Contrary to Malaysia government opposition against proselytizing of the deviant cult of Baha’ism and even appointing punishment for publishing its books, the Baha’ism organization presented a detailed report last year about its evangelical proselytizing in Malaysia with the excuse of flood event. However, the Baha’ism organization insists on its evangelical proselytizing in the Islamic countries even contrary to its teachings in obeying the governments.
Using beautiful titles such as making community and serving society, the Baha’ism organization dispatches its proselytizers for proselytizing for Baha’ism.
In this trick, the Baha’ism organization shouts the slogan of serving and misuses people’s sufferings and weaknesses and tries to make them Baha’i.
We read in Baha’ism report about its successful proselytizing in the Islamic country of Malaysia and misusing the critical circumstances of flood event in some regions of this country: “The king of the world) one of the big cities of Malaysia), when great and sever rainfall caused flood in various regions of Malaysia, the spirit of serving and group measures which had grown in the activities of Baha’i community making in the unsound regions and the nearby ones changed rapidly into aid ones.[1]”
Consequently, the Baha’ism organization writes in a report about its practical proselytizing measures with the excuse of flood under the name of serving fellow-countryman and in favor of proselytizing: “The national spiritual assembly of Malaysia invited the local spiritual assemblies across the country in a message to obey the Excellency Abdul Baha’s nationwide love towards people, all nations, races and beliefs and answer urgent needs of their fellow-countrymen in this grave period of time. The spiritual assemblies acted and the Baha’i families changed their homes into shelters across Malaysia[2].”
Nevertheless, the aggressive proselytizing has for many years excited the sensitivities of the officials of this country to such an extent that Mahathir Muhammad, the ex-prime minister of Malaysia asked the Islamic Republic of Iran in its periodical trip to Iran to help Malaysia campaign against the deviant cult of Baha’ism’s proselytizing in Malaysia. Because the source of Baha’ism was in Iran and the Baha’is main center was in Malaysia.[3]
In another measure, the government of Malaysia has forbidden publishing several books of the deviant cult of Baha’ism in the previous years in this country. Hashimeh Nik Ja’far the attendant of the department of controlling publications and the text of the holy Quran in the ministry of state of Malaysia said: This prohibition consists of the elements which can make Muslims make a mistake and includes the deviant interpretations. According to the report by the official correspondence of Malaysia, he said some of these publications and books can hurt people’s faiths. Publishing such books has been forbidden according to the law in 1984 A.D. and is considered as a crime.[4]
However, we can observe that the Baha’ism organization has continued its aggressive proselytizing seriously using various titles and excuses in this Islamic country while the Baha’i leaders have introduced obeying the government as the criterion for being Baha’i[5].
[۱] The news service of the universal organization of Baha’ism, dated: Bahman, 2, 1400 S.H., January 22, 2022 A.D.
[۲] Ibid.
[۳] Rasa correspondence, the news title: who are defacing Shia in the world? News Code: 238867, date of publishing Day, 11, 1393 S.H.
[۴] IRNA correspondence, the news title: Malaysia prohibited the book of preaching the deviant cult of Baha’ism, the news code: 81898767, Day, 8, 1394 S.H.
[۵] Ishraq Khawari, the treasury of limitations and commandments, the electronic copy, pp. 463-464.
