Of all the diverse issues which today are gradually tending to consolidate
and extend the bounds of the Revelation of Baha'u'llah, the decision of
Egypt's religious Tribunal regarding the Baha'is under its jurisdiction
appears at the present moment to be the most powerful in its challenge,
the most startling in its character, and the most perplexing in the
consequences it may entail. I have already alluded in my letter of January
10, 1926, addressed to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of
the United States and Canada, to a particular feature of this momentous
verdict, which after mature deliberation has obtained the sanction of
Egypt's highest ecclesiastical authorities, has been communicated and
printed, and is regarded as final and binding. I have stressed in my last
reference to this far-reaching pronouncement the negative aspect of this
document which condemns in most unequivocal and emphatic language the
followers of Baha'u'llah as the believers in heresy, offensive and
injurious to Islam, and wholly incompatible with the accepted doctrines
and practice of its orthodox adherents.