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Baháʼu'lláh (born Ḥusayn-ʻAlí; 12 November 1817 – 29 May 1892) was the founder of the Baháʼí Faith. He was born to an aristocratic family in Persia and was exiled due to his adherence to the messianic Bábí Faith. In 1863, in Iraq, he first announced his claim to a revelation from God and spent the rest of his life in further ...
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- Bábí Movement
- Baghdad
- Imprisonment
- Final Years
- Proclamations
- Succession
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Early life
Bahá’u’lláh was born on November 12, 1817, in Tehran, the capital city of Persia, in present-day Iran. His mother was Khadíjih Khánum and His father was Mírzá Buzurg. As a young child, Bahá’u’lláh was privately tutored and was known to be intelligent. He was a devout Shi'a Muslim, and by the age of 13 or 14 He discussed intricate religious matters with leading ulema. Bahá’u’lláh's father, Mírzá Buzurg, served as vizier to Imám-Virdi Mírzá, the twelfth son of Fat′h Ali Shah Qajar. Mírzá Buzurg...
Marriage and family
As the custom of the day, the family would arrange marriages for their young sons or daughters. When He was almost eighteen years of age, He was wedded to Ásíyih Khánum. She was fifteen at the time, and entitled The Most Exalted Leaf. Ásíyih Khánum was the mother of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. His second wife was a widowed cousin of His, Fátimih Khánum. She was twenty-one at the time. Bahá’u’lláh entitled her Mahd-i-'Ulyá. Mahd-i-'Ulyá was the mother of Mírzá Muhammad-'Alí. Bahá’u’lláh also married Gawhar...
In 1844 a 25 year old man from Shiraz, Siyyid Mírzá `Alí-Muḥammad, who took the title of The Báb(Arabic; meaning "The Gate"), and proclaimed Himself to be the promised Mihdi and Qaim of Islam. The movement quickly spread across the Persian Empire and received widespread opposition from the Islamic clergy. The Báb was martyred in 1850 by firing squ...
Banishment from Persia
In 1853, with limited supplies and food, and through the cold of winter, Bahá’u’lláh and His family traveled from Persia to Baghdad. Mírzá Yaḥyá had been appointed by the Bábto lead the Bábí community, and had been traveling around Persia in disguise. He decided to go to Baghdad and join the group using funds given to him by Bahá’u’lláh. An increasing number of Bábí's considered Baghdad the new center for leadership of the Bábí religion, and a flow of pilgrims started coming there from Persi...
Kurdistan
On April 10 1854 Bahá’u’lláh, without telling anyone His purpose or destination, left with one companion to the mountains of Kurdistan, north-east of Baghdad, near the city Sulaymaniyah.He later wrote that He left so as to avoid becoming the source of disagreement within the Bábí community. For two years Bahá’u’lláh lived alone in the mountains of Kurdistan dressed like a dervish and using the name Darvish Muhammad-i-Irani. At one point someone noticed His remarkable penmanship, which brought...
Return to Baghdad
When Bahá’u’lláh returned to Baghdad He saw that the Bábí community had become disheartened and divided. In the time of Bahá’u’lláh's absence, the Baghdad community had become alienated with the religion since Mirza Yahya had proceeded to marry the widowed wife of the Báb against the clear instructions left by Him and dispatched followers to the province of Nur for the second attempt on the life of the Shah.A few Bábís went so far as refuting Mirza Yahya's claims to successorship, advancing c...
Constantinople
As mentioned previously, Bahá’u’lláh was given an order to relocate to the Ottoman capital of Constantinople (now Istanbul). Although not a formal prisoner yet, the forced exile from Baghdad was the beginning of a long process which would gradually move Him into further exiles and eventually the penal colony of ‘Akká. Bahá’u’lláh and His family, along with a small group of Bábís, stayed in Constantinople for only four months. (One source states there were seventy-five people all together.) Du...
