POSTED ON BEHALF OF THE GUARDIAN OF THE BAHA'I FAITH
THE ULTIMATE PARADOX
During the ministry of Shoghi Effendi all Baha'is knew that one of the
essential conditions that had been prescribed by Shoghi Effendi for being
accepted as an enrolled believer was faithful adherence to every clause of
the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha--" the Center of the Covenant"--
and
believed that fidelity on the part of the believer to the Covenant of
Baha'u'llah required nothing less than faithful, complete and steadfast
adherence to every clause of this "Charter of the New World Order."
Is it not a blatant paradox that, since the passing of Shoghi Effendi,
that
the sans-Guardian, and therefore headless, illegitimate and so-called
Universal House of Justice has now so perverted the meaning of fidelity to
the Covenant of Baha'u'llah that they now ludicrously label as
Covenant-breakers those believers who have continued to faithfully and
steadfastly adhere to every clause of 'Abdu'l-Baha's divinely-conceived,
sacred and immortal Will and Testament-- a part of the explicit Holy
Text--
whereas, in marked contrast, it is they, who in their abandonment of the
Guardianship, have thereby faithlessly declared major clauses of this
Will
and Testament null and void and have, in consequence, undeniably become
themselves the arch-breakers of the Covenant of Baha'u'llah?
Shoghi Effendi devoted himself tirelessly during his 36-year ministry to
the
erection of the institutions of the Baha'i Administrative Order in
faithful
compliance with every clause of the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha and
during the closing years of his ministry hailed "at long last" in a
message
to the Baha'i World the culmination of these efforts when he announced the
erection "At the World Center of the Faith" the "machinery of its highest
institutions" and "the supreme organs of its unfolding Order" . . . "in
their embryonic form," these highest embryonic institutions being none
other than the Universal House of Justice--under is initial designation as
the International Baha'i Council-- and the Hands of the Cause.
He had, in appointing the embryonic head of the embryonic Universal House
of
Justice (initially named the International Baha'i Council) and then
retaining this Institution as an inactive body during the remaining years
of
his ministry, publicly identified his successor but in an indirect way to
obscure from the believers the terrible prospect of the imminence of his
passing that he had obviously foreseen. Notwithstanding, he would
certainly
have anticipated that, upon his passing, the Hands of the Cause and the
believers at large would recognize the identity of his appointed
successor,
once the International Baha'i Council had become an actively functioning
body and had begun to exercise the functions which he had assigned it in
his
message of 23 November 1951 and accordingly had actively assumed, under
its
appointed President, its role as the supreme legislative body of the
Baha'i
world. Tragically, the International Council was never allowed by the
Hands
of the Cause to function under his Presidency (Presidency of this body
being
exercised only by the Guardian of the Faith) and therefore the
significance
of this appointment remained unperceived both at the time and afterwards.
If, on the other hand, the Hands of the Cause had retained an unwavering
confidence that Shoghi Effendi would have faithfully complied with the
sacred Mandate of 'Abdu'l-Baha to appoint his successor "in his own
life-time" and not rushed to an early judgment immediately following his
passing and taken the time to examine and carefully reconsider his past
actions and pronouncements, instead of hastily, erroneously and
faithlessly
reaching the conclusion, upon not finding a will and testament left by
him,
that he had not appointed a successor, they would have then undoubtedly
discovered his identity and joyfully found that the second Guardian was in
their very midst.
For further detailed information and facts proving the continuance of the
Guardianship please refer to the following web page:
http://www.Bahai-Guardian.com
Joel Bray Marangella
Guardian of the Baha'i Faith
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