A right reserved exclusively for Guardians of the Bahá'í Faith.
- From: rosscampbell@xxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:51:25 -0700
Why did Shoghi Effendi reserve exclusively for the Guardian of the
Bahá'í Faith the right to declare an individual woman or man to be a
Covenant-breaker?
The Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh is not separate from the Bahá'í Faith, nor
outside of the Bahá'í Faith, but rather His Covenant is in integral
pat of the Bahá'í Faith. Therefore the chosen/appointed individual
who guards the Bahá'í Faith also guards the Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh.
The Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith is not a headless body of elected men
devoid/deprived of the hereditary spiritual principle which is unique
in the Bahá'í Faith, and passed from each Guardian to his successor
Guardian, but rather, the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith is the living
individual, on Earth, who guards the Bahá'í Faith and who guards the
Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh, which is an intrinsic part of the Bahá'í
Faith.
That is the reason why only Guardians of the Bahá'í Faith have
authority to declare a woman or man to be a Covenant-breaker.
No woman or man on Earth, nor any body of men on Earth has anything
authoritative in writing assigning to her/him/them the right to
inherit that specific authority which Shoghi Effendi reserved for
Guardians of the Bahá'í Faith, namely to declare an individual to be a
Covenant-breaker.
Nothing in writing at all.
If, in future, a Guardian delegates that right to other/s, apart from
a Guardian, he will have a Divinely guided reason for doing so, and
for a certainty, all members of the Bahá'í Faith will hear, know and
understand that such authority has been officially and authoritatively
assigned by a Guardian.
Most assuredly, a headless body of men, totally devoid of ability and
authority to interpret Bahá'í Holy Text and Holy Writ, such as the
current headless elected body of men on Mt. Carmel, claiming to be a
Universal House of Justice, is totally devoid of authority to declare
any individual to be a Covenant-breaker, and the authority which they
currently use to perform such acts is completely a usurped authority,
an illegitimate authority, devoid of any trace of valid written
support in the Bahá'í Faith.
Shoghi Effendi wrote:
"People who have withdrawn from the Cause because they no longer feel
that
they can support its Teachings and Institutions sincerely, are not
Covenant-breakers -- they are non-Bahá'ís and should just be treated
as
such. Only those who ally themselves actively with known enemies of
the
Faith who are Covenant-breakers, and who attack the Faith in the same
spirit
as these people, can be considered, themselves, to be Covenant-
breakers. As
you know, up to the present time, no one has been permitted to
pronounce
anybody a Covenant-breaker but the Guardian himself"
(Compilations, Lights of Guidance, p. 183)
"The Guardian, like the Master before him, has not considered it
advisable
to as yet permit any person or Assembly to put another out of the
Cause of
God. There is a sharp distinction between depriving a believer of his
voting
rights, and pronouncing a former believer to be a truly spiritually
diseased
soul" (Baha'i News June 1949)
In fact, those women and men declared to be Covenant-breakers by the
current administration on Mt. Carmel are, at least in the case of
Orthodox Bahá'ís, not persons who have twisted Holy
Bahá'í Scriptures, nor opposed the Founders of our Faith, or Shoghi
Effendi, but rather they have vigorously supported Their Teachings,
and have vigorously supported the covenant of the Master, of which
Shoghi Effendi wrote, namely the covenant to support His
Administration, which administration is delineated, by Him, in His
sacred and immutable Will and Testament.
Yes, Orthodox Bahá'ís believe and support "every clause" of that Holy
Document, the Master's Will and Testament.
That is Covenant-keeping, not Covenant-breaking.
Shoghi Effendi wrote concerning the Master's covenant:
"As regards the meaning of the Bahá'í Covenant: The Guardian considers
the
existence of two forms of Covenant both of which are explicitly
mentioned in
the literature of the Cause. First is the covenant that every Prophet
makes
with humanity or, more definitely, with His people that they will
accept and
follow the coming Manifestation Who will be the reappearance of His
reality.
The second form of covenant is such as the one Bahá'u'lláh made with
His
people that they should accept the Master. This is merely to establish
and
strengthen the succession of the series of Lights that appear after
every
Manifestation. Under the same category falls the covenant the Master
made
with the Bahá'ís that they should accept His administration after
Him..."
(Compilations, Lights of Guidance, p. 181)
Does the current administration on Mt. Carmel believe and support
"every clause" of the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha? Does that
administration loyally support His covenant?
Any true seeker, any sincere woman or man who carefully examines the
Master's Will and Testament or the "Spiritual Testament of Shoghi
Effendi, The Dispensation of
Bahá'u'lláh, will very quickly discern that the current headless
Bahá'í administration on Mt. Carmel abrogates many vital clauses from
their version of the Master's Will and Testament.
Some of those ones whom that administration declares to be Covenant-
Breakers are actually faithful Bahá'ís, loyal to the Master, the
Center of the Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh.
The website of the living Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith:
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com
.
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