8/20/25

The extent of “Bahá’u’lláh’s sorrows” during the early years in Baghdad – a summary by the Guardian

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  The cup of Bahá’u’lláh’s sorrows was now running over. All His exhortations, all His efforts to remedy a rapidly deteriorating situation, ...
8/15/25

Forms of opposition that Bahá’u’lláh encountered during early years in Baghdad

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A clandestine opposition, whose aim was to nullify every effort exerted, and frustrate every design conceived, by Bahá’u’lláh for the rehabi...
8/10/25

Factors that evoked “the outbreak of the pent-up jealousies” of Bahá’u’lláh’s “ill-wishers and enemies”

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T o these evidences of an ever deepening veneration for Bahá’u’lláh and of a passionate attachment to His person were now being added furthe...
8/5/25

“The circumstances leading to the revelation of the Tablet of Kullu’t-Ṭa‘ám”

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The circumstances leading to the revelation of the Tablet of Kullu’t- Ṭ a‘ám , written during that period, at the request of Hájí Mírzá Kam...
8/1/25

“Mírzá Yahyá and his fellow-conspirator Siyyid Muhammad” “instantly detected” the change in Mírzá Áqá Ján and his reverence towards Bahá’u’lláh

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The confidence instilled in Mírzá Áqá Ján by this unexpected and sudden contact with the spirit and directing genius of a new-born Revelatio...
7/27/25

The incredible spiritual experience of Mírzá Áqá Ján, Baha’u’llah’s amanuensis

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This same Mírzá Áqá Ján, recounting to Nabíl his experiences, on that first and never to be forgotten night spent in Karbilá, in the presenc...
7/24/25

During His early years in Baghdad Bahá’u’lláh disclosed “a glimpse of the as yet unrevealed glory of His station” to Mírzá Áqá Ján, His “amanuensis, companion and attendant”

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To Mírzá Áqá Ján, “the first to believe” in Him, designated later as Khádimu’lláh (Servant of God)—a Bábí youth, aflame with devotion, who, ...
7/21/25

Bahá’u’lláh’s “words of warning, of counsel and of assurance… at a time when the shadows were beginning to deepen around Him”

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Little wonder that from the pen of Bahá’u’lláh, Who was as yet unable to divulge the Secret that stirred within His bosom, these words of wa...
7/18/25

Siyyid Muhammad’s machinations

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Siyyid Muhammad had meanwhile settled in Karbilá, and was busily engaged, with Mírzá Yaḥyá as his lever, in kindling dissensions and in dera...
7/15/25

Mírzá Yahyá’s conduct immediately after the execution of the Báb

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The former had, after the execution of the Báb, sustained such a violent shock that his faith almost forsook him. Wandering for a time, in t...
7/12/25

“Mírzá Yahyá, who claimed to be the successor of the Báb” and “Siyyid Muhammad, exalted by him[Mirzá Yahyá] to the rank of the first among the “Witnesses” of the Bayán”

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As the character of the professed adherents of the Báb declined and as proofs of the deepening confusion that afflicted them multiplied, the...
7/9/25

“The morals of the members of this dwindling [Babi] community…had sharply declined.”

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The morals of the members of this dwindling community, no less than their numbers, had sharply declined. Such was their “waywardness and fol...
7/6/25

Only one Bábi in Baghdad at the time of Bahá’u’lláh’s arrival

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Bahá’u’lláh upon His arrival in Baghdád, a city which had witnessed the glowing evidences of the indefatigable zeal of Ṭ áhirih, found among...
7/3/25

Nabil’s testimony: - “The fire of the Cause of God had been well-nigh quenched in every place.”

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Nabíl, traveling at that time through the province of Khurásán, the scene of the tumultuous early victories of a rising Faith, had himself s...
6/30/25

The condition of the Bábi community following the execution of the Báb

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For, with the Báb no longer in the midst of His followers; with His nominee, either seeking a safe hiding place in the mountains of Mázindar...
6/27/25

Siyyid Muhammad of Isfahán, the “calculating and unscrupulous schemer,” had developed “envy” and “animosity” towards Bahá’u’lláh when He was first exiled to Karbilá in 1851

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Forced to abandon his studies in the madrisiy-i-Ṣadr of Iṣfahán, this Siyyid had migrated, in shame and remorse, to Karbilá, had there joine...
6/24/25

The “source of envy and the quintessence of mischief”: - Siyyid Muhammad of Isfahán

