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THE ILLEGITIMACY AND FRAUD OF THE BOGUS UHJ.... (Part Three)

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Nakhjavani has written:

“When the English translation of the Kitab-i-Aqdas was published in 1992, the Universal House of Justice had yet another opportunity to explain the implications of Paragraph 42 of the Most Holy Book. In relation to the Law of Succession in the Faith, this paragraph stands out as a most significant and decisive statement. For, in this paragraph Baha’u’llah clearly envisages a time when there would be no institution to embody the functions incumbent upon the Appointed and Authorized Aghsan (that is to say, a Guardianship). Further, the Universal House of Justice would not exist at that time and it would not be propitious to elect that Body. These points are fully covered in Notes 66 and 67, (pages 196 and 197) of the English text of the Kitab-i-Aqdas.”

Comment:

In the above paragraph Nakhjavani has based his comments on the same joint nefarious statements originally made by the former Hands and subsequently by the bogus UHJ in which they have falsely and shamelessly misinterpreted the meaning of passages contained in the Aqdas—that Most Holy Book—and spread false rumors.  Knowledgeable believers will know that the right of interpretation and explanation of verses of the Aqdas, following the ascension of Abdu’l Baha, is in the exclusive sphere of the authority of the Guardians of the Baha’i Faith and even a real and legitimate Universal House of Justice established in conformity with the Will and Testament of Abdu’l Baha, will never infringe on that authority, as stated by Shoghi Effendi:

  “Neither can, nor will ever, infringe upon the sacred and prescribed domain of the other.”

 (The World Order of Baha'u'llah, p. 150).

 In 1992 when they translated and published the Aqdas into English they added some notes to the Book, many of which contain unauthorized and erroneous interpretations.

It was previously mentioned above that the institutions of the international and local Houses of Justice were ordained by Baha’u’llah, but in most of cases simply the phrase: “the House of Justice” is revealed, leaving the distinction to be made between them by the authorized interpreter of His words.  This fact somehow has been admitted by the bogus UHJ, among their many wrong and unauthorized interpretations that sinfully they have made of passages in this Holy Book in the following statement:

 “In referring to the House of Justice in the Kitab-i-Aqdas, Baha'u'llah does not always explicitly distinguish between the Universal House of Justice and the Local House of Justice, both of which institutions are ordained in that Book. He usually refers simply to "the House of Justice," leaving open for later clarification the level or levels of the whole institution to which each law would apply.”

                                                     (The Kitab-i-Aqdas, Notes, p. 185)

One instance in which Baha’u’llah indicates the level of the House of Justice is in the verse of the Kitab-i-Aqdas in which He reveals and prescribes the use of endowments ”dedicated to charity” and explains how they are to be used by the Houses of Justice when they will be established in cities (Paragraph 42). The forged UHJ in its unauthorized translation conveniently and sinfully changed the meaning of the word “bilaad” (cities) in the passage, to “world,” to suit their evil intentions.  The members of the Bogus UHJ not only are guilty of this forgery and alteration, but have shamelessly and falsely altered the meaning of the whole paragraph by their unauthorized and erroneous interpretation and have not taken any notice of the following warning of Baha’u’llah in the Aqdas:

 “Whoso interpreteth what hath been sent down from the heaven of Revelation, and altereth its evident meaning, he, verily, is of them that have perverted the Sublime Word of God, and is of the lost ones in the Lucid Book.”

                                            (The Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 57)

They have falsely interpreted the term “Aghsan” to mean a reference to the Guardians and the phrase “people of Baha” a term that applies exclusively to the now violating Hands.  While the whole paragraph is about “endowments” and has nothing to do with the Guardianship, It is pertinent to know that Abdu’l Baha during His ministry explained the proper course to be pursued with respect to such endowments in one of his Tablets in which he provided the following instructions and guidance:

“Prior to the establishment of the House of Justice, endowments dedicated to charity revert to a Spiritual Assembly which is free from remnants of concupiscence. There is no other arrangement.”      

                                            (Ganjineh-i-hodood va Ahkam, p.221)

According to the commandment of Abdu’l-Baha Local Spiritual Assemblies and later the national bodies (the respective representatives of the People of Baha and embryonic Houses of Justice) managed their local and national endowments and also Shoghi Effendi during his ministry, in more than one hundred of his messages and letters, strongly encouraged National and Local Spiritual Assemblies to establish local and national endowments, even urging the National Spiritual Assemblies to have a part of their International endowments in the Holy Land registered in their names.

