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Email 1: Is fasting and performing prayers is mandatory as per the Baha’is too? Can you please clarify. Answer: Hi SR, Allah'u'Abha! Hope this message finds you well. I am glad to hear from you after a long time. I understand that you are seeking clarification on a certain matter, and we the Free Baha’is are here to assist you in any way we can. In regards to your query, I would like to refer to an extract from Kitab-i-Aqdas which I believe can provide further insight and clarity. The extract is as follows: “ Worship and Fasting are obligatory to you on your coming to maturity a command from God, your Lord and the Lord of your early fathers. Whoever is weak from illness or advanced age, God exempts him because of a Grace on His part. He is the Generous One, the Forgiver. God permits you to prostrate yourselves on everything pure, and we have taken away the ruling stipulated in the Book. God knows and you do not. Whoever does not find water, let him repeat five tim...

  اقرأ كيف استولى شوقي أفندي على تمويلات خيرية لصالحه. بَلَغَتنا رواية السيدة روث وايت في كتابها، الديانة البهائية وأعداؤها - التنظيم البهائي - "في خريف عام 1919، أرسَلتُ شيكًا بقيمة خمسمائة دولارٍ إلى عبد البهاء عبر شركة "أميريكان إكسبريس"، وطلبت منه أن يموّل به بعض الأعمال الخيرية التي كان يُشرف عليها. بعد مرور أربعة أشهر، قَدِمنا إلى مدينة حيفا بصفتنا ضيوفًا لدى عبد البهاء. قبل مغادرتنا بيوم، سألت عبد البهاء عن تلقّيه للشيك. لم يتردد في الإجابة بالنفي، وأخبرني بشكل قاطع أنه لم يتلقّاه. لقد كرّر هذه الإجابة عدة مرات، وبدا مُنزعجًا من عدم تلقيه للمبلغ المالي. تحدثت بخصوص هذا الأمر مع العديد من أفراد عائلة عبد البهاء، وصرّح لي أحد أصهاره أنه سيسافر بنفسه إلى المدينة ليستفسر عن هذا الموضوع. عند عودته، أخبرني أنه لم يجد أيّ سجلات تُثبت وصول الشيك. بعد رجوعي إلى الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، طلبت من شركة "أميريكان إكسبريس" أن يتثبتوا من التحويل المالي وأن يُقدموا لي وَصل استلام الشيك الذي أرسلته من خلال مكتبهم. لقد وجدت في ظهر الورقة توقيع الشخص الذي استلم ا...

The Baha'i Faith the youngest of all the Faiths and supposedly the most united is now suffering from an existential crisis. Already divided into many factions and sects, the Faith is now faced with the existential threat of a power struggle between the Persian Baha'is and the rest. This crisis may lead to the already decimated Faith into a vertical split shaking the roots of the faith. There is no denying the fact that the Baha'i Faith is born in Persia and Persians have had a great sacrifice in spreading the Faith across the globe. We will have to go back into the history to recollect that the Persian Baha'is pioneered to places far and wide and have devotedly served the faith. The progress of the faith in the golden era from 1970 to 2010 was mainly due to the efforts of Eidelkhanis, Nakhjawanis, Razavis, Afshins, Rouhanis, Mohajers, Azadis and so on. All familiar names to the Baha'i community, known for their selfless services. While these individuals offered thei...

Today, Humanity is at a critical juncture faced with the unprecedented and unexpected calamity in the form of the Covid-19 Pandemic. In the face of this crisis, Nations, Organisations, communities and even individuals are engaged in selfless service trying to help their fellow human beings’ tide over the devastating effects of this pandemic. Nations are rising over past rivalries and animosities, and people are rising over racism and xenophobia to help each other. However, in the face of all of this, the “Baha’i Administration” is doing, as usual, NOTHING MEANINGFUL. The “Administration”, as always, in this time of crisis is bent on paying lip service and nothing more. This way of dumb and mute service is the innate nature of the “Baha’i Administration” and is in perfect alignment with the past set precedents of service of the “Administration”. Allow me to enumerate the various “Powerful” (read: self-serving and futile; Lip Service) steps which the “Administration” will take at thi...

Mason Remey's opinion on the death of Shoghi Effendi To summarize the event and prove the truth, I would just quote the testimony of one of the observers - Mason Remey - who was present there. "Shoghi Effendi ascended in a strange situation and under surprising circumstances. For this reason, Ruhiyyih Khanum refused to disclose the facts of his death, and did not want the believers to know those terrible facts of that event. Trying to avoid the awareness of the Baha’i world community from the actual description of the death of Shoghi, she prepared an article with contribution of John Ferraby in London, which was full of fabricated and false subjects. The article was published and distributed in a limited copy; and perhaps the Iranian Friends were not fully aware of its contents. Thus, the true account of the holy ascension is as follows: Shoghi Effendi used to sleep alone in his room. He had slept alone that night and the bedroom was locked from the inside....