The Baha'i Studies Listserv We can accept Bab as manifestation and forerunner of Baha'ullah.But since he himself has mentioned the full name and chain of names of father ,grandfather,... of Mahdi--the 12th shiite Imam-- in several of his scriptures; so it is nonsense to ignore the existance of such a person.Furthermore,the common sense can not accept the Bab (with his special biography) to be the same as Mahdi,Qa'im,Muhammad b.Hasan al-Askari (with special biography). I would appreciate to have the comments of Sen on this too. thanks/Rohani
--- On Thu, 7/1/10, Susan Maneck <sman...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Susan Maneck <sman...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Seal of the Prophets/ some clarifications To: "Baha'i Studies" <bahai-st@list.jccc.edu> Date: Thursday, July 1, 2010, 4:47 PM The Baha'i Studies Listserv > I have seen in the works of Bab,that he seriously and deeply believed in the > existance of 12th Imam.Otherwise it would have been nonsense to call himself > as "Bab" in the first stage. Dear Shahram, The Bab only gradually revealed His own station. He explains this thusly: New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-512585-274...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai...@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu