Being involved in interfaith work, Im constantly asked Whos your local spiritual leader, or priest, or pastor? The fact is, there isnt one. Baha'is were nonetheless subjected to persecution, as some Muslim clerics perceived their faith to be a heresy. The Bahai House of Worship in North America is in the town where two generations of my family lived before me Wilmette, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. My family, like many Wilmette residents, witnessed its decades-long construction. Despite their apparent differences, the worlds great religions, according to the Bahs, teach an identical truth. Syncretic means that a religion contains nothing original, but instead is a collection of teachings culled from other religions in an attempt to fuse them. The local spiritual assembly has jurisdiction over all local affairs of the Bah community. That relationship ended long ago and now I am Orthodox, but this post kind of brought up some old memories. Yes, the Road to Serfdom is Indeed Paved by Conservatives, you Libertarian Idiot! A comparative analysis of the Baha'i and Christian views of heaven and hell. Bahs believe in the oneness of humanity and devote themselves to the abolition of racial, class, and religious prejudices. | The Bahai Insider, Pingback: Dale Husband: Why I Abandoned the (Haifan) Bahai Faith Bah Censorship, Pingback: Another reason to despise Michael Shermer | Dale Husband's Intellectual Rants, Pingback: A Critical Analysis of the The Kitb-i-Aqdas, Part Three | Dale Husband's Intellectual Rants, Pingback: A Conversion to Mormonism | Dale Husband's Intellectual Rants, Pingback: Featured in a magazine critical of the Bahai Faith | Dale Husband's Intellectual Rants, At the gate of the garden some stand and look within, but do not care to enter. Deborah Clark Vance earned a Ph.D. from Howard University in Intercultural Communication and served as Assoc Prof. and Chair of the Dept of Comm & Cinema at McDaniel College. [19] | The Bahai Insider, Dale Husband: Why I Abandoned the (Haifan) Bahai Faith Bah Censorship, Another reason to despise Michael Shermer | Dale Husband's Intellectual Rants, A Critical Analysis of the The Kitb-i-Aqdas, Part Three | Dale Husband's Intellectual Rants, A Conversion to Mormonism | Dale Husband's Intellectual Rants, Featured in a magazine critical of the Bahai Faith | Dale Husband's Intellectual Rants, Why I Rejected the Bahai Faith, 4th Edition | Dale Husband's Intellectual Rants. [12], Regarding the Bah teachings of peace and unity, E.G. Later, my mother, who was always hostile to the Bahai Faith because of her Baptist convictions, took those items and discarded them all without my consent. Pingback: Why peace activists (and critics of religion) sometimes fail Dale Husband's Intellectual Rants. Its first leader, the Bb, was imprisoned and executed for heresy in 1850, and Bahu'llh, another central figure, was exiled from Iran and both the Ottoman and Persian Empires tried to destroy his movement. The government released Baha'u'llah in 1853, and exiled him to Baghdad, then part of the Ottoman Empire. The Bb was arrested and, after several years of incarceration, was executed in 1850. I understand that I can withdraw my consent at any time. In 'Star of the West', Volume 8, No. If that has changed recently Id like to see the reference. Many of the Bahai writings are mystical and tell us a great deal about spiritual reality but others lay the foundation for an elegant and very practical democratically-elected global administrative order, designed to gradually unfold and help bring humanity to a permanent world peace. We need not fear the enemies on the outside for such can be easily dealt with. promoting the Baha'i Faith for twenty years. Baha'u'llahs followers disseminated his teachings in the Middle East and beyond. [27][31], Denis MacEoin, a scholar who had previously been a Bah, criticized what he saw as a threat to the impartiality of the academic field of Bb and Bah studies due to the dominance of practising Bahs in the field. Bah Faith, religion founded in Iraq in the mid-19th century by Mrz osayn Al Nr, who is known as Bah Allh (also spelled Bahullh), which in Arabic means Glory of God. The cornerstone of Bah belief is the conviction that Bah Allh and his forerunner, who was known as the Bb (Persian: Gateway), were manifestations of God, who in his essence is unknowable. 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In fact, 41 countries - or around a fifth (21%) of those evaluated - banned at least one religion-related group in 2019, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of laws and policies in effect in 198 countries in 2019, the most recent year for which comprehensive data is available. The last claim is partially rooted in the presence of the Bah World Centre in northern Israel. "Thou hast written regarding aims. Man must be a lover of the light, no matter from what dayspring it may appear. "You ask in your letter for guidance on the implications of the prohibition on backbiting and more specifically whether, in moments of anger or depression, the believer is permitted to turn to his friends to unburden his soul and discuss his problem in human relations. In such cases, of course, the name of the person or persons involved will have to be mentioned. [15] Douglas