* 1863 – Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith, declares his mission as " He whom God shall make manifest ".

‘ Abdu ’ l-Bahá (‎; 23 May 1844 – 28 November 1921 ), born ‘ Abbás Effendí, was the eldest son of Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith.

In 1863 Bahá ' u ' lláh was again exiled to Constantinople.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá was born in Tehran, Iran on 23 May 1844 ( 5th of Jamadiyu ' l-Avval, 1260 AH ), the eldest son of Bahá ' u ' lláh and Navváb.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá accompanied his mother to visit Bahá ' u ' lláh who was then imprisoned in the infamous subterranean dungeon the Síyáh-Chál.

Bahá ' u ' lláh was eventually released from prison but ordered into exile, and ` Abdu ' l-Bahá then eight joined his father on the journey to Baghdad in the winter ( January to April ) of 1853.

After a year of difficulties Bahá ' u ' lláh absented himself rather than continue to face the conflict with Mirza Yahya and secretly secluded himself in the mountains of Sulaymaniyah in April 1854 a month before ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's tenth birthday.

In 1856, news of an ascetic carrying on discourses with local Súfí leaders that seemed to possibly be Bahá ' u ' lláh reached the family and friends.

Immediately, family members and friends went to search for the illusive dervish – and in March brought Bahá ' u ' lláh back to Baghdad.

In 1863 in what became known as the Garden of Ridván Bahá ' u ' lláh announced to a few that he was the manifestation of God and He whom God shall make manifest whose coming had been foretold by the Báb.

In 1863 Bahá ' u ' lláh was summoned to Constantinople ( Istanbul ), and thus his whole family including ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, then nineteen, accompanied him on his 110-day journey.

This was further solidified by Bahá ’ u ’ lláh ’ s tablet of the Branch in which he constantly exalts his son's virtues and station.

It was in Adrianople that Bahá ’ u ’ lláh referred to his son as " the Mystery of God ".

Bahá ' u ' lláh gave his son many other titles such as " the Most Mighty Branch " the " Branch of Holiness ", " the Center of the Covenant " and the apple of his eye.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá (" the Master ") was devastated when hearing the news that him and his family were to be exiled separately from Bahá ' u ' lláh.

Bahá ’ u ’ lláh and his family were – in 1868 – exiled to the penal colony of Acre, Palestine where it was expected that the family would perish.

Fátimih was brought from Persia to Acre, Israel after both Bahá ’ u ’ lláh and his wife Navváb expressed an interest in her to marry ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá himself had showed little inkling to marriage until meeting Fátimih ; who was entitled Munírih by Bahá ’ u ’ lláh.

Bahá ' u ' lláh wished that the Bahá ' ís follow the example of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá and gradually move away from polygamy.

After Bahá ' u ' lláh died on 29 May 1892, the Will and Testament of Bahá ' u ' lláh named ` Abdu ' l-Bahá as Centre of the Covenant, successor and interpreter of Bahá ' u ' lláh's writings.

* Bahá ' u ' lláh, founder of the Bahá ' í Faith, claimed to be the figure prophesied in the scriptures of the world's religions.

Joel Marangella was president of Remey's " Second International Bahá ' í Council " claimed in 1969 to have been secretly appointed by Remey as Guardian several years earlier, whose followers are now known as Orthodox Bahá ' ís.

The Orthodox Bahá ' í Faith is a small Bahá ' í sect that formed in 1960 by Mason Remey, and subsequently was the name used by Joel Marangella after he claimed to be Remey's successor.

Bahá ' u ' lláh claimed to be the Return of Christ.

" Within 20 years of the Báb's death, over 25 people claimed to be the Promised One, most significantly Bahá ' u ' lláh.

Bahá ' u ' lláh claimed that in 1853, while a prisoner in Tehran, he was visited by a " Maid of Heaven ", which symbolically marked the beginning of his mission as a Messenger of God.

In 1863, Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith, claimed to have been the promised messianic figure of all previous religions, and a Manifestation of God, a type of prophet in the Bahá ' í writings that serves as intermediary between the divine and humanity and who speak with the voice of a god.

Bahá ' u ' lláh claimed that, while being imprisoned in the Siyah-Chal in Iran, he underwent a series of mystical experiences including having a vision of the Maid of Heaven who told him of his divine mission, and the promise of divine assistance ; In Bahá ' í belief, the Maid of Heaven is a representation of the divine.

The founder of the Bahá ' í Faith, Bahá ' u ' lláh claimed that he was the return of Christ as well as prophetic expectations of other religions.

While Bahá ' u ' lláh had claimed to have received revelation some ten years earlier in the Síyáh-Chál ( lit.

Well may it be claimed that of all the books revealed by the Author of the Bahá ' í Revelation, this Book alone, by sweeping away the age-long barriers that have so insurmountably separated the great religions of the world, has laid down a broad and unassailable foundation for the complete and permanent reconciliation of their followers.

Bahá ' u ' lláh, the founder of the Bahá ' í Faith, identified the New Jerusalem with his claimed revelation ( the word of God ), and more specifically with the Law of God.

Individuals such as Mírzá Yah &# 803 ; yá, Bahá ' u ' lláh, Áqá Sayyid ` Ali Arab and Mullá Rajab ` Ali who all became Bábís after this period were not and could not have been part of the Letters of the Living as has been claimed in some accounts.

:" After the martyrdom of his son, Abdu ' l-Majid had visited Bahá ' u ' lláh and returned afire with zeal to Khurasan, he was ripped open from waist to throat, and his head exposed on a marble slab to the gaze of a multitude of insulting onlookers, who, after dragging his body ignominiously through the bazaars, left it at the morgue to be claimed by his relatives.

In 1863 in Baghdad, Bahá ' u ' lláh claimed to be the messianic figure expected by the Bab's writings.

Though initially claimed to be using " peaceful methods " allowing harassment but not direct insult or violence, a circle of spies infiltrated Bahá ' í communities seeking out Iranians who were interested in the religion and " reconvert " them back to Islam as well as confronting muballighs or Bahá ' í missionaries.

In Bahá ' í belief, each consecutive messenger prophesied of messengers to follow, and Bahá ' u ' lláh's life and teachings fulfilled the end-time promises of previous scriptures.

Bahá ' ís, however, assert that their religion is a distinct tradition with its own scriptures, teachings, laws, and history.

Bahá ' í scriptures define a Lesser Covenant regarding succession which is intended to keep the Bahá ' ís unified.

The non-medicinal use of opium and other mind-altering drugs are particularly condemned in the Bahá ' í scriptures.

In this work Bahá ' u ' lláh quotes extensively from his own previously revealed scriptures.