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the Bahai beliefs about the Spirit and the soul which are now residing in the Abha
Kingdom which is purely spiritual and eating makes no sense in.
Furthermore, Abdul-Baha is shown to have superhuman powers. In the Farsi manuscript,
all sections that speak about Abdul-Baha performing miracles, having superhuman
knowledge, and superhuman powers have been marked for modification. For instance
pages 44-47 of the Farsi manuscript have suffered a similar fate:
replied, Your olive trees are safe from the locusts. There is no need to go.
However, after two or three days, as he was anxious [about the trees], he mounted
his horse intending to inspect his grove. However, as he rode, he observed that a
thick cloud of locust, like a resolute army, followed him. When he came close to
the grove, he saw that the trees were verdant and green, but about to be attacked
by the locusts and to be destroyed. He instantly grew repentant and remorseful of
having acted contrary to His blessed advice and will, and quickly turned his steed
around. As he turned back, the locusts also followed, and as such, his trees
remained intact. This incident greatly increased his faith and certitude. (Ahang
Rabbani, A Lifetime with Abdul-Bah: Reminiscences of Khall Shahd, p. 33)
The life of Abdul-Baha and his actions clearly contradict these claims made by
trustworthy Bahais who had lived with him. In fact, Abdul-Bahas knowledge was in
many cases inferior to established sciences of his own days. The Universal House of
Justice simply suppresses and censors these statements and contradictions in a bid to
promote its own version of the affairs and hide these extraordinary claims from anyone
trying to Independently Investigate the Truth.
Another similar story purported to show Abdul-Bahas superhuman knowledge has been
marked on page 48 of the Farsi manuscript:
This is the translation of the sections marked with lines around them:
One day in Akk, he related for this servant: One of the eminent Jewish leaders
[rabbis] had attained the sanctified presence of Abdul-Bah in Bahj, and His
blessed utterances were soaring in regard to the truth of Jesus and the Messenger
of God [Muhammad]. Out of his intense prejudice, that religious leader recited a
poem that he had in memory:
This with a bell peals out the chimes,
that lifts his voice from a towered height.
Each one proclaims his faith is true:
I wish I knew which one was right!
By This with a bell peals out the chimes, and that lifts his voice from a
towered height, he meant the religions of Jesus and Muhammad. Through this
poem, he wanted to convey that both were false [Prophets]. Abdul-Bah
immediately responded back with the lines,
This faith is true, that a delight!
and yet the mob, an ugly sight,
Protested it with all their might!
I wish I knew which one was right!
However, while He was saying, and yet the mob, an ugly sight, He was pointing
to him with His blessed hand, meaning, You are that ugly sight who denies these
two Dispensations. Naturally, the man lost his composure and was irritated.
However, once more [Abdul-Bah] dealt with him softly and with kindness,
until he recovered. (Ahang Rabbani, A Lifetime with Abdul-Bah:
Reminiscences of Khall Shahd, pp. 23-24)
You in the sentence You are that ugly sight has been used in the plural form in the
Farsi manuscript (shoma-h) which means Abdul-Baha was referring to followers of
Judaism as an ugly sight not only the Jew he was conversing with. It wouldnt be very
pleasant if people, especially the government of Israel, knew Abdul-Baha had called
Jews an ugly sight, would it? There is another section where Abdul-Baha claims the
Jews of Tiberius look like monkeys. Ahang Rababni has distorted the translation of this
section and completely removed the word monkey. This subject amongst a number of
other such distortions have been treated in another article.
shed additional light on certain events. Two of these quotations were dropped
completely from the text of the 1980 edition, but the other three were retained
entirely. However, in one note, Avarih's name has disappeared and there is no
reference to any source. (52) In another he is quoted, but his name has been
substituted by the words "On this point a historian remarks." (53) And finally,
Esslemont included an account of the marriage of Abdu'l-Bah which was "kindly
supplied to the writer by Janab-i-Avarih," but the 1980 edition refers only to "a
Persian historian of the Bah' Faith." (Vance Salisbury, A Critical Examination
of 20th-Century Baha'i Literature)
In fact the name of Subhi has been marked for modification wherever it has been
mentioned in other sections of the book such as:
This was only a sample of his deeds and behaviors. The rest can be ascertained
by the same pattern. In short, in consideration that, like him, Subh also secretly
associated with the ill-wishing Covenant-breakers and carried out oppositions,
Abdul-Bah was deeply disappointed with him. He had even imitated His
blessed signature [of Abdul-Bah]. At the time [lunch hour] when Abdul-Bah
was severely rebuking him, he seemed dead, as if his soul had left his body.
