The Rise of Baha
8. Baha’s Receiving of His ‘First Intimations’
According to Shoghi Effendi- The Dawn-Breakers, Nabil's Narrative, American edition, Shoghi Effendi's translation, P.18 Shoghi Effendi's footnote 1, "It was in the year 1268 A.H [1852] that Bahaullah, while confined in the Siyah-Chal of Tehran [for complicity in the attempt on the Shah's life] received the first intimations of his divine mission. Of this he hinted in the odes which he revealed in that year."
Now, the Primal Point was martyred on Sha'ban 27, A.H. 1266 (July 8, 1850). The attempt on the Shah's life was made on Shawal 28, A.H 1268 (August 15, 1852), whom Baha was rounded up and jailed.
Thus on the strength of Shoghi Effendi's authority, the Primal Point had been martyred and gone by two years, when Baha "received the first intimations of his divine mission," of which the Primal Point was in complete ignorance, of which Baha himself was unaware during the Primal Point's lifetime, and for which the "might plan of wondrous efficacy" or the "Great Design" was concocted.
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