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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Immediate Acceptance of Guardianship by True Believers
After the death of Shoghi Effendi, the whole community of Lahore understood well the need for the continuity of the Guardianship in the Baha’i Faith and wrote a letter to Mason Remey through Joel Bray Marangella accepting the Guardianship of the Second Guardian, Mason Remey. For the information of the reader, I am writing here some of the contents of the letter, written by Mr. Zafar Ali Khan:
“We thank Almighty God on this day, the 17th September 1960, when we received your Blessed Promulgation through Mr. (Joel Bray) Marangella of France for which [we]were anxiously waiting and trying from various sources and now we hereby declare allegiance to your authority as the second Guardian of the Baha’i Faith. The community accepting and supporting your Claim and desirous of serving the Beloved Faith under the direction of your infallible Commands consists of the following members:
1. Major Nawazish Ali Siyyid, Member of NSA Pakistan.
2. Mr. Kabir Khan, President LSA Lahore
3. Mr. Jan Mohammad, Vice-President LSA
4. Mr. Zafar Ali Khan, Secretary of LSA
5. Mr. Shabbir Hussain, Treasurer
6. Mr. Siraj Din, Member
7. Mrs. Nawazish Ali Siyyid
8. Mrs. Zafar Ali Khan
9. Subedar Ghulam Shah
The believers from Rawalpindi:
The Secretary of the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Rawalpindi, Mr. S.A Kazmi, wrote a “two page” letter on 7th October 1960 addressed to the NSA, LSA, Baha’i Groups and isolated believers in Pakistan. The following is an excerpt from the letter:
“Ever since the death of our Beloved First Guardian of the Faith, Shoghi Effendi, we have been pondering over the question of the Guardianship that is inseparable from the Administration of the Baha’i Faith as given in the Will and Testament of the Beloved Master Abdu’l Baha…
We earnestly hope that the believers will read and re-read the Will and Testament of the Blessed Master Abdu’l Baha in a true Bahai spirit with a view to upholding the principle of independent investigation of truth since enunciated by Baha’u’llah and moreover when it is purely meant for this purpose and none else.
You are now to judge and decide individually whether you need the Divine Guidance through the line of Infallible Guardians exactly in accordance with the Will and Testament of Master Abdu’l Baha or Administration run by the Hands of the Faith contrary to the aforesaid Sacred Document, meets your spiritual requirements?”
Sunday, September 13, 2009
THE ILLEGITIMACY AND FRAUD OF THE BOGUS UHJ .......... THE TRUTH. (Part Seven)
The legitimacy of the current so-called Universal House of Justice without the Guardian of the Faith.
Ali Nakhjavani cunningly questioned:
He has written:
“In the ‘Dispensation of Baha’u’llah’ Shoghi Effendi points out that one of his duties was to provide “the necessary guidance to define the sphere of the legislative action of its [the Faith's] elected representatives” (WOB 148). It is obvious that the reference here is to the elected members of Local Spiritual Assemblies, National Conventions, National Spiritual Assemblies, as well as of the Universal House of Justice.”
Comment:
In order to perceive the depth of the deception and to observe the falsification, fabrication and alteration of the meanings of the writings of the first Guardian, Shoghi Effendi, of which he is guilty in the above comment, one need only read for himself/herself the following paragraph from page 148 of The World Order of Baha’u’llah to which he has referred to clearly note that Shoghi Effendi's has referred specifically and only to one of the essential functions that the Guardian performs as the permanent and irreplaceable "sacred head" of a legitimate Universal House of Justice as defined by 'Abdu'l-Baha in His Will and Testament.
“Without such an institution [the Guardianship] the integrity of the Faith would be imperiled, and the stability of the entire fabric would be gravely endangered. Its prestige would suffer, the means required to enable it to take a long, an uninterrupted view over a series of generations would be completely lacking, and the necessary guidance to define the sphere of the legislative action of its elected representatives would be totally withdrawn.”
Saturday, September 5, 2009
THE ILLEGITIMACY AND FRAUD OF THE BOGUS UHJ.... (Part Six)
THE ILLEGITIMACY AND FRAUD OF THE BOGUS UHJ IS EXPOSED THROUGH ALI NAKHJAVANI'S BLATANT PERVERSION OF THE TRUTH. (Part six)
Nakhjavani has written:
“It would be helpful at this point to consider the method adopted by Baha’u’llah in His Kitab-i-Ahd regarding the line of succession. In it He stipulates that Mírza Muhammad- Alí is to succeed 'Abdu’l-Baha. Now, compare that with ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s method in the first part of His Will and Testament. In it He stipulates that Shoghi Effendi is to be succeeded, generation after generation, by Appointed Aghsan serving as Guardians. To me, there is a similarity of method here, one that provided a sense of continuity and concealed for a time the tests that were inevitably to fall on the friends as future events unfolded. Shoghi Effendi's mention of "future Guardians" in his writings could well be, in my opinion, equally understood as a further application of this same method. All would be tested in due course as to their faithful adherence to the Covenant. Does this similarity of method not remind us of the golden key that Shoghi Effendi placed in our hands with which to unlock one of the mysteries of ‘Abdu’l- Baha’s Will and Testament? He pointed out to us that a study of the authenticated texts of the Writings of Baha’u’llah and those of ‘Abdu’l-Baha “will reveal the close relationship that exists between them, as well as the identity of purpose and method which they inculcate” (WOB 4). Is this not also a reminder of the warning given by Baha’u’llah in the Kitab-Iqan: “from time immemorial even unto eternity the Almighty hath tried, and will continue to try, His servants, so that light may be distinguished from darkness” (KI 8) and furthermore we read in the same Book: “the divine Purpose hath decreed that the true should be known from the false.... He hath, therefore, in every season sent down upon mankind the showers of tests from His realm of glory” (KI 53).”
Comment:
Nakhjavani’s comment is an example of his art of treachery, duplicity and fraud and shows the degree to which this “manifestation of the Center of Sedition,” has with his disgraceful actions and falsifications, perverted the meaning of the Writings and erroneously interpreted them according to his futile imagination, and when discussing their “method” introduces and combines his own words with extracts from Shoghi Effendi’s writings in such a way as to misrepresent the intent of the words of Shoghi Effendi. For example, he writes: “He [Shoghi Effendi] pointed out to us that a study of the authenticated texts of the Writings of Baha’u’llah and those of ‘Abdu’l-Baha,” whereas Shoghi Effendi had specifically referred instead to statements made in the two sacred documents: Kitab-i-Aqdas and the Will and Testament of Abdu'l-Baha, this would be easy to understand when one reads the following paragraph in the writings of Shoghi Effendi in the book: The World Order of Baha’u’llah:
“It would, however, be helpful and instructive to bear in mind certain basic principles with reference to the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha, which, together with the Kitab-i-Aqdas, constitutes the chief depository wherein are enshrined those priceless elements of that Divine Civilization, the establishment of which is the primary mission of the Baha’i Faith. A study of the provisions of these sacred documents will reveal the close relationship that exists between them, as well as the identity of purpose and method which they inculcate.”