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I think it would be a great idea if Gilberto or Matt ask Sistani or
Fazel Lankarani about Baha'is specifically, if they consider us
Baha'is as najas infidels apostates or kAAfir or mushrik.
Dear Matt and Gilberto, will you both kindly do ask this question in
separate letters from the Shiah Ayatollahs Lankarani, Khamenei, and
Sistani and from other leading Sunni mufti scholars?
Best regards
Iskandar
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On Jun 23, 2010, at 2:20 AM, Susan Maneck <sman...@gmail.com> wrote:
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You mean the same Imams whom Bahaullah called
" the manifestations of the power of God, and the
sources of His authority, and the repositories of His knowledge, and
the daysprings of His commandments."?
As I said, I don't know how authentic those ahadith are.
I'm not saying that people aren't being mistreated. I'm primarily
questioning how the mistreatment is being framed. You want to blame
Islam or Muslims as Muslims.
I believe the issue was najas, not Islam or Muslims.
You are missing the point. I'm not saying that it is "just" Jews. If
anything, it is "just" Persians (of a certain era). Maybe you should
blame the Safavids and their legacy instead of Islam.
I think the fact that the Safavids forcibly converted Iran to Shi'ism
was a problem, but the intolerance towards religious minorities was
introduced by the 'ulama brought in from Iraq, so it isn't just an
Iranian thing.
I think you are mischaracterizing what "the ulama" are saying. And
they don't speak with one voice. Grand Ayatolla Sistani and Grand
Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani both explicitly hold that Jews and
Christians are ritually clean. And Sistani is basically the highest
ranking 12-er cleric in Iraq.
If they say Baha'is are not najas I'll be impressed.
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