Martin wrote that Miller's writings were driven by animus against what he saw as a successful rival faith that was moving into Christian lands. by Jeremy Butler | Mar 25, 2010 | Baha'i, World Religions. The Earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens, Committee Member - MNF Research Advisory Committee, PhD Scholarship - Uncle Isaac Brown Indigenous Scholarship. [15], Islamic theology regards Muhammad as the Khatam an-Nabiyyin, the last prophet whom God has sent and Islam as the final religion for all humankind. If, on the other hand, God's own nature is said to be contradictory, that is, that God is both one God and many gods, that God is both able and not able to have a son, personal and impersonal, etc., then the Bahai concept of God is reduced to meaninglessness. It will endeavor to present criteria for the labels "world religion" and "new religious movement," as well as explore to what extent the Bah' Faith fulfils these criteria. In the end (undefined in conventional thinking) all knees will bow before the King of all Kings, Jesus Christ. '", "What the believers need is not only, as you state, to really study the teachings, but also to have more peace-makers circulating among them. Updates? The electoral process excludes parties or factions, nominations, and campaigning for office. I encourage you to look him up and see if it resonates with you. Your email address will not be published. [27] Soon after his resignation, Cole created an email list and website called H-Bahai, which became a repository of both primary source material and critical analysis on the religion. [35], Christian Research Journal, Winter/Spring, 1989, p. 2. Cults have charismatic leaders, and Bahais have no clergy or leaders at all. The Bah Faith and its predecessor, the Bb religion, originated in the nineteenth-century Persian Empire, arousing considerable opposition, initially on purely theological and doctrinal grounds; it was perceived by many Iranians as threat to established power and authority in Persia.. The Baha'i Faith is a dynamic world religion with several million adherents from a variety of different religious and cultural backgrounds. It has an office on the environment involved in sustainable development. In Iran, where the religion was founded, universities refuse to admit Baha'i students, Baha'i cemeteries have been destroyed and the countrys Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has confiscated properties from Baha'i families. In Acre in northern Israel, a former prison city of the Ottoman Empire, the barracks where Bahullh was imprisoned starting in 1868. By clicking "Submit", I agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, and consent to receive communications (email, telephone call, or text message) from Bahaiteachings.org about news, events and offers, including via automated technology and/or prerecorded calls or messages to the number and email provided above, even if my number is a mobile number or is currently listed on any state, federal or corporate Do Not Call list. Criticism of the Baha'i Faith I can only speak for myself, but I consider direct and detailed criticism of the Baha'i Faith to be an essential part of the recovery process involved in leaving it. Vangelis was a Living Legend.and he Remains a Legend Forever! John Ankerberg) have attacked its history and founders, institutions, teachings, and use of prophecy. Ironic, considering that many Bahais have non-Bahai parents who may even be racist, and thus object to their children marrying members of a different race. No, never! in practice you would have lost your administrative rights anyway,. 6. It is one of the functions of the older and the more mature Bahs to help the weaker ones to iron out their difficulties and learn to really function and live like true believers!". The religion began with considerable controversy. I hope that you may become confirmed therein, because the worst human quality and the most great sin is backbiting; more especially when it emanates from the tongues of the believers of God. Instead, I asked her to join with me in First Jefferson Unitarian Universalist Church, which I had belonged to before. Bah Allhs peculiar function was to overcome the disunity of religions and establish a universal faith. "[6] Former Bah William Garlington said the Bah position in the United States "can at most be characterized as one of sympathetic disapproval" toward homosexuality. Actually, Baha'is have been imprisoned and martyred since their Faith began in Persia, because of the persecution of the powerful Islamic clerics who consider the Baha'i Faith and its progressive principles a threat. Throughout his life, Bah'u'llah penned over 100 volumes in Arabic and Persian. The belief in fulfilled prophecies is presented by Bah' authors to demonstrate the validity of Bah'u'llh 's claim to divinity. Like all Bahai Houses of Worship, it welcomes everyone, and its nine entrances symbolize the many legitimate paths to the Creator. The Baha'i Faith, the world's newest independent global belief system, teaches the oneness of God, the unity of humanity , and the essential harmony of religion. 