The Baha'i Studies Listserv There are definitely historical > examples of Bahai missionaries using hikmat to pretend to be Sufis and > claimed Bahaullah was a Sufi Shaykh in order to get converts.
Where that has happened, it was almost never to get converts, in fact it was done usually in areas where we *did* not teach the Faith and its purpose was to provide some measure of protection in situations where they would otherwise be persecuted. In any case we stopped doing that during the time of the Guardian. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-511037-274...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai...@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
