Author: JeffreyJeffrey
Date: Mar 18, 2008 21:44
In the discussions had by the Orthodox Baha'is about the importance of
the living Guardianship to the Cause of Baha'u'llah, we often quote
various provisions of the writings of Shoghi Effendi to indicate how
the first Guardian of the Faith never wavered from his belief that the
Guardianship would continue after his death. He alluded to future
Guardians. He laid plans for the erection of the Seat of the
Guardianship on Mount Carmel.
Somehow the sans-Guardian Baha'is seem to simply ignore it. I am sure
they rationalize it by saying that the Guardian just didn't know the
Guardianship would end. This is absurd because he would have known
that he didn't appoint anyone to the position. If he never appointed
anyone to succeed, and if he really was unable to appoint a successor,
why was he wasting time on plans for the office of future guardians?
But there is one passage of Shoghi Effendi's writings that is
difficult to explain away:
"DIVORCED FROM the institution of the Guardianship the World Order of
Bahá'u'lláh would be mutilated and permanently deprived of that
hereditary principle which, as 'Abdu'l-Bahá has written, has been
invariably...
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