"NAUGHT CAN RESIST THY WILL NOR FRUSTRATE WHAT THOU HAST PURPOSED BY THY POWER"
— Bahá'u'lláh
"ALL WHO ARE IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH, NONE CAN WITHSTAND THE OPERATION OF THY SOVEREIGN WILL."
— Bahá'u'lláh
"WHATEVER GOD HATH WILLED HATH BEEN, AND THAT WHICH HE HATH NOT WILLED SHALL NOT BE."
— Báb
"Let no one, while this System is still in its infancy, misconceive its significance or misrepresent its purpose. The bedrock on which this Administrative Order is founded is God's immutable Purpose for mankind in this day."
—Shoghi Effendi
How can any clear
thinking Bahá’í, faithful to the Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh, and the
Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, in the light of the foregoing utterances
of Bahá’u’lláh and the Báb, and the statement made by
Shoghi Effendi in "The Dispensation of Bahá’u’lláh" quoted
above, conceivably believe that Shoghi Effendi would have failed to assure the
continuance of the Guardianship after his passing and faithfully preserve for
future Bahá’í generations the Administrative Order, as delineated
in the divinely-conceived, sacred and immortal Will and Testament of
‘Abdu’l-Bahá, a Document that he had characterized in his writings
as nothing less than a part of the explicit Holy Text? As Shoghi Effendi has
declared that the bedrock on which the Bahá’í Administrative Order is founded
is "God’s immutable Purpose," how much longer do the current
leaders of the sans-Guardian, corrupted, man-made and flawed administrative
system which they have substituted for the divinely-conceived Order bequeathed
to us by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá believe that they can prevail against and
continue to defy God’s immutable Purpose for this day. And how much longer will
the mighty hand of God’s retribution be stayed because of their continuing
diabolical defilement of the Administrative Order of our Faith? Indeed, how
spiritually blind they remain in their persistent failure to realize, that they
have ignominiously betrayed Shoghi Effendi, and have shamelessly repudiated the
Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. While these leaders, in their
glaring perversity, falsely accuse those faithful Bahá’ís who
believe that every phrase of the Will and Testament is sacrosanct and
immutable, of being Covenant-breakers, it is they, who have nefariously
consigned the Guardianship of the Cause of God to oblivion, that are obviously
the real Covenant-breakers and transparently guilty of the most flagrant and
appalling violation of the Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh in the history
of our precious Faith.
Joel Bray
Marangella
Guardian of the
Bahá’í Faith
16 January, 2006