Entering Anti-Baha’i Society

After the mentioned events, I felt some developments in my mind and emotions. It was like becoming thirsty and wanting to find a spring to be watered. During this period of thinking, my brother told me there was a society called “Anti-Baha’i Society”[1] which was fighting against the Baha’is. He suggested me to join this society and participate in their classes.

So, I was introduced to Mr. Mina’ipoor -a pioneer of the society. Mr. Mina’ipoor was pious and good believer who was so interested in cultural activities. After passing some time in introducing and training sessions I was introduced to Mr. Morteza Khoda’i. He was one of the most experienced teachers and instructors of the society who was well-informed about Baha’i misleading thoughts. I spent some time on learning introductory Baha’i teachings, their ideological principals and proselytizing methods. During these classes the danger of Baha’ism became clear to me and I wholeheartedly started to learn Islamic believes and methods to impede the influence of Baha’ism.

Very soon after passing summary introductory courses I was able to start practical combat against Baha’ism and I entered Baha’i sessions. I would go to those sessions as a “Na’sh” (corpse)[2] and there I would gather information about the job, activity, name and address of people who were interested in becoming a Baha’i and then give that information to the Society. When we were entering the Baha’i proselytizing houses, they would try to check if we were an influencing element or not? We were well-trained and they would not find out.

For example, at that time drinking Pepsi was prohibited; so, they would invite us to drink and we would accept, because in the society we were told to drink it because Ayatollah Boroujerdi had said that he would not drink Pepsi but it did not mean it was prohibited. Another way that they would check if somebody was a Muslim was wearing beard.  But Ayatollah Milani had permitted the people who participate in Baha’i sessions to shave in order not to be identified as a Muslim.

So, we would shave and drink Pepsi and participate in Baha’i sessions and nobody would suspect. What I found out there was so painful for me. I could see most of the Muslims who were attracted to Baha’is were poor people who were in seek of a way for a better life.

The people who were in society were called “Moballegh” (proselytizer) and the rank was higher than “Na’sh”. They would go to the identified people by Na’shes and would save them from Baha’ism.

In some occasions after participating in some session the Baha’s would know us. In this case we would be replaced with another Na’sh. In course of activities in the society after some session of presence in Baha’i circles each Na’sh would become a Moballegh. After some time, I also felt that I was ready to be a Moballegh and expected to be missioned for new tasks.

In the society’s sessions I was acquainted with people who each of them later became a combatant against the Pahlavi Regime; people such as: Javad Mansouri, Mohammad Mir Sadeghi, Nasser Naraghi, Abbas Mazaheri, and Akbar Urami …

Being a Member of society did not interrupt my usual activities. I was educating at Sina Teachers Training Center. Sometimes I would secretly take part of my activities there and would distribute Imam’s announcements among teachers and students there by putting the announcement papers on the tables and in the drawers.