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Questions for knowledgeable Bahai / followers of Baha'u'llah

Truthseeker

Non-debating member when I can help myself
Then there is this...
The Old Testament clearly prophesied Twin Holy messengers that will come in succession. Anyone who knows the Bible can do the math if they are really interested in knowing who the Messiah was. Here are just a few prophecies and there are so many more:

“Zechariah, speaking of the last days, prophesied of the twin holy souls who would appear, saying: “Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”(Zechariah 4:14). In addition to the two ‘woes’, Revelation speaks of the ‘two olive trees’ and the ‘two candlesticks’. Malachi, speaking of the time of the end, prophesied:“Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.” (Malachi 4:5). This was the very land, Persia, in which Daniel beheld.”… one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven…” (Daniel 7:13).

The Báb foretold that this great Redeemer would appear exactly nine years after his own coming. He would, therefore, as prophesied in the Old Testament, ‘suddenly come to his temple’. He would thus come just as Christ had so often emphasized in the Book of Revelation: “Behold I come quickly.”

Malachi, who called it the great and dreadful day of the Lord, foretold the appearance of two at the time of the end, saying:“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple …” (Malachi 3:1). The Báb repeatedly said that he was the Dawn, but that the Promise of all Ages Who was soon to come after him would be the Sun. He foretold that this great world Saviour would usher in an age of unprecedented progress and peace.” Thief in the Night, pp. 93-94

Baha’u’llah became aware of His revelation from God in 1853, in the Black Pit prison, exactly nine years after 1844, when the Bab foretold the great Redeemer would appear: A revelation from God

The Bab was a Manifestation of God (Messenger) in His own right, so He was the first resurrection. He referred to the revelation of Baha’u’llah as the Latter Resurrection, and granted the Babis a respite of 19 years to be able to recognize Baha’u’llah, because the Bab knew that Baha’u’llah would publicly declare His Mission in1863. That is written in the second paragraph of Selections From the Writings of the Báb, pp. 6-7.

“This is a letter from God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting, unto God, the Almighty, the Best Beloved, to affirm that the Bayán and such as bear allegiance to it are but a present from me unto Thee and to express my undoubting faith that there is no God but Thee, that the kingdoms of Creation and Revelation are Thine, that no one can attain anything save by Thy power and that He Whom Thou hast raised up is but Thy servant and Thy Testimony. I, indeed, beg to address Him Whom God shall make manifest, by Thy leave in these words: ‘Shouldst Thou dismiss the entire company of the followers of the Bayán in the Day of the Latter Resurrection by a mere sign of Thy finger even while still a suckling babe, Thou wouldst indeed be praised in Thy indication. And though no doubt is there about it, do Thou grant a respite of nineteen years as a token of Thy favour so that those who have embraced this Cause may be graciously rewarded by Thee. Thou art verily the Lord of grace abounding.”
Selections From the Writings of the Báb, pp. 6-7


Bahá'u'lláh claimed that his mission as the Promised One of the Báb, was revealed to Him in 1853 while imprisoned in the Síyáh-Chál in Tehran, Iran.[4] After his release from the Síyáh-Chál, Bahá'u'lláh was banished from Persia, and he settled in Baghdad, which became the centre of Bábí activity. Although he did not openly declare this prophetic mandate, he increasingly became the leader of the Bábí community.[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridvan

A little correction. It was in late 1852 according to Shoghi Effendi:

The attempt on the life of Náṣiri’d-Dín Sháh, as stated in a previous chapter, was made on the 28th of the month of Shavvál, 1268 A.H., corresponding to the 15th of August, 1852. Immediately after, Bahá’u’lláh was arrested in Níyávarán, was conducted with the greatest ignominy to Ṭihrán and cast into the Síyáh-Chál. His imprisonment lasted for a period of no less than four months, in the middle of which the “year nine” (1269), anticipated in such glowing terms by the Báb, and alluded to as the year “after Ḥín” by Shaykh Aḥmad-i-Aḥsá’í, was ushered in, endowing with undreamt-of potentialities the whole world.

Shoghi Effendi, "God Passes By", 7.1

The quote from the Bab was good.
 