To be continued…

By Hand of the Cause of God Nosrat'u'llah Bahremand

God's Plan is Forever

Hand of the Cause of God Nosrat Bahremand has penned an extensive critique of an article by Ali Nakhjavan, [Part 1] [Part 2] who has taken various of the Holy Bahá'í Writings out of context to justify the continuation of the Haifa posture that their Administrative Order, sans-guardian, is valid.

An overall consideration for anyone to account for when writing about the Faith in any manner, is the fact that humans in this realm are completely dependant upon God whether they realize it or not. We are all eventually accountable to God. At the extreme, we have all known friends who question whether there is a God or not, and whether the act of worship is a complete waste of time; a mere ritual. Even those souls are at the complete mercy of a loving God. They prosper on this plane and some of them seem to surpass others of us in accomplishments. And so it is with all who write for or about the Faith as well. At the extreme in this example, some are opposed to there ever being another guardian, and others follow the Institution of the Guardianship. Each position has adherents with very strong feelings that God is completely in their corner. It seems such a mystery.

For any who have studied and practice any sort of religious activity, there is usually one thing that is constant; the belief in an afterlife. There is a heaven for all those who practice their religion, although even their heaven may appear different than that expected by others in many cases. The general agreement among the various versions of a heaven is that it affords a better life than we have here, with more goodness and happiness for all who attain. We can agree on that much.

And then there is the matter of some who would alter God’s Word to more closely fit the pattern they follow in their worship practices. Most who do that are completely confident of what they do, and do not look beyond the reality of their own definitions. In the case of Christian worshipers, among the many different interpretations of the Gospel, they all feel comfortable with whatever it is they have determined to be the “right path.” And perhaps rightly so, since their actions coincide with many others, and even their own family members, for justification of their position. It has been 2,000 years since Christ walked the earth, and generations of belief patterns have established a certain “numbness” to the overall picture.

One of the human faculties that allows anyone complete satisfaction in their particular manner of worship is a little thing we call ego. The inner voice of each of us either approves or disapproves of every action we take. It is much more likely that our inner egos approve rather than disapprove of our actions because of the script established for us during our formative years at the hand of a mother or father; a basis for the overwhelming approval is that grand pappy and his grand pappy acted similarly and since the family tree has done so well for years and years, there is no need to deviate from that established pattern. Remember what Christ had to say about the sins of the father being passed on to the offspring?

So if one considers carefully, there is an established human pattern, aided by the ego, that yields the same types of results over and over again, so far as the things that humans do with their lives. A primary intention of Bahá'u'lláh’s Revelation was to break the old patterns, and require humans to study and learn for themselves, regardless of what the accepted knowledge of the day was. Bahá'u'lláh revealed His Message, wrote countless Words to promoted its Teachings, established for its longevity through the establishment of a unique Administrative Order, and did this at a time when human capacity had been infused with a God-given capability to understand and use this new power.

Bahá'u'lláh did not release a “mission impossible.“ However, the Revelation He released did require the diligent thought of all who encountered it in order that they could withstand its Mighty Power. The Bahá'í Faith is not a slam dunk situation. It is not a once saved always saved phenomena such as some of the Christian Denominations avow. The Bahá'í Faith requires its independent investigation by each and every individual who meets its sweet call, and then requires an attitude of independent investigation and pursuit
during the remainder of that person’s life, regardless of any external forces to the contrary.

The Bahá'í Faith is not a cake walk.

Ali Nakhjavan, in his article, attempts to justify something that has already been thoroughly discussed by noted figures within the Faith, such as its Originator, the Center of its Covenant, and its First Guardian. A reading of all of the Writings of those Holy individuals within the context of all of their accumulated Writings determines a different conclusion than what Nakhjavan has reached in his discussion. To the casual observer, that would seem odd. Here we have a Revelation with clearly noted guidelines, guidelines
that were actually penned by the Manifestation and his appointed Heirs. This is in contrast to the lack of written instructions penned by His Holiness the Christ. In fact, Bahá'u'lláh took it a step further, and His Holy Lineage outlined the means of a living interpreter of His Word throughout the entire 1,000 year tenure of His Dispensation. What could be more clear than Bahá'u'lláh’s intention that His appointed interpreters,
the guardians, handle any required explanations for the believers, rather than someone such as the non-guardian Nakhjavan and those among the heterodox Bahá'ís who follow the same pattern?

