The Báb's Prayer for Hájí Mírzá Jání

In March 1847, as the Báb was being taken under escort from Iṣfahán, He spent three nights in Káshán as the guest of Hájí Mírzá Jání, a noted resident of that city, and there dictated a Tablet in honour of His host. Nabíl records:

“In the concluding passages of the Tablet which He [the Báb] was addressing to Hájí Mírzá Jání, He prayed in his behalf, supplicated the Almighty to illumine his heart with the light of Divine knowledge, and to unloose his tongue for the service and proclamation of His Cause. Unschooled and unlettered though he was, Hájí Mírzá Jání was able, by virtue of this prayer, to impress with his speech even the most accomplished divine of Káshán. He became endowed with such power that he was able to silence every idle pretender who dared to challenge the precepts of his Faith. Even the haughty and imperious Mullá Ja’far-i-Naráqí was unable, despite his consummate eloquence, to resist the force of his argument, and was compelled to acknowledge outwardly the merits of the Cause of his adversary, though at heart he refused to believe in its truth.”

Source: Nabíl, The Dawn-Breakers, translated and edited by Shoghi Effendi, ch. XI, pp. 219–221; via the Baha'i Stories Blog (https://bahaistories.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-effects-of-prayer-by-bab-revealed.html).

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