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2008-09-20 23:56:50 UTC
Here are references to think about if you realize that Baha’u’llah was
the first Alif to appear after the Bab’s Mission. There are three
Letters BHA, in the Greatest Name, this Revelation, and two have
appeared, the Bab and Baha’u’llah................
The Bab cited in the book Selections from the Writings of E.G. Browne
refers to Himself as “The (letter) Ba which permeates the water of the
Letters, and the Point which stands at the Gate of the two
Alifs......” p. 215 Selections from the Writings of E.G. Browne The
World as Text: Cosmologies of Shaykh Ahmad al-AThe World as Text:
Cosmologies of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i
by Juan R.I. Cole, Department of History, University of Michigan,
Studia Islamica 80 (1994):1-23. Juan Cole gives this symbolic
meaning to the word ALIF in Arabic:
alif...............A......................al-Badi`
(Wondrous)....................Universal Intellect
Baha'u'llah states at the end of the Kitab-i-Iqan , "Revealed by the
`Ba' and the `Ha". The Bab being the Ba (B) and Baha'u'llah the Ha (H)
of the Greatest Name, BHA, with the Alif (A) soon to follow.
The third Alif will appear only when the following events occur: .
“And when the appointed hour is come, there shall suddenly appear that
which shall cause the limbs of mankind to quake. Then, and only then,
will the Divine Standard be unfurled, and the Nightingale of Paradise
warble its melody”.(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of
Baha'u'llah, p. 118
the first Alif to appear after the Bab’s Mission. There are three
Letters BHA, in the Greatest Name, this Revelation, and two have
appeared, the Bab and Baha’u’llah................
The Bab cited in the book Selections from the Writings of E.G. Browne
refers to Himself as “The (letter) Ba which permeates the water of the
Letters, and the Point which stands at the Gate of the two
Alifs......” p. 215 Selections from the Writings of E.G. Browne The
World as Text: Cosmologies of Shaykh Ahmad al-AThe World as Text:
Cosmologies of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsa'i
by Juan R.I. Cole, Department of History, University of Michigan,
Studia Islamica 80 (1994):1-23. Juan Cole gives this symbolic
meaning to the word ALIF in Arabic:
alif...............A......................al-Badi`
(Wondrous)....................Universal Intellect
Baha'u'llah states at the end of the Kitab-i-Iqan , "Revealed by the
`Ba' and the `Ha". The Bab being the Ba (B) and Baha'u'llah the Ha (H)
of the Greatest Name, BHA, with the Alif (A) soon to follow.
The third Alif will appear only when the following events occur: .
“And when the appointed hour is come, there shall suddenly appear that
which shall cause the limbs of mankind to quake. Then, and only then,
will the Divine Standard be unfurled, and the Nightingale of Paradise
warble its melody”.(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of
Baha'u'llah, p. 118