Eminent Native Bahāʾī Informers of Empire in the 20th Century: Ḥasan M Balyūzī
In this podcast Keyvan Yahyaʾi and I discuss the
career of Ḥasan M. Balyūzī, Bahāʾī native informer and lackey of the British
establishment; Hand of the Cause appointed by Shoghi Effendi; and the first
head and spokesman of the BBC Persian section; and how the career and position
of Ḥasan M. Balyūzī proves uncritically the appendage and vassalage nature of
the Haifan Bahāʾī organization to the Anglo-American establishment.
Translation of Keyvan Yahyaʾis opening exordium in
Arabic (from the first line of the Obligatory Bayānī prayer for Fridays https://youtu.be/Am5KFBziTis).
In the Name of God the Most Impregnable, the Most
Holy! Glorified art Thou, O God my Lord, I beseech Thee by Thy Divinity which
is conqueringly victorious over All-Things that Thou make triumphant the
essence of the possessor of every Letter Alif who shall believe in the One Thou
shalt Manifest on the Day of Resurrection, the Essence of the Proof of Thy
Mighteous Supremity! Verily Thou art Powerful over All-Things! (my trans.) See
full translation of the prayer, here https://www.academia.edu/38430771/The_Bay%C4%81n%C4%AB_Obligatory_Prayer_for_Fridays.pdf
Biography of Balyūzī
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_M._Balyuzi http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/balyuzi-hasan-mowaqqar-b
About Balyūzī’s mentor A.K.S. Lambton https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/29/the-banality-of-evil-and-the-ivory-tower-masterminds-of-the-1953-coup-detat-in-iran/
For definition of “Native Informant” see Franz
Fanon’s Black Skins, White Masks http://abahlali.org/files/__Black_Skin__White_Masks__Pluto_Classics_.pdf
MP3s of Hasan Balyuzi’s talk “The Triumph of the
Cause” http://bahaimp3.narod.ru/eng/cause.htm
Kitáb-i Nuqṭatul̓-káf, being the earliest
history of the Bábís (original Leydan edition) https://archive.org/details/NuqtatulKaforiginalE.G.BrowneEdition
Le Petit Journal pic of ʿAbbas Effendi
