The Babi and Baha'i Religion — Page 78
THE B Ā B Ī AND BAH Ā ’ Ī RELIGION 78 THE QUR Ā N IS A LIVING BOOK & THE ISLAMIC SHARIA IS IRREPLACEABLE Bah a’i sm founded on the belief that the Islamic Sharia deserves to be abandoned. The starting point of the B a b i and Bah a ’ i case is the belief that the Holy Qur’an no longer can meet the needs of human society under the changed conditions prevailing in the world today. Very often the Bah a ’ i s do not say this openly and frankly: they prefer to work on the mind of people by leaving this crucial question in the dark. To begin with, they start talking about the belief among some ignorant Muslims that certain verses of Holy Qur’an have been abrogated: and once they have made sure that the mind of an intended victim has been well prepared to accept this erroneous doctrine, the rest of the task is easy for them, for where five or ten, or a hundred, or in some cases even 500 verses of the Holy Qur’an can be taken to have been abrogated, the leap becomes possible to a point where one can say that the whole Qur’an needs to be replaced with another book, and the Islamic Sharia needs to be replaced by another law. On June 7, 1933, Maul a n a Abul ‘A ta , a well known Ahmadiyya missionary, had a talk in Haifa