Now, getting back to my observation, an observation that down through the centuries humans have followed the patterns of their ancestors, based in part upon the urgings of their own egos. Those egos have developed a comfort zone for them, one in which the expectation of the next life is one of goodness, based upon the following of certain established patterns established within their own families, based upon that family’s
understanding of God. Even those who would say that they are the only Bahá'ís in their family, the first one,are caught up in the ego-formed patterns of parental pattern in determining how they approach all things.

This is where we were when Bahá'u'lláh presented his Message of change, and this is generally where we are as humans some 140 odd years later. In spite of Bahá'u'lláh’s Message, there has been very little to no change at all in the traditional manner that humans approach religious activity, and that unfortunately includes the Bahá'í Faith. The pattern of following a personality or a congregation of thought continues, in spite of the admonishment of the Central figures that each individual should investigate for herself, and decide the direction to take. Although there are no “clergy” in the Bahá'í Faith, a cadre of faux clergy are demanding of their followers complete obedience to them, regardless of what the Holy Writings direct.

As Bahá'ís we are expected to understand what Bahá'u'lláh had in mind, and to attempt to live in a manner which begins to pull away from at least a part of the superstitious meanderings of our forefathers. We are expected to effect a change in humans along the lines of Bahá'u'lláh’s Message. Through the careful perusal of the Holy Writings and God’s Grace, we may be able to begin to break the superstitious patterns. Not so, Ali Nakhjavan and those who follow his bent. Those individuals are using the very words that Bahá'u'lláh intended for the enlightenment of the human soul, twisting their intent, and presenting them in order to convince others to continue following a false and corrupt interpretation of the very perfection of the Bahá'í Message! Who do they think they are kidding? For certain, they are not kidding God!

Do they not understand that God’s world is what it is. Nothing more nor less than that. God’s world was determined countless eons before Nakhjavan walked this earth, and will continue as such after he is departed from it, unchanged from God‘s original and perfect Plan. Should Nakhjavan’s ideas be completely off-base so far as Bahá'u'lláh’s intentions are concerned, and I believe they are, he will have jousted with windmills in this world, and face a most likely less-than-satisfying tenure in the next. And the important thing for humans is that he will have contributed nothing toward changing the overall Plan of the Bahá'í Faith. That Plan was established long before any of us, and will continue unchanged for ever and evermore.

We mortals can have no influence whatsoever upon the changing or modification of God’s Plan either here nor in the next world. All we can hope for is to be in alignment with that Plan as best we can while on this plane. We have the good fortune of having Bahá'u'lláh’s clear intentions, requiring no interpretation from mere mortals, to gain access to that alignment. Beyond that, it is all in the Hands of God.

By Hand of the Cause of God David Maxwell

THE ILLEGITIMACY AND FRAUD OF THE BOGUS UHJ.... (Part Two)

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Nakhjavani deceitfully has written:

“The obligation of the friends was now well-defined. They had to wait for the “guidance” of the Universal House of Justice, to elucidate what certainly appeared to be “obscure questions” (WTp.20). The expectations of the believers were fulfilled when, in response to questions asked, the Universal House of Justice wrote on 9 March 1965, on 27 May 1966, and on 7 December 1969, three letters (See MUHJ items # 23, 35 & 75 respectively) and explained for the friends the basic truths underlying the evolution of the Administrative Order of our Faith, and left them free to conclude that the passing of the beloved Guardian, without having appointed a Successor as Guardian and Authorized Interpreter, was a clear possibility and an understandable event.”

Comment:

It is glaringly obvious that the Institution of the Guardianship and the functions of the Guardian as “Head of the Faith” have been clearly and well defined by ‘Abdu’l-Baha in His Will and Testament and have been elaborated upon by Shoghi Effendi in his writings and certainly the Guardianship is not included under the category of “obscure questions” which will require the enactment of future laws by that body and only a genuine Universal House of Justice presided over by the Guardian will be able to adequately respond to such questions in those instances where they are not covered in the Book.  Following is the quotation from the Will and Testament from which Nakhjavani has borrowed the term and deceitfully transmuted its implication:

“It is incumbent upon these members (of the Universal House of Justice) to gather in a certain place and deliberate upon all problems which have caused difference, questions that are obscure and matters that are not expressly recorded in the Book. Whatsoever they decide has the same effect as the Text itself. Inasmuch as the House of Justice hath power to enact laws that are not expressly recorded in the Book and bear upon daily transactions, so also it hath power to repeal the same.”

