mir'at

Updated: May 8, 2025

The title Mir'at, therefore, involves some limitation of Ezel's dignity, and its object apparently is to prevent Ṣubḥ-i-Ezel from claiming to be 'He whom God will make manifest. That is, the Bāb in his last years had an intuition that the eternal day would not be ushered into existence by this impractical nature. How, then, came the Bāb to give Mirza Yaḥya such a name?

Thomas Kelly Cheyne - The Reconciliation of Races and Religions