Considering that His Holiness the Báb emerged from a Shiite context in the city of Shiraz, Persia, why is He primarily referred to as ‘the Báb’ and not primarily as Imam Mehdi, the Mehdi, or this type of title? What is the significance of being called ‘the Báb’?
"The resume of the fifteenth door. It is obligatory for each person to leave someone (a child) after himself. Your children, when they arrive at the age of eleven, marry them off.
If one has the power to marry off his child and does not do so, his acts are in vain."
(The Arabic Bayan, p. 78 - translated by A.L.M. Nicolas and Peter Terry, 1980)
My brother brought up an interesting question that I feel I have taken for granted. When Christ said he would return was He referring to Muhammad as well since He was the Prophet directly after Christ? Or was He just referring to the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh?