It should be noted by the reader that the institutions of the international and local Houses of Justice were ordained by Baha’u’llah but it was Abdu’l Baha who in His Will and Testament, provided for the Secondary (National) Houses of Justice and defined the method for the election of the Universal House of Justice and explained the composition and order of that august body, so wherever there is mention of the International or Universal House of Justice in the authoritative writings of the Faith it means the real and true Universal House of Justice as the Master specified and clearly explained.

“By this body all the difficult problems are to be resolved and the Guardian of the Cause of God is its sacred head and the distinguished member for life of that body. Should he not attend in person its deliberations, he must appoint one to represent him. Should any of the members commit a sin, injurious to the common weal, the Guardian of the Cause of God hath at his own discretion the right to expel him, whereupon the people must elect another one in his stead.” (Abdu'l-Baha, The Will and Testament, p. 14)

In the light of the Master’s described specifications for the true Universal House of Justice it is obvious that this body created by the former Hands without the “sacred head and the distinguish member” is a fake and illegitimate body.  What Nakhjavani portrays  as “the evolution of the Administrative Order” is actually the flagrant attempt made by the former Hands and their man-made and bogus UHJ to corrupt the Administrative Order by eliminating its major pillar—the Institution of the Guardianship.

Developments in the Administrative Order must be made only in obedience to every clause of the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, and in honoring the plans and arrangements that the first Guardian of the Faith projected that requires recognition of the second Guardian and realization of the fact that Shoghi Effendi faithfully fulfilled his obligation of appointing his successor during his own lifetime since the obligatory provision of the Will and Testament, quoted below, does not leave any other option for the Guardians:“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.”  (The Will and Testament, p. 12)

To be continued…

By Hand of the Cause of God Nosrat'u'llah Bahremand

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

 

Why did Shoghi Effendi appoint Rúhíyyih Khánum to be a liaison?

After Shoghi Effendi established the embryonic Universal House of Justice, the International Bahá'í Council, Why did he appoint someone to be a liaison between him and that embryonic body?

Why also did he never instruct the one whom he appointed to be President of that body to activate that body?  Why was the President of that body always waiting for instructions from Shoghi Effendi through the liaison rather that activating that body himself?

Most importantly, in view of the events which occurred after the passing of the first Guardian in 1957,  could the liaison, Rúhíyyih Khánum, generate her own instructions for the President of the embryonic Universal House of Justice, either while Shoghi Effendi was still alive or at any time after his passing?  Clearly, the answer to that question is a resounding, no!  She had absolutely no authority to generate her own instructions for the President of that IBC, Charles Mason Remey, at any time.  Could she legally have dissolved that body while Shoghi Effendi was alive.  Clearly, she could not have done so.

So from where did her authority to do so appear?  Did the fact that a group of men joined hands with her provide her such authority? Holy Bahá'í Writ and Holy Bahá'í Text do not provide for such a mantle of authority to descend upon such a group, nor do any of the writings of the first Guardian, Shoghi Effendi.  The legally, authoritatively appointed 'Captain' of that 'ship', the embryonic Universal House of Justice, the International Bahá'í Council, was Charles Mason Remey, alone.

Shoghi Effendi did not appoint Charles Mason Remey in silence. He did so openly and dramatically, by Cablegram in March of 1951.  No human on earth had authority to abrogate his infallible appointment of Charles Mason Remey to Headship of the highest legislative Institution of the Bahá'í Faith.

Neither did any self-appointed group of women and or men have such authority to dismiss Charles Mason Remey or to dissolve the embryonic Universal House of Justice, the Supreme Body of our Faith.  To do so was nothing less than mutiny, a lawless act.

Any honest, sincere and faithful Bahá'í woman or man can quickly perceive that there was no reason for Shoghi Effendi to appoint a liaison between himself and the embryonic Universal House of Justice instead of occupying the Presidency himself, other than the very reason provided by Joel B. Marangella, the third Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith, namely that Shoghi Effendi was deliberately/ intentionally keeping that body distant from himself because the sacred and immutable Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Bahá infallibly delineates the "sacred head" of the Universal House of Justice to be none other than the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith.

