Baha'u'llah Day 2024 is on Tuesday, November 12, 2024: Baha'i Faith: Did Baha'u'llah?
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 is Baha'u'llah Day 2024. The Baha'i Community of Arlington, Virginia The Day of the Covenant is the
Oh yes, we had Bahai's infesting our university to build up credibility with their organization. They specifically said that Baha'ullah said that there could never be another Prophet after him for 1,000 years. They didn't say *where* he said this.
They were very vague about the concept of there being any central authoritative doctrine in Bahai Faith. They were always pointing to this or that book that Baha'ullah wrote. It took me years of investigation to find out about the Kitabi Aqdas. That is the central revelation of the Bahai Faith. That is where you find what they really believe in.
. KITABI AQDAS 37:
37. Whoso layeth claim to a Revelation direct from God,
ere the expiration of a full thousand years, such a man is assuredly a lying impostor.
We pray God that He may graciously assist him to retract and repudiate such claim.
Should he repent, God will, no doubt, forgive him.
If, however, he persisteth in his error, God will, assuredly,
send down one who will deal mercilessly with him.
Terrible, indeed, is God in punishing!
Whosoever interpreteth this verse otherwise than its obvious meaning
is deprived of the Spirit of God and of His mercy which encompasseth all created things.
Fear God, and follow not your idle fancies.
Nay, rather, follow the bidding of your Lord, the Almighty, the All-Wise.
Erelong shall clamorous voices be raised in most lands.
Shun them, O My people, and follow not the iniquitous and evil-hearted.
This is that of which We gave you forewarning when We were dwelling in ‘Iráq,
then later while in the Land of Mystery, and now from this Resplendent Spot.
This show that The Baha'i have no respect for prior Divine Revelation such as that of Prophet Moses:
DEUTERONOMY 30:19-20.
19. I call Heaven and Earth
to record this Day against you,
that I have set before you Life and Death,
Blessing and Cursing: therefore choose Life,
That both thou and thy seed may live:
20. That thou mayest love the LORD thy God,
and that thou mayest obey His Voice,
and that thou mayest cleave unto Him:
for He is thy life, and the length of thy days:
that thou mayest dwell in the Land
which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Such as that of the Seer Hanani,
2nd CHRONICLES 16:9.
9 "For The Eyes of The LORD
run to and fro throughout the whole Earth,
to shew Himself strong in the behalf of them
whose heart is perfect toward Him.
Herein thou hast done foolishly:
therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars."
Such as that of The Prophet Amos:
AMOS 3:3.
3. "Can two walk together,
except they be agreed?"
The Prophet Joel:
JOEL 2:28-29.
28. "And it shall come to pass afterward,
that I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh;
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your old men shall dream dreams,
your young men shall see visions:
29. And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids
in those days will I pour out My Spirit.
The Lord Jesus:
JOHN 14:21-26.
21. "He that hath my Commandments, and keepeth them,
he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me
shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him,
and will manifest myself to him."
22. Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot,
"Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us,
and not unto the World?"
23. Jesus answered and said unto him,
"If a man love me, he will keep my words:
and my Father will love him,
and we will come unto him,
and make our abode with him.
24. "He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings:
and the word which ye hear is not mine,
but the Father's which sent me.
25. "These things have I spoken unto you,
being yet present with you.
26. "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,
Whom the Father will send in my Name,
He shall teach you all things,
and bring all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said unto you."
JOHN 16:12-13.
12. "I have yet many things to say unto you,
but ye cannot bear them now.
13. "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth, is come,
He will guide you into all Truth:
for He shall not speak of Himself;
but whatsoever He shall hear,
that shall He speak:
and He will shew you things to come.
This Spiritual Knowledge is far beyond the ken of the backslidden Muslims whom Baha'Ullah was able to bamboozle, playing upon their ignorance of real Scripture.
God can reveal Himself to anyone in any era, who has prepared his heart appropriately to receive Him. He can support any of His True Revelations as many times as Humans give Him the opportunity- because such manifestations are reward for services correctly rendered.
How can God take this away from Mankind?
But Islam and Baha'i Faith have cause to fear any current revelation, because theirs' did not come from God, and they know that should anyone come by a genuine Revelation from God, they would denounce them.
what are the Baha'i rituals?
