Baha’s Date of Annunciation
Explanation of Some Terms
Ghiyath and Mustaghath غیاث و مستغاث
1. Baha’s Date of Annunciation
1.1 Explanation of Some Terms
1.1.4 Ghiyath and Mustaghath غیاث و مستغاث
The sum of the letters in these words is 1511 and 2001 respectively according to the Abjad notation. Lither 1511 or 2001 years must elapse between the time of the BÂB and the advent of ‘Him Whom God Shall Manifest”, the Promised One of the Bayan. The Persian Bayan, Unity II, Chapter 16, Unity II, Chapter 17 and Unity III, Chapter 15.
"If He (Whom God Will Make Manifest) shall appear in the number of Ghiyath and all shall enter in, one one shall remain in Fire. If He tarry until [the number of] Mustaghath, all shall enter in, not one shall remain in the Fire, but all shall be transformed into His Light".
The People of Bayan base their argument on the provisions of the Persian Bayan, Wáhid ii, BÂB 16; ii, 17, iii.15, vii, 10, wherein it is laid down that a minimum period of 1511 years, or a maximum period of 2001 years (represented respectively by the numerical values of the words Ghiyath and Mustaghath according to the Abjad notation, the period of 2001 years is also expressed in figures in Wáhid II, BÂB 11) must elapse between the dispensation of the Primal Point and the coming of Him-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest. The people of the Bayan also argue that from the time of the execution of the BÂB in 1850 until Baha's defection of the BÂB in Edirne in 1866, to all appearance, Baha was as loyal a follower of Subh-i Azal, the Point's successor, as he had previously been of the Primal Point.
They further argue that since Baha could not destroy Subh-i Azal's successorship, which was an open secret, Baha knocked at another door and pretended to be Him-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest, independently of Bayan.
See also pp. 17-23 in Professor Browne’s English Introduction to the Nuqtatul-Kaf.
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