Letters of the living
Letters of the living ( Arabic حروف الحي Ḥurūf al-Ḥayy ) was a title which the Bab bestowedon the first Babis . The Bab bestowed this title on 18 Babis and is even counted in some lists as the 19th letter of the living. All the letters of the living were appointed between May 1844, when the Bab publicly declared his mission, and October 1844, when the Bab returned from his pilgrimage from Mecca . Other Babis like Baha'u'llah or Subh-i-Azal , who later professed Babism, were no longer designated as Letters of the Living. Most of the letters of the living died before the declaration of Baha'u'llah and the beginning of the Baha'i religion.
The letters of the living
- Mullah Husayn Bushru'i
- Muhammad-Hasan Bushru'i
- Muhammad-Baqir Bushru'i
- Mulla Ali Bastami
- Mulla Khuda-Bakhsh Quchani
- Mulla Hasan Bajistani
- Siyyid Husayn Yazdi
- Mulla Muhammad Rawdih-Khan Yazdi
- Sa'id Hindi
- Mulla Mahmud Khu'i
- Mulla (Abdu'l-) Jalil Urumi (Urdubadi)
- Mulla Ahmad-i-Ibdal Maraghi'i
- Mulla Baqir Tabrizi
- Mulla Yusuf Ardibili
- Mulla Hadi Qazvini
- Mulla Muhammad-Ali Qazvini
- Tahira
- Mulla Muhammad Ali Barfurishi, Quddus
See also
- Apostle of Baha'u'llah
- Baha'u'llah family
- Hands of the cause
- Disciples of Abdu'l Baha
- Knight of Baha'u'llah
literature
- Abbas Amanat: Resurrection and Renewal . Cornell University Press, New York, USA 1989, ISBN 0-8014-2098-9 .
- Nabíl-i-Zarandí: The Dawn-Breakers: Nabíl's Narrative . Bahá'í Publishing Trust, Wilmette, Illinois, USA 1932, ISBN 0-900125-22-5 ( online ).
- Peter Smith: A Concise Encyclopedia of the Bahá'í Faith . Oneworld Publications, Oxford, UK 1999, ISBN 1-85168-184-1 .
- Adib Taherzadeh: The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, Volume 1: Baghdad 1853-63 . Ed .: George Ronald. Oxford, UK 1976, ISBN 0-85398-270-8 ( online ).
Web links
- A letter from the Bab to the Letters of the Living (English)
- Edward Granville Browne : A Traveller's Narrative - Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb. H-Bahai, accessed September 24, 2009 .
- Illustrations of The Bab's Tablets to the Letters of the Living (English)