Hands of the Bahá'í Faith

Laying "claim to a Revelation direct from God?"

Is acting as if God had changed His mind laying "claim to a Revelation direct from God?"

Is canceling a sacred Bahá'í Instruction such as an Instruction for Guardians or canceling sacred Instructions for Bahá'ís to obey their Guardian, while claiming that God has changed His mind (badah) tantamount to laying "..claim to a  Revelation direct from God"?

An administration claiming to be Bahá'í instructs its adherents to ignore such sacred Instructions enshrined in the sacred and immutable Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Bahá.

   “O servant of God! We have noted what thou didst write to Jináb-i-Ibn-`Abhar, and thy question regarding the verse: `Whoso layeth claim to a Revelation direct from God, ere the expiration of a full thousand years, such a man is assuredly a lying impostor.' The meaning of this is that any individual who, before the expiry of a full thousand years--years known and clearly established by common usage and requiring no interpretation-- should lay claim to a Revelation direct from God, even though he should reveal certain signs, that man is assuredly false and an impostor.”  `Abdu'l-Bahá,
Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p. 72.

The website of the living Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith:
www.Bahai-Guardian.com

By Hand of Cause Ross Campbell

Shoghi Effendi had the right to pass the mantle

Bahiyyih Khanum, the Greatest Holy Leaf, the sister of the Master, was the first to inform the Bahá'í world, by cablegram, that Shoghi Effendi had been appointed to be the Head of the House of Justice, which she did on January 16th, 1922.

Shoghi Effendi, the first Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith, had the right to pass the mantle of Headship of the House of Justice to another man, through the hereditary principle of the Bahá'í Faith, and he exercised that right, passing the Headship of the House of Justice to Charles Mason Remey, without even having acted as Head of that sacred body himself.  He could do that, because he was the appointed Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith.  Nobody else, nor any group had authority to appoint anyone to be Head of the Universal House of Justice, and nobody, nor any group had any trace of authority to form a Universal House of Justice devoid of its sacred Head, as provided in the sacred and immutable Will and Testament of  'Abdu'l-Baha'.

The formation of a headless Universal House of Justice was a violation of the Holy Instructions of the Master, and a violation of the Covenant of the Lord of this Age.

The website of the living Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith:
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com

Hand of Cause Ross Campbell

The true Faith has the Guardian at its head

The reality is that there is not a single sect of the Bahá'í Faith.  There are a number of denominations.  But there is only one true Faith. As Bahá'ís, our spiritual mission is to "inhale the fragrance" of the truth and choose the true Faith.

The vast majority of Bahá'ís have lost faith in the Guardianship.  Then there are the Orthodox Bahá'ís, a small band of believers, whose faith in the Guardianship has never been stronger. 

The entire difference between the two groups can be attributed to the interpretation of this passage of `Abdu'l-Bahá's Will and Testament:

"O ye beloved of the Lord! It is incumbent upon the Guardian of the Cause of God to appoint in his own life-time him that shall become his successor, that differences may not arise after his passing. He that is appointed must manifest in himself detachment from all worldly things, must be the essence of purity, must show in himself the fear of God, knowledge, wisdom and learning. Thus, should the first-born of the Guardian of the Cause of God not manifest in himself the truth of the words: -- 'The child is the secret essence of its sire,' that is, should he not inherit of the spiritual within him (the Guardian of the Cause of God) and his glorious lineage not be matched with a goodly character, then must he, (the Guardian of the Cause of God) choose another branch to succeed him."

There is an apparent ambiguity: does "branch" refer only to the Sons of Bahá'u'lláh, or to any of the members of His family, or does is it refer spiritually to any faithful believer whom the Guardian is divinely guided to appoint as his successor (the one in which is found "the fear of God, knowledge, wisdom and learning")?

The Orthodox Bahá'ís assert that the passage is not ambiguous or open to interpretation but the Will clearly allows the Guardian to appoint a successor of his choosing in any manner of his choosing as long as it occurs during his lifetime.

