One of the common methods in some Baha’i proselytizers’ speech is irregular adaptation of historical events to holy and literary texts; that is, the word or phrase of the holy Quran or a Persian poem is adapted to the events related to Bab or Hussein Ali Baha without any valid indication. Even, the original text is narrated incorrectly, sometimes.
In this article, two examples of this reasoning method is being investigated from history, interpretation and Persian literature exactly.
Criticizing the adaptation of “Dar Al-Salam” to “Bagdad“:
The followers of Hussein Ali Nouri are claiming for the phrase “Dar Al-Salam” Vin verse 127, chapter Al-Ana’m (لهم دار السلام عند ربهم) and the verse 25, chapter Yonos (والله يدعوا الى دار السلام) to be the description of paradise and a geographic secret for Bagdad city.
Their reason is that Bagdad has been also called as Dar Al-Salam and Hussein Ali Baha has lived in that land for 10 years and has revealed his claim in the last 12 days of his residence; so, the holy Quran calls people his message in Bagdad.
This claim is null due to four reasons:
I) Historical and temporal incompatibility: The holy Quran [1] has been sent down in 7th century A.D., while Bagdad has been founded in 145 A.H. (762 A.D.) by Mansour Abbassi and was named as “Madinah Al- Salam”.
II) The lexical and structural nullity: ”سلام” in Arabic means security and peace and it is also one of God’s names. ““دار السلام means the house of security and tranquility (paradise) it won’t be earthen city. Cutting a word from utterance and replacing it with a geographic name will destroy the semantic and lingual system of the verse.
III) The lack of rule in interpretation: The accepted interpretation will be valid when it based on the definite indication or narration. Adaptation of Dar Al-Salam to Boqdad is the clear example of “interpreting by own person’s view” and “posterior adaptation”.
IV) The weightlessness of Bagdad event in the holy Quran scale:
During the final 12 days of Hussein Ali Baha [2]‘s residence in Bagdad, Redhvan garden, he posed his claim secretly in the presence of several Bab’s gentlefolks.
Attributing and assigning uses of two verses of a book which will direct human beings to the day of judgment to a personal 12-day event and several people in an exile is not adaptable with the divine wisdom and the Quranic rhetoric.
Source: Bahaiat Shenasi
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