Who Created the Sects in Bahá’í Faith?
Dr. A. Parikh Secretary of the National (Orthodox) Bahá'í Council of India My Dear Bahá'í Friends! Some of the friends enquire as to why the Divine Cause…
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Victory for the Different Sects of Bahá’ís
In a historic verdict that will have long standing effect, the Federal Court of the United States of America has quashed the appeal of the majority Bahá'í Faith (popularly known as Heterodox Bahá'í Faith –HBF) for patent on…
Scandal in Kalimat Press
Kalimat Press is a small Bahá'í owned book publishing company that was recently at the center of a huge controversy, one that shocked me and apparently was the primary reason for Dann May and his wife Phyllis Bernard to leave…
Blood Thicker than Water ?
This is a short account of Bahaullah and his brother Mirza Yahya Noori, their lives together and the animosity between them. The objective of this article is simply to bring to the fore that fact that Bahaullah did not…
Biography of Neal Chase
Neal Chase is the great grandson of ‘Abdul-Baha, third President of the Universal House of Justice of Baha’u’llah (www.UHJ.net) and current Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith seated upon the…
The Forerunner to The Bab – The Shaykhi Sect
The genesis of the Babi Faith lies in the doctrines of the Shaykhi sect originally expounded by Shaykh Ahmed ibn Zaynud Deen Al Ahsai (1166 AH - 1241 AH) and then by his student Seyyed Kazim Rashty (1205 AH - 1259 AH). One…
Precursor to Man Yozherohullah; The Fake Position of Bab
One may question the reason behind this series given that Bahaullah abrogated the religion of the Bab. However, readers will agree that to understand the Baha’i Faith, one must dig deeper and verify the source of its…
Financial Scandal Rocks Italian Baha’i Community
Abstract
Recently the small Italian Baha’i community was shocked to learn that one of its most prominent, long-serving and active members, the former General Secretary of the NSA: Franco Ceccherini, had been ousted from the NSA and…
The Baha’i Faith in America as Panopticon, 1963-1997
(Professor of History at the University of Michigan) Originally published in The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 37, No. 2 (June 1998): 234-248. Despite the large literature on American religious bodies,…
Who is the True Man Yozherohullah – He Who Allah Shall Manifest’?
The theory of the Manifestation of God - a strange theory quite alien to the Islamic world was concocted by the Bab and refined and supported by Bahaullah. According to this theory, the Divine Being would continue to…