From: henrynurzadeh@gmail.com   
      
   Wahid Azal isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. His psychological issues-the   
   root cause of his predatorial cyberstalking and cyberbullying as well as his   
   malicious libels--do exist with some degree of charisma, intelligence, and   
   facility with languages.    
   However, let us not overstate the case of his intelligence: the man has a   
   tremendously good memory for tidbits of information and languages but a   
   demonstrably inadequate ability to use logic whether in analyzing his own   
   statements or responding to the    
   analysis of others.    
      
   His mental illness, moreover, is predicated on assumptions that he is a child   
   of destiny or ordained by Heaven for great things, that the minute dramas of   
   his life (especially the ones he has instigated online) are signs of larger   
   cosmic forces vying    
   with each other in the universe. Our boy is a regular modern-day Zardosht   
   except not nearly as cool or wise since he took the binaries of the Persian   
   prophet and left out anything else. He sees government and corporate agency at   
   work and conspiracies    
   behind any person who dares to respond to his manic ranting and his libelous   
   raving. Not unsurprisingly, he contradicts himself in his statements and   
   recounts of who did what, when, why, and who they did it for and he cycles   
   through an ever-changing cast    
   of villains every decade or so, whose ranks are filled from former friends,   
   admirers, and well-wishers who come to realize how off the deep end he is.     
      
   Nima Wahid Azal has accused the religion of his birth, the Baha'i Faith, of   
   being a cult. I have no desire to lecture someone who had a bad experience of   
   religion while growing up and thereby became unconvinced of it and found a   
   more convincing narrative    
   elsewhere. That happens to lots of people from diverse backgrounds. I have no   
   doubt, as all organized religions do, that the Haifa based Baha'is who follow   
   the Universal House of Justice institution have their politics and problems.   
   In other news, water    
   is wet and organized religion has problems. I do however wish to throw shade   
   on Nima calling something a cult when he has essentially reinvented Azali   
   Babism (the tradition of those Babis who rejected Baha'u'llah (Mirza Hussein   
   Ali Nuri) and followed his    
   half-brother Subh-i-Azal instead.    
      
   I know of (nor will Wahid provide information about) any connections to a   
   living lineage and community of Azali Babis that he has been wel   
   omed/initiated into. From all appearances, he read the Persian and Arabic   
   Bayan and other writings of the Bab (   
   Sayyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi), was justifiably impressed by the writing and   
   charisma of the Bab and his immediate legacy, and that this proved a catalyst   
   for his blooming narcissism to see its mission and destiny as the successor   
   of/return of the Bab in    
   the modern-day -- perhaps even occupying the station Baha'is believe   
   Baha'u'llah to have occupied: He Whom God Shall Make Manifest. The Bayani   
   Gnostic Universalism that Nima has called his teaching in his self-published   
   book Liber Decatriarchia Mystica (   
   2006, I believe) is a reconstruction of the Bab's religion as understood   
   through the narrative of those who saw Subh-i-Azal as his successor and   
   filtered through Nima's fractured consciousness and overgrown ego.    
      
   At times Nima has claimed to be a Twelver (Ithna 'Ashari) Shi'ite Muslim and   
   that following the Bab was legitimate within the Twelver tradition -- a kind   
   of Bayani Islam evocative perhaps of the Sheikhi school of Shi'a Islam that   
   the Bab followed and    
   which laid the groundwork for his own mystical experience that resulted in him   
   proclaiming a Post-Islamic era and a new revelation. However, this was all   
   taqiyya as Nima at times in his book and again more recently has moved away   
   from using the monikers    
   of Shi'a and Muslim and is now referring to his religion as Post-Islamic   
   again(something that he has done in past writings also).    
      
   The Islamicate face of his made-up religion is what he calls the "Fatimiya   
   Sufi Order" in honor of Sayyidah Fatima al-Zahra (ع) daughter of the Prophet   
   Muhammad (ص), an international and syncretic "order" grounded in Islamic   
   language and terminology    
   but rooted in Nima's Neo-Babi project. Nima won't discuss the demographics   
   that allegedly constitute the membership of this order. He has alluded to   
   members in Europe, Australia, and North America. Simultaneously, he has also   
   claimed his "order" rejects    
   the membership of Americans (one recent post states this "ban" goes back to   
   2014 however I saw nothing about it until 2017-2018 when he began to receive   
   heavy pushback on his libelous mania from Denis Giron, Navid Nasr and Nathan   
   Abookire).   
      
   He has claimed within the past week that this is because of America's (very   
   real) White Supremacy and other toxic social and political structures. He has   
   more recently said he will not accept bay'ah as sheikh from White Americans   
   especially males or    
   Ashkenazi Jews UNLESS (to his credit he offered a nuance for exceptions) they   
   demonstrate they are not like the rest of Americans -- presumably racist,   
   capitalist, sexist, Zionist, what have you. Regardless of his true   
   motivations, the proviso amounts to    
   being willing to carry water for Nima, and refusal to do so or taking issue   
   with how he treats those he falls out with is enough to have one's character   
   assassinated as one is cast in with the Alt-Right, Fascists, Racists,   
   Imperialists, and other    
   unsavory characters.    
      
      
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