Contradictions and Conclusions regarding Oneness of Mankind

Part 3

19. Should We Be Kind to Wolves?

Abdul Baha: Act with kindness towards bloodthirsty wolves.
Abdul Baha: Do not be kind with wolves, for it is betrayal of the sheep.

“Make bloodthirsty wolves smell the scent of musk like gazelles,” Abdul Baha, Makatib, vol. 3, p. 160.

“If you are kind to a wolf you are betraying the sheep because it will destroy a herd of sheep. If you give a dog that bites the opportunity, it will kill thousands of humans and animals. Thus showing affection to savage animals is equal to being unfair to oppressed animals,” Abdul Baha, Makatib (Egypt), vol. 3, p. 212.

20. Those Who Deny Baha’u’llah Are Bastards Who Will Go to Hell

Abdul Baha: “As soon as we see ourselves superior to others, we will have gotten distant from the path of salvation and prosperity.”
Bahaullah: Whoever denies Baha’ism or is Bahaullah’s enemy, is a bastard who will go to hell.
The result of these words: All Jews, Christians, Muslims, and all other people who do not accept Baha’ism are Bastards.

Abd al-Hamid Ishraq Khawari, Ganjiniy-i Hudud wa ahkam, chap. 49, p. 326.

“Whoever denies this apparent exalted luminous grace (meaning Baha’ism), it is worthy that he asks his state from his mother and he will soon be returned to the bottom of hell,” `Abd al-Hamid Ishraq Khawari, Ma’idiy-i asimani, vol. 4, pp. 355 and `Abd al-Hamid Ishraq Khawari, Ganj-i shaygan, p. 78; “Whoever has the enmity of this servant (meaning Bahaullah) in his heart, certainly Satan has entered their mother’s bed,” `Abd al-Hamid Ishraq Khawari, Ganj-i shaygan, p. 79.

21. Must We Be Kind towards Tyrants or Should We Punish Them?

Abdul Baha: Be kind to tyrants and oppressors!
Abdul Baha: Punish tyrants so they do not revolt.

“Apply ointment to the wounds of tyrants and heal the pain of oppressors,” Asad-Allah Fa?il Mazandarani, Amr wa khalq, vol. 3,p. 228.

“One cannot be kind to a tyrant, traitor, or thief, for kindness will make them revolt instead of awakening them. The more you show affection to a liar, the more lies he will tell,” Abdul Baha, Makatib (Egypt), vol. 3, p. 211

22. Kindness towards the Opposition or Enmity?

Abdul Baha: We must be kind to the enemies and love the deniers.
Abdul Baha: Meeting with the deniers of Baha’ism is forbidden.

“We must . . . warn the unaware, show compassion to the enemies, and love the foes,” Abdul Baha, Makatib (Egypt), vol. 1, p. 288.

“Know that God has forbidden his friends from meeting with the polytheists (deniers of Baha’ism) and hypocrites,” `Abd al-Hamid Ishraq Khawari, Ma’idiy-i asimani, vol. 4, pp. 280.

23. How to Deal with the Unaware

Abdul Baha: We must warn the unaware.
Bahaullah: Protect yourself from the wicked poisonous breath of the unaware and do not socialize with them.

“We must . . . warn the unaware, show compassion to the enemies, and love the foes,” Abdul Baha, Makatib (Egypt), vol. 1, p. 288.

“Thus, O inhabitants of my orchard, protect yourselves from the wicked poisonous breath and void breeze which is socializing with the polytheists (deniers of Baha’ism) and the unaware (ghafil),” `Abd al-Hamid Ishraq Khawari, Ma’idiy-i asimani, vol. 8, p. 39.

24. Is Shunning Bad?

Bahaullah: We have nullified anything that as a cause for shunning.
Bahaullah: Shun my enemies!
Abdul Baha: Why are the communities engaged in shunning people?! Shunning has a demoralizing effect.
Abdul Baha: Shun those who protest against the Guardian.

“Whatsoever hath led the children of men to shun one another, and hath caused dissensions and divisions amongst them, hath, through the revelation of these words, been nullified and abolished,” Bahaullah, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahaullah, p. 95. “Shun any man in whom you perceive enmity for this Servant, though he may appear in the garb of piety of the former and later people, or may arise to the worship of the two worlds,” Abdul Baha, Baha’i World Faith-Selected Writings of Bahaullah and Abdul Baha (Abdul Baha’s Section Only), p. 431.

