NUQTAT-UL KAF

THE EARLIEST HISTORY OF THE BABI MOVEMENT (Complete Volume)

Nuqtat-ul Kaf (The Point above the letter Kaf) was written by Haji Mirza Jani of Kashan one of the seven persons who were martyred in Tehran in horrific circumstances. His book covers the first eight years of the Babi movement and is considered to be the earliest and most trustworthy account of the events during this period.

Nuqtat-ul Kaf has received condemnation from Qajar and Bahai revisionists for different reasons.  The Ghajar dynasty  whose army had engaged in the most brutal methods to stop the spread of the new faith had suffered humiliating defeats at the hands of Babis who had no prior experience in fighting and whose only objectives were to be able to promulgate and practice their faith. Qajar revisionists wrote for and under the supervision of Qajar dynasty. They revised the events to discredit the new faith and to give a false account of the Babi resistance to the cruelty that they were subjected to.

Bahai revisionists however wrote for and under the supervision of the Bahai hierarchy including Baha himself and his son Abd-ul-Baha in order to insert Baha's name in various stages of the Babi movement and  remove references to the successor of the Primal Point at the same time.

Prof. Browne traced, printed and published Nuqtat-ul Kaf in the interest of science. See Prof. Browne’s introduction to Tarikh-i-Jadid, PP. xiv-xx; Professor Browne’s Introduction to his Materials for the Study of the BÂBi Religion, PP. xxiii-xxiv, Prof. Brown’s Persian Introduction to Nuqta-ul Kaf.

Prof. Browne received condemnation from the Bahais when he traced and published text of the Mirza Jani of Kashan's Nuqta-ul Kaf who was killed in 1852. Until its reappearance, Bahais laboured under the misapprehension that the New History or Tarikh-i Jadid written by a Bahai controversialist was identical with Mirza Jani's Nuqta-ul Kaf, which in fact it was a garbled, prejudiced, interested and mutilated version of the Nuqta-ul Kaf because it reflected the prevailing opinion which operated adversely on Mirza Husayn Ali Baha's later pretensions. Prof. Browne's Persian introduction to Nuqta-ul Kaf.

All available copies of Nuqta-ul Kaf which existed only in manuscripts in Iran, were collected and suppressed at the behest of Baha, and the new History was foisted on the Bahais as the Nuqta-ul Kaf.

The publication of the text of Mirza Jani's Nuqta-ul Kaf by Prof. Browne took the Bahais by surprise, and had the effect of a bombshell on Sir Abbas Effendi himself.

It was composed, printed and published by leading Bahai missionaries at the behest of Sir Abbas Effendi, avowedly intended to denounce the Nuqta-ul Kaf, published by Prof. Browne as spurious.

Following the precedent established by his own father Baha, Sir Abbas Effendi condemns the publication (of Nuqtat-ul Kaf) as devoid of foundation, and called upon his prominent proselytiser (مبلغ) to put their head together and to compose  Kashf-ul-Ghita a refutation of the publication only to be withdrawn from circulation soon after its appearance at the express order of Sir Abbas Effendi.

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