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During Baha’u’llah's imprisonment in the Síyáh-Chál Yahya went into hiding, [57] but after Bahá’u’lláh's exile to Iraq Yahya left Iran in disguise and made his way to Baghdad. [ 58 ] For a time, Yahya served as Bahá’u’lláh's secretary in Baghdad, but envy for the growing admiration Bábís showed Bahá’u’lláh led Yahya ...
The word "Baháʼí" (بهائی) is used either as an adjective to refer to the Baháʼí Faith or as a term for a follower of Baháʼu'lláh.The proper name of the religion is the "Baháʼí Faith", not Baháʼí or Baháʼism (the latter, once common among academics, is regarded as derogatory by the Baháʼís).
A style guide, available at the bahai.org website, gives a glossary and pronunciation guide of names and concepts as used within the Baháʼí Faith, including, [33] Baháʼí Faith, pronounced as: Ba-HIGH; Baháʼu'lláh, pronounced as: Ba-ha-ul-LAH; Báb, pronounced as: Bahb (Bob) ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, pronounced as: Abdul ba-HAH
In 1844 Ali-Muhammad of Shiraz proclaimed that he was the Báb (Arabic for 'Gate'), after a Twelver Shi'i religious concept. His followers were therefore known as Bábís.The Báb's writings introduced the concept of "He whom God shall make manifest", a Messianic figure whose coming, according to Bahá'ís, was announced in the scriptures of all of the world's great religions.
The Summons of the Lord of Hosts.. The Summons of the Lord of Hosts is a collection of the tablets of Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Baháʼí Faith, that were written to the kings and rulers of the world during his exile in Adrianople and in the early years of his exile to the fortress town of Acre (now in Israel) in 1868.
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in 1906 instructed to write the term Bahaʼo'llah, and later in 1921 requested that it be written Baha ʼUllah. [4] The Baháʼí transliteration scheme that Shoghi Effendi adopted was based on a standard adopted by the Tenth International Congress of Orientalists which took place in Geneva in September 1894.
The Baha'i principle of an International Auxiliary Language (IAL) represents a paradigm for establishing peaceful and reciprocal relations between the world's primary speech communities – while shielding them from undue linguistic pressures from the dominant speech community/communities. [2] Baha’u’llah
Stories of Baha'u'llah and Some Notable Believers. Extracts compiled from Adib Taherzadeh's The Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh, Volumes 1–4. Extracts compiled from Adib Taherzadeh's The Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh, Volumes 1–4.