia. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z These films, with words, are being used in the Sunday services of the Bahais and are to be used in the Orient in connection with the voice record on the Edison talking machine. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z "Universal Principles of the Bahai Movement," and "Peace," and "The Covenant," C. M. Remey. 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