The Baha’is consider the racial unity as Abdul Baha’s wish and achieving it as traversing his path while Abdul Baha has been the explicit sense of racial discrimination and insult to national characters!
In a message published in one of the proselytizing channels of Baha’ism organization, the strategy for removing racial difference considered inside Baha’ism not out of it: “Nobody must think that it must be waited for a mediator or an organization out of Baha’ism to be successful in solving that great problem by initiative and creating suitable environment.[1]”
The Baha’i proselytizers have introduced kindness, patience, humility, wisdom and prayer as the strategies for removing racial differences and they have also introduced the change in the course of racial differences as Abdul Baha’s wish: “The great problem which was avoided by Abdul Baha is solvable. So, this way will cause the wishes of the covenant center to be fulfilled and his blessed wish to be achieved in an atmosphere that black and white join together to pay their shares to achieve the bright fate of that country.[2]”
However, it is interesting to be noted that the Baha’is have considered the racial unity as Abdul Baha’s wish and achieving it as traversing his course while Abdul Baha himself has traversed a course contrary to the racial unity: Abdul Baha has likened the black Africans as cows and wild animals.[3]
He has also described Africans as the symbol of stupid and foolish people: “If we leave human being in his/her nature, he/she will be worse than animal. For example the African people… Look at African people. They resemble animals, but they are worse than animals, too.[4]”
Also, Abdul Baha has blocked each kind of justification by posing the issue of the creation of African people in the form of cows resembling human being:
“What is the difference between the black Africans and the American ones. The black Africans are cows created by God in the form of human beings:
“خلق الله البقر علی صوره البشر”[۵]
Now, how is it possible for a symbol of racial discrimination to be introduced as the model of unity and his wish as the fulfillment of equality among human beings?!
[۱] The proselytizing Channel of the Baha’ism organization, narrated by Shoqi Effendi, the emergence of divine justice, p. 45.
[۲] Ibid.
[۳] Abbas Effendi, Makatib, Egypt: Kurdistan-Al-Elmieh, 1910 A.D., p. 331.
[۴] Abbas Effendi, the Semons, Germany: The national assembly of publishing the faith works, 127 BAdi’a, Vol. 2, pp. 234-237.
[۵] Ibid, Vol. 3, p. 48.
