THE ILLEGITIMACY AND FRAUD OF THE BOGUS UHJ....

THE ILLEGITIMACY AND FRAUD OF THE BOGUS UHJIS EXPOSED THROUGH ALI NAKHJAVAN'S BLATANT PERVERSION OF THE TRUTH.

 

Introduction:

 

After the passing of the first Guardian on 4 November 1957  the errant Hands appointed a body of nine Hands from their own number to take over direction of the Faith under the direction of his widow, Ruhiyyih  Khanum, displacing thereby the supreme role that now belonged rightfully to an actively functioning International Baha’i Council under the Presidency of the second Guardian of the Faith and arrogated unto themselves the authority that belonged only to the Guardian whom they had in their faithlessness shamefully dethroned. This illegitimate body of nine former Hands who called themselves the Custodians of the Baha’i Faith, in turn, created another fake and dummy body which, other than its name, resembled in no way the true and legitimate Universal House of Justice described by Abdu’l-Baha in His sacred Will and Testament.  Since the establishment of this Headless body and its disobedience to the Guardian of the Cause of God is contradictory to the terms of the Will and Testament of Abdu’l Baha and the writings of Shoghi Effendi its legitimacy has been under constant question by the Baha’is.   In order, therefore, for this bogus UHJ to attempt to prove its legitimacy to the Baha’is, it had no other choice but to manipulate the Baha’i scriptures and resort to the writing of lies and erroneous and unauthorized interpretations and to many unethical actions such as changing the content of Baha’i books on the one hand and on the other by baring their sharp teeth and claws, as they threatened to call those Baha’is who did not conform to their dictates Covenant-breakers, whereas in reality, according to the definition of Covenant-breakers in the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, they themselves were clearly the Covenant-breakers.  In the same line, a paper of fourteen pages, under the title of  “Some thoughts on the ministry of the Universal House of Justice” has been written by Ali Nakhjavani, who was a former long-time member of this fake and illegitimate body in Haifa that has patently misrepresented itself as the Universal House of Justice.   Also, prior to that, he had been a member of the bogus replica International Baha’i Council manufactured by the former errant Hands of the Cause in their rebellion against, and their flagrant violation of the Will and Testament of Abdu’l Baha, as well as their repudiation of the writings of Shoghi Effendi, pertaining to the Administrative Order, as found in his spiritual Testament: The Dispensation of Baha’u’llah.   Moreover they ignored the one and only Proclamation issued by Shoghi Effendi during his ministry to the Baha’i World in 1951.  Following this opposition to the first Guardian of the Faith they dissolved the International Baha’i Council that he had divinely appointed in his Proclamation, in which he had hailed his “historic decision” to appoint the embryonic Universal House of Justice under the provisional name of the International Baha’i Council, a decision “taken at long last” to establish—“this first embryonic International Institution”—that he had further emphasized was the “most significant milestone in the evolution of the Administrative Order” and “the greatest event shedding luster upon the second epoch of the Formative Age of the Baha’i Dispensation.”  They ignobly deposed its President—its “sacred head”—and its other members, as well, who had been divinely appointed by him, totally disregarding the fact that no one other than the Guardian of the Cause of God had the authority to make changes in that “Central Body.”  Incredulously, this very essential, important and historic decision that had been made by Shoghi Effendi was completely ignored by the violating Hands who placed themselves under the direction of Ruhiyyih Khanum (the widow of Shoghi Effendi) instead of faithfully serving “under the direction of the Guardian of the Cause of God” and choosing to be “under his shadow and obey his command” as enjoined by ‘Abdu’l-Baha.