“One thing remains to be said: it is that the communities are day and night occupied in making penal laws, and in preparing and organizing instruments and means of punishment. They build prisons, make chains and fetters, arrange places of exile and banishment, and different kinds of hardships and tortures, and think by these means to discipline criminals, whereas, in reality, they are causing destruction of morals and perversion of characters,” Abdul Baha, Some Answered Questions, p. 271; “The community, on the contrary, ought day and night to strive and endeavor with the utmost zeal and effort to accomplish the education of men, to cause them day by day to progress and to increase in science and knowledge, to acquire virtues, to gain good morals and to avoid vices, so that crimes may not occur. At the present time the contrary prevails; the community is always thinking of enforcing the penal laws, and of preparing means of punishment, instruments of death and chastisement, places for imprisonment and banishment; and they expect crimes to be committed. This has a demoralizing effect,” Abdul Baha, Some Answered Questions, p. 272.

“The Hands of the Cause of God must be ever watchful and so soon as they find anyone beginning to oppose and protest against the Guardian of the Cause of God, cast him out from the congregation of the people of Baha and in no wise accept any excuse from him. How often hath grievous error been disguised in the garb of truth, that it might sow the seeds of doubt in the hearts of men!” Abdul Baha, The Will and Testament of Abdul Baha, p. 12.

25. To Wish Death or Not to Wish Death?

Bahaullah: Don’t wish unto others what you do not wish for yourself.
Bahaullah: “Die with anger, Oh he who denies this grace.” “Die with anger O you denying polytheist.”

“He should not wish for others that which he doth not wish for himself, nor promise that which he doth not fulfil [sic],” Bahaullah, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahaullah, p. 266.

Bahaullah, Badi`, p. 213.

Bahaullah, Athar-i Qalam-i A`la, vol. 1, no. 64, p. 276.

26. Why Have All of Baha’u’llah’s Descendants Been Shunned and Excommunicated?

Bahaullah: If the root of a tree becomes corrupt so do all its branches (aghsan) and twigs and fruits and leaves.
By the time Shoghi died all of Bahaullah’s blood descendants who are referred to as branches (Aghsan) had become corrupt and were shunned from the Baha’i community!

“”You are like a spring of water. When its source becomes corrupt so do the streams that separate from it. Fear God and be pious. Likewise, look at man. When his heart becomes corrupt so do all his limbs and organs. Likewise, if the root of a tree becomes corrupt so do its branches and twigs (aghsan and afnan) and its leaves and its fruit,” Bahaullah, Athar-i Qalam-i A`la, vol. 2, no. 90, p. 603.

27. Oneness of Humanity in the Baha’i Kingdom

The earth will be cleansed from the filth of the deniers of Baha’ism and Bahaullah’s followers will be feared by the people. Thieves will be kicked out of the cities and deprived of all rights. Arsonists will be burned alive, executed, or given life imprisonment.

“God will soon take out from the sleeves of power the hands of strength and dominance and will make the Servant (Bahaullah) victorious and will cleanse the earth from the filth of every rejected polytheist (denier of Baha’ism). And they will stand by the cause and will conquer the lands using my mighty eternal name and will enter the lands and they will be feared by all the servants,” Bahaullah, Athar-i Qalam-i A`la, vol. 2, no. 90, p. 587.

“”Exile and imprisonment are decreed for the thief, and, on the third offence, place ye a mark upon his brow so that, thus identified, he may not be accepted in the cities of God and His countries,” Bahaullah, The Kitabi Aqdas, pp. 35-36. “Should anyone intentionally destroy a house by fire, him also shall ye burn; should anyone deliberately take another’s life, him also shall ye put to death. Take ye hold of the precepts of God with all your strength and power, and abandon the ways of the ignorant. Should ye condemn the arsonist and the murderer to life imprisonment, it would be permissible according to the provisions of the Book. He, verily, hath power to ordain whatsoever He pleaseth,” Bahaullah, The Kitabi Aqdas, p. 203.

28. All the Titles given to Non-Baha’is by Baha’i Leaders

Haters of light, sufferers from spiritual leprosy, unreasonable, unknowledgeable, polytheists, dry wood worthy of fire, possessors of wicked poisonous breath, deniers of God and his signs, hypocrites, ungodly, evil, unhuman, animals, earthworms, livestock, lowly flies, donkeys, dogs, beasts, those who should die with anger, earthly pebbles, people that must be tormented, people who will be cleansed from earth, bastards, children of Satan, manifestations of hell, manifestations of Satan, rising place of Pharaohs, calves, dung beetles, tyrants, devil, foul swamp, senile, bats, ravens, foxes . . .

“It is better not to read books by Covenant-breakers because they are haters of the Light, sufferers from a spiritual leprosy, so to speak. But books by well-meaning yet unenlightened enemies of the Cause can be read so as to refute their charges,” Helen Bassett Hornby, Lights of Guidance: A Baha’i Reference File, chap. XII, no. 628.

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