{"id":7080,"date":"2022-06-01T13:10:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T09:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=7080"},"modified":"2022-06-01T13:11:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T09:41:51","slug":"war-power-challenge-for-all-sectarian-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=7080&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"War power, challenge for all sectarian structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u00a0After<a href=\"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=2160&amp;lang=en\"> Ali Muhammad Bab<\/a>\u2019s death, <a href=\"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=4127&amp;lang=en\">Hussein Ali Baha<\/a> tried hard to take over the leadership of Babis. After accepting his brother Sobhi Azal\u2019s presidency hurtfully and preparing facilities for his presidency, he targeted his brother with his conspiracies and insults, while Abdul Baha considers avoiding sense of power as the criterion for choosing the leader of a community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4128\" src=\"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bahaullah-e1652769480483.jpg\" alt=\"Bahaullah\" width=\"170\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Mirza Hussein Ali Nouri<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">After Ali Muhammad Shirazi\u2019s (Bab death, <a href=\"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=4127&amp;lang=en\">Hussein Ali Nouri<\/a> (the Baha\u2019i self-proclaimed prophet) did insidious measures to gain Bab\u2019is presidency. At first, he made people pay attention to him by introducing him in order to provide the facilities for his presidency (refer to Sayyah personal article, p. 38).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7081\" src=\"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/download-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Mirza Yahya Sobhi Azal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">However; shortly after his presidency, he acquitted his brother and addressed him in the worst possible way. He said addressing the disciples of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subh-i-Azal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sobhi Azal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; text-align: right;\">&#8220;\u0648 \u0627\u06cc \u0642\u0647\u0631 \u0645\u0650\u0646 \u0630\u0644\u06a9 \u062a\u064e\u0639\u0628\u062f\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0628\u064e\u0642\u064e\u0631 \u0648\u0644\u0627\u062a\u064e\u0639\u0631\u0650\u0641\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064e \u062b\u0645 \u062a\u064e\u062f\u0639\u0648\u0646\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0628\u0650\u0623\u0646 \u06cc\u062e\u0631\u062c \u0644\u064e\u06a9\u0645 \u0645\u0650\u0646 \u0635\u064f\u0644\u0628\u0650\u0647\u0650 \u0639\u0650\u062c\u0644\u0627\u064b \u0644\u0650\u062a\u064e\u0639\u0628\u064f\u062f\u2026 [\u0628\u062f\u06cc\u0639\u060c \u0635 \u06f1\u06f7\u06f2]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">\u201cwhich coercion is higher than a cow you don\u2019t know (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subh-i-Azal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mirza Yahya Sobhi Azal<\/a>) and then you ask God to give him a calf\u2026\u201d (Badi\u2019a, p. 172).<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Eventually, he describes his unprecedented enmity against his brother on presidency of the Babis as follows: \u201cI swear by the existence preceptor that these days, jealousy has been overcome. No jealousy has been emerged and won\u2019t be emerged since the creation of the world till now.\u201d (Iqan, p. 165)<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">While the second leader of Baha\u2019ism considers avoiding the sense of power as the criterion for choosing the leader of a community: \u201cA person must be elected who doesn\u2019t insist on presidency. As a matter of fact, he mustn\u2019t think of fame and superiority, but he must say I don\u2019t assume myself to be merited for this position and I can\u2019t tolerate this burden. Such people are merited for presidency. The chairman must be benevolent not selfish and if it is a personal intention, it will be harmful for humane world and the public interest.\u201d (Badayeul Athar, Vol. 1, p. 309)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"direction: ltr;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Footnotes<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Abbas Effendi, Sayyah personal article, Germany, the national institute of the faith press, 1<sup>st<\/sup> edition, 158 Badi\u2019a, p. 38.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Hussein Ali Nouri, the Badi\u2019a (answering the judge\u2019s questions), the handwriting copy, written by Zeinul Moqarrabin\u2019s handwriting, p. 172.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Hussein Ali Nouri, the Iqan, Germany: the national assembly of publishing Baha\u2019i works in Persian and Arabic languages, 1998 A.D., p. 165.<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr;\">Mahmoud Zarqani (the assistant and itinerary writer of Abbas Effendi in Europe and America trips), Badayeul Athar, the electronic copy, Vol. 1, p. 309).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0After Ali Muhammad Bab\u2019s death, Hussein Ali Baha tried hard to take over the leadership of Babis. 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