Abdul Hussein Ayati was of people who turned to Bahaism and was liked and interested by Abdul Baha [1] for long years. Anyway; after Abdul Baha’s death, some doubts were created for him about the legitimacy of Bahaism creed. After a while, those doubts changed to certainty. He turned against Bahaism completely and became Muslim again.
Ayati has been of ex-Baha’is who had a special relation with Abdul Baha, the second head of Bahaism. He considers the Baha’is as similar to Bayzidis of Kurdistan concerning cruelty and courage and describes their tempers as follows:
“Baha’is possess rough morality. They are hard-hearted, vindictive, pretended to be kind and loving. Their courage has also been discussed. They are often going to express their utmost generosity in this admirable character as long as they haven’t seen any resistance, but as soon as encounter they encounter resistance, they leave the field and retreat.”[۱] [2]
This cruelty can be seen since the first days of Babism among the members of this cult. According to Fereydoun Adamiyat, the Babis were behaving with people and governmental forces wildly. They amputated the war captives’ feet and hands and made them fire.”[۲] [3]
On the lunar month of Zul Qa’deh, 1264 A.H., September 20, 1848 A.D. Naser Al-Din Shah gained power. In the first 3 years of his kingdom, Iran was governed by powerful Amir the great who wasn’t liked by the western centers. During this this periods of time great riots happened in Iran out of which the most important one was Muhammad Hussein Khan Salar’s riot in Khorasan and the riot of Bab’s followers in the east of Iran.
Concerning the role of British colonialism in Salar and Agha Khan Mahallati’s riots, numerous materials have been posed, but concerning the role of foreign conspiratorial centers in Babism riots no research has been done.
Babi’s riot in the first year of Naser Al-Din Shah’s kingdom was done in three regions of Mazandaran, Zanjan [4], and Yard headed by those who claimed for obeying Bab including Mullah Hussein Boshroyei and Mullah Muhammad Ali Bar Forosh in Mazandaran and Mullah Muhammad Ali Zanjani in Zanjan and Seyyed Yahya Darabi in Yazd.
Amir the great repressed these riot firmly and Babi leaders of Zanjan riot hoped for Russian troops to help the Babis. When they got disappointed, they asked Russia and England to save they lives, but Amir the great didn’t accept.[3] [5]
Following these riots, Amir the great ordered Bab to be hanged.
Fereydoun Adamiyat considers Mirza Hussein Ali’s (Baha) field to be based on violence and murder from the first day. As a matter of fact; since the first days of Baha’i cult’s activity, a collection of murders started.
The secrets of some of these wars haven’t been clear, and the role of Baha’is have been proved in some cases.
These murders can be divided into five groups:
I) The political murders such as Amir the great, martyr Tayyeb
II) The murders of some Muslims whose living continuation was harmful for Bahaism
III) The murder of Babis who were against Mirza Hussein Ali Nouri mainly Azalis
IV) The murder Baha’is who were aware of the secrets
V) The murder based on personal animus of the Baha’i cult’s leaders.
Source: Majid Mahdavi, darkness land; criticizing Bahaism function, p. 127-128.
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[۱] [7] Kashful Hiyal, vol. 27, p.7.
[۲] [8] Amir the great and Iran, p. 448.
[۳] [9] Adamiyat, Amir the great and Iran, p.450.