Trailblazer

Veteran Member
A little correction. It was in late 1852 according to Shoghi Effendi:

The attempt on the life of Náṣiri’d-Dín Sháh, as stated in a previous chapter, was made on the 28th of the month of Shavvál, 1268 A.H., corresponding to the 15th of August, 1852. Immediately after, Bahá’u’lláh was arrested in Níyávarán, was conducted with the greatest ignominy to Ṭihrán and cast into the Síyáh-Chál. His imprisonment lasted for a period of no less than four months, in the middle of which the “year nine” (1269), anticipated in such glowing terms by the Báb, and alluded to as the year “after Ḥín” by Shaykh Aḥmad-i-Aḥsá’í, was ushered in, endowing with undreamt-of potentialities the whole world.

Shoghi Effendi, "God Passes By", 7.1

The quote from the Bab was good.
Thanks, I will correct that on here and in my Word document. I know it was 1852 so I do not know how I had it as 1853.
 

InvestigateTruth

Veteran Member
1. Why should Bab and Baha'u'llah be believed? While we're at it, why should any of these people be believed? Jesus, Muhammed, Moses, Abraham, Paul, all the rest, whoever you can think of, why?

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Very good question. To me, to determine if Bahaullah is to believed can be treated as if there is a court.

Suppose there is a court, a judge, and evidences. The judge must first investigate all evidences. This judge, is no one else other than you. You would need to hear both sides. The evidences that work in favour of Bahaullah, as well as the words of His enemies against Him. At the end of your investigation, you as a fair judge must conclude for yourself, if Bahaullah is honest or is a liar imposter.
 

firedragon

Veteran Member
So many reasons ... frustration at the politics, differences in opinion with spouse, following the spouse out, not what I thought it was, way too much dogma, no longer believe, didn't know about certain policies, backbiting, sexual antics, abuse, ... every case is individual, in leaving any religion. The ex-_______ stories are quite the reads. People change, they grow, they have events happen to them. All part of being human.

Sometimes they lie.
 

Ancient Soul

The Spiritual Universe
Would you be able to answer some of these questions from a non-Bahai perspective?

Which questions?

The opening questions starting off this forum thread are too specific for me to comment on. As this Baha'i mythology is new to me.

But from what I've been shown by these Baha'i followers here, is that it's a train wreck to say the least.
 

Ancient Soul

The Spiritual Universe
But sometimes, its because they never knew much about their religion in the first place. sometimes it is for migration. Also sometimes its for a career.

But people mostly leave religions because they are too false for their liking. Some people do maintain rational thinking so don't always fall for the brainwashing inherent in all religions.
 
Which questions?

The opening questions starting off this forum thread are too specific for me to comment on. As this Baha'i mythology is new to me.

But from what I've been shown by these Baha'i followers here, is that it's a train wreck to say the least.

I'm currently Non-Bahai, and I wrote a version of my answers to the questions a few posts down or on one of these pages, I answered every single question that I wrote, and I'm pretty much not familiar with Bahai stuff at all, so instead, one can either change the questions slightly to make them answerable or otherwise use it as an opportunity to share your own beliefs and understandings and why you think you might be hesitant to believe anything different or newer or whatever. So that is sort of what I did, I kind of wrote about some of my own ideas and beliefs a little in my answers I think.

So, for me, I'm trying to mainly figure out why the Bahai religion is useful or necessary when it seems like its very similar to Islamic stuff, and saying basically the things that are in the Qur'an, closely enough that I'm not seeing why it needs to be a different religion or considered a different religion. Like, Judaism can't be Christianity because the Jewish people deny this whole Jesus is the Messiah business and especially that Jesus is God, so Christianity really is and has to be its own religion, and Islam isn't Judaism, since Islam makes its own traditions and differs in many places from Judaism as it developed and denies aspects of the Jewish scriptures and traditions maybe, so that is its own thing too but I think it contains the same message of the "One Religion" that the Bahai seem to be all about too, and I think they got that idea maybe from the writings of the Qur'an which basically state it outright.

So Judaism makes sense to me as its own religion that isn't Christianity which has to be its own religion too, and Islam has to be different from both (though might be pretty similar to Judaism even though the Qur'an claims Christians are closer to Muslims, maybe because of their accepting Jesus as the Messiah which Jews don't).

The big religions seem to be Hinduism (and its varying sects), Buddhism(s), Judaism (the tiniest of the big religions), Christianity (the biggest still I think?), and Islam (also very huge) when all the sects are combined for each. Theism is the top basic idea in the world today among people, and even most Buddhists I've encountered are basically pretty darn theistic for the most part when it comes to actually how they live and practice, and Atheistic people are a minority (are they more than the population of Jewish people? I think so, probably).

