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A Lineage of Prophets: The Descent of Bahá'u'lláh
When Bahá'u'lláh was born in Tihrán in 1817, He entered the world through a family line that reached back, in Shoghi Effendi's account, to Abraham, to Zoroaster, and to the royal house of ancient Persia. The Holy Day of His birth is also the remembrance of the long preparation, across millennia, for His coming.
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A Dawn in Shíráz: The Lineage and Birth of the Báb
On the first day of Muḥarram in the year 1235 of the Muslim calendar — the twentieth of October 1819 — a Son was born in a modest house in Shíráz to a family of merchants who traced their descent from the Prophet Muḥammad. The child was named Siyyid 'Alí-Muḥammad. The world would come to know Him as the Báb, the Gate of a new Day of God.
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