{"id":9682,"date":"2022-12-10T13:42:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T10:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=9682"},"modified":"2022-12-10T13:42:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T10:12:55","slug":"a-glance-at-the-film-the-gate-a-historical-reality-or-an-advertising-announce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=9682&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"A glance at the film \u201cthe gate\u201d, a historical reality or an advertising announce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">On the occasion of the bicentenary birthday of the founder of the Babi creed (<a href=\"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=2160&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ali Muhammad Shirazi<\/a>) and to proselytize and introduce <a href=\"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=4127&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bahaullah<\/a> and Baha\u2019ism, the Baha\u2019ism organization unveiled a film called \u201cthe gate\u201d (Bab) in order to indicate that Bab has been a peaceful and great character who has been emerged to be the gate for the Baha\u2019i faith. The following notes are worthy to be mentioned:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u06f1- The film has been made ignoring the historical realities and historical research articles, works and books. It has merely been made using Baha\u2019i organization\u2019s mono-lateral and proselytizing works and writings exclusively narrate by several Baha\u2019i people mentioning their academic titles. Those who have been interviewed are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li>Nader Saeedi: The proselytizer and the author of some proselytizing books residing in Los Angles<\/li>\n<li>Armin Eshraqi: The offspring of Iraj Ishraqi, the proselytizer and the activist of the Baha\u2019i media,<\/li>\n<li>Moojan Momen: The Baha\u2019i proselytizer and medium activist and the author of some books confirming the Baha\u2019i faith,<\/li>\n<li>Firouz Kazem Zadeh: The Baha\u2019i proselytizer who was the member of the Baha\u2019i spiritual assembly since 1963 to 2000 A.D. and died<\/li>\n<li>Layla Miller-Muro: The Baha\u2019i lawer and activist from the United States and the founder of the center of justice \u201cTahireh\u201d,<\/li>\n<li>Ruin Wilson: The American actor and comedian. His wife and he are Baha\u2019is,<\/li>\n<li>David L. Rowe: The counsellor of the Baha\u2019i creed documentations and William Miller\u2019s beliefs (The Christian researcher),<\/li>\n<li>Todd Lawson: The official member of the Baha\u2019i organization since 1968 A.D.,<\/li>\n<li>Catherine Wessinger: The editor of the book \u201cThe Oxford Handbook of Millennialism\u201d which has investigated Baha\u2019ism,<\/li>\n<li>Hooper Dunbar: The member of the Universal House of Justice from 1988 A.D. to 2010 A.D.<\/li>\n<li>Carolyn Sparey Fox: The author of the book \u201cThe Half of it was never told\u201d in proselytizing Baha\u2019ism,<\/li>\n<li>John S. Hatcher: The author of the book \u201cAn ocean from his words: the guide for the readers of Bahaullah\u2019s art\u201d who has had good relationship with Hassan Mooqer Bahyuzi (the activist in BBC Radio),<\/li>\n<li>Joe De Gruy: A Baha\u2019i and the author of the book \u201cThe symptoms of slavery after injury: The heritage of America from tolerating harm and healing up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u06f2- The film has been produced investigating some million dollars by the Baha\u2019is community produced by Edward Price and directed by Steve Sorrow Witz and Bob Herkuls during 3 years in Spain and America. Translated into several languages on the occasion of bicentenary of Bab\u2019s birthday for advertisement, the gate was displayed in various countries in proselytizing occasions of the Baha\u2019is. The film has just used the Baha\u2019i proselytizers and speakers. It resembles an advertising announce not a historical and research document. There aren\u2019t any traces of independent researchers or Muslim criticizers<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u06f3- The film is trying to introduce Bab as a peaceful person. However; according to his remaining works such issue isn\u2019t true because all Bab\u2019s works are full of inciting people to war, bloodshed and calling Babis to destroy non-Babis! This issue is so bold that even the Baha\u2019i leaders and proselytizers have also acknowledged it. According to Golpaygani the well-known proselytizer of Baha\u2019ism who has written his materials earlier 20<sup>th<\/sup> century the basis of the Bayan religion is destroying all books except for Babi ones and destroying all tombs and resting places, temples and holy places of other religions, massacring all human beings and legitimating excommunication and eventually killing all the people who don\u2019t believe in Bab\u2019s creed and vanishing their works (Golpaygani, Kashful Qita\u2019, p. 166).