The Baha’i leaders have started from rejecting the external existence of Satan. In some cases, they have accepted its existence and eventually, they have introduced their opponents as to be adulterers with Satan!
According to the holy Quran, Satan is from the jinn and had got the external existence.[1] Jinn is from smokeless fire.[2] While, the Baha’i religious-makers have presented a different definition of Satan.
According to the Baha’i thoughts, Satan hasn’t got any external existence and everything which causes people to be away from God and the divine religion is called Satan.
The Baha’ism leaders have repeatedly rejected the existence of Satan and introduced it as spirit of lasciviousness not as an external existence. So; in Baha’i resources, Satan has been mentioned as follows: “Satan is the nature powers… which was interpreted as the spirit of lascivious ness…[۳]”
The following cases are several contradictions by the Baha’i leaders regarding the existence of Satan:
- The prohibition of interpretation: How did the Baha’i leaders ignore the holy Quran stipulation and reject the existence of Satan while the have considered the interpretation of the divine texts as illegitimate:
“Of course will and clear advice of the greatest name (That is Baha) is that you must block the interpretation doors and resort to the word meaning which is incommon use of the tribe.[4]”
- Forgetfulness: The Baha’i religion makers who were strictly rejecting the existence of Satan have repeated the Islamic belief regarding the existence of Satan: “Think of Satan as the teacher of kingdom of heaven in the highest assembly and heaven cities known with the best names…[۵]”
- Compromising with Satan: Even the Baha’ism leaders have spoken about compromising with Satan contrary to emphasizing on rejecting the existence of Satan: “observe that the Excellency Adam and others were in the paradise. When there was a conflict between the Excellency (P.H.) and Satan in the paradise, all were expelled from the paradise in order for him to be aware of this issue that conflict and quarrel will cause privation. So; in this luminous age, it is not allowable to fight with Satan at all according to the divine teachings.[6]”
- Fornicating of Satan with the mother of the opponents of Baha’ism:
Eventually, Satan whose existence has been accepted in Baha’ism in a place and has been rejected in another place has been introduced as the adultery of the mothers of those who have opposed Baha’ism:
” قُل مَن کان فِی قَلبه بُغض هذا الغُلام فقد دَخل الشیطان علی فراش اُمّه”[۷]
Consequently, the Baha’ism leaders have started from rejecting the external existence of Satan, they have accepted its existence in some cases and repeated the Islamic beliefs about it and eventually, have introduced Satan as the adultery with the mother of the opponents of Baha’ism!
[۱] “وَ إِذْ قُلْنا لِلْمَلائِکَةِ اسْجُدُوا لِآدَمَ فَسَجَدُوا إِلاَّ إِبْليسَ کانَ مِنَ الْجِنِّ…” (کهف/۵۰)
“Behold! We said to the angels, “Bow down to Adam” :They bowed down except Iblis. He was one of the Jinn, and he broke the Command of his Lord. Will ye then take him and his progency as protectors rather than Me? And they are enemies to you! Evil would be the exchange for the wrong-doers! [Al-Kahf/50]
[۲] “وَ الْجَانَّ خَلَقْناهُ مِنْ قَبْلُ مِنْ نارِ السَّمُومِ” (حجر/۲۷)
“And the Jinn race, we had created before, from the fire of a scorching wind. (Al-Hijr/27)
[۳] Abbas Effendi, Amr & Khalq epistle, Vol. 2, p. 165.
[۴] Ishraq Khawari, the treasury of limitations and commandment, the electronic copy, pp. 340-341.
[۵] Ishraq Khawari, the heavenly food, Vol. 7, p. 19.
[۶] Abbas Effendi, Makatib, Bija: the national institute of the faith press, 121 Badi’a, Vol. 4, p. 150.
[۷] Ishraq Khawari, worthy treasure, Bija: the national institute of the faith press, 124 Badi’a, p. 79.