9 Politics: Here a number of criticisms about the Bahai faith aligning itself with different historical superpowers are listed. I understand that I can withdraw my consent at any time. Once they are ADULTS, they should be treated like adults, period. Corrections? Author Lil Abdo says that the Bah understanding of sexual equality is different from that of secular feminists. Bah's recognize the coming of Bah'u'llh as the latest expression of God's guidance . He was asked 'How shall I overcome seeing the faults of othersrecognizing the wrong in others? Now is certainly not the time for any man to think of himself, or busy himself with the weaknesses of his brother; but, rather each and every Bah must concentrate on the tasks ahead and be reborn in the service of Bahullh. Baha'u'llah encouraged Baha'is to cooperate with their governments and engage with the followers of all religions in a spirit of fellowship. Still others encircle this garden inhaling the fragrance of the flowers, having enjoyed its full beauty, pass out again by the same gate. [19] Abdu'l-Bah said that it would become clear in the future why the restriction was in place. The great bulk of Bah teachings is concerned with social ethics. People who leave the religion, transgress community standards, or attack it externally are not considered Covenant-breakers. [1] Western academics have criticized the requirement for Bahs to seek pre-publication review when publishing on the religion[3] and the exclusion of women from serving on the Universal House of Justice. I have been studying AJ Millers teachings for 17 months now. On the national scale, each year Bahs elect delegates to a national convention that elects a national spiritual assembly with jurisdiction over Bahs throughout an entire country. But even if these are not taken from the records it still does not make them either true or false. [17], From 1980 onward, several well-educated Bahs left the religion and subsequently criticized it. What are my imperfections?and try to remove them. Thus you will grow, become more perfect. The majority of Baha'is, however, live in the global south. Required fields are marked *. I stayed silent about my defection from the Bahai Faith untilOctober 19, 2007, when I posted my first blog entry attacking it. "The question of dealing with those who call themselves Bahs but who act in ways which we believe to be detrimental to the interests of the Cause is a very difficult one. AJs concepts are not a religion or a cult. On no subject are the Bah teachings more emphatic than on the necessity to abstain from fault-finding and backbiting, while being ever eager to discover and root out our own faults and overcome our own failings.' Regretfully, Dale Husband I composed that letter on my computer and mailed it in January of 2005. "You also ask what one should do to 'handle depression and anger with someone' one feels 'very positively about'. In this two-part article we will briefly examine: (1) the Baha'i approach to other religions; (2) the absence of the personal requirements Baha'i demands for the Manifestations; (3) anachronistic Baha'i scriptures; (4) the Miller analysis of the Baha'i faith; (5) moral concerns; (6) some Baha'i errors; and (7) failed prophecy and Baha'i misuse of When Bahaullahs son and successor Abdul-Baha visited North America in 1912, he modeled an example of social action when he told Bahais to racially integrate even in cities which were segregated at that time; and to also apply the Bahai principle of the equality of the sexes to their lives. I declared back in 2008 when I was a naive open eyed idealist about the principles without knowing about all the contradictions and stuff. I am currently a skeptic who is looking at both UU and Bahai as a new place to find a community that thinks like I do. Religion: Kashmir Shaivism (Trika) I've always found some issues with the main idea of the Baha'i faith, for a few different reasons. tht ws qck. This must be the point of distinction among you. It was during this exile that he publicly announced the establishment of the Baha'i faith. Bahs believe that all the founders of the worlds great religions have been manifestations of God and agents of a progressive divine plan for the education of the human race. Beliefs, ideas and rituals of the Baha'is: 1 - Belief that Allaah is incarnated in some of His creation, and that Allaah was incarnated in al-Baab and al-Baha'. Your message was successfully sent to BahaiTeachings.org. Oral reports, although they exist, are considered too unreliable to be fully authoritative and are to . As part of its crackdown on the followers of the Bab, the Iranian government incarcerated Baha'u'llah. While Bahais dont have traditional churches or mosques, local Bahai communities may decide to rent or buy a meeting place, usually called a Bahai Center, depending on the size of the Bahai community and their circumstances. There are more than 100,000 local Baha'i communities in places as diverse as Chile, Cambodia and the United States. Subsequent public protests and mob violence claimed the lives of thousands of his followers. Instead, the Bahai Faith operates administratively with a system of local, national and international nine-member governing bodies, all democratically elected without nominations or campaigns. "he suggests you write the National Spiritual Assembly in a loving spirit, and point out to them how it distresses you to think that, after so many years of