“My dear, if you are God, why should we suffer difficulties and hardships…?!” Here are speeches by Soltan Abad village addressing Bahaullah written by Muhammad Ali, the special barber man of Bahaullah and one of close relatives of him about his memoirs during being his companion and John Cole, the Baha’i researcher and the master. of university of Michigan has prepared it to be printed as historical documents in 1982 A.D. in a book called “My memoirs about Bahaullah” by a Baha’i publishing house (Kalemat Press in Los Angeles, California).
The universal house of justice becomes aware of the issue and “Darul Enshe’” prevents him and the publisher to print it and asks for some parts of it to be removed.
John Cole and other researchers such as. Hassan Moqer Balyouzi, Ahang Rabbani, Adib Taher Zadeh, Mojan Mamen and Fereydoun Vahman and Amin Banani oppose this non-scientific and this historical censorship by writing letters to universal house of justice.
On Jan. 9, 1983 A.D., John Cole writes letter to the universal house of justice in Haifa:
“I believe the policy adopted by the universal house of justice is harmful and a disastrous one and the passage of time will prove it as false. I am sure that supreme reference will set its then policy based on data and its future considerations.
I deeply believe that removing a part of the text, the original or its translation, temporarily or prominently is a dishonest measure. I also feel preventing a public institute and foundation for people to achieve documents and data is morally dishonest. I also feel that preventing an institute and public foundation is false and incorrect to be used by the public and researchers because I deeply believe that these measures are basically false and no reason or excuse can justify it…”
He continues: I am also concerned about this issue that such secrecy, omission, and censorship policies will eventually hurt the name and credit of the Baha’i faith. I believe that Baha’i faith must be afraid of the historical documents remained for the 19th century. People’s behaviors and writings will stain its credit.”
The ending note is the permission of publishing historical materials of the Babi and Baha writings creeds’ book about some contemporary narrations of the west written by Mojan Momen.[1] However; in fact, this book has also been censored and the author was going to write important materials from English archives in the book which have been removed insisted and stressed by the universal house of justice!”
The censorship of the book called “a glance at the Baha’i religion written by “Ahmad Yazdani”, the famous Baha’i author is more important than this censorship. His book has been confirmed by Shoghi Effendi and had been printed several times. Because this book has been written when Shoghi Effendi was alive and included the texts for the leadership of Bahaism by the universal house of justice and its administration by the guardian of the faith. After Shogi’s death, it was ordered for some parts of the book about the necessity for the existence of the guardian of the faith in the universal house of justice to be removed.
Source: the book “two centuries of challenge, pp. 105-108.
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[۱] Oxford press, George Ronald, 1980 A.D.
