As the Excellency Shoqi Effendi has said in this regard: “It is asked that: Is it advisable not to tell the truth to save a person? The Excellency guardian of the faith believes that we shouldn’t speak against the truth at all… Of course, we must express a matter whenever we are directly asked.[1]”
Practically, the Baha’i leaders violate the principle and write about the necessity of setting up the Baha’i assemblies across the world:
“The Excellency Shoqi Effendi states again… if it is possible, register the assembly by the name of the religious population if it is possible. If it is not, register it as a business board.[2]”
Yes, in one side, the Baha’ism leaders have forced their followers to tell the truth and deprecated hiding belief in each circumstances[3] and; on the other side, they assume it necessary to turn to lie, deceit and hiding to progress their profits.
How can this contradiction be justified?
[1] The posed documents in the Baha’i network: The Baha’i life, p. 9; prayer and thought, p. 10.
[2] Rouhieh Maxwell, the unique gem, translated by Abul Qasem Feyzi, the electronic copy, p. 384.
[3] Refer to: Abdul Hamid Ishraq Khawari, the treasury of limitations and commandments, Tehran: The national institute of the faith press, 3rd edition, 128 Badi’a, p. 204.