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The Shrine of the Bab on Mount Carmel, BAHA'I HOLY LAND, Israel. |
Dear Angels,
If the BAHA'I FAITH, as you may already know, is the most recent and well known Divine Revelation after Muhammad, but it was preceded by the Revelation of a holy personage about whom we will now speak.
No sooner had mankind attained the stage of maturity, than the Word revealed to men’s eyes the latent energies with which it had been endowed—energies which manifested themselves in the plenitude of their glory when the Ancient Beauty appeared, in the year sixty, in the person of ‘Alí-Muḥammad, the Báb.
- Baha'u'llah
This young man from the Middle East proclaimed Himself to be the MADHI, the long-awaited Hidden Imam considered by Muslims to be the twelfth Shia Imam, and by the Baha'is to be the living link between their faith and Islam, educating and preparing mankind for that greater advent, all of which raised against them, believers, the most severe religious persecution.
I am, I am, I am the Promised One. I am the one Whose name you have for 1000 years invoked, at Whose mention you have risen, Whose advent you have longed to witness, and the hour of Whose Revelation you have prayed God to hasten.
Considering the seriousness of the claim, on July 9, 1850, in Tabriz, His illustrious divine ministry
was quickly shortened. A cruel but glorious martyrdom took place, the
parallel of which is not found in the annals of mankind's religious
history, according to the views of Renan, specialist in Abrahamic religions.
In a luminous eulogy, Baha'u'llah unveils the unique Station of the Bab, defines His mission, expounds His prerogatives and exalts His authority. In that exposition, not only the sublimity of that Youth could be recognized, but the one of its Author.
Magnify Thou, moreover, such as have believed in Him and in His signs and have turned towards Him, from among those that have acknowledged Thy unity in His Latter Manifestation—a Manifestation whereof He hath made mention in His Tablets, and in His Books, and in His Scriptures, and in all the wondrous verses and gem-like utterances that have descended upon Him. It is this same Manifestation Whose covenant Thou hast bidden Him establish ere He had established His own covenant. He it is Whose praise the Bayán hath celebrated. In it His excellence hath been extolled, and His truth established, and His sovereignty proclaimed, and His Cause perfected. Blessed is the man that hath turned unto Him, and fulfilled the things He hath commanded, O Thou Who art the Lord of the world and the Desire of all them that have known Thee!
Praised be Thou, O my God, inasmuch as Thou hast aided us to recognize and love Him. I, therefore, beseech Thee by Him and by Them Who are the Daysprings of Thy Divinity, and the Manifestations of Thy Lordship, and the Treasuries of Thy Revelation, and the Depositories of Thine inspiration, to enable us to serve and obey Him, and to empower us to become the helpers of His Cause and the dispersers of His adversaries. Powerful art Thou to do all that pleaseth Thee. No God is there beside Thee, the Almighty, the All-Glorious, the One Whose help is sought by all men!
Let us now read what the young Bab told about Himself, historically recorded as factual by illustrious witnesses such as A.L.M.
Nicolas, Joseph Arthur de Gobineau and Ernest Renan, including the
phenomenal quantity of His revealed verses which represent almost 10
times the length of the Bible:
And if anyone should reflect on the appearance of this Tree, he will undoubtedly testify to the loftiness of the Cause of God. For if one from whose life only twenty-four years have passed, and who is devoid of those sciences wherein all are learned, now reciteth verses after such fashion without thought or hesitation, writes a thousand verses of prayer in the course of five hours without pause of the pen, and produceth commentaries and learned treatises on such lofty themes as the true understanding of God and of the oneness of His Being, in a manner which doctors and philosophers confess surpasseth their power of understanding, then there is no doubt that all that hath been manifested is divinely inspired. Notwithstanding their life-long diligent study, what pains do these divines take when writing a single line in Arabic! Yet after such efforts the result is but words which are unworthy of mention. All these things are for a proof unto the people; otherwise the religion of God is too mighty and glorious for anyone to comprehend through aught but itself; rather by it all else is understood.
Since the time, the Bab's EMPHATIC CALL has been heard by millions of dedicated souls around the world, of which you can also BE.
Be wonderfully
blessed !
Loesha
Loesha