On 8/27/05, Iskandar Hai, M.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You don't understand. The Babis were not born into Babi families. They
were born into Shi`ah Muslim families for generations.
No, I understood that part. But once they became Babis they were no longer Muslims. That is why I objected to you calling them Muslims.
They expected,
according to their own Shi`ah hadith traditions, that the Promised One
would cause rivers of blood to flow. The Shi`ah still have very militant
expectations. The Bab had to contain them. And He did quite well, given
the background circumstances.
From things I've read, that seems a little too simple.
On the migration of the Russian ambassador, to create an atmosphere of chaos and strife in Iran, Bab wrote the following sentences in Bayan,
- "O my followers! Surely Allah has made fighting obligatory for you. You must conquer the cities and the people for Babism and don't be at peace with those who reject Babism". (Bayan, Arabic Chapter 1)
- "Allah has made obligatory on every Babi king that he should not let a single person remain alive in his kingdom who does not accept Babism. (Bayan, Arabic Chapter1 ) 3. "Loot and plunder the properties of those who do not accept Babism. (Bayan, Arabic Chapter 1) 4. "Erase all the books from the face of the earth except those written about Babism" (Bayan, Arabic Chapter 1) 5. "O enemies of Bab!! Even if you bathe 1000 times, you will never become clean", (Bayan, Persian Chapter 2 ) 6. "If a Babi acquires a thing from a non-Babi, then by the transfer of the thing, it becomes lawful for him". (Bayan, Chapter 4)
Those aren't Muslim hadith. Those are apparently Babi teachings.
Peace
Gilberto
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