The Bab [born] 20th October 1819 Martyred 9th July 1850 There shines upon this mental picture the youthful glory of the Bab, infinite in His tenderness, irresistible in His charm, unsurpassed in His heroism, matchless in the dramatic circumstances of His short yet eventful life. (Shoghi Effendi: World Order of Bahaullah, Page: 97) Station The Bab had two Stations [one to be a FORE-RUNNER, THE HERALD, THE HARBINGER of Baha’u’llah] the other to be an Independent Manifestation of God There can be no doubt that the claim to the twofold station ordained for the Bab by the Almighty, a claim which He Himself has so boldly advanced, which Bahaullah has repeatedly affirmed, and to which the Will and Testament of Abdul-Baha has finally given the sanction of its testimony, constitutes the most distinctive feature of the Bahai Dispensation. It is a further evidence of its uniqueness, a tremendous accession to the strength, to the mysterious power and authority with which this holy cycle has been invested. Indeed the greatness of the Bab consists primarily, not in His being the divinely-appointed Forerunner of so transcendent a Revelation, but rather in His having been invested with the powers inherent in the inaugurator of a separate religious Dispensation, and in His wielding, to a degree unrivaled by the Messengers gone before Him, the scepter of independent Prophethood. (Shoghi Effendi: World Order of Bahaullah, Page: 123) In the Bible there is a Reference to Elijah that He has to come before the Advent of the Promised One Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: Matthew 17:11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elijah truly shall first come, and restore all things. He Who was, in the words of Abdul-Baha, the Morn of Truth and Harbinger of the Most Great Light, Whose advent at once signalized the termination of the Prophetic Cycle and the inception of the Cycle of Fulfillment, had simultaneously through His Revelation banished the shades of night that had descended upon His country, and proclaimed the impending rise of that Incomparable Orb Whose radiance was to envelop the whole of mankind. He, as affirmed by Himself, the Primal Point from which have been generated all created things, one of the sustaining pillars of the Primal Word of God, the Mystic Fane, the Great Announcement, the Flame of that supernal Light that glowed upon Sinai, the Remembrance of God concerning Whom a separate Covenant hath been established with each and every Prophet had, through His advent, at once fulfilled the promise of all ages and ushered in the consummation of all Revelations. He the Qaim (He Who ariseth) promised to the Shiahs, the Mihdi (One Who is guided) awaited by the Sunnis, the Return of John the Baptist expected by the Christians, the Ushidar-Mah referred to in the Zoroastrian scriptures, the Return of Elijah anticipated by the Jews, Whose Revelation was to show forth the signs and tokens of all the Prophets, Who was to manifest the perfection of Moses, the radiance of Jesus and the patience of Job had appeared, proclaimed His Cause, been mercilessly persecuted and died gloriously. (Shoghi Effendi: God Passes By, Pages: 57-58)
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