The third leader of Baha’is has forced the Baha’is to express their ideas and beliefs in each condition: “The third question is concerning hiding belief when there is no Baha’i in a place and you should express your Baha’i belief. The answer is that hiding belief, even in this case, is indecent and contrary to the rudiments of the Baha’i faith.[1]”
It is interesting to be known that Shoqi Effendi believes that hiding belief is forbidden even it saves a person’s life.[2]
The leaders of the cult have directed their followers towards hiding belief by changing the name of dissimulation to wisdom; as we read: “In the Baha’i works and tablets dissimulation was replaced by wisdom which means knowledge for considering the addressee’s circumstances[3].” It is narrated by the forged prophet of the Baha’i cult:
"لَیْسَ لِاَحَدٍ اَن یَعترف بهذا الْاَمر اَمامَ وجوهِ المُشرکین وَ المُعتدین"
“Nobody is allowed to confess to the faith (Baha’ism) in the presence of atheists and non-Baha’is[4].” However, there is a contradiction among the Baha’i leaders. The questions are as follows:
Q1: What is the difference between dissimulation and wisdom?!
Q2: Isn’t dissimulation saving people’s lives regulating expediencies of wisdom?!
Q3: What’s Shoqi Effendi’s justification for boycotting the Baha’i leaders’ commandment concerning wisdom without mentioning any exception?!
Q4: Can the views and functions of the Baha’i leaders be ignored in hiding beliefs?!
Q5: Must Shoqi Effendi’s claim be accepted as the real belief for Baha’is?!
[1] Abdul Hamid Ishraq Khawari, the treasury of limitations and commandments, Tehran: the national institute of the faith press, 3rd edition, 128 Badi’a, p. 459.
[2]The selection of Shoqi Effendi’s works, an example of the Baha’i existence, p. 9.
[3] Fadhel Mazandarani, Asrarul Athar, Bija: the national institute of the faith press, 124 Badi’a, Vol. 2, p. 170.
[4] Ibid, Vol.2, p. 171.