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Bahá'í Chronology - The Ministry of Bahá'u'lláh - 24 B.E. (A.D. 1867-1868)

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• Bahá / Jamál 24 B.E. • Dhū al-Qa'dah / Dhū al-Ḥijjah A.H. 1283 • April A.D. 1867 • Adar II / Nissan A.M. 5627	An appeal by 53 Bahá'ís "in Baghdád" addressed to the United States Congress arrives at the American Consulate in Beirut. [BBR265, Petition from the Persian Reformers]
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• c. `Aẓamat / Ráḥmat 24 B.E. • c. Muḥarram / Ṣafar A.H. 1284 • c. June A.D. 1867 • c. Iyar / Sivan A.M. 5627	Bahá'u'lláh rents the house of ‘Izzat Áqá. [BKG239; GPB168] See BKG241 for a description of this house.
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• c. Kamál / Asmá' 24 B.E. • c. Rabī' al-awwal / Jumādá al-ūlá A.H. 1284 • c. August A.D. 1867 • c. Tammuz / Av A.M. 5627	Bahá'u'lláh refuses to draw the allowance granted Him by the Ottoman government. [RB2:327] Mírzá Yaḥyá twice petitions the government to convince it that he ought to be the recipient of the allowance. [RB2:327] Bahá'u'lláh sells some of His belongings to provide the necessities for Himself and His dependents. [RB2:327]
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• Asmá' 24 / Asmá' 25 B.E. • Jumādá al-ūlá A.H. 1284 / Jumādá al-ūlá A.H. 1285 • September A.D. 1867 / August A.D. 1868 • Elul A.M. 5627 / Elul A.M. 5628	Bahá'u'lláh reveals the Kitáb-i-Badí‘, the Munájátháy-i-Síyám (Prayers for Fasting), the first Tablet to Napoleon III, the Lawḥ-i-Sultán written to Násiri'd-Dín Sháh, and the Súriy-i-Ra'ís. [BKG245; GBP172] See RB2:370–82 for details of the Kitáb-i-Badí‘. Bahá'u'lláh reveals the Súriy-i-Ghusn (Tablet of the Branch) in which ‘Abdu'l-Bahá's future station is foreshadowed. [BBD218; BKG250; GPB177] See RB2:338–9 for a description of the Tablet.
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• Asmá' 24 / Asmá' 25 B.E. • Jumādá al-ūlá A.H. 1284 / Jumādá al-ūlá A.H. 1285 • September A.D. 1867 / August A.D. 1868 • Elul A.M. 5627 / Elul A.M. 5628	Bahá'u'lláh addresses a Tablet to Mullá ‘Alí-Akbar-i-Shahmírzádí and Jamál-i-Burújirdí in Ṭihrán instructing them to transfer secretly the remains of the Báb from the Imám-Zádih Ma‘súm, where they were concealed, to some other place of safety. [GPB177]
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• Asmá' 24 / Asmá' 25 B.E. • Jumādá al-ūlá A.H. 1284 / Jumādá al-ūlá A.H. 1285 • September A.D. 1867 / August A.D. 1868 • Elul A.M. 5627 / Elul A.M. 5628	In this period the extent of the Faith is enlarged, with expansion in the Caucasus, the establishment of the first Egyptian centre and the establishment of the Faith in Syria. [GPB176] The greeting Alláh-u-Abhá' supersedes the Islamic salutation and is simultaneously adopted in Persia and Adrianople. [BKG250; GPB176] The phrase ‘the people of the Bayán', which now denotes the followers of Mírzá Yaḥyá, is discarded and is supplanted by the term ‘the people of Bahá'. [BKG250; GBP176]
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• Asmá' 24 / Asmá' 25 B.E. • Jumādá al-ūlá A.H. 1284 / Jumādá al-ūlá A.H. 1285 • September A.D. 1867 / August A.D. 1868 • Elul A.M. 5627 / Elul A.M. 5628	Mírzá Yaḥyá, prodded on by Mír Muḥammad, challenges Bahá'u'lláh to a public confrontation in the mosque of Sultán Salím, thinking that He will not accept. In the end, it is Mírzá Yaḥyá who does not appear. [BKG239–41; GPB168–9; RB2:291–300, SDH22] The incident gains Bahá'u'lláh respect in the eyes of the people. [RB2:289] See [RB2:304] for a picture of the mosque.
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• Asmá' 24 / Asmá' 25 B.E. • Jumādá al-ūlá A.H. 1284 / Jumādá al-ūlá A.H. 1285 • September A.D. 1867 / August A.D. 1868 • Elul A.M. 5627 / Elul A.M. 5628	Persecutions begin anew in Ádharbáyján, Zanján, Níshápúr and Ṭihrán. [GPB178]
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• Asmá' 24 / Asmá' 25 B.E. • Jumādá al-ūlá A.H. 1284 / Jumādá al-ūlá A.H. 1285 • September A.D. 1867 / August A.D. 1868 • Elul A.M. 5627 / Elul A.M. 5628	Nabíl-i-A‘zam is dispatched to Iraq and Iran to inform the Bábís of the advent of Bahá'u'lláh. He is further instructed to perform the rites of pilgrimage on Bahá'u'lláh's behalf in the House of the Báb and the Most Great House in Baghdad. [BKG250; EB224; GPB176–7] For details of his mission see EB224–7. On hearing Nabíl's message, the wife of the Báb, K̲h̲adíjih-Bagum, immediately recognizes the station of Bahá'u'lláh. [EB225] For the rites of the two pilgrimages performed by Nabíl see SA113–15. The first pilgrimages to the residence of Bahá'u'lláh take place. [GPB177]
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• Sharaf 24 B.E. / Sharaf 26 B.E. • Ramaḍān A.H. 1284 / Ramaḍān A.H. 1286 • A.D. 1868 / A.D. 1870 • Tevet A.M. 5628 / Tevet A.M. 5630	During this period Bahá'u'lláh reveals a number of Tablets to rulers including the Lawḥ-i-Ra'ís to `Alí Pás̲h̲á, His second Tablet to Napoleon III and Tablets to Czar Alexander II, Queen Victoria and Pope Pius IX. [BBD13] President Grant of the United States is in office when Bahá'u'lláh addresses a Tablet to the `Rulers of America and the Presidents of the Republics therein'. [BFA1:80N]
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• Sharaf 24 B.E. / Sharaf 25 B.E. • Ramaḍān A.H. 1284 / Ramaḍān A.H. 1285 • A.D. 1868 • Tevet A.M. 5628 / Tevet A.M. 5629	Ḥájí Mullá `Alí-i-Akbar-i-S̲h̲ahmírzádí (later Hand of the Cause Ḥájí Ák̲h̲únd) is imprisoned in Ṭihrán as a Bahá'í on the order of Mullá `Alí Kání. This is the first of many imprisonments. [EB266] He was imprisoned so often that `Abdu'l-Bahá later said of him that at the first sign of disturbances, he would `put on his turban, wrap himself in his `abá and sit waiting' to be arrested. [MF11]
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