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"Bahá'í" added to religion page.
image: a yellow, hollow star with nine points.
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EDIT: Sorry I accidently made the last only be able to drink option a second older! just imagine it says all!!
I've gotten mixed answers on this so
I've been wondering since I've gotten so many mixed answers, please reblog for sample size btw!! it's hard to find Bahá’ís!
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O God, my God! I have set out from my home, holding fast unto the cord of Thy love, and I have committed myself wholly to Thy care and Thy protection. I entreat Thee by Thy power through which Thou didst protect Thy loved ones from the wayward and the perverse, and from every contumacious oppressor, and every wicked doer who hath strayed far from Thee, to keep me safe by Thy bounty and Thy grace. Enable me, then, to return to my home by Thy power and Thy might. Thou art, truly, the Almighty, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. — Bahá’u’lláh
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Pete Haug further explains the religious persecution in Iran of Baha'is.
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A former leader of the Iranian Baha’i community says the Islamic Republic gives them no chance of “leading a normal life” on account of their faith.
“For forty-five years, we Baha’is have been constantly disqualified from leading a normal life in our ancestral homeland,” Mahvash Sabet, a former member of the Baha’i community’s leadership group wrote in a letter from Tehran’s Evin Prison.
She reflected on the impact of the Islamic Revolution of 1979, stating, "Our ancestral homeland was abruptly taken from us, and we became 'the others'." Sabet recounted the misfortunes suffered by the Baha’i community, including the execution of nearly 250 of its members and the confiscation of assets belonging to many others.
The Shia clergy consider the Baha’i faith as a heretical sect. With approximately 300,000 adherents in Iran, Baha’is face systematic persecution, discrimination, and harassment. They are barred from public sector employment and, in certain instances, have been terminated from private sector jobs due to pressure from authorities.
In her letter, a copy of which was received by Iran International, Sabet has used the term “disqualified” (radd-e salahiyat) to describe Iranian Baha’is deprivation of civil and human rights including freedom of religion, the right to higher education, and most jobs.
In the context of ideological screening primarily carried out by security and intelligence bodies, Radd-e salahiyat means “found disqualified” for a position or status. Screening is conducted in a wide range of situations including higher education, civil service, participation in national sports teams, and elections.
Belief in the absolute guardianship and rule of a jurisprudent cleric (velayat-e motlaqqeh-ye faqih) and the Constitution of the Islamic Republic as a governing system are two of the fundamental requirements for being “qualified” in these situations.
Sabet, now seventy-one, was dismissed from her job as a school principal after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. She has been consistently denied the opportunity to publish her poetry in Iran, where books undergo scrutiny and rejection not solely based on their content, but often due to the authors' ideology, religion, or private lives.
In her letter, Sabet, who has spent nearly twelve years in prison for her faith, reveals that authorities appropriated a sand processing factory her husband had been constructing just a week before its launch. “He was disqualified, too!” she wrote in her letter.
In 2009, seven leaders of the Baha’i community, collectively known as Yaran (friends or helpers), including Sabet, were arrested. They were sentenced by a revolutionary court to 20 years in prison on fabricated charges, including "insulting" Islamic sanctities, propaganda against the regime, and alleged spying for Israel, for which the prosecutor had sought death sentences.
Some of the charges, including espionage, were dropped by an appeal court in 2010, resulting in a reduction of their sentences to 10 years. However, authorities reinstated the original 20-year sentences in 2011.
All members of the Yaran group were released from prison between September 2017 and December 2018. However, Sabet and Fariba Kamalabadi, another female member of the group, were arrested again on August 1, 2022.
Both women endured months of solitary confinement while awaiting their trial. In December, they were handed another decade-long prison term for "forming a group to act against national security," a sentence they are currently serving.
#baha’is in Iran#Iranian baha’is#Iranian women#Bahá’í faith#Baha’i faith#religious persecution#human rights violations#yaran#mahvash sabet#fariba kalamabadi#false imprisonment#I was devastated when these women were arrested again#I remember spending years campaigning for their release#the regime wants them to die in in prison
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Forty-five years of the illegal regime of the Islamic Republic in a single video
This is the face of Iran, the one puppeteering numerous Islamic terror organizations, among which are Hamas and Hezbollah.
