October 2. On this date in 1975, the Universal House of Justice wrote the National Spiritual Assembly of Panama about books by William Miller and Hermann Zimmer that "the friends should be advised to ignore these books and any similar ones which might be written by enemies of the Faith."

 

October 2. On this date in 1975, the Universal House of Justice wrote the National Spiritual Assembly of Panama about books by William Miller and Hermann Zimmer that "the friends should be advised to ignore these books and any similar ones which might be written by enemies of the Faith."

William Miller translated the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, which was published by the Royal Asiatic Society in 1961, three decades before the Bahá'í Administration's officially-sanctioned translation in 1992.

Hermann Zimmer was an early pioneer of the Bahá'í Faith in Germany who, like Ruth White and other Free Bahá'ís, believed that the Will and Testament of `Abdu'l-Bahá was a forgery, based on hand writing analysis by the criminologist C. Ainsworth Mitchell as well as the belief that the nascent Bahá'í Administration being formed under the auspices of Shoghi Effendi was against the teachings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá.

The Universal House of Justice advised "that the friends should be advised to ignore these books and any similar ones which might be written by enemies of the Faith."