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The last of the first wave of seekers was a young man who would later be known as Quddús [the Most Holy]105ACT1
Quddús was born about 1822 to a poor family of rice cultivators in Bárfurúsh (northern Persia near the Caspian Sea).106ACT1. At birth he was named Muhammad ‘Alí. Later, when he became a mujtahid, he was commonly known as Mullá Muhammad ‘Alí-i-Bárfurúshí. His mother was a descendant of Imám Hasan (the second Imám). Quddús spent part of his childhood as a servant in the household of a popular Shaykhi leader, Sharí’atmadár, in Bárfurúsh, where he acquired some basic education.107ACT1
104 Title given to him by Bahá’u’lláh at the Conference of Badasht and later confirmed by the Báb [Act 6, Chapter 6].
105 Dawn-Breakers Chapter 24, p 628 gives Quddús’ age in 1844 as 22 years old, which makes his date of birth 1822; although Resurrection and Renewal Chapter 4, p181 calculates his date of birth as 1819-1820.
106Amanat Resurrection and Renewal Chapter 4, p181-182.
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