{"id":17453,"date":"2025-12-17T11:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=17453"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:06:04","slug":"universal-peace-or-universal-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=17453&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"UNIVERSAL PEACE OR UNIVERSAL HYPOCRISY?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The world of 2025 stands not as a beacon of peace but as a monument to human hypocrisy. Geopolitical tensions deepen, economies falter, and societies fracture under the combined weight of deceitful diplomacy and self-serving morality. According to the World Economic Forum\u2019s latest report\u2014drawing the insights of over 900 global risk experts\u2014state-based armed conflict\u00a0has overtaken every other concern as the most immediate risk. Nearly a quarter of respondents foresee greater fragmentation and conflict, and they are not wrong. From Ukraine and Sudan to the burning Middle East, the cries for peace are drowned by the drums of war and the silence of the complicit.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

It is often claimed that religious leadership can play a moral role in peacebuilding. Yet history shows that moral authority, when corrupted by politics, quickly turns into moral theatre. While leaders like Pope Francis once mediated between the U.S. and Cuba and moderate Indonesian clerics countered violent ideologies, others have betrayed their own principles for proximity to power. Nowhere is this betrayal more visible than in the\u00a0Baha\u2019i cult, which preaches\u00a0Universal Peace <\/em>but practices\u00a0Universal Hypocrisy<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bah\u0101\u2019u\u2019ll\u0101h<\/a><\/span>\u2014who audaciously claimed to be the long-awaited savior destined to bring eternal peace\u2014died leaving behind no peace, no unity, and no fulfilment of divine promise. His followers, instead of introspection, now desperately search for a worldly power to carry out their failed prophecy. If divine power has left them, perhaps they hope the\u00a0United Nations,\u00a0the United States, or even\u00a0Russia\u00a0might assume the role of global redeemer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Their own texts betray them. Bah\u0101\u2019u\u2019ll\u0101h showered praise on imperial powers\u2014those very engines of war and oppression he claimed to oppose. His glorification of the Russian Empire\u2019s intervention in his release exposes how easily lofty ideals were traded for earthly favor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHis Imperial Majesty, the Most Great Emperor\u2014may God assist him!\u2014extended to Me\u2026 his protection.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

A similar tone of servitude echoes in `Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101\u2019s supplication for the British monarch:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOh Lord! Give grace to the great Emperor George V, the King of England\u2026 and keep permanent his towering shadow on this lofty land.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

These words\u2014offered to empires drenched in blood\u2014reveal the hypocrisy behind their so-called\u00a0principle of universal peace<\/em>. The English, Ottoman, and Russian regimes were busy enslaving nations, looting wealth, and spreading war while these \u201cspiritual leaders\u201d prayed for their prosperity. Why would any prophet of peace invoke divine favor upon warlords and colonizers?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The hypocrisy deepens. On\u00a0\u06f2\u06f7 April 1920,\u00a0Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101 accepted a **knighthood from the British Empire**\u2014a regime that, during the **Great Persian Famine (1917\u2013\u06f1\u06f9\u06f1\u06f9)**, caused millions of deaths through greed and mismanagement. Are we to believe that a power so ruthless suddenly grew a conscience because of\u00a0Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101\u2019s charitable acts? Or was this knighthood a convenient alliance\u2014a mask of piety covering political cooperation?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Baha\u2019i claim that \u201cpeace requires action, not words.\u201d But where is that action today? Their leadership preaches silence in the face of genocide, neutrality in the face of oppression, and detachment in the face of injustice. Their social media platforms remain mute while the world burns\u2014especially in\u00a0Gaza, where even secular nations have found their voices. Yet when persecution involves Baha\u2019is in Iran, they suddenly rediscover activism, outrage, and memory. Selective morality, selective peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Their own recent communication\u2014the\u00a0Universal House of Justice\u2019s letter dated 26 May 2024\u2014lays bare their confusion. It instructs Baha\u2019i youth\u00a0not to criticize or condemn any government<\/em>\u00a0and instead merely\u00a0\u201cfeel the pain\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of global suffering. This instruction directly contradicts `Abdu\u2019l-Bah\u0101\u2019s earlier assertion that\u00a0knowing good is not enough; one must act<\/em>. How can a faith claim to champion peace while forbidding its followers from standing against war?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the victims are others, they preach patience. When the victims are their own, they preach protest. The hypocrisy is staggering. The same letter glorifies \u201cthe sacrifices of Persian Bahais\u201d while remaining utterly indifferent to the massacres and atrocities committed elsewhere. They rewrite history to portray themselves as eternal victims while avoiding accountability for their own political alignments.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ultimately, the failure of Bah\u0101\u2019u\u2019ll\u0101h to establish the promised\u00a0Universal Peace<\/em>\u00a0exposes the truth: his message was not divine revelation but human ambition. The\u00a0Universal House of Justice, his so-called successor, continues the charade\u2014issuing hollow statements, performing moral theatrics, and protecting institutional interests under the guise of spirituality. Behind the polished rhetoric lies a system built not on peace, but on power, manipulation, and moral convenience. In the end,\u00a0the Baha\u2019i Faith stands not as a movement for peace but as a monument to hypocrisy\u2014a cult that exalts self-interest while preaching altruism, that praises oppressors while claiming divine compassion, and that silences its followers while pretending to be the voice of conscience. Universal Peace, it seems, was never their principle. It was their camouflage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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