2.    Title of Baha and Bahaullah
2.1  From Baha's Risala
First and foremost among Mirza Husayn Ali's ground of pretensions is the title of Baha and Bahaullah assumed by him. He has picked out the word Baha or Bahaullah appearing in any and every writing of the Primal Point, appropriated it to himself, and has produced it as a ground for his pretensions. Instances of these are prominently featured in his Risala of 1869.

P. 77: Mirza Husayn Ali says: "The people of the Bayan admit and concede that prophethood was sealed by the apostle of god [Muhammad], and that the year sixty [i.e. 1260 A.H. = 1844 A.D. in allusion to the Point's appearance] was the commencement of the Divine Manifestation. This notwithstanding, and although the truth is visible in its very self and in its very being, and has appeared and risen from the 'In truth I am alive in the most splendid (Baha) horizon,' yet they again make mention of executionship (Vesayat) [i.e. in allusion to Subh-i-Azal's vicegerency) and the likes of it,".

Mirza Husayn Ali says: "This one single statement by the Primal Point is sufficient unto all, where he says that "In truth I am alive in the most splendid (Abha) horizon,' as he is today manifest, resplendent and effulgent from the most splendid (Abha) horizon, and hears and sees all that which all created beings say and commit".

Shoghi Effendi says: "He [i.e. the Baha] had alluded to himself [i.e. Mirza Husayn Ali] as the 'Abha horizon' wherein he himself lived and dwelth." The passage quoted by Mirza Husayn Ali and Shoghi Effendi appears in the Point's document, embodying his testamentary disposition addressed to Subh-i-Azal.

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