Adrianople
During the month of December 1863, Bahá’u’lláh and His family embarked on a twelve-day journey to Adrianople. Bahá’u’lláh stayed in Adrianople for four and a half years. Mirza Yahya, upon hearing Bahá’u’lláh's words in a Tablet challenging him to accept Bahá’u’lláh's Revelation, offered a counter-claim that he was the one whom the Báb had prophesied about. This caused a break within the Bábí community, and the followers of Bahá’u’lláh became known as Bahá’ís, while the followers of Mirza Yahy...
Letters to the Leaders of the World
Also, while in Adrianople, Bahá’u’lláh proclaimed the Bahá’í Faithfurther by addressing Tablets to the kings and rulers of the world asking them to accept His revelation, renounce their material possessions, work together to settle disputes, and endeavor towards the betterment of the world and its peoples. Some of these leaders include (links below are to the text of the messages): 1. Pope Pius IX 2. Emperor Napoleon III of France 3. Czar Alexander II of Russia 4. King Wilhelm I of Prussia 5....
Bahjí
The final years of Bahá’u’lláh's life (1879-1892) were spent in the Mansion of Bahjí, just outside ‘Akká, even though He was still formally a prisoner of the Ottoman Empire. During His years in ‘Akká and Bahjí, Bahá’u’lláh produced many volumes of work including the Kitáb-i-Aqdas. In 1890 the Cambridge orientalist Edward Granville Brownehad an interview with Bahá’u’lláh in this house. After this meeting he wrote his famous pen-portrait of Bahá’u’lláh: 1. "In the corner where the divan met the...
Bahá’u’lláh declared that He was the "Promised One" of all religions, fulfilling the messianic prophecies found in world religions. He stated that being several messiahs converging one person were the spiritual, rather than material, fulfilment of the messianic and eschatological prophecies found in the literature of the major religions. Bahá’u’llá...
When Bahá’u’lláh died, He left a Will and Testament, which stated the following in regard to succession: 1. "The Will of the divine Testator is this: It is incumbent upon the Aghsán, the Afnánand My Kindred to turn, one and all, their faces towards the Most Mighty Branch... Verily God hath ordained the station of the Greater Branch [Muhammad ‘Alí] ...
The official Bahá’í position on displaying the photograph of Bahá’u’lláh is: 1. "There is no objection that the believers look at the picture of Bahá’u’lláh, but they should do so with the utmost reverence, and should also not allow that it be exposed openly to the public, even in their private homes." 1.1. (From a letter written on behalf of Shogh...
Bahá'u'lláh (Persian بهاء الله : meaning "Glory of God") (November 12, 1817 - May 29, 1892), was the founder of the Bahá'í Faith who claimed to fulfill the eschatological expectations of the Abrahamic religions, as well as Zoroastrianism, the Indian religions, and all other religions. Bahá'ís see Bahá'u'lláh as the initiator of ...
Unit Convention 2023. Search. Who was Bahá’u’lláh. Bahá’u’lláh was the founder of the Baha’i Faith. He taught that God, through a series of divine teachers, has revealed His love for humankind and His will for human spiritual progress. The bulk of humanity has seen these successive divine revelations as separate, irreconcilable religious systems.
Before Bahá'u'lláh said he had a message from God, he was a member of the religion that was started by the Báb. He became very famous among the Bábís. When the Báb was killed, some Bábís got very angry and tried to kill the king of Persia, even though Bahá'u'lláh told them not to kill him.
The Baháʼí Faith has its background in two earlier movements in the nineteenth century, Shaykhism and Bábism. [1] Shaykhism centred on theosophical doctrines and many Shaykhis expected the return of the hidden Twelfth Imam. Many Shaykhis joined the messianic Bábí movement in the 1840s where the Báb proclaimed himself to be the return of ...
Bahá'u'lláh, also spelled Bahaullah, which means "Glory of God", was a Persian nobleman who founded the religion known as the Bahá'í Faith . He was born in the city of Tehran, in Persia, in 1817 and died in 1892. His followers consider him a messenger of God.
