As mentioned in traditions of the holy Imams (peace be upon them), kids have high capacity to accept and to be influenced.[1] Consequently, the deviant cult of Baha’ism which is unable to present documents and reasons to researchers and the intellectual has considered misusing this feature of kids as one of its main proselytizing aims.[2]
Currently, the Baha’ism organization has assumed investing on kids as its proselytizing priority in order to compensate for lag of its 20-year program. As the universal house of justice has expressed open proselytizing of kids in some of its messages in order for the Baha’is to attract more people to the Baha’ism organization: “In various environments and all continents… the total number of those who can serve as potential teachers of kid classes has become double during five years and is 130000 people.[3]”
The Baha’i intellectuals have also write book and booklets (including the book “27 strategies for creating Baha’i identity in kids)[4] and have drawn the strategies for making kids Baha’i for the Baha’ism organization proselytizers.
Meantime, one of the methods applied by the Baha’i proselytizers in our country to attract Muslim students to the Baha’ism creed is proselytizing for the cult in the form of educational classes. The students are being invited by their friends to unwinding classes to learn their lessons free of charge. The Baha’i masters are obliged to expand their activities and identity talented students to attract them to Rouhi classes.
The following notes are worthy to be investigated:
1) According to the international laws and the universal manifest of kid rights passed on Nov. 20, 1959 and kid rights convention passed on Nov. 23, 1989 in the general assembly of the United Nations organization sighed by 166 countries and has nearly implemented by all countries, the infants and teenagers under the age of 18 must be supported and kept out of preaching religious bigotries and attempts for changing religion.[5] While the Baha’ism organization which pretend to obey the governmental orders violates all international laws and conversions to increase its population.
2) This method of aggressive proselytizing by the Baha’ism organization is forbidden not only in Iran but also in other countries such as Indonesia, Uzbekistan, China and etc. So; although this proselytizing method is against the kid rights convention and manifest; but the Baha’i proselytizers obey orders by the Heyfan organization.
3) The Baha’ism cult concentrates on proselytizing kids as one of its strategies to increase its population while contrary to its slogan of independent investigation of truth and freedom of thought[6], equal education[7], its unity and kindness[8] is very sensitive with its Baha’i kid educations to such an extent that Abdul Baha believed that Baha’ism must given to babies by mothers’ milk[9] . He has also prohibited Baha’i kids to be sent to non-Baha’i ones: “The disciples’ kids aren’t allowed to go to others’ ones. It is suffering for God’s faith because they become deprived of mercies of the blessed beauty cos they are educated differently and cause Baha’ism to be disgraced.[10]”
[1] The commander of the faithful, Ali (P.H.) states:
وَ اِنَّما قلبُ الحَدَثِ کَالاَرضِ الخالِیةِ ما اُلقِیَ فِیهَا مِن شَیءٍ قَبِلَتهُ...
[3] The UHJ message dated Dec, 28, 2010
[4] Soyda Mani Ung, 27 strategies for creating Baha’i identity in kids, translated by Tina Haeri, introduction by Peter Khan.
[5] Baha’i Pajouhi site, article: the aggressive proselytizing of Baha’is with the excuse of educating kids.
[6] “The first principle of Bahaullah is the independent investigation of truth; Ishraq Khawari, the heaven message, India: Bina, 1985 A.D., p. 17.
[7] Ishraq Khawari, heaven message, Tehran, Bina, 1326 S.H., p. 222.
[8] Abbas Effandi, the Sermons, western Germany, the national assembly of publishing of the faith, 127 Badi’a, vol. 2, p. 56.
[9] Abbas Effandi, Exerts from Makatib, the electronic copy, vol. 1, p. 124.
[10] Abbas Effandi, Makatib, the electronic copy, vol. 5, p. 170.