<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%CA%BBAbdu%27l-Bah%C3%A1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Abdul Baha<\/a>, the Baha\u2019i leader, is also declaring that it is ordered in the book Bayan (a book considered to be sent down by God and Islam to be abolished after that. (Abdul Baha, the Makatib, Vol. 2, p. 266).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u06f4- Without paying attention to the proselytizing motives of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baha\u2019ism<\/a> organization in making this film, it must be declared that making this film is considered as a strategic mistake even in proselytizing strategy point of view. Because making a film about a person like Abbas Effendi could be justified with some modern slogans and up-to-fate teachings. Nevertheless, honoring the Bab with harsh and extreme teachings can\u2019t be justified?!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u06f5- The movie starts from the very beginning with fake and false information. Relating the expectation of a cult from Christianity led by William Miller for the end of the world in October 22, 1844 A.D. claiming for the Babism of Ali Muhammad Shirazi against Mullah Hussein Boshrouee who was Sheikhi in Jamadi 5, 1260 A.H. (Jan. 22, 1844 A.D.) concerning this issue that Bab is Imam Mahdi (P.H.) is a baseless and ridiculous word. In this comparison, Miller\u2019s claim for the end of the world has been manifested as the expectation of all the people of the world(!) for the emergence of the promised one; that is, Jesus Christ. Then, Bab\u2019s claim-for calling himself as the 12<sup>th<\/sup> Imam of Shia who will be appeared later by writing his interpretation of the Yosof chapter \u2013has been considered as consistent with Miller\u2019s one concerning claiming for the end of the world and futurity!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u06f6- In the film, it is claimed that all Islamic religions believed that in 1260 A.H. (The year claimed for Miller for the end of the world) the promised one will be emerged, while even there isn\u2019t any example of speech or tradition in an Islamic book that refers to this years 1260 A.H. (1844 A.D.) as the year of the emergence of the promised Mahdi (P.H.) or his 1000-year periods of Imamate, but on the contrary, there have been many narrations and traditions in narrative books and tradition communities since long time ago until now which have introduced the time-determiners of the emergence of imam Mahdi (P.H.) as liars. The rest of the film the gate\u2019s claims has been presented in the same style.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u06f7- As if the author of film has been appeared in the role of a storyteller not a documentary maker. Consequently, in the scene when Bab was shot, he imagines that 750 soldiers lined up the shoot Bab and then they couldn\u2019t hit the target and all soldiers shot the rope with which the convict was tied(!) is it needed for a person whose hands were tied up to be shot by 750 soldiers? Has a person recorded such thing in the past and present time?! Just in the book the summary of Nabil history and the Baha\u2019i resources such claim is acceptable which is a superstitious and impossible claim; because the photos of the former barracks in Tabriz are existent and available and basically hundred people can hardly fit in that place, let alone if 750 people want to line up and shoot!!!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u06f8- It is claimed in the film the gate that Bab and his followers were peaceful and liberal, while according to all historical documents and evidence and Bab\u2019s own writings and also the historical investigations done recently he was going to gain the Iranian government and eventually to create the universal Babi one. His disciples massacred the innocent people and rioted in several cities of Iran and fought against the Iranian troops and caused great damage to the country. The action which is compatible with ISIS movement today. His followers also attempted to assassinate the king.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u06f9- It is appropriate to quote a short article from Dr. Dennis Mc Ewen-who was a member of the British Baha\u2019i community for about 15 years and wrote his Ph.D. thesis in the field of Babism. He has also written some books and articles concerning this issue in order for Baha\u2019i proselytizers and film makers to be tested:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Against whom the babies fought?