The Tradition of Kumayl Ibn Ziyad, one of Imam Ali’s chosen disciples. He once demanded of Ali to explain “what is truth?” The tradition as set forth in Point’s Persian Dalail-i-Sab’a (The Seven Proofs) is as follows:

و نظر نموده راجع به مرفوعین قبلین یقین میمائی بر اینکه ظهور موعود منتظر همان ظهور حقیقت مسئول عنه است که در حدیث کمیل دیده ای. در سنه اول کشف سبحات الجلال من غیر اشارة ببین. ببین . و در ثانی محوالموهوم و صحوالمعلوم و در ثالث هتک الستر و در رابع جذب الاحدیة لصفة التوحید. ببین . و در خامس . نوراشرق من صبح الازل را خواهی دید اگر خود هارب نگردی و مظطرب نشوی.

The Truth is: “the revelation of the splendours of divine majesty without a sign.”
“The effacement of the conjectured and the clearing of the known.”
“The rending of the veil by the triumph of the majesty.”
“The attraction of the Divine Unity through the apprehension of its oneness.” “Al light shining forth from the Morning of Eternity (i.e. Subh-i Azal)” [and irradiating the temples of the Unity]”.

The Primal Point quotes this tradition is support of his manifestation and its development. Mirza Jani of Kashan, in his Nuqtatul-Kaf, associates ‘a light shining forth from the Morning of Eternity and irradiating the temple of the Unity” with the appearance, and appointment of Subh-i Azal as successor to the Point [i.e. the BÂB]. By the Point himself, by whom he was entitled “The Morning of Eternity” [Subh-i Azal] in allusion to the promise connected with this year in the tradition.

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