Contradiction in the Bahai Faith!

By: Dr. Mohammed Alam Qurayshi

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Hussein Ali wrote: It hath been ordained that obligatory prayer is to be performed by each of you individually. Save in the Prayer for the Dead, the practice of congregational prayer hath been annulled. He, of a truth, is the Ordainer, the All-Wise. (Baha’u\'llah, The Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 23)

Abbas Effendi himself gives one meaning to the word “congregational”, though it may be contradictory to the above statement itself:19.

Save in the Prayer for the Dead, the practice of congregational prayer hath been annulled. # 12

Congregational prayer, in the sense of formal obligatory prayer which is to be recited in accordance with a prescribed ritual as, for example, is the custom in Islam where Friday prayer in the mosque is led by an imam, has been annulled in the Bahá’í Dispensation.(Baha’u\'llah, The Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 172) So it is forbidden to attend an Islamic congregational prayer, especially to attend the Friday noonday prayer at the mosque. But Shoghi Effendi tells us that Abbas Effendi did attend the Friday noonday prayer at the mosque:

Till the very last day of His earthly life ‘Abdu’l-Bahá continued to shower that same love upon high and low alike, to extend that same assistance to the poor and the down-trodden, and to carry out those same duties in the service of His Father’s Faith, as had been His wont from the days of His boyhood. On the Friday before His passing, despite great fatigue, He attended the noonday prayer at the mosque, and distributed afterwards alms, as was His custom, among the poor; dictated some Tablets… (Shoqi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 310)

So, here again another contradiction. Abbas Effendi, having understood Hussein Ali’s words, even going to lengths to elaborate on it, and then he goes to the mosque “to attend the noonday prayer” on Friday. But maybe Baha’is will have another “allegorical” explanation for it soon. Furthermore, he is the “perfect examplar”. So Baha’is should emulate his rebellious ways. Father says no, son does it anyway! Even after understanding and explaining it to others!

Source:bahaiawareness.com