<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bab by no means restricted the terms Kafir and Mushrik to atheists or polytheists, but applied them to Muslims, whether Sunni or Shia who held what he regarded as heretical doctrines or, more particularly who refused to recognize him\u2019. A few pages later (p. 108), I discuss the same question with respect to later Babi law and conclude that \u201cJihad\u201d\u2026 could be waged against any group who did not believe in the Bayan; the questions of belief, Islam, faith, dissidence, and is forth no longer apply here since the entire non-Babi world is now the \u201crealm of unbelief\u201d, while on page 1099 I note in a particular that the Shia population of Iran was now regarded as subject to the decree of holy war\u2019.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u2026In any case, the Persian Bayan constantly assumes holy war in its references to conquest, booty, the treatment of non-believers and their property, and the elimination of unbelief. If even the Baha\u2019i leader, Abdul Baha, accepted, as we have seen, that \u2018the decree of the Bayan was \u2026 the universal slaughter of all save those who believed and were faithful\u2019. I think Afnan and Hatcher would be well to read the Bayan, not to mention their own scriptures, more carefully.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I don\u2019t propose to look in any detail at the next section, which deals with the uprisings at Sheikh Tabarsi, Nayriz and Zanjan. It will suffice to point out that the source used by the authors are all later Baha\u2019i ones, namely Zarandi, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shoghi_Effendi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shoqi Effendi<\/a> and Balyazi. Merely asserting the platitutes of contemporary Baha\u2019i doctrine is no way to proceed in a complex historical argument. If the authors wish to disprove what they call any \u201ccharges\u201d against the Babis, will they please deal in detail with the specific instances I cite, providing, if they can, textual evidence from the same period which will prove that my interpretations (and my sources) are false? Sweeping generalizations based on late tendentious materials are no substitute for original research. That the Babis were militant, that they had political aspirations (and did not distinguish these from their religious aims any more than Muslims or modern Baha\u2019is do), and that they believed that the Qajar state had delegitimized itself by its treatment of the Bab are all verifiable assertions based on clear textual evidence, presented in my article and elsewhere, and it would be futile to carry the discussion further until my critics prove at least willing to examine and treat seriously the material in question. What might also help would be a very large dose of empathy for the Babis themselves, whose ideals and aspirations have been lost sight of beneath a haze of modern Baha\u2019i pious rhetoric and historical reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Let me reply briefly to one or two points made by the authors in their notes. The Baha\u2019i author refer to my gratuitous assertion that the future manifestation was expected \u2018at a distant date\u201d, contrary to the clear indications in the Bab\u2019s writings that the advent of this Manifestation was imminent;. It has to be made clear that it is Babi interpretation of the Bab\u2019s writings that makes the date of the appearance of him who God shall manifest\u2019 \u2018imminent\u2019, and not necessarily the texts themselves. Anyone with a knowledge of late Babism knows that this has been a much debated question, carried on basically between the Baha\u2019is on the one hand and everyone else on the other. I discuss the issue at some length in a forthcoming article entitled \u2018Charismatic authority in middle Babism\u2019. Here, the main point I wish to het across is that my statement is not \u2018gratuitious\u2019, but based on a widely \u2013accepted reading of well- known texts mixed with a little common sense.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I feel I cannot let go unremarked the comment in note 53 to the effect that MacEoin quotes from book five, chapter five of the Bayan which states, among other things, that the kings and leaders of the earth should not wait for people to enter the Faith of the Bab spontaneously, but should actively teach the Faith to others and lead them to belief in it\u2019. This, they say, \u2018is not just a \u201cvery different\u201d from of jihad; it is not jihad at all\u2019, and they argue that I here betray how difficult the defence of my central thesis has become.