 If you want me to continue with my work, it is crucial to support the channel via Patreon. Moreover, make sure to subscribe to Bobby's perspective on Rumble. All the links are in the description box below. May Allah bless you all. Alright guys, welcome back to the channel. If you're new, my name is Bobby. Super interesting video today guys. As a new river to Islam, I'm gonna check out the Bahai Faith on the channel Drew Binsky. Before you get scared off, guys, no. It's not that I'm leaving Islam and now I'm looking into different religions. Quite the opposite. I've been challenged by other religious practitioners on my channels. For example, people from the Bahai Faith or Hindus even, to look into their religions and give them a fair assessment and to share my perspective on those religious practices. Guys, before we start the video, as always, if you enjoy the content, leave me a thumbs up. If you haven't subscribed already, guys, please do so. And if you want to support this channel via Patreon or via Merge, all the links are in the description box below. Thank you so much for your ongoing support, guys. And now with no further ado, let's have a look. Hi, I'm Rainn Wilson and today we're gonna learn a little bit about the Bahai Faith. Back in 2015, when I was on a solo backpacking trip around India, I found myself at this beautiful white temple in Delhi that looks something like the Sydney Opera House in the shape of a flower. A very kind Indian man told me that the temple belongs to the Bahai Faith, a religion that I had never heard of before. But as I continued to travel across 191 countries, I kept seeing more and more of these unique temples like in Uganda, Germany and Panama. I met countless Bahais who introduced me to their faith and I find it so beautiful and uplifting that I wanted to tell you all about it in this video because I think many of you guys out there can resonate. How would you explain Bahai to someone who has no idea what it is? There's only one God. God educates humanity by sending divine teachers every once in a while. The Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, these are some of these divine teachers. They're essentially teaching one religion. So there's one God, one religion that is gradually unfolding like chapters in a course book and how a law... That's where it basically differs because up until he said it is gradually unfolding like chapters, he was describing Islam. As Muslims we believe that the message is always the same and it's never changing. God is never changing, therefore he reveals one message. Worship one God alone, your God is one. That is pretty much it. That is Islam. However, the way that he described it here is that the message is unfolding over time in this argument that the Christians give as well of course. At first we all thought that God is just one but now out of a sudden he's a trinity, he's three in one. Like that you open up the room for interpretation and for gradual change in religion that then in the end can be of course detrimental and take people away from the monotheistic worship just as yet again the Christians have done. So I'm very curious to hear how the Bahai message is different from Islam. Is the most recent of these divine teachers and his teachings are totally relevant to what's going on in the world today. Me too, black lives matter, economic disparity between rich and poor, environment. There's a quote that says to be of a hide means to love the world, to love humanity and try to serve it, to work for universal peace and universal... That is quite interesting. Coming from a Christian background we always used to say that we do not love the world. We love God. We love the Creator. We are waiting for the afterlife and we are not in love with this creation and the same of course applies to Islam. Here we are not in love with the dunya. We are waiting for the akhirah. So service is so central to the Bahai revelation, understanding that all the teachings of the Bahai faith revolve around the oneness of humanity, this belief in this one God that loves us all, this one progressive religion. Exactly, it's a progressive religion. That's the main difference here. So the Bahai faith is all about ridding the world of all our prejudices like racism, sexism, nationalism and religious prejudice and understanding the true oneness that just manages one human family. That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. If you say you're getting rid of religious prejudice then you wouldn't have to talk about any religion at all anymore. However, you are presenting the message of the Bahai and I therefore have to think that you believe that the Bahais message is superior to other religions. That makes sense. The Bahai faith is an independent world religion founded in Iran in 1844. It has been described as the youngest of all the world's major religions and it has a quickly growing following. So how does one practice Bahai? So to be a Bahai is to be a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim. The way I like to say it is this, I'm a Jew as long as I can also be a Christian. I'm a Christian as long as I can also be a Muslim and I'm a Muslim as long as I can also be a Bahai. I love it. And I'm a Hindu and a Buddhist too along the way. So yeah okay those things are mutually exclusive and what he is displaying here is a thing called interfaith. An interfaith, the interfaith movement is the enemy of every particular religion because it tells you that no religion is right and you can be all of them at once. But this is yet again an absolute contradiction because think about it. The Jews