The Rise of Baha
1. Baha’s Date of Birth
1.4 Avareh’s Comments on Baha’s Age
The Kashful-Hiyal, Vol II, 3rd impression, PP. 84-88
“Baha’s Retrograde Step Towards Childhood:
Baha was older than the Primal Point by about two years. The Bayan forbade teachers to beat a pupil lest he may turn out to be a potential ‘He Whom God Shall Manifest’ of the Bayan. In the Point’s view, the religion founded by him was to receive official recognition and the laws laid down in the Bayan were to attain currency. According to the Primal Point, next divine manifestation was to appear after 2001 years represented by the sum of the letters in the word “Mustaghath”.
Baha claimed to be ‘He Whom God Shall Manifest’ foretold by the Primal Point. Baha was a man of thirty-two years of age when the Primal Point made his utterances about “He Whom God Shall Manifest’. How did they come true in the person of Baha, unless it is assumed that he took a retrograde step towards childhood!
Baha was twenty-seven years old when he heard of the Point’s call. History does not record the circumstances under which Baha came to embrace Bayani religion. He might have believed in the Primal Point in good faith at the outset. However he soon found out that he had made a mistake, but he had already burned his boats. For this reason, he was all out to exploit, and to make full capital out of, the sacrifices of the Point’s followers.”
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