• Covenant-breaker is a term used in the Baháʼí Faith to refer to a person who has been excommunicated from the Baháʼí community for breaking the Covenant...
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    rejecting a link in this chain of leadership is regarded as a Covenant-breaker. To Baháʼís, the Covenant of Baháʼu'lláh and its guarantee of unity represents a...
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  • detail about how Muhammad ʻAlí had been unfaithful to the Covenant, labelling him a Covenant-breaker, and appointing Shoghi Effendi his successor instead....
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    rejected by the overwhelming majority of Baháʼís, who regard him as a Covenant-breaker. The only result of his unsuccessful leadership attempt was to alienate...
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  • Harper and Row, 1998. ISBN 0-87743-264-3. Momen, Moojan (1995). "The Covenant and Covenant-breaker. §'C. The Lesser Covenant'". Bahá'í Library Online....
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  • they are excommunicated by the majority of Baháʼís and labelled covenant-breakers. Those who supported Mason Remey feel in turn that the majority strayed...
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    believers. Covenant-breaker is a term used by Bahá'ís to refer to a person who has been excommunicated from the Bahá'í community for breaking the 'Covenant': actively...
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  • detail how Muhammad ʻAlí had been unfaithful to the Covenant, identifying him as a Covenant-breaker and appointing Shoghi Effendi as leader of the Faith...
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    were expelled by him as covenant-breakers when they didn't abide by Shoghi Effendi's request to cut contact with covenant-breakers, as specified by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá...
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    the Mormon Reformation concerned the killing of "covenant breakers." The greatest covenant breakers were thought to be "apostates," who according to early...
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  • Subh-i-Azal, Mírzá Muhammad ʻAlí, and Mason Remey, the most prominent covenant-breakers of the religion, were all upheld by Miller in an attempt to show its...
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  • rejected by the overwhelming majority of Baháʼís, who regard him as a Covenant-breaker. Remey came from a distinguished naval family of Washington, D.C.,...
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    Shoghi Effendi House of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá Momen, Moojan (2003). "The Covenant and Covenant-Breaker". bahai-library.com. Retrieved 13 October 2016. The elative...
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  • founding documents behind the Baháʼí administration. She was designated a Covenant-breaker by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's successor, Shoghi Effendi. White met ʻAbdu'l-Bahá...
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  • George Ronald. ISBN 0-85398-413-1. Momen, Moojan (2003). "The Covenant and Covenant-Breaker". bahai-library.com. Retrieved May 5, 2017. Rabbani, R., ed...
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  • agreement were made between individuals or sociopolitical entities. As a covenant breaker, Mithra is described as sleepless and having 1,000 ears and 10,000...
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    the Covenant of Baháʼu'lláh (Paperback ed.). Oxford, UK: George Ronald. ISBN 0-85398-043-8. Momen, Moojan (1995). "The Covenant and Covenant-breaker". Retrieved...
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  • the world's Baháʼís. Subsequently, Remey was unanimously declared a Covenant-breaker by the Hands and expelled. Jensen was among about 100 supporters of...
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  • of the members of the IBC, Charles Mason Remey, was declared as a Covenant-breaker by the Hands for claiming to be the Guardian and was expelled from...
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    unwilling to follow the leadership of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, he was declared a Covenant-breaker. In the earliest decades of the religion in the country the US the...
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  • those that have been declared Covenant-breakers, and expelled from the religion, by the head of their faith. Covenant-breakers are defined as leaders of schismatic...
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  • Persian and Arabic into English. Mírzá Muhammad ʻAlí, labeled the arch-Covenant breaker by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, dies. Shoghi Effendi launches the "Divine Plan" for...
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    was buried. A Tablet explaining this existed but had been stolen by Covenant-breakers. The shrine and its surrounding gardens, as well as the Mansion of...
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  • his studies at those institutions. Despite having been declared a Covenant-breaker by his first cousin Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baháʼí Faith...
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    have failed. Some describe those involved in such attempts (known as covenant-breakers by Baháʼís) as "sects" of the Baháʼí Faith. However, a distinguished...
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    adherents collectively. The followers of such divisions are regarded as Covenant-breakers and shunned. The canonical texts of the Baháʼí Faith are the writings...
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  • Baháʼu'lláh, he became instrumental in dealing with the activities of Covenant-breakers in Iran. Chairman of the first National Spiritual Assembly of Iran...
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    marriages, other inappropriate marriages, or refusal to break ties with Covenant-breakers in the family, Shoghi Effendi, in the 1940s and early 1950s, reluctantly...
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    Mount Carmel. Long inflicted humiliation wiped away. Machinations Covenant-breakers frustrate plan defeated. Cherished wish Greatest Holy Leaf fulfilled...
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  • marriage a "treacherous act" and excommunicated Munib Shahid as a Covenant-breaker. Munib and Serene Husseini continued to live in Beirut, where he pursued...
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