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All of your texts come from Promulgation, which is pilgrim's notes.
In some cases there are Persian notes of the same texts which are
authentic: if you track these down I think it likely that you will
find there is a translation problem: ummah and mellat refer to a
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I was reading parts of 'Abdu'l-Baha's talks regarding what proves whether a
person is a Prophet/Manifestation of God. It looks to me that if the same
criteria are applied to the Bab and Baha'u'llah they wouldn't classify as
Manifestations of God.
Consider the
