NOT slightest intimation - Abdul Baha's Questioned Will and Testament

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2009-07-19 12:59:58 UTC

Post by Ruth White
NOT slightest intimation that they intended to appoint an hereditary
guardianship (28-29).

"The best beloved of all things in My sight is Justice; turn not away
therefrom if thou desirest Me, and neglect it not that I may confide in
thee. By its aid thou shalt see with thine own eyes and not through the eyes
of others, and shalt know of thine own knowledge and not the knowledge of
thy neighbour."
http://www.bahai-library.org/file.php?file=bahaullah_hidden_words#A2

Post by Ruth White
Ruth White. Abdul Baha's Questioned Will and Testament.
Beverly Hills: White, 1946.
"Neither [Abdu'l-Baha] nor Baha'u'llah had given the slightest intimation
that they intended to appoint an hereditary guardianship. In fact
everything that they had said or spoken indicated the opposite intention.
"I also did a great deal of recollecting of events that had happened
during our two visits to the home of Abdu'l-Baha, where I had an
opportunity to see him in relation to his family and his
"in-laws." The deductions that I made confirmed what Abdul-Baha had so
often said--that the spiritual relationship was the real kinship, and not
the physical. For his family, with the exception of his wife and sister,
were the average types with a strong bent toward organized
religion, whereas Abdu'l-Baha was universal, "super-racial and
undogmatic." The world was his family. His loving care for his universal
family was evident throughout his life, but at no time was it more evident
than during the first world war and directly after it. He personally
supervised vast agricultural projects at Tiberias and Adassieh, and he
rationed and distributed the products that he
cultivated, thereby saving thousands from starvation" (28-29).
http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Ruth%20White.htm

'Abdu'l Baha was the first son of Baha'u'llah. Though Ms. White might not
have read the Lahwi Ahd, and there is every indication that she had not, I
have, and this is what I read Baha'u'llah write of 'Abdu'l Baha.

"The Will of the divine Testator is this: It is incumbent upon the Aghsán,
the Afnán and My Kindred to turn, one and all, their faces towards the Most
Mighty Branch. Consider that which We have revealed in Our Most Holy Book:
`When the ocean of My presence hath ebbed and the Book of My Revelation is
ended, turn your faces toward Him Whom God hath purposed, Who hath branched
from this Ancient Root.' The object of this sacred verse is none other
except the Most Mighty Branch. Thus have We graciously revealed unto you
Our potent Will, and I am verily the Gracious, the All-Powerful. Verily God
hath ordained the station of the Greater Branch to be beneath that of the
Most Great Branch. He is in truth the Ordainer, the All-Wise. We have chosen
`the Greater' after `the Most Great', as decreed by Him Who is the
All-Knowing, the All-Informed."

There is no need to speculate that Baha'u'llah had no intention of a
hereditary successor, nor for us, at this time, to simply ignore the
evidence and assert otherwise. His will is clearly stated above, appointing
His eldest Son to oversee the Cause of God; so it is mathmaticly correct to
say there was not the slightest intimation of a hereditary guardianship,
this was spelled out quite clearly to those who read the Tablets of
Baha'u'llah and choose to respect His will.

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