Sobhi's life memories and Baha'i history

Sobhi's life memories and Baha'i history
by Ravian Bilani
29-Jul-2009
 

Penned several years BEFORE the Islamic revolution by Seyyed Hadi Khosrow-Shahi, the book "Sobhi's life memories and Baha'i history" has been published once more by IRI.

Known as Sobhi, Mohammad Hassan Mohtadi's son, Fazlollah Mohtadi is among Kashan's Bahá'ís. He traveled to Central Asia and many points in Iran as Bahaism propagandist.

Years after being 'Abdul Baha's confidant he abandoned their company due to financial, political and moralities abuses.

Departing from Baha'is he became a teacher and in 1940 he became a storyteller in radio. Storytelling tradition was established by him in Iran.

His memories were published in 1933 in Tehran's Knowledge Press, it was titled "Sobhi's book". The second volume, "The Father's Massage", was published in 1956.

The importance of his memories is being considered in two ways; firstly his character and then the content of his memories that are on Bahai Faith's history and their operation.

"Sobhi's Life Memories and Bahaism History" contain two volumes (Sobhi's book and The Father's Massage) that have been published before the Islamic Revolution.

IRI has again published this book in 510 pages UNCENSORED.

 

This book is also available online. Those interested can visit :

//www.scribd.com/groups/documents/78734-baha-...

//www.scribd.com/NaserEmtesali 

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//trueseeker.typepad.com/true_seeker/court_case.html


Judge's decision
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**Appellate hearing (Feb 2009)***
//www.ca7.uscourts.gov/tmp/LF1FFZY0.mp3

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//www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/

BAHAI Tactics & Techniques

"Slanderous Vilification" = The Baha'i Technique - Ad Hominem, Libel, Slander, Demonize, Scapegoat, Ostracize, Shun, Banish, Backbite, Defame, Vilify, Discredit, Smear, Revile, Suppress, Attack, Bully, Intimidate, Threaten, Malign, Blackball, Deceive, Coerce, Silence, Harass... etc., etc....  CAUTION NON-BAHAIS


1. As far as possible they hold back from responding
2. Then they claim no knowledge of the given issue by feigning
ignorance
3. After the exposer has exposed they will try to divert to secondary
and totally peripheral and irrelevent side-issues
4. The exposer is then painted as someone with an axe to grind,
biased, deluded (while they, the bahaim, still have not responded to
the main issue exposed)
5. Next they relate mental instability and insanity to the exposer,
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6. Then, the last tactic, is to wheel out several dubious personas on
the scene who claim to be neutral non-bahai observers who then begin attacking the exposer as well as the issue exposed while supporting the bahais and their issues as so-called non-bahais

Quote

//www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/technique.htm
Professor Juan Cole, University of Michigan, June 12, 1998:

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professional reputation by publicly stating falsehoods? ...The very
technique of the more glaze-eyed among these people is to
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to depend upon the gullibility of the Baha'is in refusing to listen to
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infallible and divinely guided and could never do anything wrong. It
is a perfect racket. Of course, this technique of making liberals go
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outside world, for the incredible abuses that go on inside this
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//www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Cole10.htm

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See Susan Stiles Maneck,
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QUOTE

"In many cases hikmat calls for the apparent suspension of a Bahá'í
principle in order to ensure the protection of the Faith."


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BAHA'I ADMINISTRATIVE STALINISM


QUOTE

"We don't want to be like those people who want to see God with their own eyes, or hear His melody with their own ears, because we have been given the gift of being able to see through the eyes of the House of Justice and listen through the ears of the House of Justice." - Bahai Counselor Rebeque Murphy

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//bahai-library.com/published.uhj/counsellors.html
THE INSTITUTION OF THE COUNSELLORS
A Document Prepared by the Universal House of Justice
January 29 2001


Quote
Protection of the Cause (pp. 15-16)

         Although deepening the friends' understanding of the
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importance, the duties of the Auxiliary Board members for Protection
do not end here. The Board members must remain ever vigilant,
monitoring the actions of those who, driven by the promptings of ego, seek to sow the seeds of doubt in the minds of the friends and
undermine the Faith. In general, whenever believers become aware of such problems, they should immediately contact whatever institution they feel moved to turn to, whether it be a Counsellor, an Auxiliary Board member, the National Spiritual Assembly or their own Local Assembly. It then becomes the duty of that institution to ensure that the report is fed into the correct channels and that all the other institutions affected are promptly informed. Not infrequently, the responsibility will fall on an Auxiliary Board member, in coordination with the Assembly concerned, to take some form of action in response to the situation. This involvement will include counselling the believer in question; warning him, if necessary, of the consequences of his actions; and bringing to the attention of the Counsellors the gravity of the situation, which may call for their intervention. Naturally, the Board member has to exert every effort to counteract the schemes and arrest the spread of the influence of those few who, despite attempts to guide them, eventually break the Covenant.