Zoroastrianism and other stuff is still around too, but I'm pretty sure their numbers are even less than that of the actively practicing Jewish people even.

Then there are two 1800s religions I think that are pretty big, The LDS Church (Mormonism) and the Bahai, and we can through in also the much older Sikh religion (which might actually have a huger population than the LDS and Bahai overall) and the Jehovah's Witnesses (not sure on their numbers in comparison to the LDS or the Bahai).

The Jehovah's Witnesses seemed at first to me to be closer to ordinary Christians than the LDS, but actually their theology might be a little different from the mainstream as well, so requiring them to be their own unique sect, and the Sikh also seem to have some unique developments in their religion which makes them different from Hindus and Muslims, which they sort of seemed like a kind of combination of maybe in some ways.

So, just like an Atheist prefers none of these religions, my personal preference is to modify everything that I can into an Islamic framework of monotheism. I find that, like if we were playing a game or something, the Qur'anic framework and theology as I make it out to be is the easiest, clearest, and most useful for basically tacking on almost any other system and those system's terminologies and making them monotheistic, so I find it pretty easy to take Hindu or Vedic materials or Mahayana or Esoteric Buddhist materials and tacking them onto the Islamic framework, or Ancient stuff called "pagan" like the religions of Greece, Rome, Ancient Egypt, the Celts, the Vikings, Aztecs, Native Americans, Chinese, whatever, just by making it that its all monotheistic, every term is an aspect or power or epithet of one God, and they can be switched out freely, so if you are calling on God for rain, you call on Rain God or whatever, but its the same God you're talking to, just that different term related to rain stuff more, which Islam already sort of gave people the idea for in some ways with all its different names and epithets for Allah and their practice of dhikr (praising and invoking God by various names which people also believed would call upon different attributes or bring about different things).

So, because of that, I basically take on just about most every religion, even fictional ones like those from fictional worlds or games (like Warhammer) or stories (like Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos) without much issue.

The only religions which are beyond my encompassing and covering are basically the ones with very specific official theologies and leadership structures which reject this particular brand of Universal Monotheism that takes every term and name possible, so I can't participate with or be a member of the LDS or Mormonism, I can't really be a mainstream Christian (I can only be a Unitarian type these days, I think that is an offshoot of Calvinism which my beliefs are close to), Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Sikhism, all of them are fine and can be used though. So the ones that are too far away are Mormonism and The Joy of Satan type beliefs due to their very literal and bodily sort of almost biological polytheism.

I can also say with confidence, and at least for me, that this all seems to "work", and continue to work, I've used names like Hermes and Odin and Tlaloc or referred to Tezcatlipoca or Shangdi or Azathoth or whatever at all, Apollo, Nergal, any of that effectively and with as much seeming success as using the words Allah or YHWH or whatever else, so in my opinion it doesn't seem to matter one bit what word is used, even Lucifer or The Devil, so long as one is meaning to refer to the same One Ultimate Power and has a clear idea about what they are talking about. Even if one does not have a clear idea, or is referring to different things, if those things don't really exist, yet a prayer seems answered or some miraculous thing happens, then its still the same One that is believed by me to be answering it or playing into the request or role, even if it ends up making the people believe whatever other things, like that their particular bodily deity they imagine actually exists individually or something or is in conflict with other things, all beliefs which I find to be cumbersome and not really healthy or useful overall and more anxiety inducing and problematic than the belief in One that encompasses All.

The Bahai religion, due to its closeness to Islam, is mainly compatible also with these beliefs most likely, but the problem might occur in any heavy duty attention given to the writings of Baha'u'llah or the things claimed about him or by him, which I probably don't really fully believe in or accept (or haven't found a way to contort them enough to this system, since I don't believe in any literal idea that the various Prophets or Messengers were all encompassed by him or that he was them (not sure if they claim this exactly), or God or God's Holy Spirit or whatever, but I think they were all ordinary individuals. I can accept that Baha'u'llah was possibly inspired by God, since I don't think that is beyond people and that anyone can be inspired by God at any time with anything at all, and I am confident that God created the Bahai religion, but that is because I believe God creates everything, even Satanism and criminal organizations and whatever, good or evil, everything whatsoever, and leads on and controls everyone involved, for better or for worse.

