Tag: "Mulla Jafar (sifter of wheat)"

tag name	Mulla Jafar (sifter of wheat)	type:	People
web link	bahai-library.com/tags/Mulla_Jafar_(sifter_of_wheat)
variations or mis-spellings	Mullá Muhammad Ja'far Gandum-Pák-Kun
related tags	Abased and the exalted, The
notes	The first person in Isfahán to accept the Faith of the Báb. See also: – Covenant Library Unified Index
selected quotations (authoritative sources)	These quotations reflect common presentations of Bahá’í views; the materials below may show a wider range of interpretations and contexts: "... In the land of Ṣád [Iṣfahán], which to outward seeming is a great city, in every corner of whose seminaries are vast numbers of people regarded as divines and doctors, yet when the time came for inmost essences to be drawn forth, only its sifter of wheat donned the robe of discipleship. This is the mystery of what was uttered by the kindred of the Prophet Muḥammad—upon them be the peace of God—concerning this Revelation, saying that the abased shall be exalted and the exalted shall be abased..." – Selections from the Writings of the Báb, Persian Bayán, VIII, 14 179. a sifter of wheat and barley ¶166 This is an allusion to Mullá Muḥammad Ja‘far Gandum-Pák-Kun, the first person in Iṣfahán to accept the Faith of the Báb. He is mentioned in the Persian Bayán and praised as one who “donned the robe of discipleship.” In The Dawn-Breakers, Nabíl describes the unreserved acceptance of the Message by the “sifter of wheat” and his zealous advocacy of the new Revelation. He joined the company of the defenders of the Fort of Shaykh Ṭabarsí and perished during that siege. – Kitáb-i-Aqdas, note 154
references	bahaipedia.org/Mullá_Ḥusayn#Isfahan

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