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• 48 B.E.
• A.H.
• 19 May A.D. 1891
• A.M. |
The execution of the Seven Martyrs of Yazd. [BBRXXIX, BW18:384]
Seven
Bahá'ís are executed on the order of the governor of Yazd, Husain
Mírzá, Jalálu'd-Dín-Dawlih (the grandson of the shah) and his father
Zillu's-Sultán , and at the instigation of the mujtahid, S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ Ḥasan-i-Sabzivárí. [BW18:384]
- For their names see BW18:384.
- For details of the executions see GBP201–2.
- For Western reports of the episode see BBR301–5.
- Bahá'u'lláh stated that a representative of Zillu's-Sultán.
Ḥájí Sayyáh, visited Him in 'Akká in the hope of persuading Him to
support his plot to usurp the throne. He was promised freedom to
practice the Faith should He support him. Ḥájí Sayyáh was arrested in
Tehran in April of 1891 and Zillu's-Sultán, afraid that he would be
implicated in the plot to overthrow the king, inaugurated vigorous
persecution of the Bahá'ís in Yazd in order to draw attention from
himself and prove his loyalty to the crown and to Islam. Had
Bahá'u'lláh reported this incident to the Shah, Zillu's-Sultán would
have paid dearly for his disloyalty. [BBR357-358]
- See also RB3:194–6 and SBBH2:77.
- "The tyrant of the land of Yá (Yazd) committed that which has
caused the Concourse on High to shed tears of blood." Lawḥ-i-Dunyá
(Tablet of the World) Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 85
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• 48 B.E.
• A.H.
• after 19 May A.D. 1891
• A.M. |
Bahá'u'lláh reveals the Lawḥ-i-Times, Tablet to the Times in which He recounts the circumstances of the martyrdoms in Yazd. [RB4:348–50, BW18p976-7, Essay by Mehdi Wolf] |
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• 48 B.E.
• A.H.
• c. April A.D. 1891
• A.M. |
Two believers were arrested during
the same period. Ḥájí Amín was sent to the prison of Qazvín, and Hand
of the Cause Ibn-i-Abhar was consigned for four years in Tíhran, in
which he bore the same chains as Bahá'u'lláh did, during the Latter's
imprisonment in 1852.[Essay by Mehdi Wolf] |
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• 48 B.E.
• A.H.
• 27 June A.D. 1891
• A.M. |
Bahá'u'lláh visits Haifa for the fourth time. [BKG374; DH109; GPB194; RB4:351]
- He stays three months. [BBD94; BKG374; DH109; GPB194; RB4:351]
- He lives in the house of Ilyás Abyad near the Templar colony,
His tent pitched nearby on the foot of Mount Carmel on HaGefen Street.
[BKG374; DH186]
- Bahá'u'lláh instructs to the Master to arrange the
transportation of the remains of the Báb from Persia to the Holy Land
and their interment in a mausoleum below the clump of cypress trees at a
spot which He indicated with His hand. It is stated that there were 15
tiny cypress trees at that time, each one the size of a finger. See
Rob4p363 for a photo of the site indicated. [AB45; BKG374; DH134–5;
GPB194]
- For a story of the difficulties in obtaining land for access to the site of the Shrine of the Báb see SES79-80.
- One day He pitches His tent a few hundred yards east of the Carmelite monastery and visits the monastery. [DH186]
- Bahá'u'lláh visits the cave of Elijah. [BKG375; DH174; RB4:3512]
- He reveals the Lawḥ-i-Karmil (Tablet of Carmel), the `Charter
of the World Spiritual and Administrative Centres of the Faith' near the
site of the future Mas̲h̲riqu'l-Ad̲h̲kár. [BBD1 18–19; BKG375; DH109, 174; MBW63; RB4:352]
- For the text of this Tablet see BKG376–7, G14–17 and TB3–5.
- For an analysis of the text see RB4:353–67.
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• 48 B.E.
• A.H.
• July / August A.D. 1891
• A.M. |
Members of the Afnán family meet Bahá'u'lláh in Haifa during His visit. [BKG374, 406]
- For details of this visit see BKG406–13.
- Also see Memories of the Báb, Bahá'u'lláh and `Abdu'l-Bahá by Mírzá Habíbu'lláh Afnán, (Ahang Rabbani trans.) pages 26-31>.
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• 48 B.E.
• A.H.
• 3 October A.D. 1891
• A.M. |
Mullá Muḥammad-`Alíy-i-Dihábádí is
martyred, one of the Seven Martyrs of Yazd who were killed at the hands
of Jalálu'd-Dawlih and Zillu's-Sulṭán. [BW18:384] |
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• 48 B.E.
• A.H.
• A.D. 1892
• A.M. |
Mu'tuminu's-Saltanih is poisoned in Ṭihrán on the orders of Násiri'd-Dín S̲h̲áh. [BW18:384] |
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• 48 B.E.
• A.H.
• c. A.D. 1892
• A.M. |
`Abdu'l-Bahá writes Risáliy-i-Siyásiyyih (Treatise on Politics). [ABMM] |
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