Subh-i Azal
Subh-i-Azal And The Letters of The Living

The statement attributed to Subh-i-Azal by Prof. Browne, (T.A. P.95) was misconceived by the latter.
Subh-i Azal had not yet appeared in 1844 when the Point’s body of Letters of 18 persons, who first believed in him, was completed before he set out for the pilgrimage. Tarikh-i-Jadid, Appendix III, Subh-i-Azal’s Narrative, P. 399 and P. 417.

The First Letter Mulla Husayn of Bushrawiyeh died in January 1849, ibid, P. 363. The Last Letter died in May 1848, ibid, P. 366.
Subh-i Azal appeared in the fifth year of the Point’s declaration. ibid, P. 330. Subh-i-Azal first rose to prominence on the death of Quddus in 1849. ibid, P. 374; P. 381. His first contact with the Primal Point was established when the latter read his writings after the death of Quddus in 1849. ibid, P. 374. P. 381.

His appointment as the Point’s successor and vicegerent took place in 1850. As such, and with full authority to interpret the Bayan and to write the eight unwritten Wáhids [Unities] of the Bayan, Subh-i-Azal established his ascendancy over all the Letters of the Living. None of the Letters of the Living was invested with such powers on the part of the Primal Point.

Bayanis agree that most of the Letters of the Living perished in the Mazandaran upheaval.

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