{"id":19173,"date":"2026-09-08T13:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=19173"},"modified":"2026-09-08T13:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:52:23","slug":"the-political-approach-of-bahaism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=19173&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The political approach of Bahaism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Baha: leaders consider not meddling with policy as one of the important principles of their creed. They have prevented their followers repeatedly to enter into parties and political disputes in their so-called holy texts. Hussein Ali Nouri (<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?s=Bahaullah&amp;lang=en\">Bahaullah<\/a><\/span>) writes in the book Aghdas:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Nobody is allowed to oppose his\/her rulers and kings; in brief, the Baha\u2019is must have nothing to do with their kings.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[\u06f1]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To complete the father&#8217;s order, Abdul Baha prevented the Baha&#8217;is entering into political affairs and obeying kings and serving them honestly.<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Abdul Baha considers religion&#8217;s duties and Bahaism clergymen as educating people and preaching morality and prevents them meddling with political affairs and says: \u201cAccording to the exact text of the Blessed Beauty, the disciples mustn&#8217;t meddle with policy<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a>, but they must limit all of their thoughts with proselytizing.<a href=\"#_ftn4\" name=\"_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0In spite of the above-mentioned confirmations, the history of Babi and Baha&#8217;i cults has been full of political actions and even military ones of the leaders and followers. Aliens such as Russian and British governments have been continually sensitive with political, social and religious atmosphere of Iran and some researchers believe that the emergences of Babism, Baha&#8217;ism and Wahhabism cults in Islamic world are as the result of forgery attempts of Russian and British workers in the Islamic lands.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There is no doubt in interference and planning of the mentioned governments, but the native fields for the emergence e of these cults in the world cannot be rejected. The opportunity for the emergence of most cults is originated from the religious beliefs and social viewpoints of their emergence land grown in the source of null superstitions and common beliefs of that community. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anyway, the foreign governments\u2019 attempts in the expansion and development of <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cult\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cults<\/a> <\/span>cannot be rejected, too. They support each economic, political, social and religious movement which provides their short-termed and long-termed benefits.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The historical investigation of Babi ant Baha&#8217;i documents indicates the supportive role of Russian government in the beginning of the emergence. The British government was taken over the complementary stage which continued helped by the western governments particularly America and the criminal regime of Zionism. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Source: Hussein Rahnamaee, the study of intellectual and cultural movement in contemporary Iran, pp. 153-155.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Keep in touch with us: \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:bahaismiran85@gmail.com\"><strong>bahaismiran85@gmail.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[\u06f1]<\/a> <strong>Hussein Ali Nouri (Bahaullah), The Aghdas, p. 93.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[\u06f2]<\/a> <strong>Abdul Hamid Ishraq Khawari, the treasury of limitations and commandments, p. 335.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\">[\u06f3]<\/a> <strong>Abdul Hamid Ishraq Khawari, the heavenly message, New Delhi, the national assembly of the Indian Baha&#8217;is, 1985 A.D., p. 30.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" name=\"_ftn4\">[\u06f4]<\/a><strong>Abbas Effendi (Abdul Baha), Makatib, Egypt, Kurdistan Al-Elmieh publishing house, 1328, vol. 4, p. 182.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Baha: leaders consider not meddling with policy as one of the important principles of their creed. They have prevented their followers repeatedly to enter into parties and political disputes in their so-called holy texts. Hussein Ali Nouri (Bahaullah) writes in the book Aghdas: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Nobody is allowed to oppose his\/her rulers and kings; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19174,"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":[941,839,16053,943,6011,16051],"class_list":["post-19173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-articles","category-slidshow","tag-bahai","tag-bahaism","tag-interference","tag-leaders","tag-policy","tag-political-approach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19173","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=19173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19175,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19173\/revisions\/19175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}