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 The Bab

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The Bab Famous memorial

Original Name
Siyyid Ali-Muhammad
Birth
Shiraz, Fars, Iran
Death
9 Jul 1850 (aged 30)
Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, Iran
Burial
Haifa, Haifa District, Israel
Plot
Same shrine as 'Abdu'l-Bahá
Memorial ID
8473 View Source

The Gate, Founder of the Babi Faith and Forerunner to Baha'u'llah. He was shot to death with 750 rifles. They had to do it twice because the first time they tried, he warned them that, "Not until I have said all that I wish to say, can any earthly power silence me, though all the world be armed against me, yet shall they be powerless to deter me from fulfilling to the last word, my intention!" After they fired, when the smoke cleared, The Bab had disappeared. and was found 2 hours later, in his jail cell, finishing his final tablet, when he was done, he said, "I have finished my talk with my secretary, now you may kill me."

The Gate, Founder of the Babi Faith and Forerunner to Baha'u'llah. He was shot to death with 750 rifles. They had to do it twice because the first time they tried, he warned them that, "Not until I have said all that I wish to say, can any earthly power silence me, though all the world be armed against me, yet shall they be powerless to deter me from fulfilling to the last word, my intention!" After they fired, when the smoke cleared, The Bab had disappeared. and was found 2 hours later, in his jail cell, finishing his final tablet, when he was done, he said, "I have finished my talk with my secretary, now you may kill me."


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  • Maintained by: Find a Grave
  • Added: 13 Feb 2000
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID: 8473
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8473/the_bab: accessed ), memorial page for The Bab (20 Oct 1819–9 Jul 1850), Find a Grave Memorial ID 8473, citing Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel, Haifa, Haifa District, Israel; Maintained by Find a Grave.