Today there are 7 adult members of the Baha’i Faith supposedly going on trial in Iran. The Bahai’s are the largest religious minority in Iran. We are the 2nd most global religion, after Christianity, meaning we are establishedas a religious group throughout the world. Iran is the land of our birth. The Faith began there. Because it comes after Muhammed, we are considered “heretics,” though the teachings of the Baha’i Faith preach unity of mankind, unity of religions, one God for all humankind, elimination of prejudices, equality of men and women, and a spiritual solution to the economic problem. The Bahai’s in Iran are the scapegoats for all of Iran’s ills. It is hard for the people of Iran, and now the world, to know who they are because authorities tell deliberate and unfounded lies about them, simply to take attention away from themselves. Think of how the early Christians were treated after the death of Christ. Fed to the lions.
Today, in Iran, these seven harmless souls are being fed to the lions. May they meet the face of their Lord at every turn, in every corner of Evian prison, at every moment of their ridiculous trial.
“Hounds are on the trail of the gazelles of the field of divine unity, and the pheasant in the mountains of heavenly guidance is pursued by the ravens of envy . . . O God Omnipotent, do Thou shield us and be our refuge and, O Lord of Being, show forth Thy might and dominion.” –Baha’u’llah, Baha’i prayers.
Doctor Grandma 
February 12, 2010 at 1:29 pm |
UPDATE: These souls are still in prison. To add to that, more have been arrested. The charges are FALSIFIED LIES. It is so debilitating. These are good, upstanding citizens, whose only wish is to worship God and serve mankind. They believe in the unity of all major religions, equality of women and men, education of all children, elimination of prejudices.
Thou hast come to see a prisoner and an exile…. We desire but the good of the world and happiness of the nations; yet they deem us a stirrer up of strife and sedition worthy of bondage and banishment…. That all nations should become one in faith and all men as brothers; that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened; that diversity of religion should cease, and differences of race be annulled — what harm is there in this?… Yet so it shall be; these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the “Most Great Peace” shall come…. Do not you in Europe need this also? Is not this that which Christ foretold?… Yet do we see your kings and rulers lavishing their treasures more freely on means for the destruction of the human race than on that which would conduce to the happiness of mankind…. These strifes and this bloodshed and discord must cease, and all men be as one kindred and one family…. Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind….
–words of Baha’u’llah to Western historian Edward Granville Browne, when he went to visit Him as he was imprisoned and an exile.