The Bayān will never surrender to the White Devil and his agenda
It becomes increasingly apparent that the tension between certain Bahá’í , Bahá’í-adjacent , and ex-Bahá’í Unitarian Universalist actors and contemporary Bābism is not merely doctrinal but structural . At root, the dispute concerns authority and interpretive control. The friction appears less about the internal coherence of the Bayān itself and more about resistance to its assimilation into a broader Western (neo-)liberal framework—one in which distinct revelatory traditions are subsumed into generalized, market-compatible spiritual identities. The underlying conflict, therefore, centers on whether the Bayān remains a self-standing metaphysical and textual system with its own claims to completion and authority, or whether it is to be rendered another symbolic resource within the marketplace of liberalized creeds. In short, the posture by some that it should further reflects a recurring modern white liberal conceit : the assumption that traditions require external supervisio...
