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1861 -1862
186-		 Bahá'u'lláh revealed the Kitáb-i-Íqán (The Book of Certitude), 'a comprehensive exposition of the nature and purpose of religion'. In the early days this Tablet was referred to as the Risáliy-i-Khál (Epistle of the Uncle). [BBD134, 162; BKG159; BBD134; BBRSM64–5; GPB138–9; RB1:158]
  • Online at bahai.org: Kitáb-i-Íqán: The Book of Certitude.
  • The Tablet was revealed in answer to four questions put to Bahá'u'lláh by Hájí Mírzá Siyyid Muhammad, a maternal uncle and caregiver of the Báb (the Greater Uncle, the eldest of the three brothers). He had been persuaded by a devout Bábí, Aqá Mírzá Núru'd-Dín, to make a pilgrimage to the holy Shrines of the Imáms in Iraq and where he could put these questions to Bahá'u'lláh as well as visit his sister, the mother of the Báb, who was not yet herself a Bábí. [BBD134, 162; BKG163–5; RB1:158]
  • It was revealed in the course of two days and two nights in early January. [BBS107; BBD 134; BKG165; GPB238; RB1:158]
  • The original manuscript, in the handwriting of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, is in the Bahá'í International Archives. See Reflections p149 for the story of the receipt of the original tablet, written in the hand of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, by Shoghi Effendi in the Holy Land. [BKG165; RB1:159]
  • It was probably the first of Bahá'u'lláh's writings to appear in print. [BKG165; EB121]
  • For a discussion of the circumstances of its revelation, its content and major themes see RB1:153–97.
  • BEL1.77 gives the year of Revelation as 1862.
    		•  * Bahá'u'lláh, Basic timeline; * Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of; * Bahá'u'lláh, Writings of (before Declaration); * Bahaullah (chronology); - Basic timeline, Condensed; - Basic timeline, Expanded; - Christianity; - Islam; - Uncles; Báb, Family of; Báb, Uncles of; Baghdad, Iraq; Bible; Hájí Mírzá Siyyid Muhammad; Interfaith dialogue; Iran; Iraq; Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude); Prophecies; Quran; Tehran, Iran First (probably) of Bahá'u'lláh's writings to appear in print
    1861 25 Jun
    186-    		 Death of Sultán 'Abdu'l-Majíd and accession of Sultán 'Abdu'l-'Azíz to the Ottoman throne. He ruled until 1876. [BBR485]
  • Note: BKG139 says this was 14 August.
    		•  Istanbul, Turkey; Ottoman Empire; Sultán `Abdu'l-Azíz; Sultán `Abdu'l-Majid; Turkey
    1861 or 1862
    186-    		 Mullá Sádiq-i-Muqaddas-i-Khurásání (Ismu'láhu'l-Asdaq), a Bábí and father of Ibn Asdaq, met Bahá'u'lláh in Baghdád and became a follower. Previously he had recognized the Báb through a dream and the memory of seeing Him in the congregation during a sermon he had delivered in a mosque in Karbila when a ray of light shone on the lap of the Báb as he sat listening attentively. [BKG18; PG108-109] Baghdad, Iraq; Iraq; Ismullahul-Asdaq (Mulla Sadiq Khurasani)
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