15.    Perquisites of Him Whom God Will Make Manifest

15.3.   Bahai Accounts of Bayanic Prophecies

15.3.3  The Year Eighty
As regards the year “eighty”, Mirza Jani of Kashan, author of the Nuqta-al-Kaf, the Tarikh-i Jadid or New History of Mirza Ali Muhammad the BÁB, translated by Prof. Browne, appendix II, P. 396, states: “I have seen a tradition to the effect that the Europeans will avenge the blood of His Holiness [i.e. the Primal Point] in the year ’80 or ’90 [i.e. A.H. 1280 or A.H. 1290] from the quarter of the Turkish dominions.”
This tradition relates to avenging the blood. Mirza Husayn Ali was not an European.
The last Letter of the Living Mirza Muhammad Ali of Barfurush surnamed Quddus was executed on the last night of Jamad Thani A.H. 1265 (May 23rd, 1849), ibid, 366, after his surrender at Shaykh Tabarsi where he commanded the BÁBis after the death of the First Letter of the Living Mulla Husayn of Bushrawiyeh on Rabi’ Thani 9, A.H. 1265 (January 2, 1849), ibid 363.
In the Dawn-Breakers, Nabil’s Narrative, Shoghi Effendi’s translation of 1932, muhammad-i-Furughi related to me the following: “Many a night I saw Mulla Husayn circle round the Shrine [of Shaykh Tabarsi] within the precincts of which Quddus lay asleep … with what feelings of emotion. I can still remember him as he advanced towards me … whispering in my ears words ‘banish from your mind, O Mulla Mirza Muhammad, these perplexing subtleties and, freed from their trammels, arise and seek with me to quaff the cup of martyrdom. Then will you be able to comprehend, as the year ‘80’ downs upon the world, the secret of the things which now lie hidden from you,’ “

In footnote 1, god passes by, P. 354, Shoghi Effendi says: “Reference to the year 1280 A.H. (1863-4, A.D), in which Bahaullah declared his mission in Baghdad.”
Shoghi Effendi’s statement about the year “Eighty” is based on Nabil’s account, who allegedly heard it from Mulla Mirza Muhammad-i-Furughi, who allegedly heard it from Mulla Husayn of Bushrawieh as Quddus lay asleep in the Shrine of Shaykh Tabarsi in 1848 or 1849.

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