(Ahang Rabbani, A Lifetime with Abdul-Bah: Reminiscences of Khall Shahd,
p. 27)
Some time later, he [Subh] was dismissed and sent to Iran [by Abdul-Bah]. In
Tehran he joined the enemies of the Cause, and his end was naught but manifest
loss. (Ahang Rabbani, A Lifetime with Abdul-Bah: Reminiscences of Khall
Shahd, p. 28)
The first part refers to the death of a covenant-breaker whose soul was wandering about
for three days and nights:
After his death, Abdul-Bah remarked, For three days and nights, his soul was
suspended between earth and heaven and did not know where to go. (Ahang
Rabbani, A Lifetime with Abdul-Bah: Reminiscences of Khall Shahd, p. 27)
This sentence simply defies logic for it is not up to the soul to decide where to go after
death. The second section refers to Subhi (see no. 3) the prominent Bahai who was
excommunicated.
a- Abdul-Baha claiming that a day will come when the people of Iran will
all sleep one night and miraculously wake up the next day being
transformed into Bahais:
One night there was a gathering in the blessed House of Akk, and the friends
of God were in the presence of Him round Whom all the names revolve [AbdulBah]. He remarked, A day will come when the people of Iran will go to bed as
Muslims and wake in the morning all Bahs! His blessed purpose [of AbdulBah] was that Iran [unreadable] would enter beneath [the banner] of the Cause of
God. (Ahang Rabbani, A Lifetime with Abdul-Bah: Reminiscences of Khall
Shahd, p. 29)
Unfulfilled prophecies that will never occur. Pretty obvious why this needs to be
censored. The people of Iran will never all wake up in the morning some day transmuted
into Bahais although Bahais will argue that this will definitely happen but the time has
not come yet.
He would add, The Muslims will be humiliated far more than the Jews. But their
punishment is quick and then their abasement will turn into glory. His blessed
point was that, unlike the Jews, their disgrace would not last long as they will
quickly enter the Cause of God so they would be freed from humiliation. (Ahang
Rabbani, A Lifetime with Abdul-Bah: Reminiscences of Khall Shahd, p. 30)
This section needs no further explanations and it is pretty obvious why it has been
marked for modification.
6- Abdul-Baha uttering some words then falsely claiming they are verses
from the Quran to silence a critic
Bottom left section of page 41 of the Farsi manuscript (see previous image):
This time, Abdul-Bah added, O Shaykh Mahmd, have you not read the
Quran, Honor thy guests though they be infidels? As soon as the Shaykh heard
this verse, his anger subsided. (Ahang Rabbani, A Lifetime with Abdul-Bah:
Reminiscences of Khall Shahd, pp. 31-32)
Abdul-Baha uttered a sentence then attributed it to the Quran to silence that Shaykh. No,
the Bahai authorities do not want you to know that Abdul-Baha had a habit of forging
verses and then claiming they existed in the Quran (other instances in his writings and
have been documented elsewhere). This is a habit that he inherited from his father
Bahaullah who distorted and forged verses of the Quran and Shia Muslim narrations in
the Book of Iqan to persuade people to become Bahais (Babis).
Since there are too many sections that have been marked for modification, we will only
mention the most important sections from the remainder of the book along with the page
number in Ahang Rabbanis translation:
half-brother,
Mrz
11- Sections that state Abdul-Baha had been posing as a Muslim and
would publicly practice Islam in Akka have also been marked for
editing/separation
On pages 41-43 of the translation there are sections that clearly state Abdul-Baha had
been posing as a Muslim in Akka and had been publicly practicing Islam and Islamic
forms of worship. There is another section that states Shoghi had taught about Bahaism
in the holy land (a grave sin in Bahaism)! Another section on diets in which two
problematic statements are uttered by Abdul-Baha have also been marked:
One time Abdul-Bah said, A person does not become corpulent because of
excessive eating.
