1851 Karbilá, Iraq: A disciple of the Báb becomes the first person to whom Baha'u'llah confided His Divine Mission – as was prophesied by the Báb in 1848
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When in Bahá'í history
Shíráz (today: Shíráz, Iran)
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was during Bahá’u’lláh’s nine-month exile to Karbilá in
1851, on the order of the Persian Prime Minister, that He “encountered, as He
was walking through the streets, Shaykh Hasan-i-Zunúzí, to whom He confided the
secret He was destined to reveal at a later time in Baghdád. He found him
eagerly searching after the promised Husayn, to whom the Báb had so lovingly
referred and whom He had promised he would meet in Karbilá. (Nabil, ‘The
Dawn-Breakers’, translated and edited by Shoghi Effendi)
Source: Baha'i Stories Blog (https://bahaistories.blogspot.com/2019/02/1851-karbila-iraq-disciple-of-bab.html).
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