My understanding is that this badAA concept/doctrine is a Shi`ii thing. I
don't know if Sunni Muslims have a particular emphasis on it. For Shi`ah
Muslims badAA is when God chnages His mind. The successor the the Shi`ah
6th Imam (Imam J`afar the Truthful) was supposed to be his son Ismael
(IsmA`il). Strories vary as to why and hos it got changed to J`afar's son
MusA al-kAzim. Hence, the Twelver Shi`ites believe that MusA is/was the
legitimate successor to J`afar. But you also have the IsmA`ily sect.
Anyhow, my own personal understanding of the term badAA in the Baha'i
Writings is formed by what I heard from the renowned Persian Baha'i
scholar and prolific writer `abdu'l-hameed ishrAq-khAvari (who himself was
an erudite and well-read Shi`ah Muslim cleric before he embraced The
Faith). He used to say that in Baha'i theology, badAA simply means that a
every 1000 years or so, a new manifestation of God comes and
changes/abrogates some Divine laws of the preceding Manifestaion of God.
To me, this has always made a lot of sense. BadAA is nothing but
Progressive Revelation.
Regardless of how you spell it, badaa or bada, the list vowel is a long
"A" as in "fAther". You can trasliterate it badA or badAA, or badaa, or
bada, or whatever. The second letter is a short "a" as in "bad".
But I should have deferred to our very erudite Khazeh for his encylopaedic
knowledge of all things Islamic and Christian and Jewish and Baha'i.
With apologies and respectful regards,
Iskandar
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