Baha'i Allegations Against Subh-i Azal - Proposed meeting between Subh-i-Azal and Baha
15. Proposed meeting between Subh-i-Azal and Baha
15.2 Shoghi Effendi’s Account
According to Shoghi Effendi (god passes by, PP. 168-169) “In the month of Jamad Awwal 1284 A.H. (September 1867) a certain Mirza Muhammad, a BÁBi of Shiraz, greatly resenting alike the claims and cowardly seclusion of Mirza Yahya [Subh-i-Azal], succeeded in forcing Sayyid Muhammad [of Isfahan] to induce him to meet Baha face to face, so that a discrimination might be publicly affected between the true and the false. Foolishly assuming that his illustrious brother never countenance such a proposition, Mirza Yahya [Subh-i-Azal] appointed the mosque of Sultan Salim as the place for their encounter.” Baha agreed to the meeting and “set forth, accompanied by Mirza Muhammad, for the above-mentioned mosque, reciting, as he walked, through the streets, verses, in a voice and in a manner that greatly astonished those who saw and heard him.”
“Mirza Muhammad, who had been sent ahead to announce Baha’s arrival, soon returned, and informed him that he who had challenged his authority wished, owing to unforeseen circumstances, to postpone for a day or two the interview.”
“Baha revealed a Tablet wherein he recounted what had happened, fixed the time for the postponed interview, sealed the Tablet with his seal entrusted to Nabil, and instructed him to deliver it to one of the new believers, Mulla Muhammad-i-Tabrizi, for the information of Sayyid Muhammad, who was in the habit of frequenting that believer’s shop.”
“It was arranged to demand from Sayyid Muhammad ere the delivery of that Tablet, a sealed note pledging Mirza Yahya, in the events of failing to appear at the trysting-place, to affirm in writing that his claims were false.”
Sayyid Muhammad promised that he would produce the next day the document requested, and through Nabil, for three successive days, waited in that shop for the reply, neither did the Sayyid appear nor was such a note sent by him.”
“This historic episode, recorded in Nabil’s [unpublished second half of his] chronicle” is deemed by Shoghi Effendi to be “a tangible and irrefutable testimony to Baha’s established ascendancy over a routed opponent”.
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