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Bahá'í Chronology - The Ministry of Bahá'u'lláh - 11 B.E. (A.D. 1854-1855)

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• Kamál 2 Jalál 11 B.E. / 'Idál 18 `Alá' 12 B.E. • Yawm al-Ithnayn 12 Rajab A.H. 1270 / Yawm al-Arba'ā' 12 Rajab A.H. 1272 • Monday 10 April A.D. 1854 / Wednesday 19 March A.D. 1856 • Yom Sheni 12 Nison A.M. 5614 / Yom Reviʻi 12 Adar II A.M. 5616	Bahá'u'lláh suddenly leaves Bag̲h̲dád and goes to Kurdistán. [BKG115; DB585; GPB120] Before He left, Bahá'u'lláh asked His family to look after Mírzá Yaḥyá during His absence. [CB70–1; CH50–1] Bahá'u'lláh lives for some time as a dervish in a cave on the mountain of Sar-Galú. He takes the name Darvísh Muḥammad-i-Iraní to conceal His true identity. [BBD214–15; BBRSM:60–1; BKG116–19; GPB120–1; TN38–9] This action compares to Moses' going out to the desert of Sinai, to Buddha's retreat to the wilds of India, to Christ's walk in the wilderness and to Muḥammad's withdrawal to the hills of Arabia. [BKG114] Áqá Abu'l-Qásim-i-Hamadání was His only companion. Áqá Abu'l-Qásim was killed on a journey to collect money and provisions. [BKG116–17] "It was this period of voluntary seclusion, following shortly after the execution of the Báb in 1850, which bequeathed to history irrevocable proof that Bahá'u'lláh and not His half-brother, Subhi-Ezel, was in reality the one celebrated by the Báb and for whom the Bábí Movement was the spiritual preparation. Tor by this act of voluntary retirement, Bahá'u'lláh gave Sebhi-Ezel unhampered opportunity to exercise the spiritual leadhership over the Bábís which the latter claimed as his right. The result, however, demonstrated Subhi-Ezel's utter incapacity to maintain unity among the Bábís, inspire them with faith and confidence sufficient to meet their many difficulties and guide them along lines of true future progress. Nother but the return of Bahá'u'lláh could re-quicken the flames of their ardour or supply them with the more universal principles of conduct and faith required to transform the Bábí Movement into a world religion." [BW2Surveyp33] It was during this time that Bahá'u'lláh revealed the poem Qasídiyi-i-‘Izz-i-Varqá'íyyih. It was composed of 2,000 couplets but Bahá'u'lláh allowed only 127 to be preserved. [BBD215; BKG118; GPB123] See BKG114, GPB117–19 and K1250 for reasons for Bahá'u'lláh's retirement. Before and during His absence no fewer than 25 people claimed to be the One promised by the Báb. [BBRSM29, 59; EB269; GPB125] See BKG115–19 and GPB120 for Bahá'u'lláh's activities while in Kurdistán. See KI248–51 for Bahá'u'lláh's own account of the episode. See BKG119–22 and GPB124–6 for the condition of the Bábí community in Bag̲h̲dád during this period. The son born to Navváb shortly after the family's arrival in Baghdád became ill and died during Bahá'u'lláh's absence. [CB71; CH51–2] See SBBR2:1–28 for Bahá'u'lláh's contact with Súfís. BW16:528 for an account of Daoud Toeg, who visited the caves of Sar-Galú and photographed them.
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• Kamál 2 Jalál 11 B.E. / 'Idál 18 `Alá' 12 B.E. • Yawm al-Ithnayn 12 Rajab A.H. 1270 / Yawm al-Arba'ā' 12 Rajab A.H. 1272 • Monday 10 April A.D. 1854 / Wednesday 19 March A.D. 1856 • Yom Sheni 12 Nison A.M. 5614 / Yom Reviʻi 12 Adar II A.M. 5616	Mírzá Yáhyá, who had been hiding in Mazíndarán since the attempt on the life of the S̲h̲áh, at some point, joined the exiles in Bag̲h̲dád. During Bahá'u'lláh's absence He asked that the friends treat him with consideration and that the family offer him shelter and hospitality in the family home. See CH50-52 for the effect this had on the family. Eventually the family relocated to a different house during this period and Yáhyá did come come with them out of fear of exposure but rather he lived in a smaller house near theirs where they could continue to supply him with meals.
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• Kamál 4 `Alá' 11 B.E. • Yawm al-Ithnayn 15 Jumādá al-ākhirah A.H. 1271 • Monday 5 March A.D. 1855 • Yom Sheni 15 Adar A.M. 5615	Birth of John Henry Hyde Dunn, Hand of the Cause, in London.
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