Bahá'u'lláh says:  "Know thou that the passages that We have called "ambiguous" appear as such only in the eyes of them that have failed to soar above the horizon of guidance and to reach the heights of knowledge in the retreats of grace. For otherwise, unto them that have recognized the Repositories of divine Revelation and beheld through His inspiration the mysteries of divine authority, all the verses of God are perspicuous and all His allusions are clear. Such men discern the inner mysteries that have been clothed in the garment of words as clearly as ye perceive the heat of the sun or the wetness of water, nay even more distinctly. Immeasurably exalted is  God above our praise of His loved ones, and beyond their praise of Him!"   Gems of Divine Mysteries, p. 25

The true Faith has the Guardian at its head.

The third Guardian's web site:
http://www.bahai-guardian.com/

By Hand of Cause Jeffrey Goldberg

Shoghi Effendi's instruction for the Bahá’í Temple in Haifa

 

An Oct. 30th, 1955 letter from Shoghi Effendi reminds us of his instruction for the Bahá’í Temple in Haifa (written on behalf of the first of our Guardians to the N.S.A. of Australia):

"There is no reason why it should look like the Chicago Temple; on the other hand, he feels these ultra-modern, often bizarre structures are not at all in keeping with the dignity of our Faith. The type of dome on such structures as Mason Remey’s Temple for Haifa, the Shrine of the Báb and St. Peter’s in Rome he considers beautiful in proportion
and suitable. The style is naturally a question each architect would evolve for himself. What interests the Guardian is the symmetry of the ensemble and dignity."

We know that Shoghi Effendi instructed that the architectural plan for the Bahá’í Temple on Mt. Carmel, designed by Charles Mason Remey,  was to be kept safe where the first Guardian placed it. We have seen that the sans-Guardian administration leaves Mason
Remey's photo out of their yearbook, The Bahá’í World, when providing profiles of Hands of the Cause of God.

The Bahá’í world will become aware of the first Guardian's instruction concerning the plan for the  Bahá’í Temple on Mt. Carmel.

The website of the living Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith:
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com

Hand of Cause of God Ross Campbell

Sacrifices to a "golden calf"?

Are those Bahá'ís who are paying Huqúqu'lláh to the headless UHJ on Mt. Carmel making sacrifices to a 'golden calf'?

It seems to me that those Bahá'í believers who are paying Huqúqu'lláh to the sans-Guardian UHJ are bowing to a 'golden calf' in the same manner that the ancient Israelites sacrificed to a golden calf while in rebellion against Moses.

Let's examine the facts of the present day circumstance to see if it is reasonable and justified to arrive at such a conclusion.

Fact:

Rúhíyyih Khánum confessed in her book, Ministry of the Custodians,that she and the other Hands of the Cause had no scriptural/legitimate authority for their actions related to the formation of the body of Custodians and their headless UHJ:

"...we were faced with problems of inconceivable magnitude. How to assume the reins of authority, with no document to support us, other than the general theological statements about the Hands?"

Fact:

The sans-Guardian UHJ currently on Mt. Carmel is impotent to interpret Bahá'í Holy Writ and Holy Text, and therefore it is by bogus authority that it has diverted the payment of the Right of God, the Huqúqu'lláh, to itself rather than to the one delineated in the sacred Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Bahá to receive it, namely the Guardian of the Cause of God.

Fact:

Shoghi Effendi never authorized the formation of a headless UHJ either by his spoken word or officially in his writings , nor even in pilgrims' notes.

It seems to me, therefore, that it is altogether justified  to say that diverting the sacrifice of the Huqúqu'lláh away from its scripturally and officially intended recipient, and towards an unauthorized, headless, man-made entity, is the equivalent of the golden calf worship practiced by rebellious Israelites in disobedience to Moses.

The correct conclusion, therefore, is that those Bahá'ís obeying the headless UHJ currently on Mt. Carmel, and sacrificing Huqúqu'lláh to it, are no different than the disobedient Israelites who sacrificed to the man-made golden calf.

The website of the living Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith:
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com