Comments on: Iranian Diaspora on the BBC http://www.bahaiblog.net/2006/04/26/iranian-diaspora-on-the-bbc/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:20:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Sanisha http://www.bahaiblog.net/2006/04/26/iranian-diaspora-on-the-bbc/#comment-708 Sanisha Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:30:47 +0000 http://www.bahaiblog.net/2006/04/26/iranian-diaspora-on-the-bbc/#comment-708 Thank you for this Bahaiblog.net...this reminded me of somthing I read earlier from the World Order of Baha'u'llah (page 9)that stresses the roles and importance of the 'administrative machinery' which will amongst other things, be responsible for the preservation of the identity of 'the infant Faith of God'...this implies then,that there is this a Bahai identity to preserve.I hope that soon there is direct protection for the Bahai's of Iran and for the identity of the Iranian Diaspora ,who are Bahai's, which I believe is also so very important. "Who, I may ask, when viewing the international character of the Cause, its far-flung ramifications, the increasing complexity of its affairs, the diversity of its adherents, and the state of confusion that assails on every side the infant Faith of God, can for a moment question the necessity of some sort of administrative machinery that will insure, amid the storm and stress of a struggling civilization, the unity of the Faith, the preservation of its identity, and the protection of its interests? To repudiate the validity of the assemblies of the elected ministers of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh would be to reject those countless Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá wherein They have extolled the station of the “trustees of the Merciful,” enumerated their privileges and duties, emphasized the glory of their mission, revealed the immensity of their task, and warned them of the attacks they must needs expect from the unwisdom of their friends as well as from the malice of their enemies. It is surely for those to whose hands so priceless a heritage has been committed to prayerfully watch lest the tool should supersede the Faith itself, lest undue concern for the minute details arising from the administration of the Cause obscure the vision of its promoters, lest partiality, ambition, and worldliness tend in the course of time to becloud the radiance, stain the purity, and impair the effectiveness of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh." >>very very interesting , applied back then (1929) and now. Thank you for this Bahaiblog.net…this reminded me of somthing I read earlier from the World Order of Baha’u'llah (page 9)that stresses the roles and importance of the ‘administrative machinery’ which will amongst other things, be responsible for the preservation of the identity of ‘the infant Faith of God’…this implies then,that there is this a Bahai identity to preserve.I hope that soon there is direct protection for the Bahai’s of Iran and for the identity of the Iranian Diaspora ,who are Bahai’s, which I believe is also so very important.

“Who, I may ask, when viewing the international character of the Cause, its far-flung ramifications, the increasing complexity of its affairs, the diversity of its adherents, and the state of confusion that assails on every side the infant Faith of God, can for a moment question the necessity of some sort of administrative machinery that will insure, amid the storm and stress of a struggling civilization, the unity of the Faith, the preservation of its identity, and the protection of its interests?

To repudiate the validity of the assemblies of the elected ministers of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh would be to reject those countless Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá wherein They have extolled the station of the “trustees of the Merciful,” enumerated their privileges and duties, emphasized the glory of their mission, revealed the immensity of their task, and warned them of the attacks they must needs expect from the unwisdom of their friends as well as from the malice of their enemies. It is surely for those to whose hands so priceless a heritage has been committed to prayerfully watch lest the tool should supersede the Faith itself, lest undue concern for the minute details arising from the administration of the Cause obscure the vision of its promoters, lest partiality, ambition, and worldliness tend in the course of time to becloud the radiance, stain the purity, and impair the effectiveness of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh.”

>>very very interesting , applied back then (1929) and now.

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