WHAT WILL BE YOUR EXCUSE WHEN YOU MEET SHOGHI EFFENDI IN THE NEXT WORLD?

SHOGHI EFFENDI’S UNDOUBTED INITIAL COMMENTS

He would certainly say to you how greatly shocked, dismayed and saddened he had been, upon his passing, to note that so many of the believers, like yourself, who during his ministry had ostensibly evinced such faithful and steadfast faith in the Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh and firm belief in the sacredness and immutability of the divinely-conceived Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, in which the Guardian of the Cause of God is named as “The Center of the Cause,” and “the sacred head and distinguished member for life” of the Universal House of Justice had then readily accepted, without question, the incredulous conclusion that had been hastily reached and proclaimed to the Bahá’í World by the Hands of the Cause, gathered in conclave at Akká but a few weeks following his passing, that the Guardianship had come to a premature end based on the transparently fallacious argument that because all of the Aghsán had either died or had been declared violators of the Covenant he had left no will and testament appointing a successor. 

Written by the Third Guardian of Baha'i Faith Late Joel Bray Marangella,

 

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Inauguration of Orthodox Baha’i Faith in India

Joel Bray Marangella the Third Guardian of Baha'i Faith marked the inauguration first time on 29^th May 1991 on the Indian sub-continent by appealing in the Times of India, with the title: An appeal to the Heterodox Baha’is and appealed in a more comprehensive second advertisement on 7^th March 1992 and subsequently, the third advertisement in the Times of India on 16 and 17^th May 1992, which resulted in the historic formation of the Mother Baha’i Council of India in Delhi with late Mr. Vinod Kumar, a young and faithful Baha’i, as its secretary. It had been the third guardian’s desire for the Faith in India to develop favorably. Subsequently two more local councils were formed in Bhagalpur district and the other in Thane, with a number of localities and individual believers declaring their loyalty to the “Center of the Cause” who is none other than the Living Guardian of the Faith Joel B. Marangella.   

Encouraged by the sudden response from the Indian Baha'is, the third Guardian, on the occasion of the 100^th year of the Ascension of Baha u llah placed fourth advertisement in the Times of India on May 29, 1992 which called upon the Indian Baha'is to faithfully uphold the Covenant of Baha’u’llah by turning to the Guardian and serving their ties with the erroneously constituted sans-Guardian organization. The Guardian also welcomed the Indian Baha’is into the true Administrative Order, headed by the Guardian and founded upon sacred immutable provisions of Will and Testament of Abdu’l Baha. With advertisements, the Baha'i believers throughout India came to realize that the Guardianship is an integral part of the Faith.

Overwhelmed by the success of the Orthodox Baha'i Faith and eagerness of the Indian believers to accept the Faith under the Guardianship, the third Guardian, Joel Bray Marangella, sent two American believers, Late Mr. Frank Schlatter and Late Mr. David Maxwell, to assess the situation in India and while there, to teach and deepen the Orthodox Baha'is, during their visits to Delhi, Agra, Mumbai, Aurangabad, Baroda and Rajgir. Their visit enhanced the teaching activities of the Orthodox Baha’is and more firmly established the Orthodox Baha’i Faith in India.

Subsequently, more advertisements appeared and under the direction of the Provisional National Baha’i Council of India and with the cooperation of various local councils, many Councils were established and a number of individual Baha’is, residing in various parts of India, were brought into the Faith under the Guardianship.

The Third Guardian Joel Bray Marangella passed away to Abha Kingdom on September 1, 2013 and he appointed his successor as Fourth Guardian of Baha'i Faith to Mr. Nosrat'u'llah Bahremand.