Here is the third and last part of the talk by Dr. Ali Nakhjavani on the Covenant, a question and answer session with the audience:
If you have not watched from the beginning, Part One and Part Two.
Author Archive for Baquia
Here is part two of the talk by Dr. Ali Nakhjavani on the Covenant:
If you have not watched it already, part one is here.
To my readership, the following may be “preaching to the choir” but since the author is a unique individual, it merits wider circulation.
Below is an excerpt from an article written by Ahmad Batebi. The translation is by our very own Ahang Rabbani.
“From the first hours of 27 July 2008, the results of the nationwide university entrance examination were available on the official website of the National Organization for Educational Assessment.
However, after entering their personal data on the registration website, most of the Bahai applicants were confronted with the strange system response, “incomplete file”. At present there are no exact statistics on how many Baha’i applicants have been rejected on the base of “incomplete file”; in light of the imprisonment of the leaders of the Baha’i community in Iran, perhaps such statistics will never become available through official means.
However, “incomplete file” is the most perplexing response to student applicants in place of an actual diploma. This is because if the file of a student is indeed missing some important piece of information such that that he is disqualified from receiving a diploma, then according to the regulations of the Organization for Assessment that student is disbarred from participation in the national examination, and under no circumstances would a permit card be issued for him to attend such an entrance exam.
Article 30 of the Islamic Republic’s constitution requires the government to provide all citizens with free education up to secondary school, and to expand free higher education to the extent required by the country for attaining self-sufficiency.
However, after the Islamic Revolution we have persistently witnessed that nearly all Bahai students have been expelled from Iran’s institutions of higher learning because of their religion, and none were permitted to attend universities.”
Read the complete article here…
“I wish each and every Iranian could travel abroad, come to the U.S. or go to Europe, for just one week, and feel, smell, and breathe freedom, human dignity, and realize the value of their lives.”
I echo Batebi’s wishes, especially for my fellow Baha’is. Leave the despotic, decaying ruin that is present day Iran. A whole world awaits you.
Here is Batebi talking with the BBC about his time in jail and his escape:
Dr. Ali Nakhjavani, a former member of the Universal House of Justice, talks on the Covenant:
Biography
After he received his Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction from the American University of Beirut in 1939, in the early 1940s Mr. Nakhjavani returned to Iran. He was a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Iran from 1950 to 1951.
In 1951, Mr. Nakhjavani and his family moved to Uganda, where he worked as a teacher and lecturer. He was a member of the Auxiliary Board for the Propagation in Africa from 1954 to 1961 and chairman of the National Spiritual Assembly of Central and East Africa from 1956 to 1961.
In 1961, Mr. Nakhjavani was elected to the International Bahá’í Council and served as its president. He was elected to the Universal House of Justice in 1963 and served continuously as a member of the institution until his retirement in 2003.
Mr. Nakhjavani is tied with Mr. H. Fatheazam for the second longest term as a member of the Universal House of Justice. The record holder for the longest continuous membership belongs to Mr. Ian Semple (1963-2004).
The Covenant
I’ve already touched on the subject of the Covenant and for now I’ll simply present this video. Perhaps a commentary will be upcoming shortly.
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