How he adopted the Bayani faith is related by him to Mirza Jani (ibid, P. 376):
“I, the author of this book, once met him. He appeared to me an amiable child. I subsequently enquired his experiences, and asked him, ‘How was it that you were first drawn to this society?’ He replied, ‘The announcement of the mission of His Holiness took place when I had just reached the age of puberty.
Not liking to follow blindly any of the doctors of religion, I made enquiries about him. At the time when my honoured brother used to bring the followers of His Holiness to the house, and converse with them by night, and read his writings.
I too used to listed to what passed, till one time when they were reading a prayer of his in which the expression ‘Fa’ah, ya ilahi (O, O my God), occurred very frequently, the attraction of the spirit of this word enthralled my heart, and love for him [whose words these were] established itself firm within me.
Afterwards I saw his [explanation of the] Traditions of the Imams and other pespicuous signs, and believed with full assurance’ ”.

In one of his epistles he states that he was 13 years of age when he embraced the Bayani faith. He first rose to prominence after the death of the Last Letter of the Living Quddus, which took place on the last night of Jamad Thani A.H. 1265(May 22, 1849) (ibid, P. 364 & P. 385).

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