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not be generally appreciated by the friends, particularly in places
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machinations of internal enemies, but a rise in the hostility and
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Quote

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the  greater world, we must be prepared to sacrifice our personal
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1914
&
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at,
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In
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Translation by Wahid Azal (Jan. 7, 2009)


QUOTE

 

Chapter 11


The Critics of the Cause of God (munkirin-i-amru'llah)


The Ancient Beauty in the Tablet of Habib from Maragha, which begins with "H B hear the call of God from the direction of the throne by the protective signs/verses (bi-ayati muhayyimin)..etc." they [i.e. Husayn 'Ali Nuri] enunciate the command (mi-farmayand) [i.e. state],


By God, the Truth, whomsoever criticizes it [i.e. Baha'ism], [which
is] possessed of the manifest, the brilliant, the high and the
perspicuous excellence, it behoveth him to ask his mother [yanbaghi
lahu bi-an yas'al min ummihi] about his origins [or 'state',
i.e.'hal', meaning he should inquire his mother about his legitimate
conception – trans.], for he shall return to the nethermost hell
[asfal al-jahim]"…


In Promulgation of Universal Peace p. 322 the following is quoted by
'Abbas Effendi from a prayer by his father, cf. THE BAHA'I FAITH AND
ISLAM (ed.) Heshmat Moayyad (The Association for Baha'i Studies:
Ottawa, 1990), p.23

Quote


O God! Whomsoever violates My Covenant, O God, humiliate him. Verily whosoever violates My Covenant, erase and efface him.

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Note Dr Sa'eed Khan on the Baha'is he knew

From Mission Problems in New Persia, 1926, p. 83, 87 & 89 quoted by William McElwee Miller in The Baha'i Faith: It's History and
Teachings, 1973, p. 289.

Quote

 "...There is no conscience with them [ i.e. the Baha'is], they keep
to no principle, they tell you what is untrue, ignoring or denying
undoubted historical facts, and this is the character of both the
leader and the led...As to morality and honesty, the whole system has proved disappointing...I have been in contact with many Baha'is, and have had dealings with many and have tested many, and unfortunately I have met not a single one who could be called honest or faithful in the full sense of these words..."


Dr Sa'eed Khan [was] a highly-respected physician...who had as a
doctor treated the second widow of the Bab, and had for a lifetime
known intimately both Babis [i.e. Bayanis] and Baha'is in Tehran and
Hamadan.
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BAHAISM AND THE BRITISH

//bahaisandbritannia.googlepages.com/home

1. (Top Secret) British Government Foreign Countries Report (no.56)
16th November 1921


2. APPRECIATION OF THE ATTACHED EASTERN REPORT NO. LXX (May 1918)


Then see,


HOSTAGE TO KHOMEINI by Robert Dreyfuss (New Benjamin Franklin House: New York, 1980) pp.117-118 (Pdf pages 73-74)


//www.wlym.com/pdf/iclc/hostage.pdf


&


//www.archive.org/details/HostageToKhomeini


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to be an arm of the British Crown. During the destabilization of the
Shah in 1978, it was widely reported that in several instances the
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International, that originally sponsored the anti-Shah movement in
Iran. These movements also derive from the “one world” currents
associated with the Bahais since the early 1900s. (If any Iranians
have been misled on the question of the Bahais by the supposed
antipathy of Khomeini’s clique to the Bahais, it should be noted that
the Bahai cultists often deliberately encouraged anti-Bahai activities
as camouflage)...


Also see pp. 115-116 (Pdf page 72)


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Reference :
PALESTINE


EDITED BY : HARRY CHARLES LUKE, B.Lr1r., M.A.


ASSISTANT GOVERNOR OF JERUSALEM AND
EDWARD KEITH-ROACH ASSISTANT CHIEF SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF
PALESTINE


WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
The Right Hon. SIR HERBERT SAMUEL, P.C., G.B.E.
HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR PALESTINE


Issued under the Authority of the Government of Palestine


MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1922

Quote


"...Sir 'Abbas Effendi 'Abdu'l Baha had travelled extensively in
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NOTE

William McElwee Miller *THE BAHA'I FAITH: It's History and Teachings
//www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/archives/Baha'i%20faith%20and%20Its%20Teachings%20by%20William%20McElwee%20Miller.htm


Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, BROKEN SILENCE
//www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/archives/SohrabBrokenSilence.pdf


Vance Salisbury, AN EXAMINATION OF SUPPRESSION AND DISTORTION IN 20th-CENTURY BAHA'I LITERATURE
//bahai-library.org/unpubl.articles/suppression.html

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See as well,
//www.bayanic.com [CLICK tab BAHAISM]


Waters

his legacy

by Waters on

lives on with the Islamic Republic and this dark vader character bijaani.

I wonder if Sobhi was just as hounest and transparent as bijaani and some of the guys who run the republic.

how many Bahai books has the IRI printed, besides the ones they confiscated, or how many x-moslem books?

What do all these characters have in common, besides story telling!? It cant be fear and hate or is it?

He was anyways lucky, the Bahais did not fear him enough to put a Fatvaa on his head.  

Say Salaam untill it comes to you.


faryarm

Sadegh Hedayats's Opinion of Sobhi...

by faryarm on

Sadegh Hedayat's recorded Opinion of Sobhi, best describes the character and credibility of this man.

Your insistence on this blog, once again highlights your utter and desperate moral bankrupcy in trying to show the Bahai Faith in a negative way.

So what is new, a weak and egotistic character who had several times repented, and finally expelled decides to write another raddiyyih...

Like all Raddiyyihs, where are and what is the writers legacy?

Don't Ask the Bahais, or the Islamic Republic, ask the beloved Sadegh Hedayat. 

Faryarm 

 

 


Ostaad

I remeber listening to his stories as a kid...

by Ostaad on

rouhash shaad.