نشریه بهائی شناسی
پیاپی 29 (بهار 1403)

The late Abbas Ali Gudarzi, known as Adib Masoudi, was a Baha'i writer, speaker, preacher, poet and critic who, after 18 years of being an active member of the Baha'i organization, due to his change of religion and the critical positions and protes t views he had towards the Baha'i and its leaders, was rejected by the House of Jus tice and despite the services he had done during his membership in the Baha’i community, he was harassed. His son was also excommunicated from the Baha’i community due to his relationship with him, and the Baha’is were forbidden to say hello and speak and any kind of communication and assembly with them. With little knowledge about Islam and Baha'i, Godarzi joined Baha'i due to a conspiracy designed by the Baha'i organization and remained in Baha'i due to coercion and threats. However, as a result of s tudying the main Baha'i books and researching the behavior of Baha'is and contacting knowledgeable people in the field of Baha'i, he realized the invalidity of Baha'i and s tarted criticizing the teachings and practices of Baha'is. At las t, Adib Masoudi returned from Baha'ism and began to expose agains t Baha'ism and spread Islam and was able to bring back a large number of uninformed and deceived Baha'is to the Islamic community. He found the Baha'i faith to be a political sect whose goal is to des troy Islam and Islamic countries, and whose leaders are political and foreign-affiliated rather than divine

After Mirza Hossein Ali Baha’u’llah’s claim regarding the cancellation of the Bayan Book and the founding of the Baha'i Faith was revealed, Mirza Yahya Sobhe Azal, as the successor of the Bab, turned agains t him. In his various works, he has always attacked Baha’u’llah and his followers, calling them heretics and deserving of God's punishment, and warned his followers agains t leaning towards them. What comes in this article are some sayings from the Book of Al-Aqsa, which is among the works of the las t years of Sobhe Azal's life, and it shows that at the end of his life, he held the same view as before and had a hard view of Baha’u’llah and his followers.

From the beginning of the formation of Baha'ism and with the elimination of the Qajar kingdom and the Iranian cons titutional movement , then the firs t and second kings of Pahlavi regimes and finally the Islamic Republic of Iran, no government has recognized Baha'ism from a legal point of view. The aforementioned governments, which have even had deep ideological and s tructural conflicts with each other, have all been accomplices in not recognizing Baha'ism. This shows that the legal confrontation with Baha'ism is not only a result of the Sharia-based and jurisprudence-oriented view, but even the governments that did not consider themselves to adhere to the Sharia, did not find any legal jus tification to recognize Baha'ism! However, even though the influence of the Baha'is in the political s tructures of the Pahlavi regime was extensive, the juris ts were never able to raise a legal argument in favor of the recognition of Baha'ism. This point is the Achilles' heel of Baha'i in the his tory of contemporary Iran and really puts the Baha'i community in this position to answer why no legal sys tem and government in Iran (and not anywhere in the world) recognizes Baha'i as a Baha’i Belief ?! This article tries to find a documented answer from legal documents for this puzzle.

The book "Mus tabser" written by Mirza Yahya Dolatabadi who is one of the elders and leaders of the personal hidden life of Babi, whose successor Mirza Yahya Sobhe Azal is one of his honors among the Babi community. This book tries to jus tify and es tablish the claims of Mirza Ali Mohammad Bab based on Islamic and Shiite beliefs with a hidden appearance. Therefore, it is a very important reference in unders tanding Babi's beliefs and its roots. Seyyed Moqdad Nabavi Razavi in his book, Hayat Yahya Naji, based on Mirza Yahya Dolatabadi's book Mus tabser, has dedicated a chapter to the analysis of Babi's beliefs and their comparison with authentic Shiite sources.

The type of relationship between the Baha'is and especially their leaders with the colonial countries of the time is one of the topics that are always considered in the survey and evaluation of the social, cultural and political role of the Baha'is. What was Abdu'l-Bahá's relationship with the British government, and what role did he played in the formation of the Israeli government? By examining the available his torical documents, it can be seen that with the beginning of the weakening of the pillars of the Ottoman Government, and the activation of the British plan to separate the Arab lands from the Ottoman rule and the beginning of British domination of the Suez Chanel, communications by the British government's spy agency with some local leaders in the Arab regions s tarted. Therefore, it is contacted with Abdu'l-Bahá too. In this paper, his agreement for intelligence cooperation and providing spy elements, as well as provision of food for the British military forces, when deploying forces in the Pales tinian region, is discussed. Observing such actions by the Ottoman authorities, caused their anger and their efforts to arres t and punish Abbas Effendi, and in turn, the efforts of the British military and intelligence authorities to protect and care for Abdu'l-Bahá and to award him Knighthood rewards.