{"id":16280,"date":"2025-06-28T14:37:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T11:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=16280"},"modified":"2025-06-28T14:37:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T11:07:47","slug":"a-review-at-william-millers-views-on-bahaism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=16280&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"A review at William Miller\u2019s views on Bahaism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 William Miller, the American researcher, author, speaker, critic and Christian priest of Protestant came to Iran since 1919 A.D. for 40 years as the Christian missioner sent by Presbyterian church to proselytize Christianity. <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Due to his long residence in Iran, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mashhad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mashhad<\/a>, he had social intercourse with Babis and Baha\u2019is and became familiar with Bahaism leaders\u2019 teachings, books, and thoughts.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Observing the deceptive proselytizing activities of Bahaism in Europe and America, he decided to expose the realities gained by Babi and Baha\u2019i history and their teachings regarding much data which he had found in Bahaism in Iran. Having extensive data, he could display the reality of<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"> <a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?s=Babism&amp;lang=en\">Babism<\/a> <\/span>and Baha\u2019ism movement and reveal Bahaism tricks for thinkers and truth-seekers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Miller considers Babism and Bahaism as a cult and religious-political cult and movement. He considers the historical books published by the Baha\u2019i organization as deviated and believes that the existent Baha\u2019i books have been revised, deviated and censored regarding the day transformations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Miller believes that the real successor of Bab is Mirza Yahya Sobhi Azal entitled \u201cSobhi Azal\u201d whose brother could usurp his position using an exact planning and coup.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16282 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/A-review-at-William-Millers-views-on-Bahaism\u06f1.jpg\" alt=\"A review at William Miller\u2019s views on Bahaism\" width=\"180\" height=\"294\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Miller has criticized Abdul Baha and Shoqi Effendi, the successor of Bahaullah. He believes that the Baha\u2019i leaders\u2019 teachings are the ones adapted by the previous holy books of the Iranian culture and common dialogues in the west during 19<sup>th<\/sup> and 20<sup>th<\/sup> centuries. According to him, the Baha\u2019i leaders even couldn\u2019t establish unity and friendship among the members of their nuclear families with the teachings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 William Miller does not assume Baha\u2019ism as a modern creed. He believes that Bahaullah\u2019s teachings are close to the Middle Ages than the modern period of time. He has also claimed that the Baha\u2019i leaders forbade each kind of Jewish proselytizing because they were present there and dismissed the Baha\u2019i Iranian.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0Keep in touch with us: \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:bahaismiran85@gmail.com\"><strong>bahaismiran85@gmail.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 William Miller, the American researcher, author, speaker, critic and Christian priest of Protestant came to Iran since 1919 A.D. for 40 years as the Christian missioner sent by Presbyterian church to proselytize Christianity. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Due to his long residence in Iran, Mashhad, he had social intercourse with Babis and Baha\u2019is and became familiar with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[823,985],"tags":[1938,1974,839,4085,8479,1940,9417,9427,14304],"class_list":["post-16280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-articles","category-slidshow","tag-activities","tag-america","tag-bahaism","tag-deceptive","tag-europe","tag-proselytizing","tag-review","tag-views","tag-william-miller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16283,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16280\/revisions\/16283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}