The 119 conferences called by the
Bahá’í Administration, the UHJ, for the Bahá’í Youth held in 119 cities
carefully selected by the UHJ to measure its acceptability amongst the Bahá’ís,
proved to be the nightmare for the UHJ as only 30% of participation were
Bahá’ís and the rest were non Bahá’ís i.e. from the “wider community”. It is
quite natural that any NGO announcing 3 day picnic at a picnic resort with free
lodging boarding and luxury of mixing with fairer sex in the name of enhancing
the collective capacity for service, for benefit to Mankind will be welcomed by
any group of people. The “wider community” was no exception and did not failed
to take benefit from the “sinking titanic”.
If this figure of 30% Bahá’í
Youth attendance is true then the Bahá’í Administration is losing grip over the
Bahá’ís which will result in gradual dismantling of Bahá’í Administration in
the very near future. Bahá’í youths cannot be fooled for a long time and this
30% is the best proof of it. Bahá’í Faith is now a Paper Tiger which is being
run by the paid executives, the Members of Universal House of Justice, the
Counselors the ABMs etc. These officials have their Salaries, their Holidays
and finally Retirement. There are no real Bahá’ís left in the Faith.
There was a severe Bahá’í
discontent during the conferences as lots of efforts were directed to please
the youths of wider community at the expense of Bahá’í money as UHJ sees these
youths as potential Bahá’ís for the future as their deception process is ON.
Now the UHJ is asking the Bahá’ís to pay for the non Bahá’ís attending the
conference.
Another major reason for
discontent amongst Bahá’ís was total neglect by the UHJ of the Bahá’í Agenda
carefully drafted by the Bahá’í Youths to be discussed in these conferences.
These agendas were the real things going in the minds of every Bahá’í and the
UHJ failed to satisfy the needs of the Bahá’í Youths. The conference had only
one agenda and that was to please the youths of the wider community for
enrolling themselves as Bahá’ís.
Another cause of dissatisfaction
amongst Bahá’í Youths were the propaganda organized by the UHJ against Iran.
The representative of the External affair committees of the Bahá’ís spoke on
the ways and means for how to degrade and defame Iran by contacting their
respective governments and giving them false information about Iranian
government mistreating the Bahá’ís.
Also a careful analysis will find
juxtaposition between the rise of rebellious in Bahá’í Faith and different
sects emerging amongst the Bahá’ís all claiming to be True Bahá’ís. The Bahá’í
administration is avoiding these issues as they feel that they are not in a
position to reply to these issues. As lot of covenant breaking has been done by
the Bahá’í Administration itself.
The Bahá’í Administration should
know that future analysis is a key tool for the improvement of the present
situation and extending their lives for a few more decades. Their next picnics
should incorporate:
- An awareness of demands by the Bahá’í youth of
answering the unanswered question occupying the Bahá’í community related
to the Central figures of the Faith that who was the Real Successor of The
BAB.
2. The reliability of UHJ based on Holy text whether this is the same UHJ
forecasted by Bahá’í central figures Baha’u’llah and Abdul Baha?
3. The safety of Bahá’í community not from Covenant Breakers but from abusive
language used by the so called infallible members of UHJ.
4. Other sensitive issues like, the Collusion amongst the Persian Bahá’ís to
keep the Bahá’í Administration in their own hands and let the Bahá’ís of other
communities work as slave for them nothing sort of renaissance of Past Iranian
Monarchy overthrown by Iranians.
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Participants gather
outside of the conference venue in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea for
betterment of society by ‘teaching Baha'i Faith’ to Tiny Tots of other
Faiths.
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Youth
striving to contribute to the well-being of their communities have begun
gathering in a series of conferences called for by the Universal House of
Justice, the international governing body of the Baha'i Faith. The first eight
of the 114 youth conferences, scheduled between now and October of this year,
were held this past weekend in Papua New Guinea, Canada, Costa Rica, Colombia,
and Indonesia.
The outcome of these already concluded 8 conferences can be best summarized in
one word “ABSOLUTE FAILURE” from the side of UHJ as well as participants.
The participants were unaware for what they have been called and the UHJ was
confused, what had to be done with participants who were ignorant about the
basic principles of the Faith. Nobody knew the meaning of facilitator, teacher,
cluster etc. They had all come on planned for picnic and games.
Despite
strong propaganda, the attendance was poor, even though the UHJ had taken care
of lodging, boarding and travel expenses, no enthusiasm was seen. The
participants found no point in attending for the agenda. Several doubts
remained unanswered. The truthfulness of the Baha'i Faith, its legality and who
was Baha’u’llah? were the predominant thoughts in the minds of few attendees.
As new
agenda floated, the minds of the youths were stirred with a more confusion and
uncertainty. The youth debated the motive of these conferences’ and why suddenly
the UHJ has become so hospitable? Was the UHJ trying to cover-up :
a) Failure of Ruhi curriculum? Or,
b)
Absolute non acceptability of the Faith with the
masses inspite of efforts taken by Baha'i authorities to make it acceptable.
Or,
c)
To take the minds of the Baha'is away from
humiliating court case defeats at the hands of followers of other sects of
Baha'is.
Certain net
savvy and updated youth discussed amongst themselves :
a) Why
the Baha'i Faith is banned in most of the countries?
b) Why
there are deportations and arrests of Baha'is in different countries?
c) Why
does the intelligence agency of every country have a Baha'i cell to keep a
track of their activities?
d) Why there is widespread and profound allegation of espionage charges made against
Baha'is in many of the countries?
Some Baha'i Youths suggested that
women and children are not safe in Baha'i meetings and classes, and hence
“Child and women Protection”, has to be discussed in these conferences.
It was told in the conference
that “The purpose of neighborhood children’s classes is to provide spiritual
growth and training to children. Such classes make Baha'i children gain a
stronger identity when they are in classes with children of non-Baha'is who are
learning about the Baha'i Faith. It is an obligation of every Baha'i to teach
others about Baha’u’llah.”
Most of the Baha'i youth did not
think that children have any obligation “to teach Baha'i Faith to other
children”. In fact, they felt that it shows that Baha'i Faith is desperate to
make converts. A good religion sells itself without trying to sell itself, and
does not need any special methods such as children’s classes, cleverly designed
for evangelistic purposes.
Also whispered was that in a
letter dated dated 1 July 2013 the UHJ stated that “how the act of reaching
out to touch individual hearts, acquainting souls with the Word of God, and
inviting them to contribute to the betterment of society” which is
contrary to saying of Baha’u’llah “Verily I say, strife and dissension, and
whatsoever the mind of man abhorreth are entirely unworthy of his station. Center
your energies in the propagation of the Faith of God’
With this feedback of first few
conferences, it is not clear how the remaining will be managed by the UHJ.
Picnics apart, the youth do not see any sense in the way the Faith is managed.