service, statements about you which you consider unjustified should be preserved. Bahais believe in the agreement of science and religion; and accept that religion must have practical benefit for humanity in fact, Abdul-Baha said, otherwise it would be preferable to have no religion. In any case, good luck to you and God Bless. He observed only the whiteness of the teeth and overlooked entirely the deformity of the body, the dissolution of its organs and the bad odour. Every Bah, however, is under the spiritual obligation to pray daily; to abstain totally from narcotics, alcohol, or any other substances that affect the mind; to practice monogamy; to obtain the consent of parents to marriage; and to attend the Nineteen Day Feast on the first day of each month of the Bah calendar. Extract from Dale Husbands blog. Each of us is immeasurably far from being 'perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect' and the task of perfecting our own life and character is one that requires all our attention, our will-power and energy. Do it yourself clergy aka the horrible administrative order, no politics allowed aka also another side effect of the administrative order as a model for the world at large, no alcohol drugs gambling gossip sex outside of heterosexual monogamy aka loads and loads of rules, etc are all drawbacks of being a Bahai. In fact, the first school for girls in Iran was established by the Baha'is. In 1850, the Bab was charged by Shi'i religious officials with heresy and was put to death by firing squad. Soon after, early American converts began embracing the new religion. I should update this by noting that I separated from Cheri in December of 2011 and filed for divorce from her on May 7, 2012, finally getting the divorce granted on August 15, 2012. The Cause of God is endowed with tremendous powers, and the reason the believers do not gain more from it is because they have not learned to draw fully on these mighty forces of love and strength and harmony generated by the Faith. Baha'u'llah's writings form the foundation of the Baha'i faith. If some means were devised so that the doors of backbiting could be shut eternally and each one of the believers of God unsealed his tongue in the praise of the other, then the teachings of His Holiness Baha'o'llah (Bahullh) would be spread, the hearts illuminated, the spirits glorified and the human world would attain to everlasting felicity. If some means were devised so that the doors of backbiting were shut eternally and each one of the believers unsealed his lips in praise of others, then the teachings of His Holiness Bahullh would spread, the hearts be illumined, the spirits glorified, and the human world would attain to everlasting felicity.' This is the conduct and the manner of the real Bahais (Bahs). An unethical teaching from the Caleb and Sophia Series December 24, 2022. Message and data rates may apply. In the West, liberals have criticized the Bah Faith for some of its conservative social practices, notably the prohibition on premarital or homosexual intimacy for Bahs. Christian and Islamic authors (e.g. Since then, the Bahai International Community, as a non-governmental organization with a permanent seat at the United Nations, has consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council. Also, tons of conservative, orthodox, even fundamentalist traditional morality in Bahai law. The ineligibility of women has caused discontent among small but vocal groups of western Bah intellectuals,[5][1] and criticism from others. One of the first Bah institutions in the U.S. was established in Chicago and . But His Holiness Christ said: 'Look at its teeth! The Universal House of Justice suggests that you call to mind the admonitions found in our Writings on the need to overlook the shortcomings of others, to forgive and conceal their misdeeds, not to expose their bad qualities, but to search for and affirm their praiseworthy ones, and endeavour to be always forbearing, patient, and merciful. Consider this your only warning!). Does it really matter? Actually, when I was Bahai I was dating a nominal Christian, and I had suggested the UU church as a possible place that we could go for worship together if we got married. Occasionally Ive heard the uninformed opinion that the Bahai Faith is a sect of Islam not true! ", "He feels that you should do your utmost to call the attention of the friends to these large things, and real triumphs, and away from their personal differences and petty pre-occupations. [3][9], Christian author and missiologist Ed Stetzer rejects the Bah Faith as a syncretic combination of faiths,[10] while Christian author John Ankerberg points to discrepancies between faiths to contradict the idea of unity of religion.[8]. (5) Moral concerns. Bah Allh was arrested in 1852 and jailed in Tehrn, where he became aware that he was the prophet and messenger of God whose coming had been predicted by the Bb. If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task. The governance of the Bah community begins on the local level with the election of a local spiritual assembly. In the early 21st century there were nine Bah houses of worship: in Australia, Cambodia, Chile, Germany, India, Panama, Samoa, the United States, and Uganda. 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