DUPLICITY AND HYPOCRISY IN BAHÁ’Í FAITH
Robert Well
THE TALK OF MR. PAYMAN MOHAJER IS IN SHARP CONTRADICTION WITH WRITINGS
OF SHOGHI EFFENDI AND MESSAGES OF UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE
Bahá’ís indeed have strange and mysterious ways of operating. While to
the world they declare that Ruhi books are selfless service of the
Faith to the humanity towards moral upliftment, but the hidden agenda
is conversion.
Therefore to hide their duplicity and hypocrisy, Bahá’ís always have
two types of statements one is for "general public" and other "only
for Bahá’ís". One will find the two statements always in sharp
contradiction to each other.
Recently Dr. Payman Mohajer in his speech to the Bahá’ís said that
the purpose of core activities is for betterment of society but the
actual Messages to the Bahá’ís clearly states that it is for
proselytizing and conversion. This is evident when one reads through
the messages circulated by the Faiths supreme body the Universal House
of Justice.
What Bahá’ís Say :
"In the course of the consultations, Dr. Mohajer posed a thought-
provoking question to the participants, "What is the purpose of our
core activities?"
"Dr. Mohajer then went on to share an explanation, by giving the
example of a glass. He said that while it is not inaccurate to say
that the glass is transparent, it is evident that transparency is not
the purpose of the glass. Transparency is one of the attributes of the
glass, but its purpose is to hold liquid. Similarly, one of the
attributes of our core activities is that they become portals for
entry by troops or instruments for teaching - but that is not their
purpose ....
.... Now if someone were to ask us whether the purpose of our inviting
them to join study circles is to make them Bahá’ís, we can
confidently say 'NO' and tell them that the purpose of our core
activities is to assist in the transformation and betterment of
society."
What Bahá’í writings have to say about it:
1. The Bahá’ís must realize that the success of this work depends
upon the individual. The individual must arise as never before to
proclaim the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh. The most effective way for them to
carry on their work is for the individual to make many contacts,
select a few who they feel would become Bahá'ís, develop a close
friendship with them, then complete confidence, and finally teach them
the Faith, until they become strong supporters of the Cause of God.
(Shoghi Effendi to all National Spiritual Assemblies, 13 May 1955)
2. The role of the individual is of unique importance in the work of
the Cause. It is the individual who manifests the vitality of faith
upon which the success of the teaching work and the development of the
community depends. Bahá'u'lláh's command to each believer to teach His
Faith confers an inescapable responsibility which cannot be
transferred to, or assumed by, any institution of the Cause. The
individual alone can exercise those capacities which include the
ability to take initiative, to seize opportunities, to form
friendships, to interact personally with others, to build
relationships, to win the cooperation of others in common service to
the Faith and society, and to convert into action the decisions made
by consultative bodies. It is the individual's duty to "consider every
avenue of approach which he might utilize in his personal attempts to
capture the attention, maintain the interest, and deepen the faith, of
those whom he seeks to bring into the fold of his Faith."
(Ridvan Message 1996)
3. ".... As you know, during the time of the Guardian, emphasis was
placed on establishing the Faith throughout the world and in raising
up the administrative institutions that would provide the foundation
for the prosecution of the Divine Plan. As the House of Justice
observed in its Ridván 2000 message, this task has been essentially
completed. "The structures of an Administrative System that, at the
end of the century, stands before the gaze of the world in the
wholeness of its essential form." The Cause has now entered a stage in
its organic development in which it is necessary to prepare the
community for entry by troops and, beyond that, mass conversion. The
current series of global teaching Plans have focused the energies of
the Bahá'ís on stimulating the processes of growth and community
development at the level of the cluster, and the friends have been
encouraged to teach the Faith where they live. Those clusters with
larger Bahá'í populations have been selected for close attention with
the expectation that they can more rapidly advance, and the lessons
learned can then be applied to other clusters ....”
(Universal House of Justice letter dated 30 September)