A Bahá'í Glossary
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Qará-Guhar
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Pronunciation: kara-go-har
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The name given to one of two dreaded chains (the other was Salásil) by which Bahá'u'lláh was fettered in the Síyáh-C̲h̲al dungeon in 1852. In Epistle to the Son of the Wolf Bahá'u'lláh states that He was 'tormented and chained by one or the other of them'1 for the four months He was imprisoned in that subterranean gaol.
[BD 190]
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One of the two heavy chains by which Bahá'u'lláh was bound in the Black Pit of Ṭihrán.
[BG 41]
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