Effendi states: “O’ the seeker of right, if you are seeking for the divine recognition, make your heart free from everybody except God and refer to the intellectual reasoning because the reasons lead to the path and heart resorts to the reality sun[1].”
However, it is interesting to be noted that Abdul Baha had earlier rejected the validity of wisdom and reasoning for the recognition of reality while he has considered the possibility of the divine recognition through wisdom as one of the beliefs of Hussein Ali Nouri (Baha): “Know that what’s understood by your wisdom or lower or higher your isn’t and won’t be the criterion for right recognition and right is free from everything. If a soul achieves the highest rank of Gnosticism, it won’t be beneficial it confesses the greatest emergence (“Baha’ism)[2].”
Consequently, how does Abdul Baha consider the extent of reality recognition and the divine one as referring to reasoning and wisdom while the forged prophet of the cult has rejected the validity of wisdom in recognition of reality and considered the criterion for achieving right as the blind obedience?!
[1] Abbas Effendi, the Makatib, Bija: the national institute of the faith press, 134 Badi’a, Vol. 8, pp. 119-120.
[2] Hussein Ali Nouri, Badi’a (Answering the judge’s questions), the handwriting copy, p. 286.