To,
The Bahá’ís of the World
Allahu Abha
In a very recent incidence as mentioned by UHJ in
letter dated 7 April 2014 that an Iranian senior cleric has presented to the
Bahá’ís of the world, an exquisite calligraphic prepared by him of a passage in
the Kitáb-i-Aqdas wherein Baha'u'llah calls upon His followers to: “Consort
with all religions with amity and concord, that they may inhale from you the
sweet fragrance of God.”
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The letter requested the Bahá’ís to contact their
Office of External Affairs to take immediate steps, in consultation with
individuals and like-minded organizations, to draw widespread attention to it.
The Office of External Affairs was also to call upon its contacts in the mass
media, as well as Bahá’ís and others with whom it has established relationships
and who have achieved distinction in such fields. The letter assured the
Bahá’ís that alongside the foregoing action, the Bahá’í International Community,
will be apprising its contacts at the United Nations and among international
non-governmental agencies of the significance of this gift. The UHJ also hoped
that The Brussels Office of the Bahá’í International Community will, in
addition, pursue related action at the level of the European Union.
Surprisingly the letter further states that “Given
the considerable risk to the personal freedom and safety of Ayatollah
Masoumi-Tehrani on account of this courageous act, the fact that people of
prominence in the political, religious, and civil spheres express their support
publicly, may well serve as a protection for him. Your Office of External
Affairs may consider making approaches to some of its high-level contacts in
government and elsewhere on this matter, on a confidential basis.”
I have been a member of NSA of an Eastern country
for almost twenty years and since then every month I see a Message from House
asking the Bahá’ís to meet the prominent people or government officials or
writing open letters to Iranian leaders. It surprises me that what is the
purpose of this. It looks like the UHJ has no concern with the teachings of
Baha’u’llah and its just involved in political matters. And then claims that
Bahá’ís do not indulge in politics.
The recent letter of the UHJ has many unexplained
points:
1. Even if the said
cleric has gifted his calligraphy to the Bahá’ís, then it is a gesture.
Why the Government of Iran should eliminate him and moreover in which way
the governments of other countries are concerned with it. Isn’t the UHJ
itself suggesting the government of Iran to take some action against the
cleric? It looks like the UHJ is playing a part of clever enemy and not a good
friend for the cleric inspite of his gesture. UHJ by this way is really putting
the life of the said cleric in danger. UHJ is not trying to PROTECT the cleric
they want to further EXPOSE the cleric to the Iranian authority.
2. The UHJ is trying to
make this incidence as an excuse of meeting various governments’ officials and
influential people. I guess that the Bahá’ís must have informed and UHJ must
have realized that the Government officials of various countries are no more
interested in meeting them and are refusing to give any hearing to Bahá’ís. The
declining support of countries towards various motion tabled by western
countries on human right issue is an indication towards it.
3. My Persian Bahá’í
friends who echoed same sentiments regarding this letter believed that this
recent incident is fake, the Website is fake and it is operated from outside
Iran. He said that this will put further restrictions on Bahá’ís and Bahá’í
Faith. He narrated a recent incident that a couple of months back there was a
news originated from some corners that an Iranian Mollah has praised Bahá’í
Faith on Iranian TV. He said that we investigated the matter and found that the
whole news is fictitious. When he talked to other Bahá’ís they were of the
opinion that Bahá’ís themselves are putting these fake news on internet to get
some publicity for them and putting their own Bahá’í brothers under more
problems. He further said UHJ is interested in having more Martyrs from Iran.
4. A Persian Bahá’í
recently informed me that he has come to certain conclusion that It was only
UHJ who was interested in death sentence for Yaran so they could easily gather
money from the Bahá’ís of the World. But the Iranian government acted smartly
and waved off their death sentence and destroyed the Party of UHJ.
5. Never UHJ has taken
some concrete steps to help the Bahá’ís of Iran. Whatever steps they took
resulted in increased persecution of Bahá’ís.
6. Same policy UHJ has
followed in other countries resulting in imprisonment of Bahá’ís in Indonesia,
deportation in Uzbekistan, arrest in India. The list is endless.
7. Isn’t it is the
responsibility of parent body to see that if the situation is not favorable in
some parts of the world to ask Bahá’ís to slow down their activities till the
situation turns favorable but always the Messages of the House and directives
of the counselors are “Go to Court” , “Go to police”, register a complaint.
Even a layman will understand that UHJ is interested in blowing the situation
out of control so as to gain some benefit and in return Bahá’ís are put to more
harassment, in the name of reforming and transformation of the society. Really
is the Blood of Bahá’ís become so cheap!!!.
8. He was very
apprehensive of certain Iranian members of the UHJ whom he thinks are
misguiding the UHJ and probably they are more close to Iranian Government then
the teachings of Baha’u’llah. Instead of taking inspirations from the writings
of Baha’u’llah they are being directed by friends of Iranian regime on regular
basis.
9. The problem of the
Bahá’í world are Persian Bahá’ís. They make a group, they decide amongst
themselves they dictate terms, they humiliate non-Persian Bahá’ís in every
country, make mockery of them and all of them are interconnected to each other.
If this tendency went unchecked then very soon we will see all nine members of
UHJ as Persians. We will see an Iranian flag over UHJ and the same Ayatollah
leading Friday prayers in Haifa.
Source:
Free
Baha'is of Singapore
