Hindustan, a term used historically (2000years+!) by Iranians/Persians, and translated into English as “India” mainly referred to what’s now northern India (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/266465/Hindustan)

Bahá’u'lláh, speaking of these very ones who were attacking and decrying Him, said, “They are My heralds; they are the ones who are proclaiming My message and spreading My Word. Pray that they may be multiplied, pray that their number may increase and that they may cry out more loudly. The more they abuse Me by their words and the greater their agitation, the more potent and mighty will be the efficacy of the Cause of God, the more luminous the light of the Word and the greater the radiance of the divine Sun. And eventually the gloomy darkness of the outer world will disappear, and the light of reality will shine until the whole earth will be effulgent with its glory.” (Abdu’l-Baha, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 436)

Day by day the majesty of Christ grew in splendor and effulgence. Therefore, my purpose is to warn and strengthen you against accusations, criticisms, revilings and derision in newspaper articles or other publications. Be not disturbed by them. They are the very confirmation of the Cause, the very source of upbuilding to the Movement. May God confirm the day when a score of ministers of the churches may arise and with bared heads cry at the top of their voices that the Bahá’ís are misguided. I would like to see that day, for that is the time when the Cause of God will spread. Bahá’u'lláh has pronounced such as these the couriers of the Cause. They will proclaim from pulpits that the Bahá’ís are fools, that they are a wicked and unrighteous people, but be ye steadfast and unwavering in the Cause of God. They will spread the message of Bahá’u'lláh.(Abdu’l-Baha, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 429)

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Is that how many Baha’is there are in Iran?

Yet again the original post is lost in pointless ego raves…

I would say the person who keep defending a mistake would be the one with ego.

“potato” “patato” So the point is, I think the term India was used just like Iraq, Armenia and Iran are used…using modern terminology to describe historic regions.

No, Iraq is generally refers to as Mesopotamia/Babylon etc in history books and Iran as Persia when the ancient world is the context. So find another potato example…

We all make reference in errors.

And defending that error is more annoying than actually making it. Spam…

I wasn’t being sarcastic or petty, I was getting annoyed by the typical ignorance exhibited by people.

“Cyrus the Persian reigned thirty-one years, and conquered Iraq, Khurásán, Armenia, Syria and Palestine, and invaded India, killing their king.

I almost fell off the chair laughing… India was born in 1947. Didn’t realize Cyrus invaded India after 1957 >.>

Ohh during Cyrus’ time, there were HUNDREDS of kingdoms in South Asia… Cyrus invaded few of them -.-… I wonder what other parts of this spam is factual…

Aside from that which is a matter of record in Persian histories, it is stated in the Old Testament — established today, among all European peoples, as a sacred and canonical Text — that in the time of Cyrus, called in Iranian works Bahman son of Isfandiyar, the three hundred and sixty divisions of the Persian Empire extended from the inner confines of India and China to the farthermost reaches of Yemen and Ethiopia. (Abdu’l-Baha, The Secret of Divine Civilization, p. 7)

Elsewhere in his history, at-Tabarí spoke of the mother of Sásán. He described her as a descendant of the kings of Judah:
“The mother of Bahman’s son was the slave Rahab bint Pinchas, of the children of Rehoboam b. Solomon b. David. Bahman appointed Rahab’s brother Zerubabel b. Shealtiel king over the Israelites, transferred to him the office of the exilarch, and returned him to Palestine, upon Rahab’s request. Bahman died and left (the following) offspring: two sons, Darius the Great and Sásán, and daughters Khumani, who ruled after him, and Franik and Bahman Dukht.”
The circumstances of Zerubbabel’s appointment described above identify Bahman unmistakably. The Persian king who appointed Zerubabbel and ordered his return to Jerusalem was Cyrus the Great, according to chapters 1 and 2 of the book of Ezra. A Christian historian of a later period confirmed the veracity of at-Tabarí’s statement. Bar-Hebraeus (Arabic Ibn al-‘Ibrí), who became the assistant patriarch of the Eastern Jacobite Church in the city of Marágheh is Adhirbáyján in 1264 AD, left this record:
“Cyrus the Persian reigned thirty-one years, and conquered Iraq, Khurásán, Armenia, Syria and Palestine, and invaded India, killing their king. This Cyrus married the sister of Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, son of Jehoiachin, son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah. And after he married her, she became highly esteemed in his sight, and he said to her, ‘Ask of me whatever you want,’ so she asked for the return of the children of Israel to Jerusalem and that he grant them permission to rebuild it…And because of the mixing of Cyrus with the offspring of David, Isaiah the prophet said of him before he was born, ‘God said to his anointed one, Cyrus, by whose right had I have been strengthened…”[See Isaiah 45:1]
~ from The Ancestry of Bahá’u’lláh, by Phil Turner, from The Greater Covenant in the Bible: A Study Guide

“Verily, thou hast come by the command of God! Thou hast appeared to speak of Him and thou hast been created to serve Him Who is the Dear, the Beloved!”

It could very well be suitable for a Jew, Christian, Muslim.

It is but one story we have read tonight and I may add, probably at great risk of the family who wrote it.

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