| (Hurúf-i-Hayy) The first eighteen followers of the Báb who independently searched for and found the Báb and became believers in His revelation. 'Hayy', meaning 'living', is numerically equal
to eighteen. These eighteen are: |
Mullá
Ḥusayn-i-Bus̲h̲rú'í (Bábu'l-Báb (Gate of the Gate))
Mullá 'Alíy-i-Bastámí (First Bábí martyr)
Muḥammad-Báqir-i-Bus̲h̲rú'í
Muḥammad Ḥasan-i-Bus̲h̲rú'í
Mullá K̲h̲udá-Bak̲h̲s̲h̲-i-Qúc̲h̲ání
(later named Mullá 'Alí)
Mullá Ḥasan-i-Bajistání
Siyyid Ḥusayn-i-Yazdí
Mírzá Muḥammad Rawḍih-K̲h̲án-i-Yazdí
Sa'íd-i-Hindí
Mullá Maḥmúd-i-K̲h̲u'í
Mullá Jalíl-i-Urúmí
Mullá Aḥmad-i-Ibdál-i-Marág̲h̲i'í
Mullá Báqir-i-Tabrízí
Mullá Yúsuf-i-Ardibílí
Mírzá Hádí
Mírzá Muḥammad 'Alíy-i-Qazvíní
Ṭáhirih (Fáṭimih Umm-Salamih)
Quddús (Ḥájí Muḥammad-'Alíy-i-Bárfurús̲h̲í)
|
| [BD 138] |
 |
| The first 18 disciples of the Báb;
the 19th was the Báb, the
20th Bahá'u'lláh. |
| [BG 29] |
|
| The point is the symbol of the objective being, the circle is the symbol of the subjective being. Now we see that even in the description given us in the creation, the earth was without form and void and the Spirit of God moved upon the surface of the waters and there commenced to be a forming, a creating, a drawing in toward a collective centre. And then in the spiritual sense when God sent forth His prophet, His Manifestation, His Word, for the purpose of a new spiritual creation in this universe, the same principle exactly was followed. He sent forth the luminous point-as in this great, new wonderful creation of our own day, the Báb-and eighteen others, making nineteen "letters of the living". |
| If you will study carefully you will find that Jesus the Christ had twelve disciples, men-and there were six women dear to his heart, his faithful servants who, because of the character of the times and the conditions were not outwardly known as disciples, but who were in a spiritual and inner sense just as truly disciples of the blessed Christ as were his twelve men disciples, and so then there were eighteen "letters of the living", and together with Christ, himself the point, made the nineteen; and the one and the nine, ten. The Báb, the luminous point, passes through these signs or letters. He has his eighteen "letters of the living", the greatest of all of whom, thank God, was a woman, Qurratu'l-'Ayn, who gave her life for this great Cause in such a manner that Dr Pollock, a western physician present at the time and witnessing her execution, makes the statement, publishes it in writing, that that magnificent, that wonderful woman bore with infinite patience, without a murmur of complaint, with great gladness, a long and torturing death for the sake of the great freedom of woman and of the race. Eighteen "letters of the living", himself the point, the luminous point, nineteen; one and nine, ten. |
[Star of the West - 6] |
|
| See also: |
|
|
