The Baha’i proselytizers must be asked this question: How has Baha’ism predicted the future of the world?!
They will answer: Our leaders have predicted the universal government for the future of the world as Abdul Baha has said: “In establishing the union for the future of nations, a superior government must be established gradually possessing extensive establishments and organizations.[1]”
Question: What’s the role of Baha’is in this government?!
They will answer: Certainly, the promised government will be the beginning of the Baha’i kingdom; as Shoqi Effendi has said: “Its finality is the approach of one thousand year period; that is, the day when the world kingdom will be changed into the divine one which is the Excellency Bahaullah’s one.[2]”
Here, the contradictions will be clear and the proselytizers must be reminded that lest the Baha’i leaders had prevented their followers to meddle with the governmental affairs?! As Abdul Baha has said: “A person who wants to speak with the disciples about the government, that disciple must say we don’t belong to these affairs; we are the servants of the king being under the support of the Majesty… suit yourself… Especially, we have be forbidden to meddle with the governmental issue based on the divine text.[3]”
Nevertheless, how is it possible to consider the interference in the governmental affairs as a divine illegitimate action and to wait for the Baha’i government universally?! Isn’t it a contradiction in Baha’ism?!
[1] The public community of the world, the Baha’i youth publishing house, 1338 S.H., p. 18.
[2] Shoqi Effendi, Baha’i period, Translated by the national assembly of the faith world, Germany: the national assembly of publishing faith works, 3rd edition, 1998 A.D. p. 96.
[3] Ishraq Khawari, the treasury of limitations and commandments, the electronic copy, pp. 335-336.