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2009-08-11 20:11:31 UTC
Here are a few quotations from the Teachings worth heeding. The NSA
and UHJ
leaders desire that their understanding of the Teachings be followed
by all
Baha'is, and they often cast out those who disagree as "violators".
Unfortunately many who are displeased with that attitude set up forums
on
internet where they are moderators and then do the same with all
entries by
those whose beliefs are not the same as theirs.
"Notwithstanding the divinely inspired admonitions of all the
prophets, the
saints and the chosen ones of God, enjoining people to see with their
own eyes
and to hear with their own ears, they have disdainfully rejected their
counsels
and have blindly followed and will continue to follow the leaders of
their
Faith." Baha'u'llah, Kitab-i-Iqan, pg 165
"Regard any people. In truth They all believe they are searching for
God...Nevertheless, they all act and have acted against what is true.
Look at
the letters of the Psalms (i.e. who rejected Zoroaster), then the
letters of the
Bible (i.e. who rejected Christ), then the letters of the Gospel (i.e.
who
rejected Muhammad), then the letters of the Quran (i.e. who rejected
the Bab),
then the letters of the Bayan (i.e. who rejected Baha'u'llah), then
the letters
of the Book of Him Whom God shall make manifest (i.e. Baha'is who will
reject
the next Manifestation). From the highest to the most humble, they all
imagine
that they are searching for God's pleasure and that they have
certitude and
insight in His Religion; yet all, in the presence of Him Who will be
manifested
(the third Letter, or Alif, of the Revelation of the Greatest Name)
after Him
Whom God shall manifest (Baha'u'llah) are like the letters of the
previous Books
in the presence of the witnesses of the Bayan." The Bab, in one of His
Tablets
cited in the introduction and preface of the Arabic Bayan translation
of A.L.M.
Nicolas
"Gracious God ! It was intended that at the time of the manifestation
of the One
true God the faculty of recognizing Him would have been developed and
matured
and would have reached its culmination. However, it is now clearly
demonstrated
that in the disbelievers this faculty hath remained undeveloped and
hath,
indeed, degenerated." Baha'u'llah in Tablets of Baha'u'llah, p. 53
(Publ. 1982
by UHJ)
"Behold how contrary are the ways of the Manifestations of God, as
ordained by
the King of creation, to the ways and desires of men!" Kitab-i-Iqan,
p. 57
"There are before you so many temptations, trials, afflictions,
calamities and
difficulties because you have to be purified through fire and sifted
through the
sieve in order to separate the wheat from the tares. Verily, I say
unto you;
none will be saved but the believers, and from the believers only the
sincere,
and even those are in great danger, especially in such a time." Abdu'l-
Baha,
cited in Baha'i Scriptures, p. 443
and UHJ
leaders desire that their understanding of the Teachings be followed
by all
Baha'is, and they often cast out those who disagree as "violators".
Unfortunately many who are displeased with that attitude set up forums
on
internet where they are moderators and then do the same with all
entries by
those whose beliefs are not the same as theirs.
"Notwithstanding the divinely inspired admonitions of all the
prophets, the
saints and the chosen ones of God, enjoining people to see with their
own eyes
and to hear with their own ears, they have disdainfully rejected their
counsels
and have blindly followed and will continue to follow the leaders of
their
Faith." Baha'u'llah, Kitab-i-Iqan, pg 165
"Regard any people. In truth They all believe they are searching for
God...Nevertheless, they all act and have acted against what is true.
Look at
the letters of the Psalms (i.e. who rejected Zoroaster), then the
letters of the
Bible (i.e. who rejected Christ), then the letters of the Gospel (i.e.
who
rejected Muhammad), then the letters of the Quran (i.e. who rejected
the Bab),
then the letters of the Bayan (i.e. who rejected Baha'u'llah), then
the letters
of the Book of Him Whom God shall make manifest (i.e. Baha'is who will
reject
the next Manifestation). From the highest to the most humble, they all
imagine
that they are searching for God's pleasure and that they have
certitude and
insight in His Religion; yet all, in the presence of Him Who will be
manifested
(the third Letter, or Alif, of the Revelation of the Greatest Name)
after Him
Whom God shall manifest (Baha'u'llah) are like the letters of the
previous Books
in the presence of the witnesses of the Bayan." The Bab, in one of His
Tablets
cited in the introduction and preface of the Arabic Bayan translation
of A.L.M.
Nicolas
"Gracious God ! It was intended that at the time of the manifestation
of the One
true God the faculty of recognizing Him would have been developed and
matured
and would have reached its culmination. However, it is now clearly
demonstrated
that in the disbelievers this faculty hath remained undeveloped and
hath,
indeed, degenerated." Baha'u'llah in Tablets of Baha'u'llah, p. 53
(Publ. 1982
by UHJ)
"Behold how contrary are the ways of the Manifestations of God, as
ordained by
the King of creation, to the ways and desires of men!" Kitab-i-Iqan,
p. 57
"There are before you so many temptations, trials, afflictions,
calamities and
difficulties because you have to be purified through fire and sifted
through the
sieve in order to separate the wheat from the tares. Verily, I say
unto you;
none will be saved but the believers, and from the believers only the
sincere,
and even those are in great danger, especially in such a time." Abdu'l-
Baha,
cited in Baha'i Scriptures, p. 443