Baha'i Allegations Against Subh-i Azal - Subh-i Azal’s Comments on Baha’s Service of Notice

14. Subh-i Azal’s Comments on Baha’s Service of Notice
In his reply addressed to Mons. Edgard Blochet, keeper of the Oriental section, Biblioteque National, Paris, section 12.4.1.5 refers, Sub-i-Azal says: “ I simply wanted him [i.e. Baha] not to talk much and not to compel me to denounce him. In the end he would not contain himself, and with the taking of an overdose of opium he flung the goblet of his pretensions on the roof of his house [i.e. he threw down the gauntlet], lured thereunto by the temptations of the scald-headed [i.e. Baha’s scribe Mirza Aqa Jan of Kashan], and by his [full] brother [i.e. Mirza Musa surnamed Kalim (the interlocutor) because he talked to god, Baha].”

In his report, attached to section 24, page 2, marked in pencil, Mirza Aqa Khan of Kerman quotes Baha as saying: “In Edirne a number of mischief-makers created a rift between us [i.e. Baha and Subh-i-Azal]. Out of simple-mindedness my brother was wont to accept their word. I realized that the Bayani faith was to suffer utter elimination and annihilation. I supplicated god. All of a sudden the promised Manifestation; and the light of Him-Who-Will-Appear became apparent.”

“The word, from which all souls fled over the guardian and the Helpers [The traveller’s Narrative, Prof. Browne’s Note O, P. 303] I uttered. That word is this: ‘He is manifest in my garment. He is hidden and He is seen, and He speaks through me,’ although for sometime in Baghdad, in Istanbul, and in early days of Edirne, the manifestation of Him-Who-Will-Appear, like the sun from under the clouds, was at times visible and at times invisible, yet in Edirne all of a sudden, like the sun at noon-day, it became clear and apparent, without veil and curtain. Verses flashed forth from it. Then I sent the verses and clear proofs of the manifestation to my brother with Kalim [i.e. Baha’s brother] Mirza Musa] and the Servant of the presence [i.e. Mirza Aqa Jan of Kashan]. Instead of being thankful and acknowledging [me] he turned aside …”

Allusion is made in the passage to a certain dogma that the manifestations of god are compared to garments put on by the divinity: To become incarnate means to come to dwell in a garment.

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