Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder110/Note2

This is the day when the Bab in Shiraz made his claim to be the Gate (al-Bab) to the knowledge of the Hidden Imam (see Introduction). The date was the fifth of Jamadi Awwal A.H. 1260, or 23rd May, 1844. Notice that Baha'u'llah refers to al-Bab not as a major manifestation (zuhur) as the Babis had considered him to be, but as a Teller-of-Good- News about the coming of Baha'u'llah. "We sent him," says Baha'u'llah.