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Baha置値lah
(1817-1892, Iran)
Biography Excerpt:
Soon after the Bab痴 execution, Baha置値lah
was arrested and brought in front of the court in shackles, threatened
with death. His personal reputation, family connections, and the protests
from Western Embassies saved him. He was cast instead into the notorious
釘ack Pit背here he remained for four months. It was in the dark, dank confines
of his dungeon that Baha置値lah realized the breadth of his mission on
earth. Upon his release, he suffered banishment from Persia.
So began forty years of exile, incarceration,
persecution, wandering, and reflection. Baha置値lah announced in 1863 that
he was the Promised One that the Bab had foretold.
Beginning in 1867, he addressed the leaders
of the world, warning of political upheavals of great magnitude unless
they disarmed and joined together to establish lasting peace.
Enlightenment Story Excerpt:
We were all huddled together in one cell.
our feet in stocks, and around our necks fastened the most galling of chains.
The air we breathed was laden with the filthiest impurities, while the
floor on which we sat was covered with filth and infested with vermin.
No ray of light was allowed to pen-etrate that pestilential dungeon or
to warm its icy coldness. We were placed in two rows. each facing the other.
We had taught them to repeat certain verses which. every night, they chanted
with extreme fervour. 'God is sufficient unto me: He verily is the All-Sufficing!'
one row would intone, while the other would reply: 'In Him let the trusting
trust.'The chorus of these gladsome voices would continue to peal out until
the early hours of the morning