He Whom God shall make manifest
He whom God shall make manifest (Arabic: من يظهره الله) is a messianic figure predicted by the Báb within his book the Bayán that would come after him and lead the Bábís.[1]
Dayyán[edit]
Some time in the 1850s, Mirza Asadullah-i-Khuy, known as Dayyán was one of the first who was thought to have advanced such claims, however he recanted after meeting Baha'u'llah and was later killed. Bahá’u’lláh indicated that it was Subh-i-Azal, a leader of the Bábís, who ordered the killing by decree.[2]
Nabil's claim[edit]
Nabíl-i-A'zam of Zarand, who subsequently became the author of The Dawn-breakers, made a claim around the same time as Dayyán or perhaps shortly afterward, but withdrew his claim and became a staunch supporter of Bahá’u’lláh.
Bahá’u’lláh's claim[edit]
Many Bábís accepted Bahá’u’lláh's claim, first made to a small group in 1863, but announced more publicly around 1868. Those who followed him became known as Bahá’ís. This claim was by far the most successful.
Subh-i-Azal's claim[edit]
Shortly after Bahá’u’lláh's claim first started to attract attention, Subh-i-Azal made a claim to the title.[3]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Hutter, Manfred (2005). "Bahā'īs". In Ed. Lindsay Jones. Encyclopedia of Religion. 2 (2nd ed. ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA. pp. p737-740. ISBN 0028657330.
- ↑ Bahá’u’lláh, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, pp. 175-176
- ↑ Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 167
References[edit]
- ^ Bahá’u’lláh (1988). Epistle to the Son of the Wolf (Paperback ed.). Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Bahá’í Publishing Trust. ISBN 0-87743-182-5.
- ^ Effendi, Shoghi (1944). God Passes By. Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Bahá’í Publishing Trust. ISBN 0-87743-020-9.
