A lie is the bedrock of all crimes!
It is amazing how those who were, or are involved, with the violation of the Covenant by their aggression and hostility against the second and third Guardians of the Cause of God have resorted to very obvious lies in their writings in order to justify their wrongdoings.
D… wrote:
“The whole idea of a court was abandoned because Israel had changed by 1957. There would be no religious courts as it appeared there would be in 1951.”
This is an obvious lie. Even today, Jews, Christians and Muslims in Israel have their own religious courts.
https://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/aboutisrael/state/democracy/pages/the%20judiciary-%20the%20court%20system.aspx
In the above link you can read the following:
“The Palestine Order in Council recognized eleven religious communities: Jewish, Muslim, and nine Christian denominations. The Israeli government added the Presbyterian Evangelical Church and the Ba’hai to this list.”
Also, the information is available in the article written by David Nachmias; “Israel Studies An Anthology: National Government Institutions”:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/isdf/text/nachmias.html
H… confirmed the above lie in stating that:
The Hands had written in 1959:
“We wish to assure the believers that every effort will be made to establish a Baha’i Court in the Holy Land prior to the date set for this election. We should, however, bear in mind that the Guardian himself clearly indicated this goal, due to the strong trend towards the secularization of Religious Courts in this part of the world, might not be achieved.” (Ministry of the Custodians, pp. 168-69)
The above quotation is included in the message issued by the former Hands during their conclave of November 4,1959, exactly two years following the passing of the first Guardian. At the time when the violating Hands wrote this message, they topped up their crime when they aborted the embryonic and the genuine Universal House of Justice that had already been established by Shoghi Effendi in 1951.This International Baha’i Council is to work under the direction and supervision of the Hands of the Cause residing in the Holy Land.”
Although the IBC created by the Hands was obviously a dummy and headless one, for them to say that the Universal House of Justice in its embryonic form, “works under the direction and supervision of the Hands” is in blatant contradiction and violation of the sacred provisions of the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha. Under the terms of that Document, the Hands of the Cause are not superior to, nor do they have any supervisory authority over the Universal House of Justice in any of its stages of development or forms.
During the two years following the passing of Shoghi Effendi, Mason Remey, the second Guardian of the Cause of God, patiently tried to convince the former Hands to stop their violation of the Covenant and due to his sacrifices during this period, he provided the violating Hands with every opportunity to correct their error, but they did not do so. Mason Remey realized then that he could not continue to support the former Hands in this violation, and so he did not sign this message, and the violating Hands immediately excluded him from further membership on the body of the Custodians.
The second stage in the evolution of the IBC– the embryonic Universal House of Justice– as clearly stated in Shoghi Effendi’s Proclamation of 9 January 1951, would be an “OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED BAHA’I COURT” which he publicly ordained in his Cablegram of April 25, 1951, as an “ESSENTIAL PRELUDE TO THE INSTITUTION OF THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE.”
The former Hands, therefore, had no authority to change this evolutionary process predestined by the first Guardian. Any change or modification belonged in the domain and sphere of the Guardian.
These former Hands did not have any right to make any decision about the IBC or interfere in any way with its affairs. The only thing they should have done was to realize and acknowledge the station of the International Baha’i Council i.e., the Universal House of Justice in its embryonic form, and having done so, they should have recognized its “sacred Head.” They would then be obliged to act according to the sacred provisions of the Will and Testament of Abdu’l Baha and “show their obedience, submissiveness and subordination unto the Guardian of the Cause of God, to turn unto him and be lowly before him.” Unfortunately, they were incapable of this realization and instead showed their obedience to the then Arch Covenant-Breaker of the Cause of God (Ruhiyyih Khanum).
In another erroneous and misleading assertion H. has written: “The IBC was already in direct contact with the NSAs by the time of the Guardian’s passing. Beginning in 1953, he directed NSAs to send their monthly progress
reports to the IBC. He stated: ‘The Council is simply to coordinate reports, consolidate them, keep maps up to date, etc. for the Guardian, and your reports will enable them to do this.’” (Shoghi Effendi, Dawn of a New Day, p. 164) That same year Leroy Ioas was signing his correspondence with these same NSAs as follows:
“Faithfully yours,
Leroy Ioas
Secretary-General
International Baha’i Council”
It should be noted that Dawn of a New Day and The Unfolding Destiny… and similar compilations were not written by Shoghi Effendi, the first Guardian of the Faith. They are compilations of letters to the respective National Spiritual Assemblies and mostly to different individuals supposedly sent to them from Haifa during the ministry of the first Guardian.
And it should be noted that the letters which Leroy Ioas, Secretary-General of the International Baha’i Council wrote to the NSAs, were written on behalf of the first Guardian and not at the direction of the President of the IBC. Leroy Ioas mentioned this at the beginning of the letter that H. quoted in part. Mr. Ioas wrote: “Our beloved Guardian has been greatly encouraged by reports reaching him from all parts of the Baha’i world… The beloved Guardian has directed me to write your Assembly to amplify some of the aspects of his dynamic message.” (Dawn of a New Day, p. 162)
And following is paragraph c. of section 6 of the same letter in which H. has picked the last part of the paragraph to mislead readers: “c. A monthly report of progress is to be sent by your Assembly to the Secretary-General of the International Baha’i Council. Special matters of report nature, for the Guardian, in connection with the plan of settling these 131 areas, should be sent to the Secretary-General of the Council also. This does not mean that any administrative matters in connection with the settlement of pioneers should be handled with the Council. These should continue to be handled with the Guardian directly. The Council is simply to coordinate reports, consolidate them, keep maps up to date, etc. for the Guardian, and your reports will enable them to do this.” (Dawn of a New Day, p. 164)
And this is what Leroy Ioas wrote to the British NSA:
“The beloved Guardian has instructed me to write you on his behalf, to request that information relating to the British Isles and their activities, contained in the booklet The Baha’i Faith: Information Statistical and Comparative be brought up to date as of May 1, 1952, and sent to him here by the first possible air mail post.” (The Unfolding Destiny of the British Baha’i Community, p. 289)
Another big liar was, Adib Taherzadeh, a long-time member of the bogus UHJ, who wrote:
“The third stage was for the Council to be transformed into the International Baha’i Court [see footnote] in Israel, and the fourth stage was to be the election and the establishment of the Universal House of Justice. The third stage did not materialize because when the Hands of the Cause, after the passing of Shoghi Effendi, investigated the matter through legal channels, they found that the prerogatives and privileges which could legally be granted to a Baha’i Court were inadequate or unbefitting the prestige of the Faith. The International Council continued its service until 1963 when it ceased to exist with the election of the Universal House of Justice. In Islamic countries and in Israel there are religious courts legally recognized to administer legal matters in the context of religious law.]” (The Covenant of Baha’u’llah, p. 32)
The same lie appears and is a further testimony to his violation of the Covenant in The Child of the Covenant, p.332.
The “OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED BAHA’I COURT” was not the third stage, as he stated but the second stage in the evolution of the IBC, as clearly stated in Shoghi Effendi’s Proclamation of 9 January 1951. Moreover the Hands, as previously mentioned, did not have any authority over the embryonic Universal House of Justice, and they had no authority to make any decision about that “Central Body” which was established by the First Guardian. It was the authority of the President of the International Baha’i Council, i.e. the second Guardian, to decide when and how that Body would evolve as an “ESSENTIAL PRELUDE TO THE INSTITUTION OF THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE.”
Is it God’s intervention that these violators, in their own writings, have testified to their falsehood and evil status so that for many centuries to come all the people on earth will know them and remember them for their shameful acts?
Nosrat Bahremand