 

In the light of the above history, I am not surprised to see the desperate and sly attempts of Nakhjavani to cover up his misdeeds and to obscure the transgressions and offences he has been guilty of committing against the sacred and Holy writings of the Faith such as those contained in Baha’u’llah’s Most Holy Book, the Kitab-i-Aqdas, and the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha and  his fabrication of lies and unauthorized and erroneous interpretations.  It is obvious to me that he realizes his wrong doings but tries to fool the unaware and uninformed reader, deluding himself into believing that God is not aware of what he is doing or even perhaps he may not actually believe in God, otherwise he wouldn’t commit these types of contraventions and wrongs or wouldn’t write so many obvious lies. I think he hopes that Heterodox Baha’is will not notice his manipulation of the writings and will not check on a few quotations that he has provided and the words that has put in quotation marks or check the words that he has borrowed from here and there and stuck together to support his erroneous interpretations.   His hope may be that due to the fact that the bogus organization he supports tries to keep its followers busy with various types of useless and some times even spiritually harmful classes, meetings, conferences, and gatherings in which they listen to spiritually poisonous speeches of rebels such as himself, or by urging them to become engaged in door-to-door proselytizing, that this then will practically leave them no free time to investigate the truth.

 

In every section of his paper the writer deceitfully first makes a fallacious statement and then on the basis of further treacherous and faulty statements reinforces the cunning argument contained in the initial statement by often quoting excerpts from the writings of the bogus UHJ or by using material written by Ruhiyyih Khanum or the former errant Hands of the Cause which actually lend no value to his argument since all of them are equally guilty of deceit. 

 

It shall, therefore, be my objective to provide clear evidences of faithlessness, deviation and violation of the Covenant in my critique, paragraph by paragraph, and bring them to light and expose their duplicity.

 

Exposition:

 

In the preamble, Nakhjavani has stated:

 

“When the beloved Guardian passed away on November 4, 1957, the news of his passing convulsed the entire Baha’i World.  A second distress soon followed when the announcement was made by the Hands of the Cause that Shoghi Effendi had left no Will and Testament, and had appointed no successor as Guardian of the Faith, because the Aghsan one and all had broken the Covenant. The “first effect” of this realization, as stated in the message of the Hands of the Cause to the Baha’i  world, “was to plunge” them “into the very abyss of despair” (MC36). A similar sense of dismay seized the entire Baha’i World.

 

Comment:

It is obvious that the Baha’is in 1957 were shocked by the passing of the first Guardian, and further anguished by the erroneous statement made by the Hands of the Cause in their declaration to the Baha’i world following the outcome of the conclave they had held in ‘Akka, a few weeks following his passing in compliance with Ruhiyyih Khanum’s desire and directions, a conclave during which the Hands, with a single exception, blatantly ignored and incredulously disregarded the wishes and instructions of the late Guardian.  For they inexcusably failed to recognize the only person upon Shoghi Effendi’s passing who had inherited supreme authority in the Faith and the one that Shoghi Effendi had faithfully and unmistakably appointed to be his successor in accordance with the terms of the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha and who therefore possessed an authority on the basis thereof, which, prior to his passing had remained potential, but which upon his passing had automatically become actual, in his capacity as Shoghi Effendi’s appointed Head of the embryonic Universal House of Justice, (named by Shoghi Effendi in the first stage of its projected four-fold stage of development  as the International Baha’i Council) a position that can only be rightfully occupied by the Guardian of the Faith according to the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha.  

 