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Unfortunately, I did not write what they seem to imply I did, namely that Babi kings were to \u2018teach the Faith\u2019 (which is, in any case, a purely Baha\u2019i phrase). I quoted the Bayan to the effect that \u2018the possessors of power [i.e. kings] must not wait for something to descend from heaven in order to bring all that are on earth into the faith of God, but it should be as all entered the faith in Islam\u2026 \u2018Perhaps it would have helped had I also quoted an earlier passage from the same section of the Bayan (5:5, p. 157), which reads: \u2018If, for example, at the beginning of Islam a country was conquered by force and violence, (its people) would enter Islam and attain to the fruit of faith\u2019. In case the authors have not read it in full, the chapter from which these two quotations are taken deals with the \u2018decree concerning the seizure of the property of those who do not believe in the Bayan. Should the point still be unclear, perhaps they would care to read the opening words of the next chapter of the book (5:5, p. 159): \u2018If God, the Knowing, should grant the believers the favor of conquering a land which has not accepted the faith (Islam), anything (in it) which is unique shall belong to the point of the Bayan [i.e.: the Bab]\u2019. I remain to be persuaded that any of this means the polite \u2018teaching of the Faith\u2019 suggested by Afnan and hatcher.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Finally, I must respond the Excellency Afnan and Hatcher where I am quoted as stating that the Babis showed \u2018great brutality not only to the hostile soldiers but to civilians in the region as well\u2019. The authors go on to say that \u2018this undocumented and unsupported accusation by MacEoin is particularly gratuitous and unscholarly. There are in fact a number of such summary, unsupported judgments throughout the paper\u2019. May I reply that their criticism is at this point both unfair and inaccurate. Babi brutality, particularly at Shaykh Tabarsi, is well documented , as the following selected instances taken from Babi sources will demonstrate.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Nuqtat al-Kaf admits that when en route to Barfurush, the Babis in the company of Mullah Hussein Bushrui killed a dervish and his small child for having misdirected them. In the course of an early attack on the besieging army at Sheykh Tabarsi, a group of Babis killed 130 soldiers and villagers, destroyed the village near which the military had erected its defences, and seized two years\u2019 worth of provisions from the inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In a later attack on the army camp at Vaskas, two princes took refuge in an upper room, whereupon the Babi attackers set fire to the house, burning them to death, after which a group of Mazandarani Babis looted the village. On a later occasion, the Babi defenders of the fort were instructed by Barfurushi to sever the heads of their enemies from their bodies and to erect the grisly relics on poles around the walks. Describing one of the Babi attacks on the village of Vaskas, Lutf Ali Mirza Shirazi (himself one of the defenders of the fort), speaks of the extreme hard-heartedness of his co-religionists, who killed anyone they came across, including a man and a woman in a village before Vaskas, by mistake. (Lutf Ali Khan Shirazi, nameless and titleless history, document F-28 Ms, part 3 and Eduward Browne\u2019s documents, Cambridge university library, p. 92). Zarandi speaks of a similar mistake, too. (Nabil Zarandi, Dawn Breakers, pp. 346-347).<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li>During the Zanjan upheaval, a Babi renegade named Farrukh Khan was killed (along with 22 other prisoners) by being skinned alive and then roasted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">More than once in the past century, scholars have had occasion to speak of the intellectual dishonesty of the Babis in dealing with matters of historical fact. Unhappily, it has been fallen to my lot to reiterate the sentiments of my predecessors and to deplore, as they deplored, the high-handed and tendentious matter in which texts are manipulated, facts swept aside or transformed, and common sense outraged by the exponents of a religion that prides itself \u2013justly in many other respects- on its respect for human reason and its freedom from prejudice. May I, therefore, plead that this present clash of opinions, acrimonious as it has by its nature been, may at least serve to alert those among the Baha\u2019i community who have the sense and the intelligence to recognize the problems generated by the hitherto dominant fundamentalist element in their ranks to the dangers of leaving such debates in their hands. I would ask such individuals, whether or not they be academics themselves, to encourage future Baha\u2019i scholars to treat seriously and with due respect for academic standards any further work carried out on aspects of their history by myself or others. The alternative will be to dissuade anyone with sense from engaging in Babi or Baha\u2019i studies, to the permanent detriment of a rich and important field of religious and historical research.