Written in 2009 by Nosrat Bahremand
Under the guidance of the Third Guardian of the Baha'i Faith.
UNEQUIVOCALLY AND UNDENIABLY YES!
The question as to whether Shoghi Effendi had foreseen his early passing is asked by those Bahá’ís who, in their lack of faith in the indestructibility of the Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh and the immutability of the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, have inexcusably never taken the time or made the effort to search for an affirmative answer, which, otherwise, they would have been certain they would find, if they were to undertake a thorough review of the actions taken by Shoghi Effendi and particularly of the historic messages he had dispatched to the Bahá’í World during the latter years of his ministry.
GOD, IN TRUTH, KEEPETH WATCH OVER ALL THINGS
Had the Hands recognized the preeminent role of the International Council and permitted it to function as clearly intended by Shoghi Effendi they would have remained faithful to his plans for the future development of the institutions of the Bahá’í Administrative Order and, in doing so, have inevitably discovered and recognized the identity of his successor in their midst.
UNDENIABLE CONCESSIONS GRANTED BY A TRUE BAHÁ’Í
An understanding of the difficulty that is faced by Orthodox Bahá’ís in reaching any settlement in our dispute with the heterodox Bahá’ís, on religious grounds, may be facilitated and better understood by an individual or the members of a court unfamiliar with the Bahá’í Faith and, in this case, with the status and the role of the Guardian of the Faith as its appointed Head, if it is realized that the basic issue involved and the real reason why the National Spiritual Assembly has initiated its lawsuit in the first place is purely a religious one, based on its belief that the Guardianship of the Faith ended with the passing of Shoghi Effendi, and its perverse refusal, together with the heterodox Bahá’ís, under their jurisdiction, not to mention those Bahá’ís outside of the United States and the members of their so-called and grossly misnamed Universal House of Justice, to recognize and accept the undeniable evidence, presented to the contrary.
WHAT WILL BE YOUR EXCUSE WHEN YOU MEET SHOGHI EFFENDI IN THE NEXT WORLD?
CAN THEY PREVAIL AGAINST GOD’S IMMUTABLE
PURPOSE?
Consequently, Shoghi
Effendi’s writings were shamefully disregarded in the actions that
were then taken by the Hands and they inexcusably placed no importance
on and ignored, as well, the “historic” and
“epoch-making” decisions he had recently made
pertaining to the establishment of the highest Institutions of the Faith
at the World Center and had announced in glowing terms in messages to
the Bahá’í World during the concluding years of his
36-year ministry. ““At the World Center of the
Faith, where at long last the machinery of its highest institutions
has been erected, and around whose most holy shrines the supreme organs
of its unfolding Order, are, in their embryonic form, unfolding . . .
”
This spurious body, clearly
created outside of the provisions of the Will and Testament of
‘Abdu’l-Bahá then reigned over the Faith for a period
of some six years until its demise and its functions assumed by an
equally illegitimate and sans-Guardian so-called Universal House of
Justice, elected in 1963.
Joel Bray Marangella
Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith
“AS IT IS IN HEAVEN”
Every practicing Christian,
if asked, would be able to insert the words that precede the above
quoted phrase in “The Lord’s Prayer” and
would be able to inform you that the completed quotation is a
supplication to God to establish the Kingdom of God on earth
“AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.”
Will the Kingdom of God
that is established on earth in response to this supplication be one
that has been imperfectly fashioned by the minds of men, who possess no
knowledge of the features of that heavenly Kingdom, or must it possess
only those divinely-appointed features that have been uniquely revealed
by the Manifestation of God in this long-awaited “Day of
God?”
Joel Bray Marangella
Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith
“FATHER, FORGIVE THEM, FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT
THEY DO” – JESUS CHRIST
The above words uttered by Jesus Christ on the
cross at the hour of His crucifixion may aptly be applied to the equally
despicable spiritual crucifixion by the Hands of the Cause of Mason
Remey, following the issuance of His Proclamation to the Bahá’í World at
Ridván 1960 as the second Guardian of the Cause of God.
Can we forgive however the
inexplicable spiritual blindness and loss of faith in the indestructible
Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh and the Will and
Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá—the sacred and immortal
“Child of the Covenant”—exhibited by his
fellow-Hands, who had but recently attained their spiritual rank.
