When we analyze the sociological analysis of Babi and Baha’i creeds in Iranian society, we find the last two centuries full of challenges and declare the oppression of our people. We as Iranians have been coveted by international looters due to the country’s strategic position and huge underground mineral resources on the one hand, and on the other hand, due to the geographical conditions in the Middle East, the enemies and superpowers have imposed wars against our nation. All these are apart from the internal differences that have always caused a decrease in the power and capabilities, empathy and national cohesion and have hindered the rapid progress in the contemporary world, which in fact has been in complete conflict with the national interests of the country.
Whether by external factors or internal ones, these oppressions have bothered us as Iranian people, and although they have been resolved to some extent with resistance and persistence, they have injured us. One of these oppressions has been the creation of religious cults and false claimants in our country. These cults have provided the ground for many challenges in internal security and weakened the religious foundations of some compatriots while creating differences. Additionally, it has sometimes led to riots, violence, and killings… . Nearly two centuries ago, when a young man in Shiraz named Ali Muhammad Shirazi Bab claimed to be the representative of the Imam of the Time and later the Imam of the Time himself, and then he claimed to be a prophet and claimed for a new religion, no one thought this strange claim would cause riots, wars and internal disputes and violations of national security, and how many of our compatriots would be killed and injured, and in the most difficult circumstances, when Amir the Great was renovating the national structures, it would hinder the movement and wouldn’t let our country progress. Yes, his followers started three civil wars in Tabarsi, Neiriz, and Zanjan, and occupied the Iranian army, and then assassinated the Shah, and next tried to seize the government. When they were arrested with the support of the Russian ambassador, they were saved from death and exiled to Iraq and there, by their own admission, they did so much evil that the Ottoman government had to expel them from there and exile them to two places in Cyprus and Palestine which in fact has targeted the national authority and national security of the country.
However, I wish this scandal would end here. One of the main leaders and agents of this religion named Hossein Ali Nouri (Baha), claimed for a new religion called Baha’ism and created a bigger challenge for the people and our country, which in the wake of the Babism catastrophes, has afflicted our country with national and international problems for almost two centuries. By claiming for abolishing Islam, this religion claims for a new religion that opposes the religious identity of us as Iranians and considers it outdated. This identity has formed our national and political culture and civil, criminal and civilizational laws for fourteen centuries. The Baha’is aggressively propagated ordered by its leadership which is an organization called the universal house of justice based in Haifa, Israel. In addition to these, through extensive lobbying with international centers, Baha’ism has caused human rights resolutions to be issued against our people, which has ended in sanctions against our country and inflicts wounds and injuries on the body of the motherlands and nations every day. Interestingly, they have diverted the public opinion of the world from their religious nature to human rights issues by portraying oppression. While if they engage in religious debates, it will be clear that what they claim is contradictory to the reality of history and their texts, and not only it is not considered as religion; but also, it is condescending to the extent of a political party or cult and group that seeks to form a world government. In fact, making cult by the Baha’ism has attacked the Iranian Islamic national identity.
We as Iranians believe that the religion of Islam is the last religion and the Holy Prophet, may God bless him is the last divine prophet. The last link in the chain of Imams, Imam Mahdi the Imam of the Time has chosen to go absent by divine command and has saved for the day when he will appear with the Excellency Jesus (peace be upon him) who will return and help him, and he will bring universal justice according to the promises of the holy Qur’an and will fulfill a “community” full of purity, happiness and equality for humanity. This ideal was not only fulfilled by the claimants of Mahdism such as Bab and Baha, but after their appearance, but also worldwide and regional wars, oppression, inequality and discrimination increased…
During this period, the Báb and Baha’i religions have been criticized and searched by people and domestic and foreign researchers, and according to these researchers, they are fundamental contradictions in their claims and texts, so that the first faith was abolished by the Baha’i faith due to the harsh and disproportionate rulings of the time less than two decades and the Baha’i religion itself was also rejected by the intellectuals due to the rulings that are not in accordance with the times, such as burning the criminal and stigmatizing the forehead of the thief, the prohibition of shaving the head, and the ban on protesting against statesmen, etc. And claims such as the unity of the human world and the equal rights for men and women and the formation of the Universal House of Justice without the guardianship of affairs, were violated by their own texts and the internal protests of the Baha’is, which led to a split and caused many members of this religion to quit.
Now the question that arises for every honest researcher and just judge is that, who will benefit of all these challenges and harms happen to any country??? At least, it will be appeared that this cult was created by the enemy of Iran and Iranians during the last two centuries, i.e. two hundred years; Because whenever all the pillars of maintaining the existence of a country, such as national identity, national authority, national security, national interests, are attacked, it means that foreign enemies, that is, the world of arrogance, are definitely behind the cases. Otherwise, if the issue of cults and divisions is only internal, all the elements of a country’s organization will not be attacked and challenged, for example, the foreign national interests of the country may remain untouched.
Source
Fakhkhari, Abdul Hossein, Two Centuries of Challenges, Gouy Publications, 1397 S.H., pp. 18-22
