Shogi Effendi was right!

The book entitled \'The World Order of Bahaullah\' is really a masterpiece that Baha’is should read more often.

They read and they read, but always fail to read this line for its literal meaning:

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.

Of course this means that Abdul Baha had intended the Guardianship as a continuous institution that the Baha’i World can NEVER be without.

“ “Abdul Baha

In fact if the Baha’i world was ever without the Guardianship, Shogi Effendi describes the World Order of Bahaullah using the words like \"mutilated, permanently deprived, its integrity would be imperiled, its stability gravely endangered, its prestige would suffer, completely lacking, the necessary guidance would be totally withdrawn, paralyzed in its actions and powerless.\"

In it you will find these interesting paragraphs:

Taken from the World Order of Bahaullah, downloaded from Bahai Reference Library, Haifan Baha’i website: http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/se/WOB/wob-48.html


Divorced from the institution of the Guardianship the World Order of Bahá’u’lláh would be mutilated and permanently deprived of that hereditary principle which, as ‘Abdu’l-Bahá has written, has been invariably upheld by the Law of God. “In all the Divine Dispensations,” He states, in a Tablet addressed to a follower of the Faith in Persia, “the eldest son hath been given extraordinary distinctions. Even the station of prophethood hath been his birthright.”
Without such an institution 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the necessary guidance to define the sphere of the legislative action of its elected representatives would be totally withdrawn.

Severed from the no less essential institution of the Universal House of Justice this same System of the Will of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá would be paralyzed in its action and would be powerless to fill in those gaps which the Author of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas has deliberately left in the body of His legislative and administrative ordinances.

“He is the Interpreter of the Word of God,” ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, referring to the functions of the Guardian of the Faith, asserts, using in His Will the very term which He Himself had chosen when refuting the argument of the Covenant-breakers who had challenged His right to interpret the utterances of Bahá’u’lláh. “After him,” He adds, “will succeed the first-born of his lineal descendants.” “The mighty stronghold,” He further explains, “shall remain impregnable and safe through obedience to him who is the Guardian of the Cause of God.”

There is no doubt that in the wordings of Shogi Effendi that the Baha’i Faith is:

1. mutilated,
2. permanently deprived,
3. its integrity would be imperiled,
4. its stability gravely endangered,
5. its prestige would suffer,
6. completely lacking,
7. the necessary guidance would be totally withdrawn,
8. paralyzed in its actions
9. powerless

Why would anyone want to be part of such a religion when that Guardianship had abruptly come to an end. So now the Baha’i Faith has, inadvertently, become just as Shogi Effendi said. All 9 description above have come true.

It should be noted that without the Guardianship, the necessary guidance of God to the Baha’i Faith would TOTALLY WITHDRAWN. Not partially, not slightly, but TOTALLY WITHDRAWN. Who said this? Shogi Effendi himself. 

Pity are the Baha’is who can see this BLINDINGLY APPARENT MAJOR FLAW in the Baha’i Faith but still choose to stay in it. Baha’is in Malaysia are an educated lot, yet how they failed to see this only God knows. But of course, as usual they\'ll say that there must be something allegorical or metaphorical to explain it.)

I hope sincerely the Baha’i Youths in Malaysia would have the balls to ask their parents or their \'Prominent Believers\' about these things and all the things in this website. Otherwise how are the Baha’i Youths ever going to be successful in their teaching campaigns when they too cannot answer these questions.

If the Baha’i Youths of Malaysia sincerely investigate their religion and not just be spooned, then they can be independent intellectuals who would speak the truth. Unfortunately, the tight knitted cultish style of control that their \'superiors\' employ seem to somehow put a halt to the true independent investigation of anything.

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