n the most perfect form: "Say, He, Allah is One, Allah is He on Whom all depend. He begets not, nor is He begotten; and none is like Him." The verse "none is like Him" negatives in clear, concise terms the doctrine of Incarnation according to which a mere, mortal man, as Bahaullah was, is likened to the Most High God. As against this most,
42 -exoellent teaching, Bahaullah said that he was himself the Divine Being in human flesh who had come into the world with immense and irresistable power to judge and rule: ":I 0l1L.!
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inhabitants of the earth and the hea vens, verily the revealer of signs and guidance has \ come with such a powerful predominance that all the armies of the world cannot stand against it, nor will the glory and grandeur of those who are indifferent to the advent of amr-i-azeem (i.e., Bahaullah) will now be of any avail to them."
But it was a mere empty brag. The God of the Bahais pasaed all his life miserably in a prison-cell. The Bahai's formula of faith, Kalima, which sums up the teaching of the Kitab al-Aqdas in one short sentence is ~ ":II .I..l1 i.e., there is no god but Bahaullah, ":I as against the Islamic Kalima -U'll ":II .I..l1 ":I i.e., there is no god but Allah. Dr. Khair Ullah, the well-known Bahai missionary, preached in America that Bahaullah was God the
Father who appeared on the stage of the world in human form, and on his death he consigned his Kingdom into the hands of Abbas Effendi who was God the Son. U this book, the Kitab al-Aqdas, is said to be the abrogater of the Holy Quran, it means that the Most High God Himself wished to obliterate His Oneness and Unity established in the world, by polytheism and manworship. (2) In the Quranic Law of Marriage it is stated that: "Forbidden to you are your mothers, and your daughters, and your sisters, and your paternal aunts, and your maternal aunts, and brother's daughters and sister's daughters, and your mothers that have suckled you, and your foster-sisters, and mothers of your wives, and your step daughters who are in your guardianship born of your wives to whom you have gone in, but if you have not gone into them, there is no blame on you, and the wives of your sons who are of your loins; and that you should have two sisters together, except what has already passed. Surely Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful." (4: 23) Upon this comprehensive statement, Bahaullah has made the followin g improvement in his new law; ~ ~jj ~I ~ til ~4 i ~IJjl ~~ ~ ..Ii J""'
"Forbidden fathers; tioning boys." to you are the wives of your and we feel ashamed in menour commandment regarding
Bahaullah probably wanted to revive the custom of marrying one's own daughter or sister which existed among some tri bes of Persia in ancient times. He has however, reduced the number of wives a man can have at a time to two:
i.e., "Marry not more them two wives." And himself he had three: (1) Umm al-Ka'inaat ~L:j~jl 1"1 daughter of the N awab of Tehran (originally called Nawaba Sahiba) the mother of Abbas Effendi. (2) Mohd Alya and (3) Gauhar Khanum, married in Baghdad. They gave birth to many children, of whom only seven survived, foul' sons and three daughters. Bahauliah, however has permitted that if a man should have a young virgin for his service, there is no sin on him:
But, when the son and successor of Bahaullah, Abdul Baha Effendi, went to the Western countries to preach the Bahai creed, be taught,
in order to find their favour, that the Law of
Bahaullah forbids polygamy:
(3) The Law of Islam has taken a very serious view of the crime of adultery which "ruins families, destroys household peace, and deprives innocent children of their loving mothers." It has, therefore, laid down (24 : 2) : The adulteress and the adulterer, flog each of them with a hundred stripes, and let not pity for them detain you from obedience to Allah, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day, and let a party of believers witness the chastisement. Bahaullah "improved" upon this law, and commanded that the adulterer should remit, as a fine, only nine mis