None other.

If Shoghi Effendi's appointment had been honored as it should have been honored, and if the high status of the Supreme body of the Faith had been recognized and honored as it should have been then all Bahá'ís on Earth would have recognized that Shoghi Effendi was using that appointment as his public method to name and appoint his successor Guardian, the second Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith, Charles Mason Remey.

When Hands of the Cause, led by Rúhíyyih Khánum, elevated themselves to a station whereby they illegally reached out and touched elements of the Administration of the New World Order infallibly set in place by the first of our Guardians, Shoghi Effendi, those violating Hands became heirs of the prophetic retribution provided for those who elevated themselves to a station not theirs, as recorded in the Tablet of the Holy Mariner which has been interpreted by the third Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith.

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

By Hand of the Cause of God Ross Campbell

Could any Instruction of the Will and Testament have no application?

Could there exist any possibility that any Instruction or advice delineated by `Abdu'l-Bahá in His sacred Will and Testament has no application in the true Bahá'í Faith?

All of the sacred Instructions of the Master enshrined in His Will and Testament have application in the Orthodox Bahá'í Faith.  Orthodox Bahá'ís believe that His sacred Instructions enshrined in the pages of His Will and Testament are immutable.

In sharp contrast, Heterodox Bahá'ís, both administrators and adherents, must use asterisks and footnotes each time they mention most of the Master's Instructions, such as these Instructions from His sacred Will:

"My object is to show that the Hands of the Cause of God must be ever watchful and so soon as they find anyone beginning to oppose and protest against the Guardian of the Cause of God, cast him out from the congregation of the people of Bahá..."*

*This Instruction delineated by the Master in His Will and Testament has no application in the Heterodox Bahá'í organization.

"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..."**

**This Instruction delineated by the Master in His Will and Testament has no application in the Heterodox Bahá'í organization.

"The Hands of the Cause of God must elect from their own number nine persons that shall at all times be occupied in the important services in the work of the Guardian of the Cause of God."***

***This Instruction delineated by the Master in His Will and Testament has no application in the Heterodox Bahá'í organization.

"O friends! The Hands of the Cause of God must be nominated and appointed by the Guardian of the Cause of God."****

****This Instruction delineated by the Master in His Will and Testament has no application in the Heterodox Bahá'í organization.

"All must be under his shadow and obey his command."*****

*****This Instruction delineated by the Master in His Will and Testament has no application in the Heterodox Bahá'í organization.

"This body of the Hands of the Cause of God is under the direction of the Guardian of the Cause of God. He must continually urge them..."******

******This Instruction delineated by the Master in His Will and Testament has no application in the Heterodox Bahá'í organization.

"By this body all the difficult problems are to be resolved and the Guardian of the Cause of God is its sacred head and the distinguished member for life of that body. Should he not attend in person its deliberations, he must appoint one to represent him."*******

*******This Instruction delineated by the Master in His Will and Testament has no application in the Heterodox Bahá'í organization.

"O ye the faithful loved ones of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá! It is incumbent upon you to take the greatest care of Shoghi Effendi, the twig that hath branched from and the fruit given forth by the two hallowed and Divine Lote-Trees, that no dust of despondency and sorrow may stain his radiant nature, that day by day he may wax greater in happiness, in
joy and spirituality, and may grow to become even as a fruitful tree."********

********This Instruction delineated by the Master in His Will and Testament has no application in the Heterodox Bahá'í organization.

Someone may ask how the last Instruction of  `Abdu'l-Bahá quoted above can be obeyed by Orthodox Bahá'ís since it is a specific Instruction concerning Shoghi Effendi. I believe that we can answer such a question by considering another question:  What would cause "dust of despondency" to  "stain [the] radiant nature" of Shoghi Effendi, the first Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith?  I suggest that failure on the part of Bahá'ís to obey his instructions and exhortations as Guardian of the Faith would be the primary cause of any despondency that he would experience.

That Instruction was provided to ensure the spiritual fruitfulness of Shoghi Effendi as Guardian/Head of the Bahá'í Faith and therefore it finds equal forece of application towards all future Guardians of the Faith.

When women and men who have declared their belief and acceptance of Bahá'u'lláh as the Lord of this Age fail to follow the instructions and exhortations/urgings of any Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith, such failure could only produce disappointment and despondency for that Guardian as Guardians are all desirous of promoting and witnessing the advancement of the Cause of God on Earth, and the triumph of the Lord's Covenant.