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To him [Siyyid Muhammad of Isfahán] Bahá’u’lláh had later referred in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas as the one who had “led astray” Mírzá Ya ḥ yá, and s...
6/21/25

The “internal crisis”: - Mírzá Yahyá its “central figure”, “befooled and manipulated” by Siyyid Muhammad of Isfahán

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Its central figure was no less a person than the nominee of the Báb Himself, the credulous and cowardly Mírzá Yahyá, to certain traits of wh...
6/18/25

The beginning of this “internal crisis” “days immediately following the execution of the Báb” and its “climax in Adrianople”

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This crisis had already been brewing in the days immediately following the execution of the Báb, was intensified during the months when the ...
6/15/25

“the initial manifestations of the internal crisis…were beginning to reveal themselves”

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A lull had, in consequence, momentarily ensued, which was destined to be broken, at a later stage, by a further wave of repressive measures ...
6/12/25

A “quiescent” period with respect to the “external enemies of the Faith”

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The external enemies of the Faith, whether civil or ecclesiastical, who had thus far been chiefly responsible for the reverses and humiliati...
6/9/25

An internal crisis “overshadowed the first years of His [Bahá’u’lláh’s] sojourn in ‘Iráq”

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One such crisis which, as it deepened, threatened to jeopardize His newborn Faith and to subvert its earliest foundations, overshadowed the ...
6/3/25

The “potentialities latent” within this “life-long exile“ were “painfully slow” in their manifestation, and “characterized…by a number of crises”

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This life-long exile to which the Bearer of so precious a Message was now providentially condemned did not, and indeed could not, manifest, ...
5/28/25

The “first” events that took place in Baghdad while Bahá’u’lláh was there

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And finally, before the gaze of the diversified communities that dwelt within its gates, the first phase in the gradual unfoldment of a ne...
5/22/25

The resulting increase of Baha’u’llah’s admirers

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Around the heavenly Table, spread in its very heart, clergy and laity, Sunnís and Shí‘ahs, Kurds, Arabs, and Persians, princes and nobles, p...
5/16/25

References to the the House of Bahá’u’lláh in Baghdad and its designation as “a center of pilgrimage”

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The House of Baha'u'llah in Baghdad after restoration in early 1930's Within its walls the “Most Great House of God,” His “Foo...
5/12/25

The spiritual impact of Bahá’u’lláh’s presence on Baghdad

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From it radiated, wave after wave, a power, a radiance and a glory which insensibly reanimated a languishing Faith, sorely-stricken, sinking...
5/8/25

Some references to the city of Baghdad

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In that city, described in Islamic traditions as “ Ẓ ahru’l-Kúfih,” designated for centuries as the “Abode of Peace,” and immortalized by Ba...
5/4/25

About a month after Bahá’u’lláh’s family arrived in Baghdad they rented a house in “ an old quarter of the city”

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Soon after His arrival the representative of the Sháh’s government, stationed in Baghdád, called on Him, and suggested that it would be advi...
5/1/25

Baha’u’llah then proceeded to Kázimayn about three miles north of Baghdád

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From there He proceeded, a few days after, to Kázimayn, about three miles north of the city, a town inhabited chiefly by Persians, and where...
4/28/25

8 April 1853: Bahá’u’lláh arrived in Baghdád

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Finally, on the 28th of Jamádíyu’th-Thání 1269 A.H. (April 8, 1853), Bahá’u’lláh arrived in Baghdád, the capital city of what was then the T...
4/26/25

A prayer by Bahá’u’lláh “expatiating upon the woes and trials He had endured in the Síyáh-Chál…[and] hardships undergone in the course of that ‘terrible journey’"

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In a prayer revealed by Him at that time, Bahá’u’lláh, expatiating upon the woes and trials He had endured in the Síyáh-Chál, thus bears wit...
4/22/25

Baha’u’llah and His companions received a “warm and enthusiastic reception” from a local governor in Karand about 100 kilometers from Tihran

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…the warm and enthusiastic reception accorded the travelers during their brief stay in Karand by its governor Hayát-Qulí Khán, of the ‘Alíyu...
4/18/25

The “long and perilous” journey: “undertaken in the depth of an exceptionally severe winter”

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The journey, undertaken in the depth of an exceptionally severe winter, carrying the little band of exiles, so inadequately equipped, across...
4/14/25

The two faithful brothers of Bahá’u’lláh “who accompanied Him on that journey”

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Of the two brothers who accompanied Him on that journey the first was Mírzá Músá, commonly called Áqáy-i-Kalím, His staunch and valued suppo...