DECLARATION.

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Bahai house of worship at Papua New Guinea

    On reaching His (Bab) twenty-fifth year, in response to divine command, Bab declared that "God the Exalted had elected Him to the station of Babhood." In "A Traveller's Narrative"* we read that:-

    "What he intended by the term 'Bab' was this: that he was the channel of grace from some great Person still behind the veil (shield) of glory, who was the possessor of countless and boundless perfections, by whose will he moved and to the bond of whose love he clung(stick to)."- A Traveller's Narrative (Episode of the Bab) 

    In those days belief in the imminent(about to come) appearance of a Divine Messenger was especially prevalent among a sect known as the Shaykhis (they believed, that between the physical world and the spiritual world, there exist an intermediate world of archetypal(typical example of certain person- manifestation) images), and it was to a distinguished divine belonging to this sect, called Mulla Husayn-i-Bushru'i, that the Bab first announced His mission. The exact date of this announcement is given in the Bayan,one of the Bab's writings, as two hours and eleven minutes after sunset on the 5th day of the month of Jamadiyu'l-Avval(is the 5th month of the 12 lunar months in Islamic calendar. The month spans 29 or 30 days.), 1260 A.H.** (i.e. 23rd May,1844 A.D.). 'Abdu'l-Baha (Son of Baha'u'llah, 'the Great Manifestation of God for this Era') was born in the course of the same night, but the exact hour of His birth has not been ascertained. After some days of anxious investigation and study, Mulla Husayn became firmly convinced that the Messenger long expected by the Shi'ihs had indeed appeared. His eager enthusiasm over this discovery was soon shared by several of his friends. Before long the majority of the Shaykhis accepted the Bab, becoming known as Babis; and soon the fame of the young Prophet began to spread like wildfire throughout the land.

    * A Traveller's Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Bab with an introduction by E.G. Browne.
  ** A.H.- Anno Hejirae- in the year of Hijrat (i.e. the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 A.D.).

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