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The Bahá'í Faith in Bahrain begins with a precursor movement, the Shaykhís coming out of Bahrain into Iran.[1] Abu'l-Qásim Faizi and wife lived in Bahrain in the 1940s.[2] Around 1963 the first Local Spiritual Assembly of Bahrain was elected in the capital of Manama.[3] In the 1980s, many anti-Bahá'í polemics were published in local newspapers of the Bahrain.[4] Recent estimates count some 1,000 Bahá'ís or 0.2% of the national population[5] or alittle more by Association of Religion Data Archives estimated there were some 13000 Bahá'ís in 2005.[6]
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The founder of the Shaykhí movement, Shaykh Ahmad, was born in 1753, in the region known as Al-Bahrain or Al-Ahsa, which is on the Arabian peninsula near to modern Bahrain. Details of this are provided in an early Bahá'í publication, The Dawn-Breakers.[1] Abu'l-Qásim Faizi and wife lived in Bahrain in the 1940s; they found one convert in the seven years of their stay.[2] The community acquired a center in Manama in 1954. It was a two-story building and rented home to care taking Bahá'ís and families. In keeping with Bahá'í teachings the Bahá'ís of Bahrain bury their dead and were first granted a cemetery at the time of Sheikh Salman Al-Khalifa, in the year 1955.[7] Around 1963 the Bahá'ís of Bahrain had organized a Bahá'í Local Spiritual Assembly in the capital of Manama, a national center, and was a member of a regional National Spiritual Assembly across Arabia.[3] In 1968 another center was purchased which served until 1993 when another center was acquired.
Perhaps easing the social situation in Bahrain that the Bahá'í religion believe in the truth message of the Prophet Muhammad, and also believes the health and non-diversion of the Koran, and in all texts dealing with the Prophet Muhammad as a holy Among the manifestations of God, and this is reflected in the Mtbaih a culture and behavior, they do not remember the Prophet of only respect and appreciation, and a lot of the people of Bahrain do not know the followers of the Baha'i Faith, for several reasons, including the fact that the followers of the Baha'i religion are not talking about religion, do not intervene in political affairs is something forbidden in the Baha'i faith, and that they are dealing with the community, peacefully, respect their prayer times and days of fasting and visit one another between them and Muslims in the border formalities almost.
The other thing that might make the acceptability of the followers of the Baha'i Faith in the Bahraini society, in particular the place to accept, the fact that the followers of this religion believe so much that he believes the Shiites, on the basis that their religion came on the background of Shiite, and its founders were Twelver Shi'ism before inviting them either portal or Baha'i, and the presence of many of the followers of Twelver Shi'ism in Bahrain has become easy in some way, they have the weather in particular the Ten-Day, the Day of Ashura is to have a prayervisitImam Hussein, and today is a day of sadness and joy with the sorrow of the killing of Hussein, and the joy of the birth of endorsers However, this visit is due things are appreciated, have treated the text with the Baha'i Hussein Ben Ali in an identical and inherited a Shiite. as evidenced by the content of the text of the visit of Imam Hussein, who says: If only the back of the rule of principle and the final return, and felt eyes your body on the table at the soil Bmesepetk prevent sea statement from the waves of wisdom and gratitude and cut breezes Sobhan Bhznk erased effects and fell fruits and stepped throes righteous and I got Abra righteous death, O Lord of the martyrs and their power uh, uh, you, proud of the martyrs and the loved one I certify you shone the yoke drop from the horizon sky creativity and decorated structures closest model Altqo and light shine gratitude P Nasot build for you, the back of the rule of Kef and Noon and open the seal sealed nectar and Lulac what Grdt pigeon proof at a branch statement and pronounce words of greatness between filled religions Bhznk the back of segregation and separation between distraction and F, increased noise combined Pof the country.
There are several problems facing the people of the Baha'i religion in Bahrain, including the problem of contracts and marriage, the Baha'i, the state did not recognize the religion Baha'i solemnly, that resulted from some things, Valbhaiion hold hold Baha'i in Bahrain, and then go outside the country to set up another contract civilians are to believe the country held where, and then ratification of the Embassy of Bahrain in the country itself, and when you return is unbelievable in court in Bahrain, and is therefore considered in the system of Bahrain formally married, there are no solutions to this problem so far. While recognized religion Baha'i implicitly, through the grant provided to them on the graveyard in the city of Jesus and then in the Salmabad, as well as through the codification of religion in the form to renew and extract nationality, and it is not mentioned in their passports, but that did not find useful in achieving the full freedom of religion, Baha'is still devout in an atmosphere of semi-secret. He is also Baha'is concerned about some of their festivals, where they may not work these days, in the days of nine, in the first and second month of Muharram, the birth of Bahá'u'lláh and the door, and V of the article was previously published is a matter of Bahá'u'lláh, atheist and twenty-Neros New Year, Baha'i and Holiday fast they have, and atheist and twenty-April gala first Radwan, IX and XII of the month Radwan, Baha'i, and the twenty-eighth of Sha'ban on the martyrdom of the door, and the twenty-eighth of May on the death of Baha'u'llah, and all these festivals do not get the Baha'i community to leave, causing her critical religiously.
A Bahá'í donated a farm reality-many area Barbar, then became the gathering place of religion was later sold in 1983 as a special school for non-Bahá'ís.
Traditionally the Ministry of Islamic Affairs had repeatedly denied the Bahá'í community's request for a license to operate. The Ministry of Islamic Affairs stated that the religion is an offshoot of Islam. According to its official interpretation of Islam, the government regards the core beliefs of Baha'is to be blasphemous and consequently illegal, and therefore the Ministry refuses to recognize the religion, but it allows the community to gather and worship freely.[8][9] In the 1980s, many anti-Bahá'í polemics were published in local newspapers of the Bahrain.[4]
Recent estimates count some 1,000 Bahá'ís, or 0.2% of the national population[5] or a little more by Association of Religion Data Archives estimated there were some 13,000 Bahá'ís in 2005.[6]Bahá'ís reported they have not sought official recognition from the government; however, the group maintained a functioning cemetery on land donated by the government, as well as the center they established in 1963, and land for a future Bahá'í temple - indeed the government authorized the publication and public discussion of a book by a Bahraini citizen on the Baha'i community.[10] Newspapers in Bahrain and elsewhere in the region reported on the Egyptian identification card controversy, with many going into long explanations about the Bahá'í Faith around 2006.[11] Circa 2009 there were about twenty-two graves walled about in the Bahá'í cemetery, set off by a water fountain according to a pattern established by `Abdu'l-Bahá, who recommended setting a water fountain in the middle of cemeteries. A film called "School" was shown at the Dawn Breakers International Film Festival in 2009.
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