Categorization Covenant-breaker
1 categorization
1.1 included categories of people
1.2 excluded categories of people
1.3 bábís
categorization
included categories of people
most covenant-breakers involved in schismatic groups, not always. example, bahá í refuses follow guidance on treatment of covenant-breakers @ risk of being named one. 1 article written bahá í encyclopedia, characterized covenant-breakers have emerged in course of bahá í history belonging 1 of 4 categories:
excluded categories of people
shoghi effendi wrote national spiritual assembly of canada in 1957:
people have withdrawn cause because no longer feel can support teachings , institutions sincerely, not covenant-breakers -- non-bahá ís , should treated such. ally actively known enemies of faith covenant-breakers, , attack faith in same spirit these people, can considered, themselves, covenant-breakers.
beyond this, many other relationships bahá í faith exist, both positive , negative. covenant-breaking not apply of them. following partial list of not rightly termed covenant-breakers:
members of other religions or no religion--with or without particular relationship bahá í faith.
bahá ís leave religion. (see above)
bahá ís who, in estimation of head of religion have insufficiently understood nature of covenant start. these disenrolled , considered have never been bahá ís, given fundamental diversion core bahá í doctrine.
bábís
bábís regarded religion altogether. since covenant-breaking presumes 1 has submitted oneself covenant , broken it, , bábís never recognized or swore allegiance bahá u lláh, not covenant-breakers.
followers of subh-i-azal, bahá u lláh s half-brother tried poison him, engaged in active opposition bahá ís, , shoghi effendi did inform bahá ís should avoid contact descendants, writing no intelligent , loyal baha associate descendant of azal, if traced slightest breath of criticism of our faith, in aspect, person. in fact these people should strenuously avoided having inherited spiritual disease -- disease of covenant-breaking! .
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