Bahaism and Its Claims: A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul BahaWilson, Samuel Graham
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Bahaism and Its Claims: A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha
Wilson, Samuel Graham
Bahai Faith -- Controversial literature
Her children, (1) Mohammed Ali, born at Bagdad, 1854. (2) Samadiah,
Bagdad, 1857, died Acca, 1904. (3) Ali Mohammed, Bagdad, died at 2
years. (4) Saz-Habbieh, Bagdad, died Constantinople. (5) Zia Ullah,
Adrianople, 1867, Haifa, 1898. (6) Badi Ullah, Adrianople.
Concubine, a sister of Mirza Mahdi Kashani, taken at Bagdad.
Her child, (1) One daughter, born 1873, at Acca, name Shuruk.
The wives and concubine of Baha Ullah all survived him.
[349] Phelps, p. 139.
[350] "New Hist.," pp. 160-162, 164.
[351] "Life of Abbas Effendi," p. 92.
[352] Phelps, p. 94.
[353] Phelps, p. 105.
[354] A Chicago Bahai told me that Baha took several wives, that his
experience of the evils of polygamy, the quarrels of his wives and
children might be a warning to us not to follow his example!
[355] See Professor Browne's Introduction to Mirza Jani's "History."
Also Abul Fazl's "Bahai Proofs," pp. 113-119, and Kheiralla's "Facts for
Behaists."
[356] _Jour. Roy. As. Soc._, 1892.
[357] "The wife is still in a helpless state; her fate remains entirely
in the power of her husband's caprice "(Vatralsky in _Amer. Jour. of
Theology_, 1902, p. 72).
[358] "Trav.'s Narr.," pp. 378-379.
[359] _Outlook_, of New York, quoted in _The Missionary Review_,
October, 1901, p. 773.
[360] "A Heavenly Vista," by L. G. Gregory, p. 31.
[361] Page 15.
[362] "Encyc. Britt.," article, "Babism."
[363] Dreyfus, _Ibid._, p. 128.
[364] But if they limit themselves to twenty-eight words, it was better
for them, says the "Bayan."
[365] _American Rev. of Rev._, 1912, p. 719.
[366] Pages 191-198.
[367] "Observations of a Bahai Traveller," by Remey, pp. 53, 67; also
Dreyfus, _Ibid._, p. 172.
[368] "New Hist.," pp. 274, 441.
[369] Her spirit of intolerance is condemned by Professor Browne.
[370] "New Hist.," p. 357.
[371] Mirza Jani's "History," Introduction, p. xlii.
[372] "New Hist.," p. 365.
[373] "A Year Among the Persians," p. 523.
[374] "Mohammedan young men will no longer consent to marry girls they
have not seen, but now in Beirut visit them and drive out with them on
the public highways with the mothers as chaperones" (Jessup's
"Fifty-three Years in Syria," p. 640).
[375] Phelps, p. xxxix.
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