The Rise of Baha

3. Baha’s conversion to the Bayani Faith
Bahai writers and historians are silent as to the identity of the BÁBi missionary by whom Baha was converted to the Bayani faith.

According to Sir Abbas Effendi’s The Traveller’s Narrative, PP. 58-59, “When the question of the BÁB was noised abroad, signs of partiality appeared in him [i.e. Baha]. At the first he apprised his relatives and connections, and the children and dependents of his own circle; Subsequently he occupied his energies by day and night in inviting friends and strangers [to embrace the new faith].

Contradicting his own grandfather Sir Abbas Effendi, Shoghi Effendi, in god passes by, PP. 66-67, tells up that “He [i.e. Baha] it was who, scarce three months after the Faith was born, received through the envoy of the BÁB, Mulla Husayn, the scroll which bore to him the first tidings of a newly announced Revelation, and who instantly acclaimed its truth, and arose to champion its cause.” Shoghi Effendi’s account has no historical foundation.

According to Tanbih-un-Naimin, P.4, Baha was amongst those who put on the collar of submission, and embraced the faith when the Point’s declaration was as clear as the sun in midmost heaven.

The consensus of opinion is that Baha was converted to the Bayani faith by Mulla Abd-al-Karim of Qazwin, known as Mirza Ahmad, the amanuensis.

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