4.   Baha’s Weak Point
One of weak points in Baha’s claim was his proof of the Point’s communication to Azim, which he had distorted and which appeared more ephemeral than a spider’s web, and “the year nine”, which he did not clarify to which particular year it related. Baha had to go in search of another proof. “In the early years of his incarceration in Acre Baha unravelled the mysteries of the Point’s Tablet of the Letters (Lawh-i-Hurrufat), adduced from the statements of the Primal Point irrefutable evidence proving that the appearance of Him-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest must needs occur no less than nineteen years after the declaration of the Primal Point and solved the mystery of the Mustaghath which had long baffled the most searching minds among the people of the Bayan and had proven an unsurmountable obstacle to their recognition of the Promised One.” The Dawn-Breakers, Nabil’s Narrative, Shoghi Effendi, PP. 304-305.

“The year Nine” was thus extended to 1863 (1279 A.H), which Baha is alleged to have made his declaration in the garden of Ridvan at Baghdad on the eve of his removal from there to Istanbul. But as we saw (in the recent link) Baha made his declaration not in Baghdad but in Edirne in 1866-1867, to which “the year Nine” was once again extended.

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