Nothing is Sacred !!

Nothing is Sacred !!
by Covenant
20-Feb-2009
 

An artwork by a "Covenant Breaker" - Nothing is Sacred on Iranian.com

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To: Seagull

by An Observer (not verified) on

If I were you, I would reflect a little more on the comments that you write, BEFORE you write them.

I remember reading your comment in a previous blog by faryarm, and how you had bashed Shia Islam. I saw how quickly your fellow Bahais came to make things right by commenting that the Bahais revere Prophet Mohammad, and that Bab claimed to be the re-appearance of the twelfth Shia Imam (The Mahdi).

I am sorry to say this, but your comments are a classic case of the foot-in-the-mouth disease. By that I mean, you create more problems for the Bahais than you solve them. Almost always, after you leave a comment, other Bahais come to fix things up - Amazing!!


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see evil, hear evil, speak evil, BE EVIL

by Seagull (not verified) on

I wonder what religion engenders so much of a paranoid and delusional, schizophrenic, culture in its followers and misguides them to do pure evil on this earth.

A little distortion, a little negative!!!!!!

No wonder such despicable acts are committed in the name of Allah since they are written off so lightly, a little distortion, a little stoning, a little honor killing, beheading, a little lie and deceit a little blood here and there... Allah will forgive!!


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Dear Tahirih

by Religious Student (not verified) on

I find the blogs by this fellow, Covenant, interesting. It's obvious that he's a disenchanted, ex-Baha'i.

In a way, he reveals other stuff about the Baha'i faith that the regular Baha'i bloggers on this site don't.

The regular Baha'i bloggers primarily focus on the 'positive' aspects of the Baha'i faith. Whereas, this fellow, Covenat, also shows some of the 'negative' asepects of the Baha'i faith, even if they are a bit distorted!


Tahirih

Thanks again:))

by Tahirih on

your distorted pictures are a real manifestation of how you try to distort information , and have to say that I have grown to like it:))) because open minded Iranians will understand that a hateful person will distort the truth and they will investigate more.

Please do not stop.

see you soon:))

Tahirih


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holier wife

by Anonymous11 (not verified) on

Is it true that Asieh khanum (first wife) and her children are considered the holy ones by the bahais, to the exclusion of other wives? If so, if bahaulla ordered that? Are some wives more equal than others?


faryarm

Social Norms of 19th Century Islamic Iran

by faryarm on

Why did Baha’u'llah have three wives?

 These three marriages were contracted before the revelation of the new Baha’i dispensation in Baghdad. And under Islamic law, polygynous marriages (up to four) is permissible.


That Bahá'u'lláh had three wives, when his religion teaches monogamy, has been the subject of criticism. Bahá'í teachings on gender equality and monogamny post-date Bahá'u'lláh's marriages and are understood to be evolutionary in nature, slowly leading Bahá'ís away from what had been a deeply rooted cultural practice.[35]

Bahá'u'lláh had three concurrent wives,[35][12] Bahá'u'lláh married his first wife in Tehran when they both were Muslims, and he married his second wife also in Tehran, when he, his first wife and his new wife were all Bábí and no longer Muslims.[12] According to the laws and tradition of Islam, which Bahá'u'lláh would have been following at the time of his marriages, a man is allowed four wives.[35][36] Bahá'í marriage laws were written in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas more than ten years after his last marriage. In that book he limits the number of wives to two with no concubines and states that having only one wife would be the cause of tranquillity for both partners.[35][37] This was later interpreted by `Abdu'l-Bahá that having a second wife is conditional upon treating both wives with justice and equality and was not possible in practice, thus establishing monogamy.[38][35][39]

The general view among Bahá'u'lláh's family and Bahá'ís today is that all the wives were legal and equal. The question about how this conforms to religious law is addressed directly in two letters from Universal House of Justice quoting Shoghi Effendi twice:

"Bahá'u'lláh had no concubine, He had three legal wives. As He married them before the "Aqdas" (His book of laws) was revealed, He was only acting according to the laws of Islám, which had not yet been superseded. He made plurality of wives conditional upon justice; `Abdu'l-Bahá interpreted this to mean that a man may not have more than one wife at a time, as it is impossible to be just to two or more women in marriage." "...Bahá'u'lláh married the first and second wives while He was still in Tihrán, and the third wife while He was in Baghdád. At that time, the Laws of the "Aqdas" had not been revealed, and secondly, He was following the Laws of the previous Dispensation and the customs of the people of His own land.".[40]

Bahá'í sources argue that polygamy is an ancient practice and other religions did not require monogamy.[41] Under the Law of Moses a man could take as many wives as he chose. Jesus did not prohibit polygamy, and used parables with polygamous marriage incorporated into them. In the Arabian peninsula Muhammad introduced a limit of four wives; polygamy was unlimited in pre-Islamic Arabia.[42][43] The Bahá'í Faith slowly introduced monogamy to a region that considered polygamy a righteous lifestyle.[35] Note 89 of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas comments on the verse in question:

"Bahá’u’lláh, Who was revealing His Teachings in the milieu of a Muslim society, introduced the question of monogamy gradually in accordance with the principles of wisdom and the progressive unfoldment of His purpose. The fact that He left His followers with an infallible Interpreter of His Writings enabled Him to outwardly permit two wives in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas but uphold a condition that enabled ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to elucidate later that the intention of the law was to enforce monogamy."[44]

 


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ironic

by Anonymous11 (not verified) on

I just googled it, and it says that bahaulla had 3 wives. I find it ironic for a religion to claim equality and high status for women, their own founder, had 3 wives.


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welcome to the gallory of paranoid schizophrenic art

by hassodeoghdehee (not verified) on

where distortion of reality takes new delludional turns.