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Baha'i
The year 1260 AH/1844 AD as fulfilling prophecy.
The year 1260 AH is a thousand years from the time of the "disappearance" or occultation of the Twelfth Imam and the Shaykhi leaders such as Siyyid Kazim specifically referred to the year "sixty" as the date of the appearance of the Qa'im. The "thousand years" can be found in the Qur'an in the verse:
`From the heaven to the earth, He governeth all things; hereafter shall they come up to Him on a day whose length shall be a thousand of such years as ye reckon.'
So the prophecies about the Qa'im are also found in Hadiths attributed to Imam Sadiq.
Now the Bab revealed His station over time and gradually from the beginning of His ministry. His purpose was similar to that we feel of John the Baptist in preparing the Way for Jesus through stirring up the society at the time. The Bab in His Writings suggested quite plainly that "Him Whom God would make manifest" would soon appear and that His entire Mission was to prepare His disciples to accept Him.. Most all the Babis eventually accepted Baha'u'llah as fulfilling this prophecy.
To me one of the most fascinating parallels in prophecy is the dovetailing of both the Islamic prophecies mentioned above for the year 1260 AH and the Christian expectations that Christ would return in the year 1844 AD...one confirming the other without the two being in anyway in communication with the other separated by a great cultural and linquistic divide.
Baha'is don't accept all the Hadiths but the ones referred to in our Writings to us have special significance of course... The reliance of Hadiths in Islam however has not really continued in the Baha'i Faith as we accept only those Writings that have been authenticated as from the Pen of the Bab and Baha'u'llah and not reported sayings which we call "pilgrim notes"....these may be of interest for study but have no real weight in terms of authority.
- Art
The year 1260 AH is a thousand years from the time of the "disappearance" or occultation of the Twelfth Imam and the Shaykhi leaders such as Siyyid Kazim specifically referred to the year "sixty" as the date of the appearance of the Qa'im. The "thousand years" can be found in the Qur'an in the verse:
`From the heaven to the earth, He governeth all things; hereafter shall they come up to Him on a day whose length shall be a thousand of such years as ye reckon.'
So the prophecies about the Qa'im are also found in Hadiths attributed to Imam Sadiq.
Now the Bab revealed His station over time and gradually from the beginning of His ministry. His purpose was similar to that we feel of John the Baptist in preparing the Way for Jesus through stirring up the society at the time. The Bab in His Writings suggested quite plainly that "Him Whom God would make manifest" would soon appear and that His entire Mission was to prepare His disciples to accept Him.. Most all the Babis eventually accepted Baha'u'llah as fulfilling this prophecy.
To me one of the most fascinating parallels in prophecy is the dovetailing of both the Islamic prophecies mentioned above for the year 1260 AH and the Christian expectations that Christ would return in the year 1844 AD...one confirming the other without the two being in anyway in communication with the other separated by a great cultural and linquistic divide.
Baha'is don't accept all the Hadiths but the ones referred to in our Writings to us have special significance of course... The reliance of Hadiths in Islam however has not really continued in the Baha'i Faith as we accept only those Writings that have been authenticated as from the Pen of the Bab and Baha'u'llah and not reported sayings which we call "pilgrim notes"....these may be of interest for study but have no real weight in terms of authority.
- Art
That is to say I shall ask about the verses referring to the Seal. Interesting information though. Thank you. 
