Letters of the Living-8 – Dawn Breakers

Mírzá Hadí (*T)
[brother of Mírzá Muhammad-’Alíy-i-Qazvíní]
Mullá Ahmad-i-Ibdál-i-Marághi’í
(*T)
Mullá Mahmúd-i-Khu’í
(*T)
Siyyid-i-Husayn-i-Yazdí
(* martyred in Tihrán)
Mírzá Muhammad Rawdih-Khán-i-Yazdí
Mullá Báqir-i-Tabrízí
59ACT2
Mullá Yúsif-i-Ardibílí
(*T)
Mullá Yúsif-i-Ardibílí
(*T)
Mullá Khudá-Bakhsh-i-Qúchání
[later named Mullá ‘Alí]
Sa’íd-i-Hindí
60ACT2
Táhirih
(* martyred in Tihrán)
Quddús
(*T)

The Letters of the Living together with the Báb formed the first váhid

of the Bábí Dispensation. All except Táhirih met the Báb face to face. Most were young adults. In that fateful year of 1844, the Báb was twenty-five, Mullá Husayn was thirty-one, Táhirih was twenty-eight, and Quddús was twenty-two years old.

And so quietly, extremely quietly, the revolution of the soul of humanity began. It was destined to change history forever.

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⁵¹ Mullá Báqir-i-Tabrízí: Upon leaving Shíráz, he traveled to Karbalá where he assisted Táhirih’ and then traveled to Iran with her; he was present at the Conference of Badasht; he visited the Báb in Chihríq prison in Adhirbáyján and acted as intermediary for the Báb’s correspondence and other items that the Báb wished to be delivered to Bahá’u’lláh [Dawn-Breakers Chapter 23, p04] ; he became a follower of Bahá’u’lláh after visiting Him in Baghdad; traveled twice to Akká to see Bahá’u’lláh; and with Bahá’u’lláh’s permission spent his last days in Constantinople. He is believed to be the longest surviving firm Letter of the Living.

⁵²Sa’íd-i-Hindí: He went to India and there are records of him teaching certain individuals before contact with him was lost. We don’t know his fate.

⁵³Arabic, means unity. The word has an Abjad numerical value of 19 and therefore used to represent that number. The eighteen Letters of the Living plus the Báb form the first váhid of the Bábí Dispensation. This is based on the instructions of the Báb as described in the Dawn-Breakers, Chapter 6, p123. For more information on the Abjad system, see these sources: F. Lewis 1999 Overview of the Abjad Numerological System and Wikipedia Abjad Numerals.

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