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0Most of all, perhaps, those of a fundamental persuasion among the Baha\u2019i ranks, would be well to ask themselves whether they are not unwittingly doing more harm than good to the cause they seek to represent. There are in existence, in Britain and the United States, a number of Baha\u2019i scholars, sociologists, and historians among them, whose work is of a very high standard and on whose efforts any possibility of a meaningful dialog with non-Baha\u2019i academics will largely rest. It cannot be anything but an embarrassment for such individuals to have their less qualified co-religionists complicating an already difficult area of study by seeking to keep arguments at an apologetic level. Baha\u2019i scholars have proble4ms not the least of which is the onerous obligation to submit their work for review, but they are making sincere and often very successful attempts to transform the image of Baha\u2019i scholarship to one consonant with rigorous standards and academically tested methodology. I hope that those who are not prepared to follow them in adopting such a course will at least have the grace to recognize that \u00a0\u00a0the introduction of apologetics into scholarly debate is at best a distraction and at worst a means of wrecking the foundations on which future studies involving both Baha\u2019is and non-Baha\u2019is may be based.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u06f1\u06f0- The film is called \u201cthe gate\u201d in which Bab has been introduced as the gate for the Baha\u2019i creed. Although this introduction has been repeated over and over by the Baha\u2019i proselytizers and they have introduced Seyyed Bab as the forerunner of Bahaullah, but if we search the reason of the introduction of Ali Muhammad Shirazi as the gate, we will encounter a very different issue explained by Abdul Baha: \u201cHe meant by using the word the gate to show he has been the intermediator of a great person who is hidden in glory possessing unlimited accomplishments. I am active due to his will and resort to his guardianship. In his first book in interpreting the Yosof chapter, he has addressed that absent person out of whom he been blessed and helped, such as:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: right;\">\u201c\u064a\u0627 \u0628\u0642\u064a\u0651\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u0647 \u0642\u062f \u0641\u062f\u064a\u062a \u0628\u06a9\u0644\u0651\u06cc \u0644\u06a9 \u0648 \u0631\u0636\u064a\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0651\u0628\u0651 \u0641\u06cc \u0633\u0628\u064a\u0644\u06a9 \u0648 \u0645\u0627\u062a\u0645\u0646\u0651\u064a\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0651\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u062a\u0644 \u0641\u06cc \u0645\u062d\u0628\u0651\u062a\u06a9 \u0648 \u06a9\u0641\u06cc \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0644\u064a\u0651 \u0645\u0639\u062a\u0635\u0645\u0627\u064b \u0642\u062f\u064a\u0645\u0627\u064b.\u201d (\u0645\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0647 \u0634\u062e\u0635\u06cc \u0633\u06cc\u0627\u062d \u0635\u06f2).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It must be mentioned that \u201c\u0628\u0642\u06cc\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647\u201d is the special title for the Excellency Mahdi (May God hasten his reappearance) and Seyyed Bab has repeatedly mentioned it in that book. According to Seyyed Bab\u2019s speech, people and those who had relationships with him thought the excellency Ali Muhammad is the gate for Imam of the time and intermediator between the rest of people and him. As Abdul Baha has written clearly that Bab has addressed Imam Mahdi (P.H.) and said he is satisfied to be cursed in his path and to be killed in his path is his mere wish. When the people of the time who believed in Imam of the time (P.H.) became aware of Bab\u2019s speech thought in fact that he is the intermediator between people and Imam of the time (P.H.). For this reason, they resisted in his path. Consequently, it can\u2019t be accepted that in the book Qayyumul Asma\u2019 Bab meant the good news to Bahaullah by the word the gate. The book Qayyumul Asma\u2019 is apparently his first book which has been