“A closer study of the text of the decision will however reveal the fact that coupled with this strong denunciation is the positive assertion of a truth which the recognized opponents of the Bahá’í Faith in other Muḥammadan countries have up to the present time either sedulously ignored or maliciously endeavored to disprove. Not content with this harsh and unjustifiable repudiation of the so-called menacing and heretical doctrines of the adherents of the Bahá’í Faith, they proceed in a formal manner to declare in the text of that very decision their belief that the Bahá’í Faith is a ’new religion’, ’entirely independent’, and by reason of the magnitude of its claim and the character of its ’laws, principles and beliefs’, worthy to be reckoned as one of the established religious systems of the world . Quoting various passages judiciously gleaned from a number of Bahá’í sacred books as an evidence to their splendid testimony, they proceed in a notable statement to deduce the fact that henceforth it shall be regarded as impossible for the followers of such a Faith to be designated as Muslim, just as it would be incorrect and erroneous to call a Muḥammadan either Christian or Jew.

“It cannot be denied that in the course of the inevitable developments of this present situation the resident Bahá’ís of Egypt, originally belonging to the Muslim Faith, will be placed in a most humiliating and embarrassing position. They however cannot but rejoice in the knowledge that whereas in various Muḥammadan countries and particularly in Persia the overwhelming majority of the leaders of Islám are utterly opposed to any form of declaration that would facilitate the universal recognition of the Cause, the authorized heads of their co-religionists in one of the most advanced communities in the Muḥammadan world have, of their own initiative, published to the world a document that may justly be termed as the first charter of liberty emancipating the Bahá’í Faith from the fetters of orthodox Islám.”

The foregoing decision, which further lays down “in unmistakable terms the condition that under no circumstances can the marriage of those Bahá’ís who have been required to divorce their Muslim wives be renewed by the Muslim Court unless and until the husbands formally recant their faith by solemnly declaring that the Qur’án is the ‘last’ book of God revealed to man, that no law can abrogate the Prophet’s law, no faith can succeed His faith, no revelation can claim to fulfill His revelation”, logically silences once and for all those ill-considered assertions so frequently made by Christian missionaries that the Bahá’í Cause is nothing more than a form of Islám attempting to extend Muḥammadan influence throughout the West. Christianity was not more completely repudiated by the Sanhedrin, nor more bitterly assailed by the officials of the Roman Empire, than the religion of Bahá’u’lláh under the combined attack of ecclesiastical and civil authorities in Persia from its early days.