"Bada" is a Farsi term that means 'God changed His mind.' It is used to excuse the meddling of men in divine affairs.
If the Guardian falls in a conclave of Hands, will anybody hear him cry?
MrDonut has sniffed out a big bada in the activities of the Hands of the Cause after the passing of Shoghi Effendi.
An eyewitness passed it on to MrDonut that the Persian Hands agreed to pass over the Guardian's instructions and those of 'Abdu'l-Baha. Under the guidance of Ruhiyyih Khanum, who was not Persian but "Guardian by Choice" (her own), the Hands shelved the plans of their authorities and embraced their own. Against all instruction and design before them in the authoritative writings, they raced to elect the Universal House of Justice.
Nowhere in the writings are the Hands given the authority to do this. It is delegated to the International Baha'i Council. Shoghi Effendi had appointed Remey as its president. He was sure Remey could lead the Council to fulfill 'Abdu'l-Baha's wishes. He liked the Western way of doing things; the Eastern Hands were already chomping at the bit to lead the Faith. The Guardian saw that a more Oriental Faith would soon slip into the bonds of the faith from which it had sprung.
The Guardian dead? The Hands were like kids in a candy store. Suddenly they could have things the way they had always wanted but couldn't breathe a word of, when the Guardian was alive.
Now Ruhiyyih Khanum could decapitate the UHJ while making herself available to the men; to be, in effect, the Invisible Guardian they could consult at any hour on any topic. This was better than being married to Shoghi Effendi! Finally old Mary Maxwell was Mt.Carmel's Big Dog, center player in making the Universal House of Justice a headless body professing to guide the nations to peace. "They do keep an empty chair at the consultation table," said MrDonut. "For The Guardian, supposedly." he added. "It's an old custom they still use at Yale."
If you can't see the Guardian, is he still there? Can you claim to be in communication with him?
"Maybe he passes notes down through the ether," MrDonut suggested. "We aren't a party to the deliberations of the men of the House of Justice. Who knows what's going on?"
"My GOD!" cried your reporter. "You are talking like a Baha'i! Stop it! Stop it!"
"I was kidding," said MrDonut.
"Don't."
"Have I hurt the Baha'i Faith?" he asked. "Some Baha'is say that if you tell the truth it will hurt the Faith."
"Nonsense. Anyone who says that is afraid of the truth. When did the truth ever hurt anything, unless that thing was evil? When did it ever hurt anyone, unless they were hiding behind a lie? There are oceans of truth in the history of the Baha'i Faith, and not a drop of it can hurt. Someday everyone will read it and rejoice. "
MrDonut mused. "What they Hands did is a glorious example of the "tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! That web has grown larger over the years and entangled many an innocent believer. Someday it must collapse under its own weight."
"I'm keeping an ear open for the crash."
5 comments:
I think MrDonut is a very bad cat and he is hurting the Faith and he should shut up. My husband is up to manage the Local House of Pancakes franchise in Philadelphia and MrDonut is hurting us! MrDonut is hurting Baha'is all over the world! He should die!
Ha ha ha! Just kidding!
I think The Pomfret had too many O'Douls tonight. Sally, please enroll him in a bowling league. Oh, and I will be out of the office for a few days. I'm investigating a rumor that some card-carrying Baha'is were discovered being happy. If I find them I won't disclose names; it could prove ruinous to their families.
Everybody shut up. I am trying to study.
So first you argue that the Will and Testament appointing Shoghi Effendi Guardian was fradulent and now you want to argue that the Hands usurped the Guardianship?
You really should make up your mind which Covenant breaking group you are going to follow!
Susan, I follow my nose. History sees no contradiction between the Will events and the Guardianship events. None whatsoever! Both are plausible, and either one could be true or false. Both cannot be false, for that theory dismisses entirely the fact that some Baha'is believed others were taking the wrong path, and vice versa.
It is pretty clear from history just who "broke the Covenant," but that's something a person has to see through their own eyes, not the eyes of the Hands or even the Guardian or anyone else.
I'm an observer, Susan, not a follower. And I observe that the Baha'i Faith as led from Mt.Carmel has broken from its roots of independent investigation of truth, avoidance of gossip, truthfulness, and loving one another. Baha'is today are afraid to speak openly that there is a history they are cautioned to avoid, an administration reaching from Haifa down to the home of one's next-door neighbor, that is consecrated to investigating and evicting by any means possible any believer who infers to his administrator that everything is a bit less than perfect.
I hope and pray, Susan, that the painful day of revelation comes upon you and all the Baha'is, that they are the pawns of a be3autiful Revelation that has become, for the time, through men's greed and ambitions,a cult. The day it came down on me was the happiest day of my life.
And thank you for your comment. It took a lot of guts to fire back at someone you believe may be a "Covenant Breaker." Perhaps your ties to a corrupt and ruthless administration are beginning to unravel.
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