{"id":2625,"date":"2021-12-25T17:04:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T13:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2022-02-27T17:05:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T13:35:03","slug":"abdul-baha-the-holders-of-christmas-celebrations-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=2625&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Abdul Baha: \u201cThe holders of Christmas celebrations  are \u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Baha\u2019i leaders couldn\u2019t hide their enmity against the leader and the followers of Christianity and have frankly called the holders of Christmas celebrations as silly ones although they are trying to recruit the Christians to the Baha\u2019ism faith!<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Shoqi Effendi, the guardian of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baha\u2019ism<\/a> faith has introduced the Christianity leaders as jealous, inferior and revengeful.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> Merry Maxwell (Shoqi Effendi\u2019s wife) who was in charge of the Baha\u2019i faith from 1921 to 1957 A.D. has called the Christian religion as darkness and considered separating the Baha\u2019i Christian from Baha\u2019ism as cleansing the Baha\u2019ism community from their contamination.<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However; among the Baha\u2019ism leaders, Abdul Baha has frankly insulted the holders of Christmas celebrations. He has called Christmas as illusions, superstitions and has assumed the holders of Christmas celebrations as silly people.<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Akhbar Amri magazine belongs to Baha\u2019is has called Christianity as a world full of superstition narrated by a Christian lady:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has said over and over that she hadn\u2019t been happy in Christmas. Now, She figures out that she had been Baha\u2019i and she hadn\u2019t been aware. She thanks Abdul Baha that he had saved her out the Christian world of superstitions.<a href=\"#_ftn4\" name=\"_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Answer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Baha\u2019i leaders had prohibited each kind of insulting and cursing in their slogans: \u201cDon\u2019t speak about a person\u2019s error. Pray for him\/her. Correct his\/her error kindly. Look at good deeds not at sins\u2026<a href=\"#_ftn5\" name=\"_ftnref5\">[\u06f5]<\/a>. Or in another place, he has spoken about being kind with human kind regardless of expanding hate against other religions by the Baha\u2019i leaders: \u201cAll prophets have come to educate and to make immature souls mature ones and to create affection and kindness in human beings world.<a href=\"#_ftn6\" name=\"_ftnref6\">[6]<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In their so-called modern advertisement and proselytizing, the Baha\u2019i leaders have preached a kind of pluralism along with insulting other people\u2019s beliefs<a href=\"#_ftn7\" name=\"_ftnref7\">[7]<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>Ti oppose the Christmas celebrations, the Baha\u2019i leaders have frankly called them as superstitions and the holders as silly ones; while the Baha\u2019is misuse the capacity of Christmas to proselytize for Baha\u2019ism and the universal house of justice in Israel has celebrated this day by decorating tree and holding group dancing!<a href=\"#_ftn8\" name=\"_ftnref8\">[8]<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[\u06f1]<\/a> Shoqi Effendi, Badi\u2019a century (translated by Nasrullah Mawaddat), the electronic copy, the New Year 101, Vol. 3, 348-349.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[\u06f2]<\/a> Rouhieh Maxwell, the unique gem, translated by Abul Qasem feizi, the electronic copy, p. 332.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\">[\u06f3]<\/a> Tablets of Abdul Baha, narrated by the proselytizing channels of Baha\u2019ism), Vol. 2, p. 295.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" name=\"_ftn4\">[\u06f4]<\/a> The faith news, the formal organ of the Baha\u2019is of Iran, 1349 S.H., No. 4, p. 147.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref5\" name=\"_ftn5\">[\u06f5]<\/a> J.E, Esslement, Bahaullah and the new era, translated by: A. Bashirullahi, H. Rahimi, F. Soleimani, Brazil: Dar Al-Nashrul Bahaiyeh, printed in 1988 A.D., p. 99.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref6\" name=\"_ftn6\">[\u06f6]<\/a> Ishraq Khawari, the message of heaves, the electronic copy, p. 65.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref7\" name=\"_ftn7\">[\u06f7]<\/a> For more studies refer to the article: The Baha\u2019i leaders: Insulting Christianity and believing in pluralism!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref8\" name=\"_ftn8\">[\u06f8]<\/a> For more studies refer to the article: Baha\u2019ism hypocrisy towards the Christmass celebrations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baha\u2019i leaders couldn\u2019t hide their enmity against the leader and the followers of Christianity and have frankly called the holders of Christmas celebrations as silly ones although they are trying to recruit the Christians to the Baha\u2019ism faith! Thus, Shoqi Effendi, the guardian of Baha\u2019ism faith has introduced the Christianity leaders as jealous, inferior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[823],"tags":[861,1560,1558,1556],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-articles","tag-abdul-baha","tag-celebrations","tag-christmas","tag-holders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","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=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}