The former Hands, however, failing to perceive that Shoghi Effendi had clearly provided in this manner for his successor, informed the Baha’i World that Shoghi Effendi had been unable to appoint a successor because all of the Aghsan had become disloyal which should have been immediately recognized by the believers, but unfortunately was not so recognized, as a patently ludicrous reason.  For, although the Baha’is were quite certain that Shoghi Effendi did not have a son who had been concealed during his ministry and possibly primed to inherit the Guardianship, it was irrelevant news and certainly not new news that all of the Aghsan (the sons of Baha’u’llah) had broken the Covenant since all of them had opposed the Center of the Covenant, ‘Abdu’l-Baha, and had thereby detached themselves from the Cause of God before the ascension of Abdu’l Baha.  Moreover the Aghsan, as contemporaries of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, would never have lived long enough to succeed Shoghi Effendi and to have been eligible for appointment as his successor. The alleged reason therefore given by the Hands as to why Shoghi Effendi had not appointed a successor was clearly without any foundation whatsoever and completely fallacious.   A believer well versed in the writings of Shoghi Effendi might well ask how these Hands, with a single notable exception, could have believed that Shoghi Effendi had failed to appoint a successor when, in his extensive writings, historic messages and recorded talks to pilgrims they had all abundantly testified to the fact, that to the very last days of his life, he had repeatedly and consistently emphasized the continuity and the absolute essentiality of the Guardianship to the World Order of Baha’u’llah as long as the Dispensation of Baha’u’llah endured?

 

Nakhjavani has written:

 

“Soon after the Universal House of Justice was established it sent a message (dated 6 October 1963) to the Baha’i World. This message states that the House of Justice “finds that there is no way to appoint or to legislate to make it possible to appoint a second Guardian to succeed Shoghi Effendi” (MUHJ 14).   Reflecting on this message, the friends everywhere soon realized that they had not properly understood the contents of the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha.”

 

Comment:

It must be noted that the now violating Hands during the period 1957-1963 forbid any talk about the Guardianship and in response to the enquiries of the Baha’is were telling them that it was better to leave the matter to the establishment of the Universal House of Justice (an illegitimate body that would be elected in 1963, having abolished, as mentioned previously, the embryonic Universal House of Justice established by Shoghi Effendi in his Proclamation of 1951) while pretending that one of goals of the Ten Year Global Crusade (1953-1963) had been the establishment of that body while even a true and legitimate Universal House of Justice which in the future will be established in conformity with the Will and Testament of Abdu’l Baha cannot and will never enter into discussions on this matter, since the appointment of the Guardian’s successor is within the exclusive domain and the authority of the Guardians of the Faith and completely outside the sphere of the jurisdiction of that legislative body.  Of course, since the current bogus UHJ in Haifa does not have the Guardian presiding as its “sacred head” as required by the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, it is not legitimate and therefore, as a man-made and fallible body, it will inevitably make a lot of errors, inevitably violate the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha and contradict the writings, arrangements and plans of the first Guardian.

 

Then he has written:

 

“Shoghi Effendi had already stated that the World Order as delineated by ‘Abdu’l-Baha in His Will “undoubtedly” contained “manifold mysteries” (BA p. 8), and that we “must trust to time, and the guidance of God's Universal House of Justice, to obtain a clearer and fuller understanding of its provisions and implications” (BA p. 62).”

 

Comment:

Readers conversant with the writings of Shoghi Effendi may wonder why Nakhjavani has picked the two words: “manifold mysteries” from page 8 of the book, Baha’i Administration (as he has referred to), and erroneously linked this two words to statement appearing on page 62 of that same book as these two words actually are not found on page 8 of that book which contains excerpts from the Will and Testament of Abdu'l-Baha. The quoted words found on page 8 of the World Order of Baha’u’llah, in that page Shoghi Effendi has referred to the mysteries to be found in the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha and  extols the value and significance of the Will and Testament that ‘Abdu’l-Baha bequeathed to us and contains the following statement pertaining to the institution of the Guardianship:

 

“It enhances the prestige of that exalted assembly (the UHJ), stabilizes its supreme position, safeguards its unity, assures the continuity of its labors, without presuming in the slightest to infringe upon the inviolability of its clearly-defined sphere of jurisdiction. We stand indeed too close to so monumental a document to claim for ourselves a complete understanding of all its implications, or to presume to have grasped the manifold mysteries it undoubtedly contains. Only future generations can comprehend the value and the significance attached to this Divine Masterpiece, which the hand of the Master-builder of the world has designed for the unification and the triumph of the world-wide Faith of Baha’u’llah. Only those who come after us will be in a position to realize the value of the surprisingly strong emphasis that has been placed on the institution of the House of Justice and of the Guardianship.”

