How Mullá Sádiq-i-Muqaddas recognized the Báb through Mullá Husayn in Isfahán
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When in Bahá'í history
Shíráz (today: Shíráz, Iran)
Mulla Sadiq-i-Muqaddas, was an outstanding believer who was
entitled Ismu'llahu'l-Asdaq (The name of God, the Most Truthful) by
Baha’u’llah. He was appointed posthumously a Hand of the Cause by ‘Abdu’l-Baha.
(Adapted from ‘Ministry of the Custodians’, and ‘The Revelation of Baha'u'llah,
vol. 4, by Adib Taherzadeh) Here is the sweet story of how he recognized the
Báb:
Source: Baha'i Stories Blog (https://bahaistories.blogspot.com/2019/10/how-mulla-sadiq-i-muqaddas-recognized.html).
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