Declaration of Baha’s Mission at The Garden of Ridvan
Baha’s Removal to Baghdad
2. Declaration of Baha’s Mission at The Garden of Ridvan
2.1 Baha’s Removal to Baghdad
Baha arrived at Baghdad upon expulsion from Iran on “April 8, 1853 (Jamad Thani 28, 1269)”. After stay of one year Baha went into voluntary exile in the vicinity of Suleymaniyya in the northern Iraq. He spent two years there then returned to Baghdad when he stayed until he was ordered to leave for Istanbul on “May 3, 1863 (Dhil Qa’da 14, 1270.”
The circumstances attending Baha’s removal to Baghdad are set out in 9.9. Baha’s Kitab-i-Iqan written by him in Baghdad in “1278 A.H, 1862 A.D”, god passes by, by Shoghi Effendi, P.128, “preceded his declaration in the garden of Ridvan in Baghdad(P. 121, ibid).