... July 9th, to commemorate the dramatic martyrdom of their Prophet-Herald, the Bab. The Bab was only 31 when he was publicly executed in the barrack square of Tabriz, Northern Persia, in 1850. His teachings proclaimed the oneness religion, the unity of mankind ...

... Scotland and the Islands recently celebrated two major events in the Baha'i Calendar. The first was the Declaration cf the Bab—made on 23rd May 1844—that He ltad come to inaugurate a new and most glorious era in the spiritual life of mankind. and to ...

... general exclusion could be justified. Advertisement s BAHA’I FAITH Baha'u'llah and His Herald, tue bao (lhe gawe) were pourn n Persia, e anc.ent province of Eian. They haa nO 10rinal educalion,, no Couact wiln wesiern culture,; no poutical or financial power ...

... Baha'is of the Western Isles will be commemorating the death of Bab (gate) who, on July 9, 1850, was brought be- fore a firing squad of 750 rifles in the barracks square of Tabriz, Persia. A spokesman for the Baha'i Faith said in Stornoway this week, “The ...

... as basically a Muslim sect. Communication itself briefly reminds us that the Baha'i movement began in Persia and that the person who first met the Bab was a member ...

... teaching of the Bab, having spread rapidly throughout Persia, ‘aroused the opposition of Church and State’, and thus to attribute the guilt of the ensuing bloody persecution to the Christian community. It the Islamic orthodoxy of Persia was responsible ...

... were in close contact lwith one another, this ciaim might have some “substance. The fact is that Baha'u'llah appeared in Persia when the population was 98 per cent Muslim and where hardly any points of contact with other religions existed. Moreover ...