His Holiness the Exalted One has said that if a person spends two-thirds of his
money on sweets, he has not spent excessively. From this statement it can be
understood that man needs sweets more than humectants or other food items.
12- The first paragraph on the section titled The Sea of the Cause (p.44)
where it is stated Bahaism will refuse to accept any filth when it starts
surging forth is also marked.
13- Everything from the beginning of page 46 to the end of the first section
on pages 52 that speak about:
The Greatest Holy Leaf performing miracles and predicting the sex of children inside the
womb, Abdul-Baha miraculously curing sick people including an instance where he uses
his saliva to cure a mans eye, Abdul-Baha ridiculing and making fun of Mirza Yahya
Subhi-i Azal and calling him a hairy bear. Sections about Mishkin Qalam, Bahaullahs
scribe narrating how he incited people to destroy Mirza Yahyas private writings from
inside his house. Another two wrong problematic sentences in which Abdul-Baha claims
natural life is 120 years:
16- Abdul-Baha ridiculing and making fun of the son of one of the
covenant breakers for sucking a goats penis:
This egotistical man had two dimwitted and unintelligent sons: Husayn and
Hasan. Abdul-Bah used to relate to this effect, When speaking with Me,
Siyyid Mihd would greatly extol and praise Hasans astuteness, saying that the
lad was most intelligent. There was a herd of goats at Bahj. [While playing,] each
of the Bah kids was holding the udder of one of the goats, imbibing their milk.
However, he [Hasan] was holding a male goat, imbibing it, and saying, This is
salty. When telling this story He would laugh heartily. (Ahang Rabbani, A
Lifetime with Abdul-Bah: Reminiscences of Khall Shahd, p. 72)
Apparently, Abdul-Baha had a pretty un-nice sense of humor. The original Farsi word
that Ahang has translated to imbibe is mi makid which means was/were sucking
(what a sight: A group of Bahai children sucking goats udders!) Narrating and heartily
laughing at such inappropriate incidences (that is if the incidence really happened and
was not something made up by Abdul-Baha to degrade the covenant breakers) is in no
way appropriate for someone with the rank that Bahais claim Abdul-Baha had.
Abdul-Bah used to say, I asked him, What do you do with her? And he responded,
I turn off the light. Abdul-Bah would then smile.
18- The worst of the Bahais are better than the best non-Bahais
Another instance of the Oneness of Humanity in the Bahai belief system:
Abdul-Bah said, The least of the friends is better than the fairest of the
nonbelievers. Moreover, He used to say, The worst of the friends is better than
the best of the nonbelievers. (Ahang Rabbani, A Lifetime with Abdul-Bah:
Reminiscences of Khall Shahd, p. 81)
20- The sections about the cure for diarrhea and the other guidelines on
disease on p. 92.
21- Sections on p. 94 where Abdul-Baha states that he believes in
witchcraft.
22- Most of the section titled warning against claims on page 99
including the section where Charles Mason Remy is labeled as crazy.
23- All the section titled The Hands of the Cause that starts on page 101
in which some extraordinary claims are made about these people.
24- P. 109 in which the greatest Holy Leaf is mentioned speaking with dead
spirits
At the time of her ascension, she was looking heavenwards saying, Very well.
Wait, I am coming. It was evident that from the world above that the spirits of
the Concourse on High, impatiently and with great fervor, were anticipating the
arrival of the pure and sanctified soul of that remnant of God and trust of Bah,
which propelled her to speak such words of assurance to them.
25- Footnote 131 in which Dr. Rabbani says A small paragraph pertaining
to the private life of Abdul-Bah is left untranslated.
The Farsi section speaks about Abdul-Baha consuming castor oil for his constipations.
26- Section on page 120 titled dreams and benefit of grapes have also
been marked.
27- All the section titled A Contemporary Violator of the Covenant
starting on page 121 is marked
This section speaks about a splinter sect in Bahaism. This has probably been marked for
modification/removal since it speaks about sects that have been created in Bahaism.
Bahais usually deny such sects exist or shrug them off and claim that this is one of the
positive points of the Bahai creed. Contrary to these claims there are many splinter
factions and sects existed and have existed in the Bahai history.