15.    Perquisites of Him Whom God Will Make Manifest

15.3.   Bahai Accounts of Bayanic Prophecies

15.3.2  Shoghi’s God Passes By
In God Passes By, P. 29, Shoghi Effendi says: “ ‘Be attentive.’ He [i.e. the Primal Point], referring in a remarkable passage to the year nineteen, has admonished, ‘from the inception of the Revelation till the number of Wáhid (19).’ ”

Shoghi Effendi has failed to quote the Point’s relevant writing to which the passage relates. This passage appears in VI, 3, see hereand here concerning Baha's mis-interpretation of Ghiyath & Mustaghaqth. What the Primal Point had meant is that the fruits of the Bayan are to be gathered within 19 years of the appearance of Him Whom God Will Make Manifest and not that He Whom God Will Make Manifest will appear 19 years after the Point’s declaration. In ibid, P. 29, Shoghi Effendi says: “ ‘the lord of the Day of Reckoning’, He [i.e. the Primal Point], even more explicitly, has stated, ‘will be manifested at the end of Wáhid (19) and the beginning of eighty (1280 A.H).’ ”

Mirza Husayn Ali left Baghdad for Istanbul on May 3, 1863 (Dhil Qa’da 14, 1279 A.H), ibid, P. 155. He reached Istanbul on August 16, 1863 (Rabi’ Awwal 1, 1280 A.H), ibid, P. 157. He arrived in Edirne on December 12, 1863 (Rajab 1, 1270 A.H), ibid, P. 161. Therefore Mirza Husayn Ali left Baghdad for Istanbul before the year ‘eighty”.

No writing of the Primal Point has been traced to indicate that “the lord of the Day of Reckoning will be manifested at the end of Wáhid (19) and the beginning of eighty (1280 A.H)! As alleged by Shoghi Effendi, who does not quote the Point’s relevant writing, if any, to enable one to verify his allegation.

The Wáhid of 19 years has already been dealt with in Baha's First interpretation of Mustaqath Reducing it to 19 years .

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