The same crowd cheering as Iran and its proxies launched over 300 drones, ICBM missiles and Cruise missiles on Israel is the one calling for a ceasefire and condemning Israel for its actions. The hypocrisy is not lost on the rest of us.
Iranians deserve so much better than pasty westerners supporting the persecution they've endured & survived for decades.
Video by officialrezapahlavi.
#Iran#Hezbollah#Hamas#Israel#Palestine#MiddleEast#officialrezapahlavi#brainwashed#westerner#left#progressive#Islamic Republic#Islam#terror#conflict#war#opression#Islamization#illegal regime#hanging women#persecuting women#killing of innocent Bahá’ís#hanging of the 10 women of#Shiraz#Mahsa Amini#Roya Heshmati#hijab#ayatollah#Ruhollah Khomeini#Lebanon
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Is it okay to ride on the coat tails of what’s happening to Jîna Mahsa Amini to point out what’s been happening to Bahá’ís in Iran since the 80s? Bc I have a feeling that there is at least a slight connection here.
Background context on the Bahá’í Faith, as remembered by a single Bahá’í who does not have the emotional energy to go source hunting right now: the Bahá’í Faith, founded in 1844 (originally called the Báb’í Faith, the name changed after April 1863 when Bahá’u’lláh stepped into the role the Báb left for Him), is the newest world religion (yes, even counting Mormonism/the LDS as a separate religion from Christianity), and was founded in Persia. Shiraz and Tehran specifically. A woman I have heard called “The first Feminist of Iran” Tahireh or Tahereh depending on transliteration was an early Báb’í, and she entered a meeting of other early Báb’ís without her hijab to argue that they were, in fact, a new religion and not a sect.
Today, Bahá’ís in Iran are arrested on trumped up charges like “spying for Israel” because that’s where the legislative body of the world wide community is situated, or say, not wearing their hijab correctly, and so on. My personal friends have told me stories of their narrow and in some cases literally deadly escapes from their beloved motherland, and I had a houseguest for a while who completed most of his degree through the Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education, an underground university that was put together because Bahá’ís in Iran are banned from higher education. One child even got thrown out of a private school at age ten or twelve (I believe I read that on IranPressWatch.org in… 2016? 2017?). Graveyards are destroyed. In August of this year, if my sense of time hasn’t completely abandoned me again, the New York Times ran a story about the Iranian government destroying a northern farming village in which most of the year round residents are Bahá’ís—of course, there’s constant denial of the religious motivation—and I can’t go a single Holy Day without hearing about how a friend’s relative or a well known Iranian Bahá’í got arrested for taking the day off from work.
So, yes, protest for the right to choose to cover or not, but remember that it’s not just Muslim woman being forced to wear hijab. Remember that this is targeted.
If you’re ready to cry, check out IranPressWatch.org, which specifically documents the persecution of Bahá’ís in Iran. Other resources included the Baha’i World Newsservice, and BIC.org (Baha’i International Community). Jîna Mahsa Amini may not have been a Bahá’í (though personal connections have now on october 1st revealed her cousin whom she was visiting is), but I have no doubt that the Bahá’í community will rally for her justice—as much as we can. It’s not safe for known Bahá’ís, especially Persian Bahá’ís to actively protest Iran, as the government is looking for any reason to strike any Bahá’ís who have remained. If a Persian Bahá’í is identified as protesting, any family they have in Iran is then specifically targeted on charges of sedition/spying.
Thank you for your time. I’d try to give more information, but I did go to check IranPressWatch to see if there was an article about Jîna Mahsa Amini specifically, and seeing how many arrests there were just this month left me in tears.
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tbh i am so incredibly grateful and privileged to get to know so many brilliant people. i know like "your network is you net worth" or whatever but it truly is amazing how once you break into a certain community you can meet all kinds of incredible people you never fathomed youd be able to meet. idk every day i am so appreciative of the opportunities i have
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Spiritual Beads
They are used to count prayers, repetitions, chants, devotionals, and meditation. In some cases, each bead symbolizes a particular event or concept. Beads can be made into bracelet, necklaces use to decorate tool, rattles,bells or any scared object and made from all types of materials.
