Storytelling Sundays # 4: The resistless march of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh

This talk follows the second talk on how Bahá’u’lláh re-created the Bábi community of Baghdad: it develops the period of crisis that we alluded to but did not delve into, and it also continues Baha’u’lláh’s exile from Baghdad through Constantinople (Istanbul) and to Adrianople (Edirne). In this talk three important quotes by Shoghi Effendi on crisis and victory are going to guide our analysis of two episodes of external and internal crises,in the life of Bahá’u’lláh and what followed each of them.

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ERRATUM: I am very sorry to say that I confused Tablets when speaking about the Lawḥ-i-Sultán. It is in fact not in this Tablet that Bahá’u’lláh recounts the story of the puppet show in His childhood, but rather in the

Timestamp: https://youtu.be/hKjeDnvJMwM?t=2600

Section of Lawḥ-i-Raís (Second Tablet to ‘Alí Páshá) revealed shortly after His arrival in ‘Akká in which Bahá’u’lláh speaks about the puppet show:

https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/summons-lord-hosts/9#546226407

Which begins with the words:

“When I was still a child and had not yet attained the age of maturity, My father made arrangements in Ṭihrán for the marriage of one of My older brothers, and as is customary in that city, the festivities lasted for seven days and seven nights. On the last day it was announced that the play “Sháh Sulṭán Salím” would be presented. »

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