Baha'i Allegations Against Subh-i Azal - Alleged Corruption of Texts

9.    Alleged Corruption of Texts
Shoghi Effendi’s allegation of “his [i.e. Subh-i-Azal’s] corruption, in scores of instances, of the text of the BÁB’s writings”. But he does not produce a single instance in support of his allegation, quoting textually both the original text and alleged corrupt transcript of it to enable one to verify the allegation.

In his letter-addressed from Acre to his chief missionary Ism-al-Allah al-Mahdi, facsimile of which is attached to section 12.4.14.1, on the subject of the transportation of the Point’s writings to Acre. Baha prefers an identical allegation against Subh-i-Azal, although “I have never read these books [i.e. Subh-i-Azal’s manuscripts], nor, with my own eyes, contemplated the works of the Point”, to quote Baha in the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, Juli Chamler’s translation, P. 129.

In the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, Shoghi Effendi’s translation, P. 167, Shoghi Effendi renders the same passage as follows:
“This wronged One …. Hath not looked at these books, nor gazed with outward eyes on these writings.” The original text runs as follows:
این مظلوم از کثرت مراوده با ناس کتب را ندیده و از آثار نقطه با بصر ظاهر مشاهده ننموده.

This is another glaring example of Shoghi Effendi’s tempering with the text in his translation.

This deliberate corruption by Shoghi Effendi seeks to disguise Baha’s irreconcilable statement, who, on the one hand, admits that he has never seen the Point’s writings, and on the other, falsely accuses Subh-i-Azal of having tampered with them in his transcripts. I have dealt with these allegations in section 12.4.4.1.


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