Filling the Gap

5.      Filling the Gap

The Primal Point declared his mission in 1844. Primal Point was executed in 1850. Baha set his pretensions to the office of Him-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest, the promised one of the Bayan, in Edirne in 1866. In Acre Baha realized that there was a gap between the date of the Point’s declaration or execution and the date of his own pretensions, which had to be bridged by hook or by crook. To accomplish which Baha disregarded the express provisions of the Bayan regarding the time of Him-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest, falsely interpreted the word Mustaghath appearing in the Tablet of the letters addressed by the Primal Point to Mirza Asadullah Dayyan as meaning that a period of nineteen years must needs elapse between the declaration of the Primal Point and that of Him-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest with whom Baha asserted identity, whittled down the Bayan’s cycle to one Wáhid (=19) years, 1844-1863, and antedated declaration of his own mission as having been made in the garden of Ridvan in Baghdad in 1863, followed by its promulgation in Edirne.
Towards the end of his days Baha re-interpreted the word Mustaghath within the meaning of the Persian Bayan, which rendered his original interested and prejudiced false interpretation null and void.

According to his new interpretation, He-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest is due to appear in the number of Mustaghath, namely 2001 years after the Primal Point, as is laid down in the Persian Bayan. This is expressed in words as the number of Mustaghath as well as in figures in the Persian Bayan.

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