Removing All Prejudice or Prohibition of Meeting with Non-Baha’is

1. Abdu’l-Bahā: Have no prejudice and show no hatred towards any religion.

Riyāḍ Qadīmī, Gulzār-i ta`ālim Bahā’ī, pp. 366–367.

Bahā’u’llāh and `Abdu’l-Bahā: Keep away from non-Baha’is and do not socialize with them.

Abd al-Ḥamīd Ishrāq Khāwarī, Mā’idiy-i āsimānī, vol. 8, p. 39

2. Having No Prejudice or Considering All Non-Baha’is Ignorant and Unreasonable?

Abdu’l-Bahā: Religious prejudice destroys the foundations of humanity.

Abdu’l-Bahā, Khaṭābāt (Tehran), vol. 2, p. 147.

Bahā’u’llāh: Only Baha’is are knowledgeable and reasonable and non-Baha’is are ignorant and lack reason.

Bahā’u’llāh, Badī`, p. 138–139;

3. Removing Prejudice or Claiming Each Baha’i worth More than a Million Non-Baha’is?

Abdu’l-Bahā: People must not regard themselves superior to others.

Abdu’l-Bahā, Makātīb (Egypt), vol. 3, p. 107.

Bahā’u’llāh: “My friends are the pearls of [this] order and all others are earthly pebbles . . . a single one of these (Baha’is) is more precious than a million others (non-Baha’is)”.

Abd al-Ḥamīd Ishrāq Khāwarī, Mā’idiy-i āsimānī, vol. 4, p. 353.

4. Removing Prejudice or Depriving Non-Baha’is from Their Share of Inheritance?

Abdu’l-Bahā: All people have equal rights.

Abd al-Ḥamīd Ishrāq Khāwarī, Payām-i malakūt, p. 30.

Bahā’u’llāh: Non-Baha’is do not inherit from their Baha’i parents.

Bahā’u’llāh, The Kitābi Aqdas, p. 184.

5. Removing All Prejudice or Calling Non-Baha’is Animals

`Abdu’l-Bahā: The truth can only be exposed when all religions remove prejudice.

Abd al-Ḥamīd Ishrāq Khāwarī, Payām-i malakūt, p.18.

Bahā’u’llāh: Non-Baha’is are animals.

Bahā’u’llāh, Badī`, p. 213

6. Removing All Prejudice or Calling Non-Baha’is Bastards

Abdu’l-Bahā: “This century, is the century of progress. These prejudices are unjustified. These are rooted in ignorance.”

Abd al-Ḥamīd Ishrāq Khāwarī, Payām-i malakūt, p. 25.

Bahā’u’llāh: Non-Baha’is are Bastards.

Abd al-Ḥamīd Ishrāq Khāwarī, Mā’idiy-i āsimānī, vol. 4, pp. 355

7. Removing All Prejudice or Saying Non-Baha’is Are like Dry Wood That Are Only Worthy of Fire?

Abdu’l-Bahā: We act to remove prejudice but others just talk.

Abd al-Ḥamīd Ishrāq Khāwarī, Payām-i malakūt, p. 99.

Bahā’u’llāh: Non-Baha’is are like dry wood that are only worthy of fire.

Abd al-Ḥamīd Ishrāq Khāwarī, Mā’idiy-i āsimānī, vol. 8, p. 39.

8. Removing Prejudice or Depriving of All Graces, Those Who View Non-Baha’is as Humans?

Abdu’l-Bahā: People must not regard themselves superior to others.

Abdu’l-Bahā, Makātīb (Egypt), vol. 3, p. 107.

Bahā’u’llāh: Whoever call my deniers humans, will be deprived of all of God’s graces.

Bahā’u’llāh, Badī`, p. 140.

9. Removing Racial Prejudice or Calling All Black Africans Irrational Savages?

Abdu’l-Bahā: Prejudice destroys the foundations of humanity.

Abdu’l-Bahā, Khaṭābāt (Tehran), vol. 2, p. 147.

Abdu’l-Bahā: The inhabitants of a land like Africa are all like wild savages and land-dwelling animals that lack common-sense and knowledge.

Abdu’l-Bahā, Makātīb (Egypt), vol. 1, pp. 331

10. Having No Prejudice or Saying Turks Deserve Ridiculous Answers?

Abdu’l-Bahā: “In the presence of God there is no [such thing] as English, French, Turk, or Persian. To God they are all the same.”

Abd al-Ḥamīd Ishrāq Khāwarī, Payām-i malakūt, p. 45-46.

Abdu’l-Bahā: Turks deserve ridiculous answers.

Asad-Allāh Fāḍil Māzandarānī, Asrār al-āthār khuṣūṣī,vol. 3,p. 42–43.

11. Having No Prejudice or Praising the Most Prejudice Based Religion to Ever Exist?

Abdu’l-Bahā: Religious prejudice destroys the foundations of humanity.

Abdu’l-Bahā, Khaṭābāt (Tehran), vol. 2, p. 147.

The Bāb: Destroy all non-Bābī books.763 Massacre all non-Bābis and destroy their monuments.

Abdu’l-Bahā, Makātīb (Egypt: 1330 AH), vol. 2, p. 266.

Bahā’u’llāh: “I [swear by] He who in His hand is my soul and my essence, a single letter from the Bayān is dearer to me than everything that is in the heavens and the earth.”766

Asad-Allāh Fāḍil Māzandarānī, Asrār al-āthār khuṣūṣī, vol. 5, p. 333

12. Removing All Prejudice or Discrimination between Men and Women?

Abdu’l-Bahā: All people have equal rights.

Abd al-Ḥamīd Ishrāq Khāwarī, Payām-i malakūt, p. 30.

Bahā’u’llāh and `Abdu’l-Bahā: Women are inferior to men,they take a smaller share of inheritance.

Abd al-Ḥamīd Ishrāq Khāwarī, Ganjīniy-i ḥudūd wa aḥkām, chap. 10, p. 117–119

Women cannot be a member of the UHJ.

Abd al-Ḥamīd Ishrāq Khāwarī, Ganjīniy-i ḥudūd wa aḥkām, chap. 27, p. 219.