A Brief Account of the Bahai Movement (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Brief Account of the Bahai MovementHoly Land: for have not its valleys and hills been trodden from the beginning by the feet of those great Messengers inspired of God - Abraham, Elijah, and last and greatest, Jesus of Nazareth? Is it strange that once more in this century of ours, in this the cradle of the race, ' those that were sitting in darkness have seen a Great Light, the light of the Sun of Righteousness that rises with healing in his wings?This great teacher, Abdul Baha - by birth a Persian - was, until 1908, for forty years a prisoner, confined by the order of the Turkish Government within the walls of Akka (or Acre, to use the name more familiar to the West) on account of his religious teachings, which were considered subversive of, and antagonistic to the faith of Islam.In order to make these statements intelligible to those who have not before heard of this great religious movement which is ¿ooding the East with new light and life, it will be necessary to give a slight sketch of its history.In 1819 a.d., in the city of Shiraz, in Persia, a child was born named Mirza Ali Mohammad. His Father a wool merchant died while the child was yet an infant, he was brought up by his maternal uncle, and given the ordinary edu cation of a Persian youth in his position. Fromchildhood Ali Mohammad was renowned for his piety and virtue, his courteous manner, and the. Beauty of his person.When this young man attained the age of twenty-four, he announced to some of the princi pal men of learning and virtue of his country that he was the bearer of a message from God, and from that time assumed the title of Bab, or door, by which name he became generally known. He is now universally referred to as the Bab.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.