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  1. Adib

    A question for Ahmadiyyas

    :) السلام عليكم I have been seeing more and more claims on the Internet that the Ahmadiyya movement is a brainchild of the British government. As a Baha'i, I hear similar claims about my own religion (but they are totally...
  2. Adib

    Popeyesays has passed away

    I randomly came across Scott's blog tonight and just saw comment number four on his latest entry: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6766114384344375220&postID=4635143697919602101 I will reproduce said comment below: Hello,my name is Tahira Saylors. Scott Saylors is my father. I...
  3. Adib

    Popeyesays has passed away

    I randomly came across Scott's blog tonight and just saw comment number four on his latest entry: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6766114384344375220&postID=4635143697919602101 I will reproduce said comment below: Hello,my name is Tahira Saylors. Scott Saylors is my father. I...
  4. Adib

    Debunking the Myths: My First Book

    Vladimir Lenin once said that a lie told often enough becomes truth. If one takes a look at the way Bahá'ís have been viewed and treated by their adversaries, particularly Muslim clerics from Shaykh Fazlollah Nuri to Falsafi to Dorri-Najafabadi and other leaders of the current Iranian regime...
  5. Adib

    The Seven Martyrs of Tehran

    The Seven Martyrs of Tehran were seven eminent Bábís who were arrested for their religion, refused to recant, and were publicly executed by beheading in Tehran in February 1850. Regarding the status of the seven martyrs, the British orientalist E.G. Browne wrote: They were men representing all...
  6. Adib

    Listen to the entire Kitab-i-Aqdas online, in Arabic!

    This site was made by some Baha'i professors at the University of Cairo. This is the main site: Kitab-i-Aqdas And this is the beginning of the Aqdas: Kitab-i-Aqdas: 1 Just scroll to the bottom and click the yellow arrow at the bottom-left to proceed to the next page. Enjoy! :)
  7. Adib

    Concord - always have a Baha'i response handy!

    Dear Friends, The HTC/AT&T Tilt cell phone has been added to the many host devices for the Teaching Aid. The Tilt is particularly useful because it can be set free-standing on a table to easily show Baha'i information (or Baha'i Videos), in addition to serving as your cell phone. Check it...
  8. Adib

    Talks by Dr. Ali Murad Davoodi now online!

    I recently discovered that we have two CDs, talks by Dr. Davoodi on Prayer & Meditation and the Holy Spirit - 55 minutes and an hour long, respectively. There is also a 16-minute lecture which I have broken up, like the others, regarding wisdom in teaching. The videos are in Persian, so please...
  9. Adib

    Requesting clarification and refutation of a VERY delicate [recurring] attack on Islam

    Hello friends, feels nice to be at the Islam DIR forum. :) As I am sure many of you aware, haters of Islam allege that Muhammad was a pedophile because of his marriage (and eventual copulation) with Ayshe. Please don't think for a moment that I am one of the people who contend that belief, as...
  10. Adib

    Searching for an online video summary

    Hello friends. :) I'm trying to gather online video introductions of different religions via Google Video. However, I can't seem to find a good one on Christianity. I'm basically looking for an appealing video (not just one person giving a discourse) that talks about the basic history and...
  11. Adib

    Searching for an online video summary

    Hello friends. :) I'm trying to gather online video introductions of different religions via Google Video. However, I can't seem to find a good one on Judiasm. I'm basically looking for an appealing video (not just one person giving a discourse) that talks about the basic history and tenets...
  12. Adib

    Searching for an online video summary

    Hello friends. :) I'm trying to gather online video introductions of different religions via Google Video. However, I can't seem to find a good one on Zoroastrianism. I'm basically looking for an appealing video (not just one person giving a discourse) that talks about Zoroaster and the...
  13. Adib

    Searching for an online video summary

    Hello friends. :) I'm trying to gather online video introductions of different religions via Google Video. However, I can't seem to find a good one on Buddhism. I'm basically looking for an appealing video (not just one person giving a discourse) that talks about the Buddha and the basic...
  14. Adib

    Tribute to the NSA of Iran

    YouTube - If I Could Be Where You Are Taken from the description: "A memorial tribute to 15 gentle and blameless souls who were among the first to be executed by the Islamic authorities after Iran's 1979 revolution for serving their Faith. They were the dearly loved "spiritual cream" of...
  15. Adib

    Need clarification: teaching in Israel

    A Muslim asked about this on another forum, and I responded as follows: ...like so many other aspects of the Baha'i Faith, including the very location of the Baha'i holy sites, historical circumstances are the explanation [for this edict]. At the time of Baha'u'llah, present-day Israel...
  16. Adib

    Need help finding a quote

    I recall `Abdu'l-Baha having a quote along the lines of "there will come a time when humanity will be willing to give their lives for one another." I've tried different variants of that but I can't find it on Google or Ocean. Would anyone happen to know what I'm talking about?
  17. Adib

    Mona's Dream website up and running again

    Mona's Dream According to the site, the film should be shot in October/November 2008 and post-production should be complete by March 2009. The film will basically be about the life of Mona Mahmudnizhad, a 17-year old Baha'i martyr hanged in 1983, as far as I'm aware. The site itself is...
  18. Adib

    Muhammad: the Seal of the Prophets?

    Muslims believe that Muhammad is the last Prophet. This is based on a Qur'anic verse that refers to Him as being the "Seal of the Prophets": "Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but (he is) the Apostle of God, and the Seal of the Prophets: and God has full knowledge of all things."...
  19. Adib

    A ridiculously trivial question about a photograph

    Afternoon friends, I'm sure you've all seen this photograph of Shoghi Effendi in his younger years: I've been wondering what that radiant object in his hands is for a long time now, just for the sake of knowing. :-P I used to think it was a flower or rock of some sort, but now I think it...
  20. Adib

    Arrested Bahá'ís Accused of Terrorism in Iran

    This is from a family member in England; the source is the Islamic Republic's (Official) News Agency. The original document in Farsi is located under the English version. As we had suspected, the next step in the Iranian Regime's concocted plan against the Bahá'ís is now slowly emerging...
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