So, I'm quite satisfied and happy with my "All Religion" freedom, worshipping Amun, Loki, whatever the heck I want to, in a framework or system I find both logical as well as efficient and even very fun, with basically no compromises made about much of anything, so I get to worship whatever without forcing myself into beliefs I consider awkward or unbelievable or difficult.

I don't really know what the Bahai could offer that is better than my beliefs or my religion, which even easily enough encompasses all their materials without sacrificing any other materials and doesn't cut oneself off from most anything.

Could someone, if someone thinks that Bahai or anything else is the way, somehow convince me of how I might be wrong and why their way should be adopted instead?
 
Should we perform
Very good question. To me, to determine if Bahaullah is to believed can be treated as if there is a court.

Suppose there is a court, a judge, and evidences. The judge must first investigate all evidences. This judge, is no one else other than you. You would need to hear both sides. The evidences that work in favour of Bahaullah, as well as the words of His enemies against Him. At the end of your investigation, you as a fair judge must conclude for yourself, if Bahaullah is honest or is a liar imposter.

Should we perform that trial here then? This is the thread for it!
 
I see God has always taught Oneness.

The Muslims did not follow Muhammad when Muhammad offered there is no compulsion in religion.

Baha'u'llah has again shown us that teaching of Muhammad and the Baha'i now practice it.

The holy books talk of an age where we will find peace as one people under one God. I see this is the dawn of that age.

Sorry, very busy in life at this time, off to work soon.

Regards Tony

Thank you! That would be cool! I'm into that!
 
It is a big topic, but in a nutshell.

The elections are secret ballet and any Baha'i in good standing over the age of 21 can vote or be voted for. No canvassing for votes is allowed. 9 people are to be elected at the local communitu level.

Each year a convention is held that elects delagtes to attend a national convention where the National Spiritual Assembly of 9 people is elected.

Every 5 years the 9 members Universal House of Justice is elected by the members of the current National spiritual Assemblies.

All votes are spiritual basesed. We are to choose who we see as spiritual and capable in a prayerful attitude.

There is an elected Chairperson, Vice Chair treasure and secretary to allow for administrative duties and lawful requirements.

Regards Tony

Very amazing, I had no idea about any of this! Thank you for explaining how it works a little!
 

Trailblazer

Veteran Member
Could someone, if someone thinks that Bahai or anything else is the way, somehow convince me of how I might be wrong and why their way should be adopted instead?
I am on the run right now, have to go out, but I just saw your post in my Alerts, and it just so happens that I got an article in my e-mail today from Baha'iTeachings.org that might help you to distinguish Islam from the Baha'i Faith; in fact it will help you distinguish the Baha'i Faith from every other religion the EVER existed. Here is an excerpt from that article and you can read the whole article from the link below:

Baha’u’llah’s Two Bold Claims

All of which leads us back to Baha’u’llah, who made two very bold claims. First, he declared he was God’s messenger for the next one thousand years, having the same divine authority, the same Holy Spirit, the same divine power, as Moses, Christ, Muhammad, and the other founders of the major world religions:

In the East the light of [God’s] Revelation hath broken; in the West have appeared the signs of His dominion. Ponder this in your hearts, O people, and be not of those who have turned a deaf ear to the admonitions of Him Who is the Almighty, the All-Praised. Let the Breeze of God awaken you. Verily, it hath wafted over the world. Well is it with him that hath discovered the fragrance thereof and been accounted among the well-assured. – Baha’u’llah, Tablets of Baha’u’llah.

This station, by itself, makes the Baha’i Faith the youngest of the major world religions.

Baha’u’llah made a second and even more challenging claim. He declared he was the promised world messiah foretold in all the prophecies, in all the holy books, of all the religions of the world – the one promised to come on the Day of Judgment, the Day of God, the Time of the End, the End of the World, to establish the kingdom of God on Earth.

Baha’u’llah declared this period in history as the Day of God, the Time of the End. His mission is nothing less than the establishment of this glorious kingdom – the unification of the entire human race into an all-embracing, spiritually mature world civilization based upon divine principles of justice and love, and whose watchword will be unity in diversity.

With this second claim, Baha’is believe that all of the religions of the world have been consummated and fulfilled with the coming of Baha’u’llah.

https://bahaiteachings.org/what-did-bahaullah-teach?
 
