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A Brief History and Doctrines of the Bah; Movement Foreign Missions Department
MIRZ MA'SUM BEG
Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-i-Islam
LAHORE-7 (W. Pakistan)
THE BAHAI CREED
The cread of the Bahais, if it could be called a creed in spite of the mysterious secrecy that surrounds it, is a peculiar and perplexing puzzle. The Bahais claim on its behalf that it has abrogated the Law of the Holy Quran; but the new law of Bahaullah which is, henceforward, to govern and guide human belief and action, is not placed before the world. One hundred long years have passed over this movement, but the new scripture of the Bahais has not been promulgated for the information and knowledge of the world. A mere swaggering claim carries no conviction if it is not established and proved by strong, conclusive arguments. The Bab, Mirza Ali Muhammad, the first founder of the movement, when he was incarcerated in the fort at Maku, began to compile the new law in Persian Al-Bayan, which was to consist of 19 parts, each containing 19 chapters. But it was left incomplete. He had hardly
2 finished eight parts, when he was executed by order of the Persian Government. Says the Most High God in Quran : "And they proposed that which they could not attain" (9: 74). It may be remarked in passing that the Number HI carries the utmost sanctity in the Bah ai scriptures. In this world God is represented by th Point (i.e, Mirza Ali Muhammad) and his eighteen disciples, called Huruf-i-Hay y or the Letters of the Living. And it is for this reason that the Bahai, year contains nineteen months, each month being of nineteen days. It waS now the turn of Bab aullah to bring, forward and produce his new law that will repeal and replace the Great Law of Islam. He wrote Kitab al-Aqaas in Arabic on behalf of which the Bahais claim exultantly that it is. by far much superior to all the Revealed Books of the world, and contains sure and unfailing solutions of all the world problems. But this book,so much vaunted of and praised, was kept a sealed secret and never saw the light of the day; and there are, even today, a good lot of Bahais themselves who have not seen Kitab alAqdas, the sacred scripture of their creed. The publication of this book which is said to have abolished the eternal and everlasting Law of the Holy Quran, has been interdicted by a
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i. e, If the Kitab al-Aqdas, were published, it will fall into the hands of mean, vile and low people; its publication, therefore, is not permitted.
The mealy-mouthed missionaries of the Bahai creed allure and attract the ignorant people by their sweet and soft utterances for instance, "We are out to create universal Brotherhood, based on feelings of brotherly affection and mutual good will. A person can become a member of this Beneficent Brotherhood, without, in any way, losing his religious identity." Professor Browne who instituted an intensive enquiry into this movement wrote in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1889, page 882: "That they (Bahais) adopt their con versa tion to those with whom they are speaking, there is no doubt. With a Muhammadan they will speak of the coming of the Promised Imam Mahdi.. ....... With a Christian they will speak of the expected coming of Christ and the signs thereof ...... So also in speaking with a Zoroastrian or a Sufi, they will use arguments likely to commend themselves to their interlocuter." People who
4 care not to probe into the matter, even though it carries the importance of a religious belief, fall an easy prey to the sweet, alluring speech of the Bahais, and are taken in. The doctrine of taqiyya which permits the telling of a lie in order to gain one's object, is one of the basic principles of action of the Bahai creed; and they have carried it to such an extreme that it has become almost impossible to say what is their actual belief. We read in Professor Browne's Naqtat al-QaJ, page 247, that on the night preceeding his execut