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repudiator of God Himself.” With these words he terminated the proceedings of that gathering. 80ACT4
One historian records how Hujjat described his own self and his recognition of the Báb:
I was a mullá, so proud and masterful that I would abase myself to no one, not even the late Hájí Siyyid Báqir of Rasht, 81ACT4 who was regarded as the `Proof of Islam’ and the most learned of doctors. My doctrines being after the Akhbárí 82ACT4 school, I differed in certain questions with the mass of the clergy. People complained of me, and Muhammad Sháh summoned me to Tihrán. I came, and he perused my books and informed himself of their purport. I asked him to summon the siyyid [i.e. Siyyid Báqir of Rasht] also, that we might dispute. At first he intended to do so, but afterwards, having considered the mischief which might result, suspended the proposed discussion. To be brief, notwithstanding all this self-sufficiency, as soon as news of the Manifestation of His Holiness reached me, and I had perused a small page of the verses of that Point of the Furqán 83ACT4, I became as one beside himself, and involuntarily, yet with full option, confessed the truth of His claim, and became His devoted slave; for I beheld in Him the most noble of the Prophet’s miracles, and, had I rejected it, I should have rejected the truth of the religion of Islam. 84ACT4
As we will see Hujjat becomes an incredible proponent of the Báb, heads the Bábí upheaval in Zanján, and with many others there, gives his life for the Divine Beloved [DB 24]. 85ACT4 Hujjat was about seven years older than the Báb. 86ACT4
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