I am on the run right now, have to go out, but I just saw your post in my Alerts, and it just so happens that I got an article in my e-mail today from Baha'iTeachings.org that might help you to distinguish Islam from the Baha'i Faith; in fact it will help you distinguish the Baha'i Faith from every other religion the EVER existed. Here is an excerpt from that article and you can read the whole article from the link below:

Baha’u’llah’s Two Bold Claims

All of which leads us back to Baha’u’llah, who made two very bold claims. First, he declared he was God’s messenger for the next one thousand years, having the same divine authority, the same Holy Spirit, the same divine power, as Moses, Christ, Muhammad, and the other founders of the major world religions:

In the East the light of [God’s] Revelation hath broken; in the West have appeared the signs of His dominion. Ponder this in your hearts, O people, and be not of those who have turned a deaf ear to the admonitions of Him Who is the Almighty, the All-Praised. Let the Breeze of God awaken you. Verily, it hath wafted over the world. Well is it with him that hath discovered the fragrance thereof and been accounted among the well-assured. – Baha’u’llah, Tablets of Baha’u’llah.

This station, by itself, makes the Baha’i Faith the youngest of the major world religions.

Baha’u’llah made a second and even more challenging claim. He declared he was the promised world messiah foretold in all the prophecies, in all the holy books, of all the religions of the world – the one promised to come on the Day of Judgment, the Day of God, the Time of the End, the End of the World, to establish the kingdom of God on Earth.

Baha’u’llah declared this period in history as the Day of God, the Time of the End. His mission is nothing less than the establishment of this glorious kingdom – the unification of the entire human race into an all-embracing, spiritually mature world civilization based upon divine principles of justice and love, and whose watchword will be unity in diversity.

With this second claim, Baha’is believe that all of the religions of the world have been consummated and fulfilled with the coming of Baha’u’llah.

https://bahaiteachings.org/what-did-bahaullah-teach?

That is fascinating! So yeah, that is definitely something that makes the Bahai religion different from all the others! When you have the time, what are some of the evidences for these two big claims and how do people come to be convinced of these two claims?
 
You will never get proper response brother. Each answer will be enough for another post and each of your points should be a single thread.

One liner answers to 25 questions like this would go nowhere, and you will never get analysis but "faith statements".

25 threads about a religion that I barely have any interest in currently seems unreasonable for me, but it was actually suggested by a moderator as well. I don't think I could do it or risk doing it, it would seem like spam. The reason I'm not deeply interested in it, is that it seems sort of boring to me for some reason. The Qur'an tends to interest me and amuse me a lot more, its very entertaining for me for some reason, but the translated writings of Baha'u'llah don't seem to stimulate anything for me. I think one of the big problems for me is that its this guy, and so much about it is about this guy and how this guy is great, its like Tom Cruise's latest Mission Impossible film where it seemed all about how he's the greatest and the savior of the world and everything, and it just seemed heavy handed and boring and even unbelievable.

Muhammed's religion had such a huge impact, for better or for worse, on the whole globe, but unless the Bahai religion is somehow working behind the scenes or something, I can't see that it has had much of an impact just yet on anything much since the 1800s, but they have a thousand years or so to go I guess.

I'm interested in ancient religions, magical things, but I've never been very interested in things that are all about going wild praising some guy, I don't even like when people over-do it in my opinion with praising Muhammed or any Prophet or make them out to be big shots, I like the whole idea that these people are just very ordinary, humble, almost unwillingly forced like Mary into some silly and absurd scenario where God chooses them to do some terrifying mission and they seemingly have little to no choice but to risk their lives and go for it, and end up changing everything and even surviving the nightmarish ordeal, so the stories of Moses from the Qur'an, Jesus, Muhammed, Abraham, all of them are really interesting to me, and there seems to be none of that in the Bahai stuff mainly just a lot about how this guy is awesome and things are going to happen and a lot of extremely flowery language. I'm trying to figure out what exactly it is about it that has convinced as many people as it has, and how they come to respect this person so much and the things they are saying and saying about themselves. If Muhammed was like this, I think I might have seriously rejected him, which really makes me nervous to think that if the Prophet appears like an egotistical person they become very hard to believe or follow or even like, and that if Muhammed was like that, I might have really questioned the Qur'an. The thing is, the Qur'an (to me) is so good of a book, so entertaining, so filled with things I like and would want to say myself, it basically backs me up and all my ideas, in a way that no people have ever done, so even if Muhammed was annoying (which I don't think he was based on at least the Qur'an's impression it gives of him and his scenarios or behaviors) the book, if one can actually get to reading is, is just too good (or fitting for certain tastes) to reject or deny or throw away and waste. As for the writings of Baha'u'llah, from what I've seen so far, its just not tickling my fancy in quite the right ways to get me interested and keep me interested.

