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Baha'u'llah
confirms Mulla Husayn to be Muhammad, arguing against those who try to say
otherwise: Consider thou the Revelation of the Point
of the Bayan - exalted is His glory. He pronounced the First One(1) to
believe in Him to be Muhammad, the Messenger of God. Doth it beseem a man to
dispute with Him by saying that this man is from (Baha'u'llah:
Tablets of Baha'u'llah, Pages: 184-185)(highlighting done by kf with your
permission) This seems a bit theologically
problematic…David Dear David This is to be understood in a
slightly different manner. Let me explain the background. Just as there are prophecies
relating to the Advent of the Bab and Baha’u’llah from the Bible, there are
indications, prognostications, prophecies in the Writings of Islam (both the
Holy Qur’an and the hadith). Now the hadith emanating from
the Imams of the Shi’ih Faith (Denomination) are many. Three Volumes of the Bih.aar ul
Anwaar compiled by Majlisi (quoted by Baha’u’llah in the Sacred Iqán) are
dedicated to these traditions http://al-shia.com/html/ara/books/behar/behar51/index.html http://al-shia.com/html/ara/books/behar/behar52/index.html http://al-shia.com/html/ara/books/behar/behar53/index.html Many many references of the
Writings can easily be understood if one, with an absolutely pure heart, looks
at these volumes and sees how spiritually interpretable these three volumes
are: A Great Man who did study all
these three volumes was Mirza Abu’l-Fad.l Mirza Abul- Fad.l quotes a
tradition in his Fara’id: (reference given) http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KF/kf-189.html awwalu
man yattabi’hu Muh.ammad wa ‘Ali ath-thaani line 15 http://reference.bahai.org/fa/t/o/KF/kf-189.html Meaning that Yes the First Reality to obey
to follow to pledge loyalty to the Promised qa’im is Muh.ammad. if you read Arabic you will see that Mirza
Abu’l-Fad.l quotes exactly this hadith of the 5th Imam. you can, by the grace of God, see this
selfsame hadith on the internet in the pages of the 52nd Volume of
the Bih.Ar ul Anwaar (Oceans of Lights) http://al-shia.com/html/ara/books/behar/behar52/a35html سمعت أبا جعفر ( محمد بن
علي ) يقول : لوقد خرج قائم آل محمد عليهم السلام لنصره الله بالملائكة المسو مين
والمردفين والمنزلين والكروبيين يكون جبرائيل أمامه وميكائيل عن يمينه وإسرافيل عن
بساره والرعب مسيرة شهر أمامه وخلفه وعن يمينه وعن شماله ، والملائكة المقربون
حذاه ، أول من يتبعه محمد صلى الله عليه واله وعلي
عليه السلام الثاني The section highlighted says the Prophet
Muhammad is the first to follow the Promised Qa’im (He Who ariseth) the
appelation of the exalted Bab in Shi’ih Islam. So we this background we see why Mulla
Husayn has been given this attribute, this glorification, this honour. (this investment with COMMAND as in the Sacred Text
you excerpt above) It does not mean that Mulla Husayn qua Mulla
Husayn is an independent Manifestation of God with all the Attributes of the
Holy Prophet of Islam. What it does imply is that yes: consider
that Prophecy quoted above with all its references. Mulla Husayn was the first
(AWWAL) to follow the Promised One the Promised Qa’im (He about Whom all those
three volumes were spiritually written)…Hence God gave Mulla Husayn that honour
in the realm of eschatology, significance, prophetic fulfilment …and, as Baha’u’llah,
says Mulla Husayn rose for the Cause of God, as did that Divine Prophet the
Seal of the Prophetic Cycle rise to establish the AMR of God …and now with the
exalted Bab initiating the Cycle of Fulfilment and with Mulla H.usayn the First
the AWWAL to champion the Cause of God. Both Cycles relating to the Cause of God the AMRullah… The essence is One. This station is
sanctified from every limitation or name, and naught can be seen therein but
God, the One, the Peerless, the All-Knowing. Your question is a very interesting one
but in away not along the way you are thinking in a lateral way… The text is vital, but the context is
vital too… We must never lose sight of these three
references: 1] The Faith standing identified with the
name of Baha'u'llah disclaims any intention to
belittle any of the Prophets gone before Him, to whittle down any of their
teachings, to obscure, however slightly, the radiance of their Revelations, to
oust them from the hearts of their followers, to abrogate the fundamentals of
their doctrines, to discard any of their revealed Books, or to suppress the
legitimate aspirations of their adherents. Repudiating the claim of any
religion to be the final revelation of God to man, disclaiming finality for His
own Revelation, Baha'u'llah inculcates the basic principle of the relativity of
religious truth, the continuity of Divine Revelation, the progressiveness of
religious experience. His aim is to widen the basis of all revealed religions
and to unravel the mysteries of their scriptures. He insists on the
unqualified recognition of the unity of their purpose, restates the eternal
verities they enshrine, coordinates their functions, distinguishes the
essential and the authentic from the nonessential and spurious in their
teaching (Shoghi Effendi: The Promised
Day is Come, Page: 108) 2] Know thou assuredly that the essence of all the Prophets of God is one
and the same. Their unity is absolute.
God, the Creator, saith: There is no distinction whatsoever among the Bearers
of My Message. They all have but one purpose; their secret is the same secret.
To prefer one in honour to another, to exalt certain ones above the rest, is in
no wise to be permitted. Every true Prophet hath regarded His Message as
fundamentally the same as the Revelation of every other Prophet gone before Him.
If any man, therefore, should fail to comprehend this truth, and should
consequently indulge in vain and unseemly language, no one whose sight is keen
and whose understanding is enlightened would ever allow such idle talk to cause
him to waver in his belief. (Baha'u'llah: Gleanings, Pages: 78-79) 3] If the Light that is now streaming forth upon an increasingly
responsive humanity with a radiance that bids fair to eclipse the splendour of
such triumphs as the forces of religion have achieved in days past; if the signs and tokens which proclaimed its advent
have been, in many respects, unique in the annals of past Revelations; if its
votaries have evinced traits and qualities unexampled in the spiritual history
of mankind; these should be attributed not to a superior merit which the Faith
of Baha'u'llah, as a Revelation isolated and alien from any previous
Dispensation, might possess, but rather should be viewed and explained as the
inevitable outcome of the forces that have made of this present age an age
infinitely more advanced, more receptive, and more insistent to receive an
ampler measure of Divine Guidance than has hitherto been vouchsafed to mankind.
(Shoghi Effendi: World Order of Baha'u'llah, Page: 60)
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