Qur’án 108.
Qur’án 103.
A reference to Bahá’u’lláh, “Him Whom God shall make manifest,” whose precursor the Báb considered Himself to be.
The Mathnaví.
The Mathnaví.
Qur’án 7:154.
The Shí’ites.
Qur’án 37:173.
9 July 1850.
Atabát ‘Alíyat, literally Supreme Shrines, a term by which the Shí’ih Muslims referred to the cities of Kazímayn, Najaf, and Karbilá and generally applied to the region of eastern ‘Iráq, of which Baghdád was the center. When Bahá’u’lláh was released from prison and banished from Persia, He chose Baghdád for the place of His exile.