Bahaism and Its Claims: A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha — John Shaqi
Bahaism and Its Claims: A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul BahaWilson, Samuel Graham
Religion
Bahaism and Its Claims: A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha
Wilson, Samuel Graham
Bahai Faith -- Controversial literature
Similarly Babism abrogated Islam. At the Badasht (Shahrud) Conference
(1848) the law of the Koran was formally declared to be annulled. Baha
abrogated Babism in the Rizwan at Bagdad in 1864. Bahaism is the New
Covenant, "which confirms and completes all religious teaching which has
gone before."[150]
Christianity is, according to this, a system of the distant past. It was
effective in its day, for "the Christian teaching _was_ illumined by the
Sun of Truth: the Christian civilization _was_ the best,"[151] concedes
Abdul Baha. But now, says Remey, "Bahaism is not one of many phases of
Universal Truth, but _the Truth_, the only Living Truth to-day, ... the
only source of Divine Knowledge to mankind.... Abdul Baha's word is the
Truth.... There are those who will say, 'Have we not Jesus? We want no
other.' The Revelation of Jesus is no longer the Point of Guidance to
the world. We are in total blindness if we refuse this new Revelation
which is the end of the Revelations of the past.... All the teachings of
the past are past.... Only that which is revealed by the Supreme Pen,
Baha Ullah, and that which issues from the Centre of the Covenant, Abdul
Baha, is spiritual food."[152] Bahaism in proclaiming thus the
abrogation of Christianity is emphatically antichristian.
III. Bahaism casts Christ from His throne as the unique manifestation of
God. Bahaism recognizes two classes of prophets: (1) The independent
prophets, who were lawgivers and founders of new cycles. Of this class
were Abraham, Moses, Christ, Mohammed, the Bab, and Baha. (2) The others
are dependent prophets, who are as "branches." Such were Isaiah and
Daniel. All the greater prophets, of the first class, were
Manifestations of God.[153] So Bahaism continues to honour Christ as the
Incarnate Word, the Spirit of God, God manifest in the flesh. At the
same time it exalts Baha to supreme and unique dignity and glory above
Christ and all prophets. In order to understand this essential,
fundamental doctrine of Bahaism, we must know its doctrine concerning
God and His Manifestation.
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