{"id":11854,"date":"2023-08-01T09:34:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T06:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=11854"},"modified":"2023-08-01T09:36:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T06:06:38","slug":"history-of-the-formation-of-bahaism-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=11854&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"History of the Formation of Baha\u2019ism (Part One)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shi\u2019a Muslims<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>believe 12 Imams (leaders) after Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) whom the last one, is Imam Mahdi (pbuh) the son of Imam Askari (pbuh). Imam Mahdi had a minor occultation[1]<\/a>. In this period, he had four special deputies. Before the death of the fourth representative, Imam Mahdi in a letter wrote to him:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou will die in six days. Do not will to anyone and anyone who claims to have relation with me is a liar and his claim is false[2]<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Ahmad<\/p>\n

Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa\u2019i<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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During the period of 1157 A.H to 1242 A.H\u00a0Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa\u2019i<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0as a Muslim Shi\u2019a claimed that between the people and Imam Mahdi (pbuh) there should be some great and pious persons whom he called them \u2018Rokn-e Rabe Imam\u2019 (fourth pillar of the faith). He taught some students in Karbala and in his speeches he introduced himself as one of the four pillars. This belief of Ahsa\u2019i was heresy in Shi\u2019a, and heresy is forbidden. Ahsa\u2019i appointed his most talented student\u00a0Sayyid Kazim Rashti<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/a>as his successor.<\/p>\n

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Sayyid Kazim Rashti<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Rashti was a man of unknown origin. At that time people of Rasht (a city in northern Iran) disclaimed any knowledge of his birth and upbringing. Rashti developed Ahsa\u2019i\u2019s false claim regarding the fourth pillar which he called him the B\u00e1b<\/a>[3]<\/a>\u00a0of 12th Shi\u2019a Imam. He started to look for such person to bestow the title of B\u00e1b in order to achieve through him all his aims. Following in his master\u2019s footsteps, Sayyid Kazim Rashti answered every questions people asked even if his answers were simply wrong! Thus he was able to lure some shaken beliefs and deviated inclinations, who became his disciples.<\/p>\n

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Sayyid Kazim Rashti<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The most prominent of these disciples was a man named Mulla Hussain Boshru\u2019i from Bushruyeh, a village in Khurasan in north eastern Iran. Boshru\u2019i was a man known for slyness, shrewdness, craftiness and caprice. He started to promote his beliefs to attract people, among them was Umm Salama, daughter of Salih Qazwini. She was married in her early youth to her cousin, but deserted her mutual life. She then started to correspond with Sayyid Kazim Rashti who was quite prolific in response, because she was just suitable for his ends. Sayyid Kazim Rashti called her in his letters Qurrat al-\u2018Ayn[4]<\/a>\u00a0and he invited her later to Karbala; however, Rashti died in 1259 A.H before her arrival.<\/p>\n

In Karbala, she was received by Boshru\u2019i and the rest of Rashti\u2019s disciples. She became the most zealous of them and when she publicly put her call to practice with some of Rashti\u2019s students, they called her T\u00e1hirih[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Qurrat al-\u2018Ayn<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Among the disciples of Rashti there was a man called `Ali Muhammad Shir\u00e1zi. He was born in Shiraz in 1235 A.H (1819 A.D). His father died while he was young and his uncle, who took him under his guardianship, put him in one of Rashti\u2019s disciple\u2019s class called Maktab Abed. After a while his uncle took him to the port of Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, where he opened a commercial store for him, but due to his mental disorder he could not manage the store and his uncle sent him to Karbala at the age of 20 for rehabilitation. Rashti recognized him as his disciple.<\/p>\n

In his classes Rashti always told the students that they should look for the B\u00e1b of Imam Mahdi. After his death the disciples decided to look for the B\u00e1b throughout Iran and `Ali Muhammad Shir\u00e1zi moved to Shiraz, whereupon Hussain Boshru\u2019i appointed Qurrat al-\u2018Ayn instead of Rashti to teach the disciples in Karbala. Boshru\u2019i then went to Shiraz and joined `Ali Muhammad Shir\u00e1zi where he could exploit the young man\u2019s naivet\u00e9 and conceit. He suggested him that he would soon be a man of great importance whom his master Rashti had informedand that he might be the B\u00e1b. Boshru\u2019i even offered himself to be B\u00e1bu\u2019l-B\u00e1b[6]<\/a>, and continued to persuade Shir\u00e1zi until on Jamadi-ul-Awwal 5, 1260 A.H (May 23, 1844), the 25-years-old Shir\u00e1zi announced that he is the B\u00e1b. During this announcement four other disciples of Rashti, such as Mirza Shafee Tabrizi announced themselves to be the B\u00e1b, but they were not successful.<\/p>\n

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\"Ali<\/p>\n

Ali Muhammad Shir\u00e1zi<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hussain Boshru\u2019i<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0hurried to announce the manifestation of the\u00a0B\u00e1b[7]<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0to the rest of Rashti\u2019s disciples, announcing to some that he was also is the\u00a0B\u00e1bu\u2019l-B\u00e1b<\/em><\/strong>. It was later revealed that one of the moving figures behind the faction was the Russian embassy in Tehran; the man in charge ostensibly accepted Islam, studied Arabic, Persian, and became a regular attendant of Rashti\u2019s lectures. In fact, he was implanting the misleading tree in the land of Islamic nation. He played an effective role in managing Sayyid Kazim Rashti,\u00a0`Ali Muhammad Shir\u00e1zi and Husayn-Ali N\u00fari<\/a> (Bah\u00e1\u2019u\u2019ll\u00e1h)<\/em><\/strong>. To study more you can refer to The Memoirs of Count Dolgorukov.<\/p>\n

As mentioned above, through the enticement of Hussain Boshru\u2019i and the machination of Russian spy, Kenyaz Dolgorukov, `Ali Muhammad Shir\u00e1zi, declared that he was the B\u00e1b to the awaited Imam Mahdi on Jamadi-ul-Awwal 5, 1260 A.H. Boshru\u2019i started to tell people that he had seen the B\u00e1b with his own eyes and called them to follow him, those who followed him were called B\u00e1bis. When the number of B\u00e1bis reach to nineteen, Shir\u00e1zi called them Hur\u00faf-i-Hayy[8]<\/a>. Then he decided to divide the year into nineteen months, each month includes 19 days. He designated the day which<\/p>\n

he announced his claim Jamadi-ul-Awwal 5, 1260 A.H as the beginning of this calendar. The governor of Shiraz ordered to arrest B\u00e1b for his false claims. Once being slapped his face, B\u00e1b desisted from his initial claim and told the governor that he is not the gate (B\u00e1b<\/em><\/strong>) of\u00a0Imam Mahdi[9]<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

End of Part One<\/strong><\/p>\n

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https:\/\/babandbaha.com\/<\/u><\/p>\n

[\u06f1]<\/a> Gheybat-e Soghra (\u063a\u06cc\u0628\u062a \u0635\u063a\u0631\u06cc)<\/p>\n

[\u06f2]<\/a> For more information refer to the article\u00a0The Last Leader<\/a><\/p>\n

[\u06f3]<\/a> The Gate<\/p>\n

[\u06f4]<\/a>Delight of the eye<\/p>\n

[\u06f5]<\/a> The chaste<\/p>\n

[\u06f6]<\/a> Gate of the Gate<\/p>\n

[\u06f7]<\/a>Zuhur al-B\u00e1b<\/p>\n

[\u06f8]<\/a> Letters of the Living<\/p>\n

[\u06f9]<\/a> Dawnbreakers, Pages 137-141<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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