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The lineage of the Bab, the descendant of the Imam Husayn; the
divers and striking evidences, in Nabil's Narrative, of the attitude of the
Herald of our Faith towards the Founder, the Imams, and the Book of Islam;
the glowing tributes paid by Baha'u'llah in the Kitab-i-Iqan to
Muhammad and His lawful Successors, and particularly to the "peerless and
incomparable" Imam Husayn; the arguments adduced, forcibly, fearlessly, and
publicly by Abdu'l-Baha, in churches and synagogues, to demonstrate the validity
of the Message of the Arabian Prophet; and last but not least the
written testimonial of the Queen of Rumania, who, born in the Anglican faith and
notwithstanding the close alliance of her government with the Greek Orthodox
Church, the state religion of her adopted country, has, largely as a result of
the perusal of these public discourses of Abdu'l-Baha, been prompted to proclaim
her recognition of the prophetic function of Muhammad - all proclaim, in no
uncertain terms, the true attitude of the Baha'i Faith towards its parent
religion.
"God," is her royal tribute, "is All, everything. He is the power behind all beginnings.... His is the Voice within us that shows us good and evil. But mostly we ignore or misunderstand this voice. Therefore, did He choose His Elect to come down amongst us upon earth to make clear His Word, His real meaning. Therefore, the Prophets; therefore, Christ, Muhammad, Baha'u'llah, for man needs from time to time a voice upon earth to bring God to him, to sharpen the realization of the existence of the true God. Those voices sent to us had to become flesh, so that with our earthly ears we should be able to hear and understand." *** we know that His holiness the Bab would have the
episode of Karbala read to Him [according to the pages of
Nabil]
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He would invariably, after the termination of each
prayer, summon Siyyid Husayn to His presence and would request him to read aloud
to Him a passage from the Muh.riqu'l-Quluub, a work composed by the late Haji
Mulla Mihdi, the great-grandfather of Haji Mirza KamAlud-Din-i-Naraqi, in which
the author extols the virtues, laments the death, and narrates the circumstances
of the martyrdom of the Imam Husayn. The recital of those sufferings would
provoke intense emotion in the heart of the Báb. His tears would keep flowing as
He listened to the tale of the unutterable indignities heaped upon him, and of
the agonising pain which he was made to suffer at the hands of a perfidious
enemy. As the circumstances of that tragic life were unfolded before Him, the
Báb was continually reminded of that still greater tragedy which was destined to
signalise the advent of the promised Husayn. To Him those past atrocities were
but a symbol which foreshadowed the bitter afflictions which His own beloved
Husayn [Baha'u'llah] was soon to
suffer at the hands of His countrymen. He wept as He pictured in His mind those
calamities which He who was to be made manifest
[Baha'u'llah] was predestined to suffer, calamities such as the
Imam Husayn, even in the midst of his agonies, was never made to
endure
(Shoghi Effendi, The Dawn-Breakers, p.
252)
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