do not believe in Jesus whatsoever. The Christians on the other hand believe that Jesus is God right? So therefore Christianity and Judaism are very very different from each other. They are mutually exclusive and of course the same applies to Christianity and Islam because the Christians do believe that Jesus is God. They do believe that God is a Trinity and the Muslims do not believe that at all. Quite the opposite. They believe that this is a sin right? Very very simple. So Jesus is a messenger within Islam. All of those messages are mutually exclusive and therefore we have to ask ourselves which religion is right? Which religion has the truth claim? The truth with the capital T if you will. In Islam we do believe that there is only one God and one truth of course and that truth is Islam and it is never changing. Islam being the submission to that one God. We do believe that every messenger has been sent with the same message and Islam has been perfected. There is no change in Islam therefore no. It is not a progressive religion whatsoever. This is why it is perfect. God is perfect. His religion is perfect. It doesn't need to change and therefore new social issues do not interest us as Muslims the way that they interest you here. Oh we're gonna talk about BLM. We're gonna talk about LGBTQ. We are all one big family. No Islam is about the truth. We as Muslims believe Islam is true and therefore Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism all of it is wrong. To practice being a Bahá'í it's really pretty simple. We read some writings in the morning plus 95 Allah'u'llah. Allah'u'llah is God is most glorious and we say that 95 times a day. That's part of our kind of daily ritual. We say a prayer between noon and sunset that you know the Muslims bow five times a day to Mecca. The Bahá'ís just say one very short prayer. I bear witness, oh my God, that thou hast created Me to know thee and to worship thee. I testify at this moment to my powerlessness, to my might, to my poverty, to my wealth, that there is none other God but the help and peril, the self-subsisting. That's it. Just between noon and sunset. What is the text of the Bahá'í? So obviously we have the Bible and the Torah and the Koran. What is it called in Bahá'í faith? So our most holy book is called the Qatabi'aqtah and now with the Bahá'í faith it's not like we were just given one book. We have many books so we don't limit ourselves to just reading and studying one. We have thousands of prayers and thousands of texts. How many Bahá'is can we find in the world? About. I mean for Muslims it's not only the Koran either if you want to study different books you can right starting with Hadith literature. Officially maybe six or seven million but unofficially there's probably closer to ten. In fact, Bahá'í is considered to be the second most widespread religion in the world as there are members in 236 unique countries and territories. What I really love about the Bahá'í temples is that every one of them is open to every human being regardless of race, religion, gender, it's open to all and that is such a beautiful thing. So you grew up Jewish. I did. When did you become interested in Bahá'í and convert? I guess do you call it convert? We call it declare and because what you don't do with Bahá'í is you don't abandon your religion so in like for example I was raised Jewish I'm not saying that Judaism is wrong in fact I'm saying Judaism. Judaism is right and I'm a Bahá'í. So compassionate man if Judaism is right just stay a Jew you don't have to become a Bahá'í whatsoever and before that you mentioned as well that you are a Jew you're a Muslim you're a Christian don't let me repeat the whole thing yet again those religions are mutually exclusive how do you justify this? It's ridiculous. It doesn't make any sense. One thing that it means to me is like saying I am practicing Jujitsu now but I'm gonna tell you you know what I am a karateka as well I'm a judoka I'm a boxer I'm a wrestler as long as I can be a Jujitsu guy as well am I practicing all of those other martial arts? No I am not I'm practicing just Jujitsu so therefore I cannot claim the other martial arts and of course you cannot claim that you are just a Bahá'í as long as you are Buddhist Hindu man this makes my head hurt. One thing that it means to me is that world peace it's it's not just a what-if or a possibility it is inevitable and it will happen one day and as a Bahá'í it is my job to have. Yeah this for me sounds like an extremely false doctrine because what they are trying to establish here is an utopia on earth I do not believe in an utopia on earth I do believe in giving charity I do believe in doing good however I do not believe in salvation on this planet world peace will it ever be a reality I personally do not think so because we will experience our eternal peace our eternal bliss in the ahira in the afterlife this world is nothing but a test to serve and bring about it's very feminine to be a Bahá'í really just means to be of service to humanity so Bahá'í is wherever you go around but if that is the truth and sorry for interrupting yet again guys if you just have to be in service to humanity then just be in service to humanity so every time I'm giving in charity for example I become a Bahá'í called our trying to make the world a better place as a Bahá'í we see everything as we're reflecting God all of God's creation every living thing and we are the caretakers as humans we're the highest created thing we are higher than animals we are higher than plants and we're in charge of the world and so we must love animals not less because we're