The Rise of Baha
5. The Alleged Interview Between Baha and Mulla Husayn
5.3 Shoghi Effendi’s Account
According to Shoghi Effendi, god passes by, P.8, “to the care of Mulla Husayn, he [i.e. Baha] committed a mission, more specific in character and mightier in import ….He directed him to proceed to Tehran, and, alluded, in the most glowing terms, to the as yet unravelled mystery enshrined in the city, a mystery that would be affirmed, transcend the light shed by both Hijaz and Shiraz …. It was not until, however, the BÁB had received the eagerly anticipated letter of Mulla Husayn, his trusted and beloved lieutenant, communicating the joyful tidings of his interviews with Baha. That he decided to undertake his long and arduous pilgrimage to the (ibid, P. 9) tombs of his ancestors”.
It was this book [i.e. Qayyum-al-Asma”, ibid, P.23, “whose first and most challenging chapter was revealed in the presence of Mulla Husayn, on the night of its author’s declaration, some of whose pages were borne, by that same disciple, to Baha, as the first fruits of a Revelation which instantly won his enthusiastic allegiance”.
“Mulla Husayn, ibid, P.28, “he [i.e. the Primal Point] directed to Tehran assuring him that in that city was enshrined a Mystery whose light neither by Hejaz nor Shiraz could rival”.
“He [I.e. Baha] it was who, scarce three months after the Faith was borne”, ibid, P. 66, 67, “received, through the envoy of the BÁB, Mulla Husayn, the scroll which bore to him the first tidings of a newly announced Revelation who instantly acclaimed its truth, and arose to champion its cause”.
This was Shoghi Effendi’s 1944 garbled version of Nabil’s fiction of 1890, appearing in the Dawn-Breakers, Nabil’s Narrative, which he translated into English, printed and published in 1932.
It is indeed unfortunate that Shoghi Effendi should purposely and deliberately present Nabil’s fiction as a factual “interview” between Mulla Husayn and Baha and seek to establish falsely a link between the Primal Point and Baha and from the very outset of the Point’s declaration in 1844.
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