Orthodox Bahá'ís are in a position to be able to cheer their Guardian's heart by quickly responding obediently to his wishes and instructions. True Bahá'ís will always be able to cheer their Guardians' hearts until the appearance of the next Holy Manifestation of God.

Orthodox Bahá'ís are in a position to be able to make application of all of the Master's Instructions in His sacred Will and Testament and to find applications for all of the lessons which He provided in its sacred pages.

Most of `Abdu'l-Bahá's sacred Instructions enshrined in His immutable Will and Testament have no application in the organization of Heterodox Bahá'ís, and for those Heterodox Bahá'ís His Instructions and advices are viewed as mere historical anecdotes, relatively
insignificant and dispensable.

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

By Hand of the Cause of God Ross Campbell

those words of Shoghi Effendi have fallen to the earth...

Luke 7:28:  "I tell you, Among those born of women there is none greater than John; but a lesser one in the Kingdom of God is greater than he is."

John the Immerser, the one concerning whom the Lord Christ spoke those words, was a minor prophet, like Samuel, not a Holy Manifestation of God, and Samuel was not greater than John.

Shoghi Effendi was an infallible Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith,  who established the embryonic Administration of the Kingdom of God on Earth, establishing its primary embryonic administrative Institutions including the embryonic Universal House of Justice and the Institution of the Hands of the Cause of God.

Can we not say therefore, that Shoghi Effendi, whose ministry of 36 years clearly signified the beginning of the appearance of the Kingdom of God on Earth as an administration was one of those of whom the Lord Christ was speaking when He said:  "..a lesser one in the Kingdom of God is greater than he is."

Shoghi Effendi's ministry was part of the fulfillment of the prophecies of earlier prophets, and is not the fulfillment more important and greater than the prophecy in the same manner that the reality is greater than the shadow of the reality?  Which is greater, a tree, or its shadow?

Now let's look at one of those minor prophets of whom Shoghi Effendi was greater:

The Holy Scripture says of Samuel, one of those minor prophets, a seer:

Samuel 3: 19,20:  And Samuel continued growing up, and Jehovah Himself proved to be with him and did not cause any of all his words to fall to the earth.  And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba became aware that Samuel was the one accredited for the position of prophet to Jehovah."

"Jehovah Himself proved to be with him and did not cause any of all his words to fall to the earth."

If none of Samuel's words as a spokesman of God fell to the earth, does that not mean that his ministry as a seer of God was infallible?

Not any "any of all his words" fell to the earth.

Surely that is the very definition of a great messenger of God, and yet Shoghi Effendi, the infallible first of our Bahá'í Guardians must be classified as greater than Samuel.

And yet what do we see in the sans-Guardian, Heterodox Bahá'í organization? We observe Shoghi Effendi's words (teachings) falling to the earth, one after another after another after another, again and again and again and again. In such case, if his words were in reality failing thus, how could Shoghi Effendi be considered greater than either John the immerser or Samuel, none of whose sayings fell to the earth?

Look at this:

In his spiritual testament, The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh, Shoghi Effendi, infallibly and in considerable detail, identified the two sacred Institutions, the Guardianship of the Bahá'í Faith and the Universal House of Justice, to be the "twin pillars" of the Administration of the New World Order of Bahá'u'lláh.

In the current sans-Guardian administration of Haifa/Wilmette those words of Shoghi Effendi have fallen to the earth. That Heterodox Bahá'í organization has no "twin pillars".
In his spiritual testament, The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh, Shoghi Effendi, infallibly taught that the Guardians of the Bahá'í Faith would be voting as living members of legitimate Universal House of Justice bodies, stating concerning such Guardians: "He cannot override
the decision of the majority of his fellow members..."

In the current sans-Guardian administration of Haifa/Wilmette those words of Shoghi Effendi have fallen to the earth. That Heterodox Bahá'í organization has no Guardian voting as a living member of their body.