Joel Bray Marangella
Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith
THE ULTIMATE PARADOX
Is it not a blatant paradox that, since the passing
of Shoghi Effendi, that the sans-Guardian, and therefore headless,
illegitimate and so-called Universal House of Justice has now so
perverted the meaning of fidelity to the Covenant of
Bahá’u’lláh that they now ludicrously label as
Covenant-breakers those believers who have continued to faithfully and
steadfastly adhere to every clause of
‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s divinely-conceived, sacred and
immortal Will and Testament—a part of the explicit Holy
Text—whereas, in marked contrast, it is they, who in their
abandonment of the Guardianship, have thereby faithlessly declared major
clauses of this Will and Testament null and void and have, in
consequence, undeniably become themselves the arch-breakers of the
Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh?
Joel Bray Marangella
Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith
“THIS MOST GREAT
ORDER”
How can any true believer
suffer under the illusion that this “most great Order”—
“this Divine Masterpiece which the hand of the Master-builder of
the world has designed for the unification of the world-wide Faith of
Bahá’u’lláh”— will ever be supplanted
by a man-made imperfect system, minus the living Guardian presiding as
its “sacred head,” that has now been ignominiously erected
outside the sacred provisions of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s
Will and Testament by those who, in their lack of faith in the
indestructible Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh and in
the immortality of this divinely-conceived “Child,” have
repudiated this glorious Testament and have declared that the
Guardianship of the Cause of God came to an end with the passing of
Shoghi Effendi?
Joel Bray Marangella
Third Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith
THEY ARE UNDENIABLY PSEUDO BAHÁ’ÍS Shoghi Effendi has
stipulated that one of the essential requirements that must be fulfilled
to be accepted as a Bahá’í is: “Steadfast
adherence to every clause of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s sacred
Will.”
“GOD’S IMMUTABLE PURPOSE" — Shoghi
Effendi
To what immutable purpose
of God was Shoghi Effendi referring?
In Shoghi Effendi’s seminal work, first
published in 1934, titled: “The Dispensation of
Bahá’u’lláh” and considered by him to be
his spiritual testament, he states that “The bedrock on which this
Administrative Order is founded is God’s immutable Purpose for
mankind in this day.”
Joel Bray Marangella
Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith
FOR THEM The major divinely-conceived, sacred and
immutable provisions of the Will and Testament of
‘Abdu’l-Bahá—Document stated by Shoghi Effendi to
be nothing less than a part of the explicit Holy Text—are no
longer applicable and have now become null and void. If these
Bahá’ís then argue that these terms of the Will and
Testament no longer apply, they will, in effect, have declared that a
part of the explicit Holy Text, destined to endure as long as the
Dispensation of Bahá’u’lláh itself endures, has
now become null and void. A SATANIC
TRINITY This unholy trinity exerted its baleful and
all-pervasive influence over twenty-six of the twenty-seven Hands of the
Cause of God, gathered at their conclave in ‘Akká, following
the passing of Shoghi Effendi, and, as a result, they decided and
announced to the Bahá’í world, to their eternal
discredit and shame, that he had been unable to appoint a successor, and
thereupon nefariously set about rendering null and void the major
provisions of the Bahá’í Administrative Order as
delineated by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in His divinely-conceived
and sacred Will and Testament.
THE WORLD ORDER OF BAHÁ’U’LLÁH SHALL
NEVER BE
DOES SHOGHI EFFENDI CONTINUE TO
FUNCTION AS THE GUARDIAN OF THE FAITH IN THE NEXT WORLD?
—FAITHLESSNESS, DISOBEDIENCE AND PERVERSION
OF WHICH TWENTY-SIX OF THE THEN TWENTY-SEVEN HANDS OF THE CAUSE
SHALL STAND FOREVER CONDEMNED BECAUSE OF THEIR INIQUITOUS ACTIONS
FOLLOWING THE PASSING OF SHOGHI EFFENDI.
THE FORGOTTEN
PROMISE FOUND IN ISAIAH 9
“With the end of the Guardianship, as they believed, the Hands obviously had also terminated their own institution, with the death of the last surviving Hand (as only a living Guardian could appoint future Hands)...”
SHOGHI
EFFENDI’S SIGNIFICANT PROMISE
“...in their undue haste to do so, [the Hands] did not take the time to discover the manner in which Shoghi Effendi had clearly effected the appointment of his successor...”
WRONG ON ALL
COUNTS
“A message addressed to those Bahá’ís who maintain the following beliefs:”
That the Guardianship of the Faith ended with the passing of Shoghi Effendi because he was restricted under the terms of the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to the appointment of an Aghsán as his successor — WRONG.
