Mullah Husayn

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Writing the Bab to Mulla Husayn, the first letter of the living
One of the writings of Bab in the handwriting of Mullah Husayn

Mullah Husayn or Mullah Husayn-i Bushru'i ( Persian ملا حسين بشروئي, * 1813 in Bushruyih , Iran ; † February 2, 1849 in Māzandarān , Iran) was the first letter of the living and received the Arabic title Jinab-i-Babu'l-Bab (Gate of the Gate) from Bab .

Life

Study and search for a messenger of God

Mullah Husayn was born Muhammad Husayn Bushru'i in Bushruyih in 1813 , had four younger siblings and went to school in the small town of Bushruyih, near Mashhad . He finished school at the age of 12 and then attended a clergyman's seminary in Mashhad. At the age of 21 he was already a mujahid .

In Mashhad he got to know the teachings of Sheikhism , which fascinated him very much. Therefore he decided to take part in the class of Sayyid Kāzim Rashti in Karbala , who prepared his students for the coming of a new messenger of God. After the death of his teacher in 1844, Mullah Husayn began to look for this messenger of God. He moved with his brother Muhammad Hasan and his son Muhammad Baqir via Najaf and Bushehr to Shiraz , where they arrived on May 22nd. Mullah Husayn sent his two companions ahead and asked them to wait for him in a certain mosque .

Life for Babism

At the city gate he met a young man who invited him into his house and told him in the upper room that he was God's messenger he was looking for. About two hours after sunset, this revealed the first chapter of Qayyumu'l-Asma . Then he said: “O you, who are the first to believe in me! Verily, I say, I am the Bab, the gate of God, and you are the Bábul-Bab, the gate of this gate ... ”This so-called declaration of the Bab is a feast day in the Baha'i calendar .

Mullah Husayn henceforth dedicated his life to spreading Babism . According to the order of the Bab, Mullah Husayn taught in Isfahan , Kashan , Qom , Tehran , Maschad, Khorasan and Māzandarān. In 1844 Mullah Husayn sent some pages of Qayyumu'l-Asma to Mirzā Husain-ʿAli Nuri, who later became known as Baha'u'llah . Baha'u'llah immediately accepted this religion. Mullah Husayn met Baha'u'llah twice in his life.

In 1845, Mullah Husayn visited the Bab again in Shiraz when he had just returned from Mecca . Mullah Husayn walked from Mashhad in eastern Persia to Maku , the westernmost outpost of the empire , in 1848 , and was able to spend nine days with the Bab and celebrate the Nouruz festival. As a result of the increasing missionary activity of the now numerous followers of the Bab, resistance by Shiite groups and the first state-organized persecutions quickly arose . In such a violent conflict in Māzandarān, the so-called battle at the "Shrine of Sheikh Tabarsi", Mullah Husayn was shot on February 2, 1849.

The Bab's letter to Mullah Husayn is shown in the first volume of Nabil's report. A German translation of this has also been published. So many praises, prayers and visiting letters about Mullah Husayn originate from the pen of Bab, that it corresponds to three times the size of the Koran . Baha'u'llah also mentions Mullah Husayn in his book of certainty .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bab : A selection from his writings . Bahá'í-Verlag, Hofheim-Langenhain 1991, ISBN 3-87037-247-8 , pp. 13-15 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Shoghi Effendi : God is passing . Baha'i-Verlag, Hofheim-Langenhain 1974, ISBN 3-87037-021-1 , p. 55 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Baha'u'llah : Book of Certainty . Bahá'í-Verlag, Hofheim-Langenhain 1978, ISBN 3-87037-097-1 , p. 148 ( online ).

literature

  • Nabil-i-A'zam: Nabil's account: From the early days of the Bahá'í Revelation, Vol. 1 . Bahá'í-Verlag, Hofheim-Langenhain 1975, ISBN 3-87037-056-4 ( online ).
  • Nabil-i-A'zam: Nabil's Report: From the early days of the Bahá'í Revelation, Vol. 2 . Bahá'í-Verlag, Hofheim-Langenhain 1982, ISBN 3-87037-135-8 ( online ).
  • Abbas Amanat: Resurrection and Renewal . Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York 1989, ISBN 0-8014-2098-9 .
  • William Sears : The Gateway to Light: The Story of the Báb and His Companions . Bahá'í-Verlag, Hofheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-87037-473-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Husayn, mullah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muhammad Husayn-i Bushru'i (civil)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first letter of the living
DATE OF BIRTH 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Bushruyih , Iran
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1849
Place of death Māzandarān , Iran