Q= why has the duty of educating and caring offspring assigned to women in the Baha’ism cult?!
The selfish claimants of Baha’ism announce that the duty of educating offspring has been mainly assigned to women in the Baha’i faith and it is considered as a privilege for them; as Shoqi Effendi has said: “As continually confirmed in the Baha’i texts, the duty of educating a Baha’i infant is mainly assigned to the mother and it is an individualistic privilege for her to provide conditions is her house in order for her to advance materialistically and spiritually.[1]”
Now, it should be said that why hasn’t this hard task divided between men and women? All of us confess that educating and caring offspring is an overwhelming task. Why have the Baha’i leaders assign this difficult task to women while they claim for the equality between men and women?! The Baha’i proselytizers not only don’t consider educating offspring as a difficult job; they but also consider it as a high ranking position and an individualistic privilege assigned to women by God.
Now, the question is that supporting that educating offspring is a high ranking position and an individualistic privilege, why have women been honored not men?! Doesn’t it mean that women are superior to men?!
When it is time for proselytizer to answer this question, they withdraw and retreat and answer: “Educating offspring by mothers is the strongest basis for him to advance. The mother’s right to be financially supported by her husband and man doesn’t possess any explicit right to be supported by his wife.[2]”
Of course, it should be said that this justification isn’t acceptable except Baha’ism! Because the Baha’i leaders consider the prosperity of human beings as in the equality of men and women: “The Excellency Bahaullah’s tenth teaching is the unity of men and women… It is impossible for the prosperity of human world to be completed except in the equality between men and women.[3]” The Baha’i leaders also differentiate between men and women’s duties!!!
[1] Daruttahqiq of the universal house of justice, the collection of Baha’i teachings, the universal Baha’i center, 1976, p. 50.
[2] Helen Hournebi, the guidance lights, the electronic copy, NO, 730, p. 273.
[3] Abbas Effendi, the Sermons, Germany, the national assembly of publishing the faith works, 127 Badi’a, Vol. 2, pp. 149-150.