WILL GOD PERMIT THESE WAYWARD BAHÁ’ÍS TO CONTINUE THEIR BLASPHEMOUS REPUDIATION OF THE DIVINELY-CONCEIVED AND SACRED WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ WITH IMPUNITY, A DOCUMENT THAT SHOGHI EFFENDI ACCLAIMED AS “THEIR WILL” AND “GOD’S IMMUTABLE PURPOSE FOR MANKIND IN THIS DAY” ?
“ Future unbiased, sincere and spiritually minded scholars, initiating a study of the Faith may find it difficult to place their hands on those writings of Shoghi Effendi, the first Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith, in which he discusses at length the Bahá’í Administrative Order, much less find it possible to review the “historic” and “epoch making” messages that he dispatched to the Bahá’í world during the seven closing years of his ministry, for a careful review particularly of these messages of great import will glaringly reveal the extent to which they had been ignored, if not inexcusably forgotten, following the passing of Shoghi Effendi in November of 1957, by twenty six Hands of the Cause.
Joel Bray Marangella,
Guardian of the
Bahá’í Faith
November, 2007
THE FLAGRANT AND INEXCUSABLE BETRAYAL OF SHOGHI EFFENDI
“At the World Center of the Faith, where, at long last the machinery of its highest institutions has been erected and around whose most holy shrines the supreme organs of its unfolding Order, are, in their embryonic form unfolding.”
Shoghi Effendi, 30 June 1952
“...they will therefore certainly conclude that the Hands had diabolically corrupted the Bahá’í Administrative Order in their replacement of the divinely-conceived institutions of that Order with a grossly flawed system of their own making, and thereby had become patently guilty of nothing less than a shameless and nefarious betrayal of all that Shoghi Effendi had so faithfully labored to achieve during his thirty-six year ministry.”
Joel Bray Marangella,
Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith
September,
2007
THE BAHÁ’Í
FAITH UNDER THE GUARDIANSHIP AN ANNOUNCEMENT FROM
THE GUARDIAN
OF THE BAHÁ’Í FAITH.
MY ACCESSION TO THE GUARDIANSHIP
A SUMMARY OF THE TRUE FACTS
Not only misinformation, but a deplorable lack of information has been posted on Bahá’í newsgroups, from time to time, questioning the validity of my accession to the Guardianship of the Bahá’í Faith.
A SUMMARY OF THE AIMS, TEACHINGS AND HISTORY OF THE
BAHÁ’Í FAITH.
Un
Summario
de Sus
Objetivas,
Enseñanzas e
Historia “COMMENTARY ON THE PROCLAMATION OF SHOGHI
EFFENDI” SHOGHI EFFENDI, 9 January 1951 "THE ERRING
HANDS ON TRIAL"
A HYPOTHETICAL TRIAL HELD IN THE NEXT WORLD OF THE FORMER HANDS OF THE
CAUSE OF GOD WHO, UPON THE PASSING, OF SHOGHI EFFENDI IN 1957, DECLARED
THE GUARDIANSHIP FOREVER ENDED. USENET NEWSGROUP POSTINGS ON "TALK RELIGION BAHAI"
Shoghi Effendi had yet to appoint the first contingent of the Hands of the Cause when he wrote his letter of 23 November 1951 in which he referred to the International Bahá’í Council as “the Central Body."
" IF YOU SAY “YES," I ACCEPT AS VALID THE FOLLOWING ACTS AND PRONOUNCEMENTS OF SHOGHI EFFENDI
THEN YOU ARE LEFT WITH ONE INESCAPABLE CONCLUSION.
Certainly, having become apprised for the first time of the decisions, acts and historic messages of Shoghi Effendi cited above, these believers will certainly say “yes,"
DO THESE BAHÁ’ÍS CARE THAT THEY, IN EFFECT, CONSIDER THAT THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ ARE NOW NULL AND VOID, DESPITE THE FACT THAT SHOGHI EFFENDI HAD DECLARED THIS SACRED DOCUMENT TO BE A PART OF THE IMMORTAL AND IMMUTABLE EXPLICIT HOLY TEXT?
"NAUGHT CAN RESIST THY WILL NOR FRUSTRATE WHAT THOU HAST PURPOSED BY THY POWER"
— Bahá’u’lláh
IT HAS COME TO THIS!—They dare not disclose to the enquirer the very existence of an integral part of the “explicit Holy Text”—the divinely-conceived, sacred and immortal Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
AN ILLEGITMATE NONDESCRIPT ADMINISTRATIVE BODY PRETENDING TO BE THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE OF THE BAHÁ’ÍFAITH and nothing more than a headless caricature of the divinely-conceived and immortal institution bequeathed to us by the “Center of the Covenant.”
