Mr. Sobhi [1] has been of the ex-Baha’is [2] and the special author of Abdul Baha (the second head of Bahaism) for 12 years mentions in his book called “Sobhi’s memoirs about Babism and Bahaism” that one the reason for having problems with Baha’ism organization has been the discriminations which assigned by Bahaism organization among the Iranian and western Baha’is in Haifa.
What depressed me there which was intolerable for me were as follows:
I) They discriminate among the western and Iranian Baha’is. They valued the western ones more than the Iranian and the eastern ones. First, their hotel was separated from them and their housewares were decorated and nicer. Although the Iranian were in one room and were steeping on the floor, but the foreigners were one or two people in each room and had good elastic beds and their housewares were better. Consistently, Abdul Baha was eating lunch and dinner with foreigners, but he didn’t eat with the Iranian ones even once.
II) The interior women, Abdul Baha’s daughters and relatives were veiling even in front of an Iranian Baha’i old man and didn’t appease, but they were not so with foreigners.
III) When they wanted to recruit people, they were writing foul words about the Iranian people in their writings: “The Iranian people are people like fierce animals. They are killers and fight badly. They are away from educations. They are sinking in abrasive caprice. They are evildoers…”
They were skillful in uttering these statements to such an extent that each foreigner who had become familiar with their speech considered the Iranian people as the most inferior people in the world. An organization which is claiming for new religion, but discrimination has been institutionalized in it !!! In which divine and heavenly religion, there is the discrimination against humanity?! What is the difference between the Iranians and foreigners?
In Islam, there is no difference among human beings:
يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُمْ مِنْ ذَكَرٍ وَأُنْثَى وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ أَتْقَاكُمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرٌ ( آیه ۱۳ سوره حجرات)
O mankind! Indeed, We created you from a male and a female, and made you nations and tribes that you may identify yourselves with one another. Indeed, the noblest of you in the sight of Allah is the most Godwary among you. Indeed, Allah is all-knowing, all-aware.
Source: The booklet, The morning traveler, Mehdi Habibi, 38-39.
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