…Following the story of the life of the Báb as we celebrate the bicentenary of His Birth (1819)

September 17, 2019

The Báb’s reference to His wedding

In the Surih of Qarábat [chapter of Kinship] of Qayyúmu'l-Asmá', the Báb makes a reference to His wedding:

"O concourse of Light! Hear My call from the point of Fire in this ocean of snow-white water on this crimson earth. Verily, I am God, besides Whom there is no other God. On the exalted throne a beloved noble woman, bearing the same name [Khadijih] as the beloved of the First Friend [the Prophet Muhammad], was wedded to tins Great Remembrance; and verily, I caused the angels of Heaven and the denizens of Paradise, on the day of the Covenant, to bear witness, in truth, to God’s Remembrance” 

(Provisional translation, included as a footnote in ‘Mirza Habibu’llah Afnan’s ‘Tarikh Amr-i-Fars va Shiraz’, translated and annotated as ‘The Genesis of the Bábi-Baha’i Faiths in Shiraz and Fars’, by Ahang Rabbani)