As has been the case with other revealed religions, the Bahá'í Faith sees great value in the practice of fasting as a discipline for the soul . Bahá'u'lláh designated a nineteen-day period each year when adult Bahá'ís fast from sunrise to sunset each day. This period coincides with the Bahá'í month of Ala (meaning Loftiness), from March 2 to 21, inclusive. This is the month immediately preceding the Bahá'í new year, which occurs the day of the vernal equinox; and the period of fasting is therefore viewed as a time of spiritual preparation and regeneration for a new year's activities. Women who are nursing or pregnant, the aged, the sick, the traveler, those engaged in heavy labor, as well as children under the age of fifteen, are exempt from observance of the Fast.
"The fasting period, which lasts nineteen days starting as a rule from the second of March every year and ending on the twentieth of the same month, involves complete abstention from food and drink from sunrise till sunset. It is essentially a period of meditation and prayer, of spiritual recuperation, during which the believer must strive to make the necessary readjustments in his inner life, and to refresh and reinvigorate the spiritual forces latent in his soul. Its significance and purpose are, therefore, fundamentally spiritual in character. Fasting is symbolic, and a reminder of abstinence from selfish and carnal desires."1
Fasting is the cause of awakening man. The heart becomes tender and the spirituality of man increases. This is produced by the fact that man's thoughts will be confined to the commemoration of God, and through this awakening and stimulation surely ideal advancements follow... Fasting is of two kinds, material and spiritual. The material fasting is abstaining from food or drink, that is, from the appetites of the body. But spiritual, ideal fasting is this, that man abstain from selfish passions, from negligence and from satanic animal traits. Therefore, material fasting is a token of the spiritual fasting. That is: `O God! As I am fasting from the appetites of the body and not occupied with eating and drinking, even so purify and make holy my heart and my life from aught else save Thy Love, and protect and preserve my soul from self-passions... Thus may the spirit associate with the Fragrances of Holiness and fast from everything else save Thy mention.
Prayer, Meditation, and Fasting
...the core of religious faith is that mystic feeling that unites man with God. This state of spiritual communion can be brought about and maintained by means of meditation and prayer. And this is the reason why Bahá'u'lláh has so much stressed the importance of worship. It is not sufficient for a believer to merely accept and observe the teachings. He should, in addition, cultivate the sense of spirituality, which he can acquire chiefly by the means of prayer. The Bahá'í Faith, like all other Divine religions, is thus fundamentally mystic in character. Its chief goal is the development of the individual and society, through the acquisition of spiritual virtues and powers. It is the soul of man that has first to be fed. And this spiritual nourishment prayer can best provide. Laws and institutions, as viewed by Bahá'u'lláh , can become really effective only when our inner spiritual life has been perfected and transformed. Otherwise religion will degenerate into a mere organization, and become a dead thing.1
For Bahá'ís, the purpose of life is to know and love God, and thus to progress spiritually. As in most other religions, prayer and meditation are primary tools for spiritual development.
Bahá'u'lláh Himself wrote hundreds of prayers. There are prayers for general use, for healing, for spiritual growth, for facing difficulties, for marriage, for community life, and for humanity itself.
Bahá'u'lláh also asked His followers to choose one of three "obligatory" prayers for recitation each day. The shortest of these prayers is just three sentences long. It says much about the relationship between God and humanity. It reads:
I bear witness, O my God, that Thou has created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth. There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.
The term "obligatory," as applied to these prayers, implies for Bahá'ís an understanding that humans have certain spiritual duties before God. Bahá'u'lláh also urged His followers to spend each day in meditation:
Meditate profoundly, that the secret of things unseen may be revealed unto you, that you may inhale the sweetness of a spiritual and imperishable fragrance..."
Specifically, He encouraged us to reflect at the end of each day on our deeds and their worth. Other than this, Bahá'u'lláh did not specify a particular approach to meditation. Instead, each individual is free to choose his or her own meditational form.
can i be part of the bahá'i but not believe in Bahá'u'lláh?
By definition a Baha'i is a follower of Baha’u’llah so if you do not believe in Him then it is impossible to be a Baha'i. However, the Baha'i Faith has been revealed to establish the unity of mankind. So anybody that works toward that goal will be working to achieve the same goal as the Faith. As Baha’u’llah stated “The well-being of mankind, its peace and security, are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established.”
This is all to say that everyone is to investigate truth for themselves and not everyone will come to the conclusion that Baha’u’llah is God’s messenger for this day. But perhaps we can agree that the unity of all humanity is a good thing and work together on that.