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Origin: The origin of prayer beads dates back to ancient history. Prayer beads have been used by different religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Sikhism, Bahá’í Faith, Shamanism and Christianity. Therefore, Christianity was not the first religion to adapt to this tradition. In fact, the Bible does not speak about prayer beads. Neither Jesus, not His disciples or the early church used prayer beads. So some religions like Judaism won't use them. On the other hand prayer beads can be used and made for prayer but also for devotees of a pacific Saint, Deity, Spirit, or Ansestors to help you connect to that spirit. There are a variety of different beads made for different spiritually so choose the one that best fit you in your practice.
Above are beads for pagan/wiccans and need use Buddhism.
In the Orisha/Lukumi Tradition, Elekes ☝️ are beaded necklaces in patterns and colors of the Orisha. Once an individual’s head is crowned to an Orisha, other adornments such as bracelets and necklace or constructed indicating the initiates head Orisha is worn indicates which Orisha you walk with or became a priest/ess of.
In Vodou these aren’t considered necklaces, even though they make look like necklace in those pictures which are called kolye, and translates to necklace there not worn as such. Kolye are the mark of an initiate; They're made for you when you enter the djevo (chamber) and how it's worn shows the type of initiation you had. What is on/in a kolye represents specific lwa as well as specific concepts and/or pwen specific to spirits.
It’s a pretty important thing to wear and it serves important purposes during initiation. (no matter what the internet tells you, in haitian vodou they don't wear a necklace like Orisha religions do, But in some cases in some regions of Haiti the kolye is worn as a necklace) Houngans during a ritual carry the machete and wearing their kolye that indicate he is a houngan asogwe, and a manbo carries a dwapo wears a kolye across her body, which says that she is a manbo asogwe (the highest initiatory rank in the religion) and the smaller kolye's worn around the neck says that a person is initiated, but is not a manbo asgowe.
#Spiritual beads#Prayer beads#Types of religious beads#Vodou beads#Santeria beads#Rosery beads#Wiccan or pagan beads#Spiritual#like and/or reblog!#Comment#google search#follow if you like
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Daniel Pschaida writes today for our 'Ask a Bahá’í series,' and how Bahá’í believes there is only one religion.
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The first Bahá’í House of Worship on the African continent, completed in 1961, is in Kampala, Uganda and has become a well-known landmark. Bahá’í Houses of Worship are spiritual gathering places open to all peoples. It was far from easy to get here. I took a bus from Kenya to Uganda over night, with multiple delays and had to switch hotels three times. But I was able to make it and listen to prayers and choir and meet locals. The stories have been touching and at times funny. One story was the Ugandans were skeptical of the Temple and rumored it had ghosts. There are no ghosts, but it is a very spiritual and peaceful place to visit so please go if you can. #bahai #bahaitemple #bahaihouseofworship #Uganda #kampala #africa #solofemaletravel #solotravel #travel #sightsee #femaletraveler #travelblog #nofilter #nofilterneeded (at Bahá'í House of Worship - Uganda) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co4bSsVtZcg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
#bahai#bahaitemple#bahaihouseofworship#uganda#kampala#africa#solofemaletravel#solotravel#travel#sightsee#femaletraveler#travelblog#nofilter#nofilterneeded
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Moral Orel #41: “Sacrifice” | November 18, 2008 - 12:15AM | S03E11
Sacrifice is gonna be a little hard to talk about extensively because it’s not really joke-driven. It’s funny, and has jokes on it, but most of the episode is basically a one-act play taking place in Forghetty's pub. But before that, the episode actually opens with a little flashback to Numb, featuring Clay’s POV scene at the end. This time it’s not scored to Mountain Goats, and we just hear him muttering to himself. Then we join the church service at the end of the previous episode, Sundays. Reverend Putty’s sermon is about some Jesus story where a tomb or some shit gets opened and there’s nothing in it, and how nothingness can actually mean hope.
Do you all like how I didn’t even bother to look up that Jesus stuff they referenced? Isn’t it weird that I’m ostensibly Catholic (not anymore I'm normal now! I'm Bahá’í!) and I don’t even seem to have a passing familiarity with Jesus’s greatest hits? Anyway, I had to work on my day off and I’m PISSED OFF so I’m taking out on this blog by doing a bad job. Sorry.
