tion is the positive assertion of a
truth which the recognised opponents of the Baha'i Faith in other
Muhammadan countries have up to the present time either sedulously ignored
or maliciously endeavoured to disprove. Not content with this harsh and
unjustifiable repudiation of the so-called menacing and heretical
doctrines of the adherents of the Baha'i Faith, they proceed in a formal
manner to declare in the text of that very decision their belief, that the
Baha'i Faith is a "new religion", "entirely independent" and, by reason of
the magnitude of its claim and the character of its "laws, principles and
beliefs," worthy to be reckoned as one of the established religious
systems of the world. Quoting various passages judiciously gleaned from a
number of Baha'i sacred Books as an evidence to their splendid testimony,
they proceed in a notable statement to deduce the fact that henceforth it
shall be regarded as impossible for the followers of such a Faith to be
designated as Muslim, just as it would be incorrect and erroneous to call
a Muhammadan either Christian or Jew.

It cannot be denied that in the course of the inevitable developments of
this present situation the resident Baha'is of Egypt, originally belonging
to the Muslim Faith, will be placed in a most humiliating and embarrassing
position. They, however, cannot but rejoice in the knowledge that whereas
in various Muhammadan countries and particularly in Persia the
overwhelming majority of the leaders of Islam are utterly opposed to any
form of declaration that would facilitate the universal recognition of the
Cause, the authorised heads of their co-religionists in one of the most
advanced communities in the Muhammadan world have, of their own
initiative, published to the world a document that may justly be termed as
the first charter of liberty emancipating the Baha'i Faith from the
fetters of orthodox Islam. And in order to insure the complete rupture of
Baha'i official relations with Muslim Courts they lay down in unmistakable
terms the condition that under no circumstances can the marriage of those
Baha'is who have been required to divorce their Muslim wives be renewed by
the Muslim Court unless and until the husbands formally recant their faith
by solemnly declaring that the Qur'an is the "last" Book of God revealed
to man, that no law can abrogate the Prophet's Law, no faith can succeed
His Faith, no revelation can claim to fulfill His Revelation.

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