higher than them but more so because the animals can't defend themselves he's a vegan as as you know he's a vegan predator I hear it and instead of being the greatest predator we should be loving and kind to all the animals it comforts me it provides solace and hope it confirms me and what I do and what I love to do and it inspires shines light on the path I need to take and what I need to do to get there we definitely need to work to be more internationally cooperative and the more that we can have um treaties and cooperation and love and trust built up between countries then that more that war can be put on the back burner as you've already heard me say a million times my single biggest realization from visiting almost every country in the world is that every human being is the same after learning that this is all travel the world and what you came up with is that every human being is the same that's absolutely ridiculous man and I'm not talking about physical differences obviously you have a ginger beard and this guy is black I'm not talking about that every human being is absolutely different of course we have common baseline similarities but we're absolutely different from each other how did you come to that conclusion also the cause of the Baha'i faith I am looking forward to reading and learning more about it on my spiritual journey around the world thank you guys so much for watching I hope you learned a thing or two and please comment below with your thoughts have an awesome day and I will see you later all right guys in the server today's video beware of the soft spoken compassionate people that will tell you we are all one we have no differences we are all the same like this you can never find truth like this you enter subjectivism where your truth is your truth and my truth is my truth hey as long as you don't hurt me anything goes this is how you justify same-sex marriage for example this is how you justify all the perversion that we see in this world love is love do whatever you want as long as it feels good we all gonna have fun we're all a big family and this is why I am opposed to the interfaith movement actually even back in the day when I was a Christian I was extremely opposed to the interfaith movement and only like that I could actually compare religions I did not say hey I'm a Christian I'm a Muslim I'm a Buddhist I'm a Hindu we are all the same no back then I took the stance that Islam is wrong and Christianity is correct so then I directly compared those religions I read the whole Bible I read the whole Quran I compared them and I saw for myself what is right and what is wrong if I am right with my opinion and you hold a different opinion then somebody here must be wrong it doesn't work otherwise don't you understand if I say this microphone here is black and you say no it is white then only one of us can be right that's it is it black or is it white now we're going to get a second party that will check the color and ultimately we will deduct truth ultimately objectively as much as we can we will come to the conclusion what is right what is wrong and then ultimately we know this microphone is black and you have been wrong because your claim of white is wrong that is it and this is the same when it comes down to religions people are not really religious anymore they claim to be spiritual and when you open up that door anything goes they say that all the religions are the same but how can that be the message of those religions is ultimately different don't you understand Christianity claims that all your sins are forgiven if you accept Jesus Christ in your life if you accept him as God and you believe that he has been crucified Muslims do not believe in that whatsoever and therefore true Christians believe that Muslims are condemned to hell don't you understand as I said a billion times now they're mutually exclusive they believe totally opposite things Buddhism doesn't even believe in a god Hinduism believes in one billion deities don't you understand that those are totally different belief systems and that is great don't you understand that that is absolutely fantastic those are different belief systems they do not have to be merged into a mush and like this we can objectively discuss which claim makes sense we are not all the same if you look at the world you said we are all the same people no we are not i'm living in asia right now and i love living in asia because guess what we have asian people here asian people are super nice they're very friendly to me at least and i appreciate being amongst asians but i appreciate it because they're different they're different from westerners my wife comes from africa she is different to me as well guess what race is a reality as well gender is a reality as well they're only two genders but if you are affirming nowadays you will come to the conclusion that there are a billion genders somebody is right and somebody is wrong yet again this is the doctrine of devils truly is because you are making everything relative instead of looking at what is true what is wrong what is right you're discarding all of it and you're luring people in with compassion by telling them falsehood we should never unite under falsehood but under truth and truth will always be divisive all right guys but this is it for today's video if you liked it leave the thumbs up if you haven't subscribed already guys please do so and if you want to support this channel via patreon for example all the links are in the description box below thank you so much for your ongoing support guys and as always may god bless you all much love and peace