Speaking of doing a bad job: I really can’t see myself going beat-by-beat for this episode, because it’s mostly dialogue. But here's the paragraph where I try and sum it up:
Various men in Moralton encounter each other in the bar and have it out with Clay, who rants and goads the others (Officer Papermouth, Reverend Putty, and Dr. Potterswheel). Clay declares that he can’t come into his stinking dead end job or else he’ll kill somebody, the drama queen! He winds up Reverend Putty and Officer Papermouth over their woes with, as it turns out, the same woman. And Clay says nasty stuff to the doctor because, as we see in Numb/the earlier scene rehashed from Numb, Clay discovered and currently possesses his handkerchief that Bloberta took out of his office.
This bar scene (which is the lion's share of the episode) ends with Clay practically begging for a pop to the face. The other men all decide against punching Clay, and simply walk out, paralleling his own father’s declaration of him not being “worth it”.
The episode itself ends with Orel at home, calling the bar to try and reach his father. Bloberta is tearing the house apart looking for the handkerchief. Shapey actually says something eloquent (and sad!). The credits roll over footage of Clay returning to the nature reserve to retrieve the bear carcass he thinks he shot.
This one’s a highlight for the season, just pure theater and great performances. That's episode 11 of 13! Two to go! Or three. Or… FOUR?
MAIL BAG
Normally at the end of these posts I do a 44 Nights of Orel wrap-up, but since they aired two premieres back to back, I don’t have any repeats to note. So, I’m doing a Mail Bag instead. Unfortunately that means I will not be needing the Dino and Scott picture to introduce it. Sorry.
*sung to the tune of the cartoon network ad where chicken of cow & chicken plays electric guitar on a stage* Robot Chicken yeah, Robot Chicken yeah, Robot Chicken yeAHHH
Um… link??
kevin smith looks like a fucking dog in cartoon form. they should give him a bone and let him run around the yard.
I wouldn’t leave him alone with your infant, movie tickets, or clit/brown/taint-area, that is for sure.
Hey fake woke Americans, guess who actually lives on stolen land? You do. Guess who actually lives on stolen land? You do. You do. You do. Me Jew. You do. Me Jew. You do. You live on stolen land. Anyway looking forward to your Eagleheart and Dinner in America writeups!
Hahah. Oh man. You ain’t kiddin’ brother.
My daughter turns 11 this month, I basically stopped watching adult swim not too long before she was born but I never missed a sunday before that. This has been a great look back and I'm excited to start seeing what I missed soon.
Hey man, I know this message you’ve sent in isn’t actually finished yet, but this just meant so much to me that I had to stop reading it right here and respond immediately. I know, I’m breaking my own protocol, but it’s worth it for me to give you the extra attention. This is the stuff that’s truly important in life and it touches my heart and means the world to me. Cherish your little one, and maybe some day when she’s old enough she’ll even become a viewer and reader of this blog! I know, it seems a long ways away, but she’ll be a little adult swimmer before you know it, so cherish these moments, and know that I cherish you. Okay, onto the rest of your message:
Also, my daughters last birthday wish was a Dino and Scott banner, so could you make it happen?
No!
Matt Christmas from cahpo
Very weird stuff you’re saying right now, but I heard he’s doing better. Isn’t that great? Surely you’re happy to hear this, and you’re not doing some tasteless bit where you’re pretending to be him right now. That would be UNTOWARD.
me love the way you talk the way you move is so hot. now let me get you a shot of rum and then make you wanna come...with me to the ocean. that would be phat. you could be my bow cat. nice ital breeze, bring you to your knees. we jammin.
Stop doing this! I have to google it every time and pretend I already know it’s a Steven Segal song. Do you have any idea how sad it is to get weird words in the mail and then you google them and you have to look at a picture of Steven Segal. He is always giving "fuck me" eyes to the camera. This is practically assault, and I will have you removed.
I'm not the one sending you messages about the making the morel orel guys the banner but I do think it's a good idea.
It’s a good idea. It might be the idea the saves the world. But, I never buckle. The racist cartoon stays, and I will also keep being racist
Hey this is Paul McCartney of the Beatles and Wings. Happy Tasty Tuesday to all who celebrate it. Tell me about your pets.
Hi Paul. I like (not love) your rock and roll music and viral videos. I don’t have any pets they are all in hell right now. My roommate has two frisky cats and sometimes they come in here while I’m masturbating, just beh-ging for pets. Of course… I gotta hand it to ‘em. Both of them are nice. Thanks for writing in before you die next week
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