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Date 1898-00-01, sorted by date, ascending

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1898 (In the year)
189-		 `Abdu'l-Bahá instructed that the remains of the Báb be brought from their hiding place in Tihrán to the Holy Land. [BBD209]

In the 48 years since His martyrdom the Remains of the Báb had been secreted from a silk factory in Tabriz to Ṭihrán, Iṣfáhán, Kirmansháh, Baghdád, Damascus, Beirut and finally to 'Akká and then to the Mountain of God. [CoF54]

He insisted that the utmost secrecy be observed. "The dangers inherent in conserving such a precious Trust were enhanced tenfold with the defection of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's brothers….Spies in the employ of these disloyal members of Bahá'u'lláh's own family could be found in the telegraph offices and ports throughout the region." [LWS147]

  • See Summon Up Remembrance by Marzieh Gail p127–128 for an account of the photograph of a shipping crate taken in Beirut by Mírzá Asadu’lláh of Isfahán, the brother-in-law of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, which he interpreted as the fulfillment of a Qur’ānic prophecy (69:17).
  • Picture of the shipping crate.
    		•  Báb, Remains of; Báb, Shrine of (Haifa); Iran; Tehran, Iran
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