It took some time for the news of Bahá’u’lláh’s Declaration to reach
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Baghdád (today: Baghdad, Iraq)
It took some time for the news of Bahá’u’lláh’s Declaration to reach the believers in Persia. In the first place, methods of communication were still primitive. Secondly, the dissemination of such important news had to be carried out with wisdom. Only the insight and devotion of Bahá’u’lláh’s disciples could bring this about, which is one of the reasons that Bahá’u’lláh sent a number of the ablest among them to Persia to teach His Cause there.
Source: Adib Taherzadeh, The Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh: Baghdad 1853-6, v.1, p. 286
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