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Spread of the Bábí Movement |
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The first eighteen disciples of the Báb (with Himself as
nineteenth) became known as “Letters of the Living.” These
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disciples He sent to different parts of Persian and Turkistán to
spread the news of His advent. Meantime He Himself set out
on a pilgrimage to Mecca, where He arrived in December
1844, and there openly declared His mission. On His return to
Búshihr great excitement was caused by the announcement of
His Bábhood. The fire of His eloquence, the wonder of His
rapid and inspired writings, His extraordinary wisdom and
knowledge, His courage and zeal as a reformer, aroused the
greatest enthusiasm among His followers, but excited a corresponding
degree of alarm and enmity among the orthodox
Muslims. The Shí’ih doctors vehemently denounced Him, and
persuaded the Governor of Fárs, namely Ḥusayn Khán, a
fanatical and tyrannical ruler, to undertake the suppression of
the new heresy. Then commenced for the Báb a long series of
imprisonments, deportations, examinations before tribunals,
scourgings and indignities, which ended only with His martyrdom
in 1850.
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