3.    The Most ancient of Names
3.1  Baha’s Risala
ibid, Risala, P. 108, Mirza Husayn Ali says: “The most ancient of names is this blessed name [i.e. Baha], which is mentioned in a prayer of old: “O my god! I beseech thee by the most splendid [Abha] of thy splendour, and all thy splendour (Baha) is splendid.”

3.2  Primal Point’s Seven Proofs
The passage above which Mirza Husayn Ali invokes as a ground for his pretensions appears in the Point’s دلائل السبعة (Seven Proofs, Persian) written by him in Maku, subsequent to the Persian Bayan, in reply to a question. Printed copies of this book are now available.

In PP. 55-59 the Primal Point says to his question: Consider the Prayer of the fifth Imam Baqir, the beginning of which runs as follows: “O My God! I beseech thee by the most splendid (Abha) of thy splendor (Baha) and all thy splendor is splendid and O my god! I beseech thee to all thy splendor,” This passage, the Primal Point says, refers first to the prophet Muhammad and then to the first Imam Ali Ibn-Ali Talib. In the first degree mention is made of light (Nur), which is identical with chief of Martyrs Imam Husayn Ibn (son of) Ali Ibn Abi-Talib.

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