Gilberto wrote: Maybe it would clarify
things if you define beforehand what you mean
by "independent religion". To be honest I don't know for sure what that means. What has to be true in order for two religions to be "independent"? -Gilberto Dear Gilberto,
Perhaps this will clarify "independent religion"
as defined by the Egypt's religious Tribunal and described by Shoghi
Effendi.
Sandra
Decision of Egyptian Tribunal
Of all the diverse issues which today are gradually tending to
consolidate and extend the bounds of the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, the decision
of Egypt's religious Tribunal regarding the Bahá'ís under its jurisdiction
appears at the present moment to be the most powerful in its challenge, the most
startling in its character, and the most perplexing in the consequences it may
entail. I have already alluded in my letter of January 10, 1926, addressed to
the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States
and Canada, to a particular feature of this momentous verdict, which after
mature deliberation has obtained the sanction of Egypt's highest ecclesiastical
authorities, has been communicated and printed, and is regarded as final and
binding. I have stressed in my last reference to this far-reaching pronouncement
the negative aspect of this document which condemns in most unequivocal and
emphatic language the followers of Bahá'u'lláh as the believers in heresy,
offensive and injurious to Islam, and wholly incompatible with the accepted
doctrines and practice of its orthodox adherents.
A closer study of the text of the decision will, however,
reveal the fact that coupled with this strong denunciation is the positive
assertion of a truth which the recognized opponents of the Bahá'í Faith in other
Muhammadan countries have up to the present time either sedulously ignored or
maliciously endeavored to disprove. Not content with this harsh and
unjustifiable repudiation of the so-called menacing and heretical doctrines of
the adherents of the Bahá'í Faith, they proceed in a formal manner to declare in
the text of that very decision their belief, that the Bahá'í Faith is a "new
religion," "entirely independent" and, by reason of the magnitude of its claim
and the character of its "laws, principles and beliefs," worthy to be reckoned
as one of the established religious systems of the world. Quoting various
passages judiciously gleaned from a number of Bahá'í sacred Books as an evidence
to their splendid testimony, they proceed in a notable statement to deduce the
fact that henceforth it shall be regarded as impossible for the followers of
such a Faith to be designated as Muslim, just as it would be incorrect and
erroneous to call a Muhammadan either Christian or Jew.
(Shoghi Effendi, Baha'i Administration, p.
121)
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- Re: "independent religion" Sandra
- Re: "independent religion" Gilberto Simpson