 

(Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Baha'u'llah, p. 8)

 

While the whole paragraph is another testimony of the first Guardian to the continuation of the Guardianship it is obvious that the quoted phrase “the manifold mysteries it undoubtedly contains.” refers to the Will and Testament of Master which Nakhjavani deceitfully has attributed instead to the “World Order.”  Moreover, Nakhjavani has again misrepresented Shoghi Effendi’s statement in which he had referred to the Will and Testament and applied it to the World Order instead in stating that we “must trust to time, and the guidance of God's Universal House of Justice” to achieve a full understanding of this New World Order as may be noted in the following paragraph: “And as we make an effort to demonstrate that love to the world may we also clear our minds of any lingering trace of unhappy misunderstandings that might obscure our clear conception of the exact purpose and methods of this new world order, so challenging and complex, yet so consummate and wise.  We are called upon by our beloved Master in His Will and Testament not only to adopt it unreservedly, but to unveil its merit to all the world. To attempt to estimate its full value, and grasp its exact significance after so short a time since its inception would be premature and presumptuous on our part. We must trust to time, and the guidance of God's Universal House of Justice, to obtain a clearer and fuller understanding of its provisions and implications. But one word of warning must be uttered in this connection. Let us be on our guard lest we measure too strictly the Divine Plan with the standard of men”

 

          (Shoghi Effendi, Baha'i Administration, p. 62)

 

After the passing of the first Guardian the former Hands of the Cause not only did not adopt the New World Order unreservedly due to their ignorance of its “Charter” but did not take the time to study the Will and Testament of Abdu’l Baha, “the Charter of the New World Order” or the pertinent writings of Shoghi Effendi, and especially his Proclamation of 9 January 1951, and quickly rushed to put an end to the Guardianship under the direction of Ruhiyyih Khanum.  They ignored the fact that God’s Universal House of Justice had been formed by the first Guardian in its embryonic form under the temporary name of “International Baha’i Council.  Needless to say, the bogus UHJ that they created in its place without its “sacred head and the distinguished member“—the Guardian of the Cause of God—could not be considered as “God’s Universal House of Justice” since it was formed contrary to the “the Charter of the New World Order.”

 

To be continued…

By Hand of the Cause Nosrat'u'llah Bahremand

 

Note from the Guardian:

 

Nosrat has requested my review of his critique and the correction of any errors in the use of the English language as it is not his native tongue.  In the process of reviewing his outstanding critique I have taken the opportunity to add here and there some words, and phrases, revise the structure of some sentences to enhance the argument presented and even add a few additional pertinent quotations which I have felt would further reinforce his already excellent critical analysis of Nakhjavani’s diabolical efforts to pervert the sacred Writings and the writings of Shoghi Effendi in support of his diabolical repudiation of the continuing Guardianship of the Cause of God.

                                      JBM

 

I submit my sincere gratitude and thankfulness to the beloved Guardian of the Cause of God for the Divine guidance that flows on to us through him.

         

                                      Nosrat Bahremand

 

Comments

[Susan Noyes]

Excellent critique.

It is unfathomable to me that any thinking person who has investigated this truth independently could fail to see the flaws of the argument posited by Nakhjavani. I pray for the truth to come upon the majority heterodox Bahá’ís so that we may put this test behind us and proceed to the building of the true World Order of Bahá’í lláh with the living Guardian at its head.

In El Abhá,

Susan

[A Baha'i steadfast in the covenant]

Total misrepresentation.
You need to read the Will and Testemant of the Master and conditions He has imposed on appointing the Guardian.
By the way, your second guardian (Mason Remey) had rejected the first Guariand and said that he was the first guardian.
Your third guardian is a sham as well as he wasn't appointed by Remey either.
You need to understand your doings and be fearful of God of your destiny (if you have any)