THE SATANIC COLLUSION TO TERMINATE THE INSTITUTION OF THE
GUARDIANSHIP THE DIABOLICAL SUBVERSION OF THE BAHÁ’Í
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER PERPETRATED FOLLOWING
THE PASSING OF SHOGHI EFFENDI BAHÁ’U’LLÁH PROMISES UNINTERUPTED
GUIDANCE
‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ WRITES OFF THE
AGHSÁN IN PART THREE OF HIS WILL AND TESTAMENT
‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ’S UNIQUE PROMISE TO A
BELIEVER
THE DISPENSATION OF BAHÁ’U’LLÁH Author — Shoghi Effendi
SHOGHI EFFENDI FORETELLS HIS PASSING AND IDENTIFIES HIS
SUCCESSOR.
THE PROCLAMATION OF SHOGHI EFFENDI
Dated 9 January, 1951
Dated Ridván, 1960 Dated November 12, 1969
February 6, 1974 15 May, 1874 — 4 February, 1974 THE THREE
SECRETARIES OF THE INTERNATIONAL BAHÁ’Í COUNCIL Although appointed by Shoghi
Effendi and assigned a role that they were to perform during the Ten
Year Global Crusade. Dated 9 July and 21 October 1960. Author — Joel B. Marangella A LETTER AND FIVE MESSAGES ACCLAIMING SHOGHI EFFENDI’S
"EPOCH-MAKING" DECISIONS, BOTH IGNORED AND FORGOTTEN AND THEIR IMPORT
UNPERCEIVED.
That a man-made, obviously
fallible, sans-Guardian and hence an illegitimate and illicitly formed
Universal House of Justice would still delude themselves into believing
that they would be able to successfully establish the World Order of
Bahá’u’lláh—the long-prayed for,
long-awaited and promised "Kingdom of God on earth as it is in
Heaven."
Author — Joel B. Marangella
Author
— Joel B. Marangella
Author — Joel B. Marangella
WINTER — 73-74 WINTER — 74-75 NOV. 1977 JAN. 1985 ILLEGITIMATE REIGN OF THE CUSTODIANS.
LETTER TO THE ILLIGITIMATE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE.
THE DECLARATION OF THE NSA OF FRANCE —
RIDVÁN 1960.
THE ORTHODOX
BAHÁ‘Í COUNCIL OF DELHI
IBC
THE INTERNATIONAL BAHÁ’Í COUNCIL
WORLD-WIDE NEWSPAPER APPEAL CAMPAIGN
THE WILL AND TESTAMENT AND
TABLETS OF ‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ
SHOGHI EFFENDI INFORMS THE UNITED NATIONS OF HIS ROLE AS THE "APPOINTED
HEAD" OF THE FUTURE BAHÁ’Í "WORLD COUNCIL" PRIOR TO ITS FORMATION IN 1951
THE PROCLAMATION OF MASON
REMEY
THE PROCLAMATION OF JOEL BRAY
MARANGELLA
EULOGY TO MASON REMEY
A TRIBUTE TO MASON REMEY
WHO NEVER WROTE A SINGLE LETTER
OPEN LETTERS TO THE
BAHÁ’ÍS
THE
ULTIMATE DELUSION
UNANSWERED LETTERS TO
RÚHÍYYIH KHÁNUM
CHART BASED ON THE PROCLAMATION OF
SHOGHI EFFENDI
ARTICLES APPEARING IN THE PUBLICATION: "HERALD OF THE COVENANT"
"The Tree
of the Covenant"
"The
Violation of the Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh at the
World Center of the Faith"
"What is the meaning of Loyalty to the
Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh and who are the
present-day Covenant-Breakers?"
"Commentary on the Will and Testament
of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá"
TABLET OF THE HOLY MARINER DOOMS THE
BOGUS UHJ TO OBLIVION.
A CRITIQUE OF ADIB TAHERZADEH’S
BOOK, "THE COVENANT OF BAHA’U’LLAH"
SHOGHI EFFENDI DEFINES THE
"AGHSÁN"
THE EMBRYO — A Perfect and
Complete Organism at Conception
OTHER ARTICLES SUPPORTING THE
CONTINUING GUARDIANSHIP
NATIONAL BAHÁ‘Í COUNCIL OF THE
UNITED STATES
BAHÁ‘Í SCHOLARS SERIES
NATIONAL BAHÁ‘Í COUNCIL OF INDIA
(PNBC)
Publications of the PNBC: Index available on request
