Refutation of the Bahā'i and hawzavī narrative re: the violent nature of the Bayān
…Do not murder any soul nor under any circumstance sever anything [i.e. limbs] from any person, if ye be believers in God and Its versical-signs. And whosoever commands this, undertakes it, or determines to prevent but doesn’t prevent it, or is content [with the action]; it is necessary for him in the Book of God to pay eleven thousand mithqāls of gold [in penalty]…(my trans.)
https://archive.org/details/ArabicBayan_201903, p.60 (PDF: 62) also http://bayanic.com/showPict.php?id=abay&ref=0&err=0&curr=0
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Bahāʾullāh
…The detractors and
critics [i.e. the Bayānīs] hold fast to four words: first, the words “and cut
off the necks”; and second, “burn [all] books”; and, third, avoid other
nations; and, fourth, the annihilation of all creeds…(my trans.)
Original
Persian:
معرضين و منكرين به چهار كلمه متمسک، اول كلمه فضرب الرّقاب و ثانی
حرق كتب و ثالث اجتناب از ملل اُخری و رابع فنای احزاب
In
Bahāʾullāh, majmuʿiʾī az alwāh-i-jamāl-i-qidam-i-abhāʾ kih baʿd az
kitāb-i-aqdas nāzil shudih (A collection of the tablets of the most
splendorous ancient beauty which was revealed after the kitāb-i-aqdas) (National Publishing Trust
of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahāʾīs of Germany: Langenheim, 137 badīʾ),
p.52, online https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/b/TB/
(retrieved 23 June 2020).
ʿAbd’ul-Bahāʾ
…One must show fairness. For example, the
ordinances of the Bayān include the cutting off of necks, the destruction of
all books, epistles, writings and papers; the conquest of the east and west;
and destruction of shrines…(my trans.)
Original
Persian:
انصاف باید داد، از جمله احکام بیان ضرب اعناق اهل
آفاق و حرق
جمیع کتب و صحف و زبر و اوراق و فتح شرق و غرب و هدم بقاع مرتفعه
In ʿAbd’ul-Bahāʾ, muntakhabātī az makātīb-i-ḥaḍrat-i-ʿabd’ul-bahāʾ
(Selections from the correspondences of his holiness ʿAbd’ul-Bahāʾ), vol. 4
(National Publishing Trust of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahāʾīs of
Germany:
Langenheim, 2000), p.221, online https://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/ab/
(retrieved 23
June 2020).
The Bayān
The thirteenth gate of the ninth Unity
…Do not under
any circumstances destroy any book…(my trans.)
Original
Arabic:
انتم
ابدا كتابا لا تحرقون
In the Arabic
Bayān (n.d., n.p.), online,
https://archive.org/details/ArabicBayan_201903, p.43 (PDF: 45) also http://bayanic.com/showPict.php?id=abay&ref=0&err=0&curr=0 (retrieved 23 June 2020).
https://archive.org/details/ArabicBayan_201903, p.43 (PDF: 45) also http://bayanic.com/showPict.php?id=abay&ref=0&err=0&curr=0 (retrieved 23 June 2020).
The sixteenth gate of the eleventh Unity
…Do
not murder any soul nor under any circumstance sever anything [i.e. limbs] from
any person, if ye be believers in God and Its versical-signs. And whosoever
commands this, undertakes it, or determines to prevent but doesn’t prevent it,
or is content [with the action]; it is necessary for him in the Book of
God to pay eleven thousand mithqāls of gold [in penalty]…(my trans.)
Original
Arabic:
فلا
تقتلن نفسا و لا تقطعن شيئا عن نفسا ابدا إن أنتم بالله و آياته مؤمنون و من يأمر
ذلك او يفعل او يقدر ان يمنع و لم يمنع او يرضي فليلزمنه من كتاب الله احدى عشر
الف مثقال من ذهب
In the Arabic
Bayān (n.d., n.p.), online,
https://archive.org/details/ArabicBayan_201903, p.60 (PDF: 62) also http://bayanic.com/showPict.php?id=abay&ref=0&err=0&curr=0 (retrieved 23 June 2020).
https://archive.org/details/ArabicBayan_201903, p.60 (PDF: 62) also http://bayanic.com/showPict.php?id=abay&ref=0&err=0&curr=0 (retrieved 23 June 2020).
