Gilberto Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (to Susan):
Thanks for saying that. And he also, by extension, open the door for seeing any misfortunes experienced by Muslims as retribution for Muslim treatment of Bahaullah.
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I wrote what is in “The Promised Day is Come”, and also in “the Unfoldment of World Civilization”. As it latter was written in 1936, I suppose that the “severe tribulations” of those who persecuted the Twin Manifestations, will increase, because the Guardian said: “We may well ask ourselves, with mingled feelings of dread and awe, how severe must be the tribulations of those”.
It is obvious comparison between 3 years of persecution to Jesus and 50 years of persecution to Bahá’u’lláh more the martyrdom of the Báb and a reflection to their consequences.
And this quote is also found in a compilation about Holocaust and the Greater Plan made by the Research Department of the House “Holocaust and the Greater Plan of God, The by Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi and Universal House of Justice”. http://bahai-library.com/?file=compilation_holocaust_greater_plan
Again the quote: http://bahai-library.com/writings/shoghieffendi/pdc/pdicall.html#par109
“Islám, at once the progenitor and persecutor of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh, is, if we read aright the signs of the times, only beginning to sustain the impact of this invincible and triumphant Faith. We need only recall the nineteen hundred years of abject misery and dispersion which they, who only for the short space of three years persecuted the Son of God, have had to endure, and are still enduring. We may well ask ourselves, with mingled feelings of dread and awe, how severe must be the tribulations of those
who, during no less than fifty years, have, "at every moment tormented with a fresh torment" Him Who is the Father, and who have, in addition, made His Herald--Himself a Manifestation of God--to quaff, in such tragic circumstances, the cup of martyrdom”.
The Guardian again compares the situation of both Religions (Judaism and Islam) related to Jesus and Bahá’u’lláh respectively in the chapter The Collapse of Islám of the “Unfoldment of World Civilization” : http://www.bahai-library.com/writings/shoghieffendi/wob/48.html
Compare the evidences of Divine visitation which befell the persecutors of Jesus Christ with these historic retributions which, in the latter part of the first century of the Bahá'í Era, have hurled to dust the chief adversary of the religion of Bahá'u'lláh. Had not the Roman Emperor, in the second half of the first century of the Christian Era, after a distressful siege of Jerusalem, laid waste the Holy City, destroyed the Temple, desecrated and robbed the Holy of Holies of its treasures, and transported them to Rome, reared a pagan colony on the mount of Zion, massacred the Jews, and exiled and dispersed the survivors?
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