Bahai communities in the banner of Islam

 Suffice it to say that presently in contemporary age, the researchers with a multiplicity of educational and theological well-being are recommending controversial theories about the Quran and Islamic history, and are striving to reinterpret Islam for the modern world. This is, as one scholar puts it, a “susceptible commerce.” All the way through the past century, the Baha’is of Iran has been maltreated. With the victory of the Islamic upheaval in 1979, this discrimination has been standardizing. More than 200 Baha’is have been executed, hundreds more have been imprisoned, and tens of thousands have been deprived of jobs, pensions, businesses, and educational opportunities. All national Baha’i administrative structures have been banned by the government, and holy places, shrines and cemeteries have been confiscated, vandalized and destroyed eventually.
While the people involved in different forum under the banner of Islam at the free contemplation of Mecca often spoke fun at their membership in various Zionist and Freemason funded conspiracies, the survival of real victims of such accusations was no laughing matter. The Baha’is in Iran has taken the role of the Jews in medieval Christian Europe. They are persecuted for crimes they committed only in the imagination of religious fascists. The powers that be in many Islamic countries have expressed a deep hatred for the gentle Baha’is, and openly acknowledge the faith as a threat to the true deem. The persecution is not only in Iran, but all over West Asia and North Africa. January of 1986, one Egyptian cleric remarked that “a Baha’i deserves the penalty of an apostate… one who should either be brought to repentance or killed.”² This is how the “tolerant” and “loving” scholars of Allah’s true religion feel about those who put forth a more peace-loving version of their faith.
This deep animosity for the Baha’is is found on every level of the global ummah, from high-ranking clerics, to part-time cyber-mujahideen thugs who invade Baha’i newsgroups and chats. The fact that Muslims would show so much hatred for such a tolerant religion is one that leaves yet another black eye on the already besmirched record of the Islamic religion. Because of this, the Muslims often try justify their hatred for Baha’is by cooking up all sorts of insane conspiracy theories about them being Zionists, Free Masons, or a plot hatched by the Soviets. The first step was to follow in the footsteps of similar sorts of insane conspiracy theories launched at the Jews. Just as there are the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, anti-Baha’i fascists cooked up the fictitious Memoirs of Count Dogorouki, a manuscript of Persian origin that claims a Russian diplomat confessed to creating the Baha’i faith as part of a plot to broaden Russian imperialism.

In view of the above, it is seen that after the Russian revolution, interpretations of the Memoirs were misrepresented to claim that the Baha’i faith was a Soviet/Marxist plot. When Britain tried to colonize Iran, the claim that the Baha’is was “British agents” became quite popular. Of course, after the creation of the state of Israel, the fact that the Baha’is had headquarters in Haifa helped corroborate the claim that they were “Zionists.” Another tag that was later added was that of “Freemasons” (which is a wholly ambiguous term for the collective bogeyman from the Islamic standpoint, and has nothing to do with the realities of that Fraternal order). The religion of Mohammad (SM) as envisaged in Al-Quran ensures an ideal life based on codes, ethics, regulation and rules further than doubt pertinent to all humans. Al Quaran is the absolute code of life with which there is a chronological flow in between death and life. This time without end is a very temporary life but the transient growth of human lives one day will finish and thereafter another life will start and as such we are afraid of almighty whether our punishment will be more after eternal life. It is said that

Man is unjust, God is just and finally justice triumph. Our prophet’s life was not a bed of roses; rather it was based on bed of thorns. Through unrestricted sorrows, he has spent his life and by utmost hard struggling, he has established and enriched his religion ‘Islam’. As has been highlighted and focused widely, it is obvious that not only Bahai, but also many people of variety of communities through out the whole world misguide the lives of the muslins and as such, the muslins have struggled to establish the truth which is bestowed by God. All men are created equally but presently, the differentials and deprivation against the Muslims have been created tremendously. We should forget any obstacles and rather we should embrace one another under the shadow of peace and opulence of life. Prophet Mohammad(SM) has taught forgiveness, justice, equality, fraternity, peace and human race of live. In this context, two lines of poem composed by Rudyard Kipling is worth mentioning:

‘Forgiveness free of evil done

And love to all men Neath the sun’