The Rise of Baha
5. The Alleged Interview Between Baha and Mulla Husayn
5.5 Timing of the Composition of the ‘First Book’
The composition of the Qayyum-al-Asma also known as the Ahsan-al-Qisas (the best stories), commentary on the Sura-al-Yusuf (Joseph), the Kitab-i-Awwal (the First Book). In the Dawn-Breakers Nabil’s Narrative, Nabil tells us the following story:
(P. 52) “Mirza Ahmad-i-Qazwini, the martyr, who on several occasions had heard Mulla Husayn recount to the early believers the story of his moving and historic interviews with the BÁB, related to me the following: “I have heard Mulla Husayn repeatedly and graphically describe the circumstances of that remarkable interview”. (P. 61) “He [i.e. the Primal Point] then proceeded to say [to Mulla Husayn]: “Now is the time to reveal the commentary on the Sura of Joseph”. He took up his pen and with incredible rapidity revealed the entire Sura of Mulk, the first chapter of his commentary on the Sura of Joseph”.
Shoghi Effendi’s fiction in god passes by, P. 23, quoted in P. 22, section 9.5.3, deserves its authority from the above-quoted story.
Shoghi Effendi’s fiction is nailed to the counter by the Tarikh-i-Jadid, P. 39, in which Mulla Husayn is quoted as saying to Mirza Abd-al-Wahhab of Khurasan (ibid, P. 34): “One day Sayyid Ali Muhammad said to me, “Dost thou recollect enquiring once of the late Sayyid [Kazim of Rasht of the Shaykhi School] why the Sura-al-Yusuf was called “the best of stories”, and how he replied’ “
“ ‘That the proper occasion for explaining this had not yet come? The time for this explanation has now arrived.’ Thereupon he [i.e. the Primal Point] showed me a Commentary on this Sura of the most perfect lucidity and eloquence.”
The account given in the Tarikh-i-Jadid is confined in Mirza Jani’s Nuqta-al-Kaf, appendix II to the Tarikh-i-Jadid, PP. 344-345. Prof Browne says: “Mulla Hussayn of Bushruyeh came to Shiraz, the account of his conversion given by Mirza Jani agrees substantially, and often word for word, with that given in the History. The only thing added by Mirza Jani in this place is that Primal Point cured Mulla Husayn of the palpitation of Heart from which he suffered with a spoonful of Sherbet.”
This proves that the Commentary on the Sura-al-Yusuf also known as the Qayyum-al-Asma, Ahsan-al-Qisas, the Kitab-i-Awwal was already written by the Primal Point before Mulla Husayn had visited him.
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