The first people who got Babi in Khorasan were the Jewish people who had become newly Muslims. The most famous of them was Mullah Abdul Khaleq Yazdi. It is interesting to be known that he was one of the Jewish scholars who was residing in Yazd city. He had turned to Islam during Sheikh Ahmad Ehsaee’s period of time and had become one of Sheikh’s disciples. Then, he went to Mashhad city. He made a speech in Imam Reza’s (P.H.) courtyard as a scholar of religion and prayed in group. According to some narrations, he belonged to one of the first level scholars of Mashhad city.
\the old Colonialism found out that the best ways are making cults and create disunity among Muslims as the best ways to achieve its aims and wishes to penetrate among Muslims and to plunder their national capitals. Consequently, it ran Baha’ism among Shias and Wahhabism among Sunnis.
Meantime, the Jewish people helped Colonialism and caused these cults to be increased among Muslims. Babism was preached, proselytized and developed in various parts of the world by the Jewish people who had become newly Muslims. For instance; for the first time, Babism was proselytized in Siahkal by a Jewish person who became newly Muslim called Mirza Ebrahim Jadid and was residing in Rasht city.
The first people who became Babis in Khorasan were the Jewish people who had become newly Muslims among whom “Mullah Abdul Khaleq Yazdi” was the most famous. It is interesting to be known that he was one of the Jewish scholars who was residing in Yazd city. He turned to Islam and became one of the disciples of Sheikh Ahmad Ehsaee. Then, he went to Mashhad city.
The most surprising note about the Jewish people of Mashhad is that they were nearly 2000 in 1831 A.D. However; a short time after the establishment of Sasoni company in Boushehr city in 1839 A.D. that is 5 years before Ali Muhammad Bab started its invitation, all Jewish people of Mashhad city became Muslims in group.
In the book “branching in Baha’ism Ismaeel Raeen says: “Most Iranian Baha’is are Jewish and Zoroastrian and the number of Muslims in this cult is in Minority.” Of course; before Raeen, the ex-proselytizer of Baha’ism called “Ayati” had found out this reality. In its book called “Kashful Hiyal”, he writes: “This is a good news for the Muslim that the Jewish like “Hakim Rahim” and “Isac Yahoudi” wrote.”
The tendency towards Baha’ism isn’t merely seen in Mashhad, Gilan and Mazandaran, but the Jewish people joined the cult in cities like Kashan, Hamadan and Yazd.
According to what was stated the Baha’ism cult isn’t originated from Islam and Muslims; it is a Colonial and Jewish phenomenon and it isn’t surprising that why the center of Baha’ism has been located at “the universal house of justice” in Israel.
Source: Abdullah Shahbazi, 1396/ 02/ 18, Adiyan site, the article: “The Jewish people and the expansion of Babsim and Baha’ism.”
