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followers of the Báb, as “amongst the proofs demonstrating the truth of this Revelation”. He then elaborates on this:
… in every age and Dispensation, whenever the invisible Essence was revealed in the person of His Manifestation, … the divines of the age and those possessed of wealth would scorn and scoff … They caviled at those holy Manifestations, and protested saying: “None hath followed you except the abject amongst us, those who are worthy of no attention.” Their aim was to show that no one amongst the learned, the wealthy, and the renowned believed in them. By this and similar proofs they sought to demonstrate the falsity of Him that speaketh naught but the truth.
In this most resplendent Dispensation, however, … a number of illumined divines, of men of consummate learning, of doctors of mature wisdom, have attained unto His Court, drunk the cup of His divine Presence, and been invested with the honor of His most excellent favour. They have renounced, for the sake of the Beloved, the world and all that is therein. We will mention the names of some of them, that perchance it may strengthen the fainthearted, and encourage the timorous. 110ACT4
Bahá’u’lláh then lists, as examples, some of these names and includes Vahíd [whom He states was “that unique and peerless figure of his age”] and Hujjat. 111ACT4 He then says that these most learned ones of the land who accepted this Revelation at its
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