The Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience

 

Abdul Baha's Grandson: Story of a Twentieth Century Excommunication
by Ahmad Sohrab.
https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ABG.htm

 

"It was in the middle Twenties, only a few years after the Master's departure from this life, that the Bahai community first became aware of the fact that an administrative system was about to be fastened on to the Cause. The majority did not take the idea very seriously; yet, when lectures on the subject were announced, many attended because it was understood that this was Mr. Holley's hobby. A little later, when the existence of The New History Society had become an issue, the thoughts of all Bahais were directed toward the newly created administrative order; and presently the Bahai Cause, to all intents and purposes, drifted into the discard.

This substitution of *another* cause for the Cause itself necessitated some explanation, and it was to meet this requirement that the Bahai apologists were set to work. They did a good job of it is unquestionable. The believers have been induced to take a detour, on the understanding that it will eventually turn back to the great highway; and they are forging ahead at top speed on a road that leads into the dim and distant past.

In their own times, the *stately apologists* of Christendom accomplished their mission most satisfactorily. The tomes of their Jesuitical writings may be heaped with the dust of centuries, yet their influence still goes on. It was in appreciation of the complicated structure of the Catholic Church, and with the ambition of gaining an even greater measure of temporal power, that the Bahai authorities converted the Ark of the Lord into a Theological Fortress, in the dungeons of which the living teachings of Baha-O-Llah and Abdul Baha are conserved as archives" ABG (161-162).

 

The entire book was DELETED from H-Net Bahai, as other books by him have
also been periodically suppressed on H-Net from time to time . It has now been restored online:

Mirza Ahmad Sohrab. Abdul Baha's Grandson: Story of a Twentieth Century
Excommunication New York: Universal Publishing for The New History Foundation,
1943. Reprinted. H-Bahai: Lansing, Michigan, 2004.
https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABG.htm


Excerpts from Mirza Ahmad Sohrab's Broken Silence: The Story of Today's Struggle
for Religious Freedom.
New York: Universal Publishing, 1942.
https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/SohrabEx.htm

 

Other works by Sohrab:

Excerpts at bottom: Mirza Ahmad Sohrab. The Will and Testament of Abdul Baha, An Analysis.
New York: Universal Publishing, 1944. Reprinted.
https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/archives/SohrabWTAB.pdf

Mirza Ahmad Sohrab. I Heard Him Say. Words of Abdul Baha as Recorded by his Secretary.
New York: The New History Foundation, 1937.
https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/archives/SohrabIHHS.pdf

Mirza Ahmad Sohrab. Abdul Baha's Grandson: Story of a Twentieth Century
Excommunication New York: Universal Publishing for The New History Foundation,
1943. Reprinted. H-Bahai: Lansing, Michigan, 2004.
https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/ABG.htm

Mirza Ahmad Sohrab. My Bahai Pilgrimage. Autobiography from Childhood to Middle Age.
New York: New History Foundation, 1959. https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/archives/SohrabMBP.pdf

Sohrab, Mirza Ahmad. The Story of the Divine Plan. Taking Place during, and immediately following World War I. New York: The New History Foundation, 1947. Digitally republished, East Lansing, Mi.: H-Bahai, 2004.
https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/SDP.htm

 

Ruth White, Excerpts, Bibliography
https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Ruth%20White.htm


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