FOREWORD

National Teaching Committee of India.

The Persian Believer

Destined To Be My Successor

While it is understood that the Will and Testament of  Abdu’l- Baha does not require the incumbent Guardian to appoint a Persian as his successor and that the race and nationality of the Guardian is not a consideration in this appointment, and although future Guardians of the Faith in the centuries that lie ahead will undoubtedly represent many races and nationalities, the Persian believers will be pleased to learn that the present Guardian has appointed a Persian believer as his successor.’! His father, a resident of Tehran, had never believed that the Guardianship of the Faith had ended with the passing of Shoghi Effendi in November 1957, as he had never wavered in his faith in the indestructibility of the Covenant of Baha’u’llah or accepted the view that the major and immutable provisions of its immortal and sacred “Child”—the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha—had become mill and void.t The steadfastness of his faith was rewarded when he recognized and accepted Mason Remey as Shoghi Effendi’s successor upon the receipt of his Proclamation at Ridvan, 1960. His son, Nosrat’u’llah Bahremand, also accepted his Guardianship but had never received information as to the identity of Mason Remey’s appointed successor. Notwithstanding, he remained steadfast in his belief that the continuance of the Guardianship of the Faith had been assured down through the ages to come of the Dispensation of Baha’u’llah. There is, therefore, no doubt that, because of his steadfastness in the Covenant, God decreed that he would be guided to leave Iran some years ago and make the decision to settle in the distant city of Perth, Australia, where unbeknownst to him the living Guardian of the Faith then resided, and where he would finally discover that his unwavering faith in the Covenant would, at last, be fulfilled and where he would find, accept and embrace the third Guardian of the Faith in person, while sacrificing, in so doing, his livelihood, the painful severance from members of his family and previous relationships with his fellow-Baha’is who did not follow him in the acceptance of my Guardianship. This dedicated, devoted and exemplary Baha’i, Nosrat’u’llah, Bahremand, well versed in the Teachings and in the provisions of the Will and Testament of Abdu’l-Baha, and the writings of Shoghi Effendi and those of his successors, has been deservedly appointed Vice- President of the third International Baha’i Council that I appointed on 22 September 2006 and, upon the termination of my Guardianship, my chosen successor.

Joel Bray Marangella

Guardian of the Baha’i Faith September 2009

Introduction

After the passing of the first Guardian on 4 November 1957, the errant Hands appointed a body of nine Hands from their own number to take over the direction of the Faith under the direction of his widow, Ruhiyyih Khanum, displacing thereby the supreme role that now belonged rightfully to an actively functioning International Baha’i Council under the Presidency of the second Guardian of the Faith and arrogated unto themselves the authority that belonged only to the Guardian whom they had in their faithlessness shamefully dethroned. This illegitimate body of nine former Hands who called themselves the Custodians of the Baha’i Faith, in turn, created another fake and dummy body which, other than its name, resembled in no way the true and legitimate Universal House of Justice described by Abdu’l-Baha in His sacred Will and Testament. Since the establishment of this Headless body and its disobedience to the Guardian of the Cause of God is contradictory to the terms of the Will and Testament of Abdu’l Baha and the writings of Shoghi Effendi its legitimacy has been under constant question by the Baha’is. In order, therefore, for this bogus UHJ to attempt to prove its legitimacy to the Baha’is, it had no other choice but to manipulate the Baha’i scriptures and resort to the writing of lies and erroneous and unauthorized interpretations and to many unethical actions such as changing the content of Baha’i books on the one hand and on the other by baring their sharp teeth and claws, as they threatened to call those Baha’is who did not conform to their dictates Covenant-breakers, whereas in reality, according to the definition of Covenant-breakers in the Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, they themselves were clearly the Covenant-breakers. In the same line, a paper of fourteen pages, under the title of “Some thoughts on the ministry of the Universal House of Justice” has been written by Ali Nakhjavani, who was a former long-time member of this fake and illegitimate body in Haifa that has patently misrepresented itself as the Universal House of Justice. Also, prior to that, he had been a member of the bogus replica International Baha’i Council manufactured by the former errant Hands of the Cause in their rebellion against, and their flagrant violation of the Will and Testament of Abdu’l Baha, as well as their repudiation of the writings of Shoghi Effendi, pertaining to the Administrative Order, as found in his spiritual Testament: The Dispensation of Baha’u’llah. Moreover, they ignored the one and only Proclamation issued by Shoghi Effendi during his ministry to the Baha’i World in 1951. Following this opposition to the first Guardian of the Faith they dissolved the International Baha’i Council that he had divinely appointed in his Proclamation, in which he had hailed his “historic decision” to appoint the embryonic Universal House of Justice under the provisional name of the International Baha’i Council, a decision “taken at long last” to establish “this first embryonic International Institution” that he had further emphasized was the “most significant milestone in the evolution of the Administrative Order” and “the greatest event shedding luster upon the second epoch of the Formative Age of the Baha’i Dispensation.” They ignobly deposed its President its “sacred head” and its other members, as well, who had been divinely appointed by him, totally disregarding the fact that no one other than the Guardian of the Cause of God had the authority to make changes in that “Central Body.” Incredulously, this very essential, important and historic decision that had been made by Shoghi Effendi was completely ignored by the violating Hands who placed themselves under the direction of Ruhiyyih Khanum (the widow of Shoghi Effendi) instead of faithfully serving “under the direction of the Guardian of the Cause of God” and choosing to be “under his shadow and obey his command” as enjoined by ‘Abdu’l-Baha.

In the light of the above history, 1 am not surprised to see the desperate and sly attempts of Nakhjavani to cover up his misdeeds and to obscure the transgressions and offenses he has been guilty of committing against the sacred and Holy writings of the Faith such as those contained in Baha’u’llah’s Most Holy Book, the Kitab-i-Aqdas, and the Will and Testament of Abdu’l-Baha and his fabrication of lies and unauthorized and erroneous interpretations. It is obvious to me that he realizes his wrongdoings but tries to fool the unaware and uninformed reader, deluding himself into believing that God is not aware of what he is doing or even perhaps he may not actually believe in God, otherwise he wouldn’t commit duplicity.

THE ILLEGITIMACY AND FRAUDS OF THE BOGUS UHJ ARE EXPOSED THROUGH ALI NAKHJAVANI’S BLATANT PERVERSION OF THE TRUTH.