Declaration of the Bab..

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The Bab (Gate) declared His mission in the evening of May 22nd 1844 per the Gregorian calendar and the year 1260 AH of the Muslim calendar in Shiraz, Iran (then Persia).

His declaration was to a student Mulla Husayn who had been seeking the Promised One... One promised by the prophesies of Shiah Islam and of the Mahdi in general.. It also coincided with the general time of the expectation of the Return of Christ in the Millerite movement in the United States..

Within forty days following this declaration eighteen seekers after truth independently and without personal invitation of the Bab recognized Him

See:

Letters of the Living
 
The following is an extract from an address of the Bab to His first followers "The Letters of the Living" noted in the above post...

`Ye are even as the fire which in the darkness of the night has been kindled upon the mountain-top. Let your light shine before the eyes of men. Such must be the purity of your character and the degree of your renunciation, that the people of the earth may through you recognise and be drawn closer to the heavenly Father who is the Source of purity and grace. For none has seen the Father who is in heaven. You who are His spiritual children must by your deeds exemplify His virtues, and witness to His glory. You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? Such must be the degree of your detachment, that into whatever city you enter to proclaim and teach the Cause of God, you should in no wise expect either meat or reward from its people. Nay, when you depart out of that city, you should shake the dust from off your feet. As you have entered it pure and undefiled, so must you depart from that city. For verily I say, the heavenly Father is ever with you and keeps watch over you.

Read the following for the complete message starting on p. 92 of The Dawn Breakers:

THE DAWN-BREAKERS---Chapter III
 
Baha'i communities around the world will be observing the Declaration of the Bab from Thursday evening till the next day May 23rd. It was on this day in 1844 that Mulla Husayn accepted the declaration of the Bab that He was the Promised One and fulfilled the prophecies of the Mahdi.

Mulla Husayn was a student of Siyyid Kazim and Shaykh Ahmad which teaching generally became known as the Shaykhi school in Shiah Islam. Shaykism taugfht that the Madhi would soon appear and to await the "year sixty". So as the year "sixty" (1260 AH-1844 AD) came closer the anticipation grew greater and there were certain characteristics Mulla Husayn was to look for.

The declaration to Mullah Husayn was in private at the house of the Bab which is also a site of pilgrimage for Baha'is destroyed by the Revolutionary Guards in 1979.

More later..:)
 
Starting tomorrow evening (Thursday May 22nd) Baha'is will be gathering for prayers and programs to commemorate the Declaration of the Bab on May 22nd-23rd 1844 a Baha'i Holy Day on which work and school are suspended...

The House where the Bab declared His Mission in Shiraz was destroyed in 1979 by fanatic elements...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pTmF4WqKc...P6JtZ4/s1600/Destruction+House+Bab+Shiraz.jpg

The following will suggest what the House of the Bab looked like before it's destruction..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZtUr95q6o4
 
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