Baha'i Allegations Against Subh-i Azal - Proposed meeting between Subh-i-Azal and Baha

15. Proposed meeting between Subh-i-Azal and Baha

15.1 Mirza Jawad’s Account
According to Mirza Jawad in his Historical Epitome, Materials for the Study of the BÁBi Religion by Prof. Browne, PP. 24-25 “On Rabi’ Thani 26, A.H. 1284 (August 27, 1867) an Iranian named “Mirza Muhammad” appeared with a verbal message from Subh-i-Azal for a meeting between Subh-i-Azal and Baha, at which “the ordeal by cursing should be preferred to discriminate between the True and the False.”

Baha agreed to the meeting, saying to Mirza Muhammad, ‘go and bid Mirza Yahya [Subh-i-Azal] come to the mosque of Sultan, where he will find us.” Baha left his house for the mosque and “in the streets and markets uttered verses” to the astonishment of all those “who saw him and heard the verses”. Mirza Muhammad came back and said that Subh-i-Azal wished to be excused from attendance and asked for am adjournment, subject to the production of a “written and sealed note” by either party to the effect that “whoever does not present himself at the appointed time is an impostor.” Baha wrote a note to that effect and delivered it to Baha’s historian “Nabil arranging that the meeting should take place in the mosque of Sultan Salim.” Baha’s note was to be delivered to Subh-i-Azal’s follower “Hassan Aqa” subject to the production and delivery by him of an identical note to Subh-i-Azal. No such note was forthcoming and no one appeared at the trysting-place.

Mirza Jawad came to the conclusion that “the Darkness and the Light can never meet.”

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