Tag: "Mustagháth"

tag name	Mustagháth	type:	Words, phrases
web link	bahai-library.com/tags/Mustaghath
variations or mis-spellings	mustagath
related tags	Him Whom God shall make manifest; Invocations; Lawh-i-Hurufat (Tablet of the Letters)
notes	"The meaning of 'Mustaghath' is: 'He Who is invoked for help.' " – From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer, June 14, 1947, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1577 "... In the Writings of the Báb, “Mustagháth” ("He Who is invoked for help") refers to Bahá’u’lláh, and “the time of ‘Mustagháth’” refers to the time of Bahá’u’lláh’s Dispensation..." – From a memorandum of the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, dated 28 December 2001. 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: "... During the Báb’s confinement in the fortress of Chihríq, where He spent almost the whole of the two remaining years of His life, the Lawḥ-i-Ḥurúfát (Tablet of the Letters) was revealed, in honor of Dayyán—a Tablet which, however misconstrued at first as an exposition of the science of divination, was later recognized to have unravelled, on the one hand, the mystery of the Mustagháth, and to have abstrusely alluded, on the other, to the nineteen years which must needs elapse between the Declaration of the Báb and that of Bahá’u’lláh..." – Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 27 "... The people of the Bayán, who utterly misconceived the purpose underlying that Tablet, thought it to be a mere exposition of the science of Jafr.7 When, at a later time, in the early years of Bahá’u’lláh’s incarceration in the prison city of ‘Akká, Jináb-i-Muballigh made, from Shíráz, his request that He unravel the mysteries of that Tablet, there was revealed from His pen an explanation which they who misconceived the words of the Báb might do well to ponder. Bahá’u’lláh adduced from the statements of the Báb irrefutable evidence proving that the appearance of the Man-Yuzhiruhu’llah8 must needs occur no less than nineteen years after the Declaration of the Báb. The mystery of the Mustagháth9 had long baffled the most searching minds among the people of the Bayán and had proved an unsurmountable obstacle to their recognition of the promised One. The Báb had Himself in that Tablet unravelled that mystery; no one, however, was able to understand the explanation which He had given. It was left to Bahá’u’lláh to unveil it to the eyes of all men...." 7. Science of divination. 8. Reference to Bahá’u’lláh. See Glossary. [Man-Yuzhiruh’llah: “He whom God will make manifest.” Title given by the Báb to the promised One] 9. See Glossary [Mustagháth: “He who is invoked”; the numerical value of which has been assigned by the Báb as the limit of the time fixed for the advent of the promised Manifestation.] – Nabíl-i-Aʻzam, The Dawn-Breakers: Nabil's Narrative of the Early Days of the Bahá'í Revelation, pp. 304-305 (British edition p. 220)
references	bahai9.com/wiki/Mustaghath; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Mustaghath

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