Similarly to the Bahai stuff, though I find it more interesting maybe, the stuff fussing about Jesus and making a big deal about the stuff he is supposedly saying and doing, and the stuff fussing about Buddha, and the stuff fussing about Muhammed (Hadiths), none of them interest me, they all tend to irritate me. The unique thing maybe, or just a little interesting about the Bahai writings is that its written by Baha'u'llah himself, so you get the first hand writing of a person who claims to be or has the fortitude to state of himself the things he does (which also many modern cult leaders seem to do also), but its a unique insight into the mind of such a person, but for me its also a bit of a turn off (or a pretty humungous turn off).

So, personally, I hope Muhammed was not like this, and I'm deeply grateful that he was SO LONG DEAD before the Qur'an reached me, because I really love that book, and really dislike people who say "I am the Prophet of God, the Messiah, I am God's Manifestation, I am the savior of the whole world, I will be judging all of you on Judgment Day as I sit with God who loves me" and stuff like that. That is not the impression the Qur'an gives of the fashion or style of any of the Prophets mainly as far as I'm aware, even though it tells them or Muhammed to "Say:" certain things like that he is a messenger, but the way he goes about it, is that it tells him to say he is powerless, has no power over anything, doesn't know the unseen, and can be executed and replaced in an instant, is basically a worthless nobody, a pawn, nothing. That is what I prefer by far, people who were simpletons living in utter fear, not organized or slick or savvy, ruining their lives and careers and wealth and everything, who end up bringing forth something amazing, the miracle being the excellent Qur'an.

Did Baha'u'llah produce a book comparable to the Qur'an? One that rhymes, while saying so much cool stuff, covering so many topics in such an interesting and entertaining and creative way all at once? One that has maintained its amazing structure and rhythm for hundreds upon hundreds of years in a single compiled easy to read book? Did Baha'u'llah experience or perform any miraculous feats at all? Just a guy who writes a lot like I even do? Except, even I have experienced lots of cool miraculous seeming things.
Is there a list of Baha'u'llah's supposed miraculous experiences and performances? Or the product of his miracles, like a book like the Qur'an?
 
Honestly I think, to investigate Bahaullah's case, it will take at least one year, if one spends several hours a day.

But the thread is yours. You can do some of that investigation here i suppose

Hey, years pass fast, feel free to do it here if you're up to it, and I will keep participating as well, one year sounds like an acceptable length of time to begin and end the Trial of Baha'u'llah, or I can make a thread separate from this, though I have a tendency to want to make it about several
Prophets, but I should keep each separate if I do it. I really like the idea, and it is all from what you wrote, I think it was a great idea. So if I don't make that particular thread, feel free to work out some of it or start the case here in this thread, and then if it seems to me that it will be better in its own thread, I'll move there and refer to some of the materials that were brought up here already there as well.

So yes, I'd love for you to help me with that and there are basically many here who seem to know about things who could help as well over the course of year. What else are we going to do anyway? I think its a good thing.
 

SeekerOnThePath

On a mountain between Nietzsche and Islam
Did Baha'u'llah produce a book comparable to the Qur'an? One that rhymes, while saying so much cool stuff, covering so many topics in such an interesting and entertaining and creative way all at once? One that has maintained its amazing structure and rhythm for hundreds upon hundreds of years in a single compiled easy to read book? Did Baha'u'llah experience or perform any miraculous feats at all? Just a guy who writes a lot like I even do? Except, even I have experienced lots of cool miraculous seeming things.

The answer is basically one big no.

He did write a text call the Kitab i-Aqdas though, which is simultaneously praised and secretly loathed by Baha'i's.
It's basically just a law book (think like a really bad Deuteronomy), it has some flowery language here and there, but is mainly just laws and ordinances that Baha'i's themselves don't even follow.
Not comparable to the Qur'an in the least but the closest to them having any kind of central work, other than Kitab i-Iqan, which is an epistle in two parts that is an apologetic defense of the Bab (and not a great defense either) again stuffed with some more flowery language.
 
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