written for Mullah Hussein Boshroyee to interpret the chapter Yosof to prove his position. In this book he has explicitly declared that<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: right;\">\u201c\u0627\u064e\u0644\u0644\u0647\u064f \u0642\u064e\u062f \u0642\u064e\u062f\u064e\u0651\u0631\u064e \u0623\u0646 \u064a\u064e\u062e\u0631\u064f\u062c\u064e \u0630\u0644\u0650\u06a9 \u0627\u0644\u06a9\u062a\u0627\u0628 \u0641\u064a \u062a\u064e\u0641\u0633\u064a\u0631\u0650 \u0623\u062d\u0633\u064e\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0650\u0635\u064e\u0635 \u0645\u0650\u0646 \u0639\u0650\u0646\u062f\u0650 \u0645\u064f\u062d\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0651\u062f\u0650\u0628\u0646\u0650\u200c\u0627\u0644\u062d\u064e\u0633\u064e\u0646 \u0628\u0646\u200c\u0639\u064e\u0644\u064a\u200c\u0628\u0646\u200c\u0645\u064f\u062d\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0651\u062f\u0650 \u0628\u0646\u0650\u200c\u0639\u064e\u0644\u064a\u0650\u0651 \u0628\u0646\u0650\u200c\u0645\u0648\u0633\u064a \u0628\u0646\u0650\u200c\u062c\u064e\u0639\u0641\u064e\u0631 \u0628\u0646\u0650\u200c\u0645\u064f\u062d\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0651\u062f\u0650 \u0628\u0646\u0650\u200c\u0639\u064e\u0644\u064a\u0650\u0651 \u0628\u0646\u0650\u200c\u0627\u0644\u062d\u064f\u0633\u064a\u0646\u0650 \u0628\u0646\u0650\u200c\u0639\u064e\u0644\u064a\u0650\u0651 \u0628\u0646\u0650\u200c\u0623\u0628\u064a\u200c\u0637\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0639\u064e\u0644\u064a \u0639\u064e\u0628\u062f\u0650\u0647\u0650 \u0644\u0650\u064a\u064e\u06a9\u0648\u0646\u064e \u062d\u064f\u062c\u064e\u0651\u0629\u200c \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647\u0650 \u0645\u0650\u0646 \u0639\u0650\u0646\u062f\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0630\u0650\u0651\u06a9\u0631 \u0639\u064e\u0644\u064e\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0644\u064e\u0645\u064a\u0646\u064e \u0628\u064e\u0644\u064a\u063a\u0627\u064b\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u06f1\u06f1) It seems even a film regulates principles to proselytize for a good. It isn\u2019t regulated in this film. All actors and actresses have been introducted by titles, but there creeds as Baha\u2019is haven\u2019t been mentioned. Undoubtedly, the producers of the film were going to indicate that a group of educated impartial people have said it! The unreal claims about Zarrin Taj for unveiling and \u2026 aren\u2019t compatible with the historical documentations because she didn\u2019t unveil when she was to be executed accused by killing her paternal uncle and assassinating the king. Bab and Babis\u2019 violence have been censored and this movement has been falsely displayed which isn\u2019t confirmed by the open-minded Baha\u2019is. In fact, Bab and the Bab\u2019is activities were mixed with violence and all Bab\u2019s books are full of intriguing and preaching violence against Muslims. The name of the film is also incorrect cos Bab never gave good news to Bahaullah and didn\u2019t consider himself as the gate for him. However, he mentioned a person called the one who God will manifest who would be to be emerged nearly two thousand years later! Having numerous clear errors, this film must be called the gate of lies!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Notes and references<\/span><\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The materials narrated by Denis Mac Eion are adopted by the article: \u201cBaha\u2019i Fundamentalism and the Academic Study of the Babi Movement\u201d (\u06f1\u06f9\u06f8\u06f6) pp. 57-84.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the bicentenary birthday of the founder of the Babi creed (Ali Muhammad Shirazi) and to proselytize and introduce Bahaullah and Baha\u2019ism, the Baha\u2019ism organization unveiled a film called \u201cthe gate\u201d (Bab) in order to indicate that Bab has been a peaceful and great character who has been emerged to be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9683,"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":[8003,1033,8005,839,7997,1544,2046,7999,8001,1954,7377,3112],"class_list":["post-9682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-articles","category-slidshow","tag-advertising","tag-ali-muhammad-bab","tag-announce","tag-bahaism","tag-film","tag-glance","tag-historical","tag-limitation","tag-mono-lateral","tag-organization","tag-reality","tag-the-gate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682","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=9682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9684,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9682\/revisions\/9684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}