Shoghi Effendi officially taught in a letter:

    "He feels that if ......ponders more deeply about the fundamentals of Divine Revelation, she will also come to understand the Guardianship.  Once the mind and heart have grasped the fact that God guides men through a Mouthpiece, a human being, a Prophet, infallible and unerring, it is only a logical projection of this acceptance to also accept the station of  'Abdu'l-Baha' and the Guardians.  The Guardians are the evidence of the maturity of mankind in the sense that at long last men have progressed to the point of having one world, and of needing one world management for human affairs.  In the
spiritual realm they have also reached the point where God could leave in human hands (ie. the Guardians') guided directly by the Bab and Baha'u'llah, as the Master states in His Will, the affairs of His Faith for this Dispensation. This is what is meant by "this is the day
which will not be followed by night."  In this Dispensation, divine guidance flows on to us in this world after the Prophet's ascension through , first the Master, and then the Guardians. If a person can accept Baha'u'llah's function, it should not present any difficulty to them to also accept what He has ordained in a divinely guided individual in matters pertaining to the Faith."

In the current sans-Guardian administration of Haifa/Wilmette those words of Shoghi Effendi have fallen to the earth. That Heterodox Bahá'í organization does not have in its ranks one of those living Guardians whom Shoghi Effendi infallibly taught would be the channels through whom "divine guidance flows on to us in this world."

In The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah, Shoghi Effendi records this statement:  "As I have already stated, in the course of my references to 'Abdu'l-Baha's station, however great the gulf that separates Him from the Author of a Divine Revelation it can never measure with the distance that stands between Him Who is the Center of Baha'u'llah's Covenant and the Guardians who are its chosen ministers."

 In the current sans-Guardian administration of Haifa/Wilmette those words of Shoghi Effendi have fallen to the earth. That Heterodox Bahá'í organization, since 1957, does not have, has never had and never will have any "...Guardians who are its chosen ministers."

Shoghi Effendi wrote concerning the statement above:

     "To the integrity of this cardinal principle of our Faith the words, the deeds of its present and future Guardians must abundantly testify.  By their conduct and example they must needs establish its truth upon an unassailable foundation and transmit to future
generations unimpeachable evidences of its reality."

 In the current sans-Guardian administration of Haifa/Wilmette those words of Shoghi Effendi have fallen to the earth. That Heterodox Bahá'í organization will never have "future Guardians" concerning whom Shoghi Effendi infallibly taught.

In the Dispensation of Baha'u'llah the first of our Guardians, Shoghi Effendi, instructs us that the institution of the Guardianship provides the Bahá'í Faith:  "...the necessary guidance to define the sphere of the legislative action of its elected representatives..."

In the current sans-Guardian administration of Haifa/Wilmette those words of Shoghi Effendi have fallen to the earth. That Heterodox Bahá'í organization has no living Guardian to provide "...the necessary guidance to define the sphere of the legislative action of its elected representatives..."

In the Dispensation of Baha'u'llah, Shoghi Effendi explains the capacity of the Guardian of the Baha'i Faith as a member of the Universal House of Justice, and concerning the legislation by that body, comprised of himself and his fellow-members, he writes with
respect to the Guardian:  "He...is bound to insist upon a reconsideration by them of any enactment he conscientiously believes to conflict with the meaning and to depart from the spirit of Baha'u'llah's revealed utterances."

In the current sans-Guardian administration of Haifa/Wilmette those words of Shoghi Effendi have fallen to the earth. That Heterodox Bahá'í organization has no living Guardian to "...insist upon a reconsideration by them of any enactment he conscientiously believes to conflict with the meaning and to depart from the spirit of Baha'u'llah's revealed utterances."

Those many words and many, many other officially written words of the first of our infallible Bahá'í Guardians, Shoghi Effendi, have fallen to the earth, unfulfilled, in the current sans-Guardian, Heterodox Bahá'í administration of Haifa/Wilmette.

How can they claim that he is greater than Samuel or John the Immerser or the other minor Hebrew prophets?  Even Samuel's word's never fell to the earth. Never.  In the sans-Guardian administration of Haifa/Willmete, that administration paints a picture of Shoghi Effendi as an impotent, failing, weak 'chosen minister' of the Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh, a minister suffering the chagrin that most of his official words fell to the earth unfulfilled and meaningless.

To paint such a picture of Shoghi Effendi, our infallible first Guardian who penned only matchless, magnificent infallible teachings is a shameless betrayal of him, the essence of disloyalty to him, and that betrayal will eternally remain the infamous legacy of the current bogus sans-Guardian  Bahá'í administration on Mt. Carmel and in Wilmette.

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

By Hand of the Cause of God Ross Campbell