# Ahmad-i-Yazd

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> Ahmad-i-Yazd
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> Richard Francis
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> 1993/2003
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> Ahmad was born in the city
> of Yazd around 1800. While in his teens he felt a great attraction towards mysticism
> and would seclude himself to commune with God, with his greatest hope being: to
> face the promised Qá'im. He often associated with dervishes and ascetics who claimed
> to possess some divine insight. His father and family, being orthodox Muslims
> became concerned and tried to persuade him to be less ascetic.
> 
> Ahmad left home (ran away)
> and at around age twenty, traveled to India in the garb of a dervish . He stayed
> with a baker in Bushire ,who claimed to hold a great station in the spiritual
> realms. However, Ahmad soon left for Bombay and continued an ascetic lifestyle
> where he evidently becomes disappointed with the mystics. After prostrating himself
> and chanting the verses of the Qur'an twelve thousand times and not finding the
> object of his quest, he returned to Persia and made his home in Kashan, married,
> had a son and daughter, and worked as a hand-weaver.
> 
> Upper room of the House of the Báb, Shiraz, Iran
> Here is where the Siyyid `Alí-Mohammad first declared that he was the "Gate of
> God" or Báb in the presence of the Shaykhi disciple Mullá Husayn-i-Bushrú`i.
> on May 23, 1844. He thus confirmed that he was the Promised one of Islam, the
> Qá'im, and that his Mission was to prepare the way for another, "Him Whom God
> shall make manifest."
> 
> After numerous years he heard
> news of the Báb from Shiraz and after making inquires, maintained a strong urge
> to investigate. A traveler (probably a Bábí himself) told him to proceed to Mashhad
> where he met the Mullá Sadiq-i-Khurasani and acknowledged the Message of
> the Báb. He was instructed to return to his wife and children in Kashan.
> There he discovered that Hájí Mírzá Jani , whom he had known for some time, was
> also a Bábí.
> 
> The Báb stayed two nights
> in Hájí Mírzá Jani's home while being escorted from Isfahán to Tehran. Ahmad was
> finally able to attain the presence of his Lord. Soon, the number of Bábís in
> Kashan considerably increased and the persecutions started. Ahmad hid in
> a cooling tower for forty days while friends brought food and water in secret.
> 
> He escaped and traveled to
> Baghdad and reached the residence of Bahá'u'lláh. There, he documented accounts
> of the last months of Bahá'u'lláh's stay in that city. He stayed in the close
> proximity to the Blessed Beauty for six years. He also remained in that
> city for some time after Bahá'u'lláh's departure to Constantinople.
> 
> Ahmad longed to attain the
> presence of His Lord again and traveled on to Constantinople. By this time, Bahá'u'lláh
> was in Adrianople where he sent him the Arabic Tablet of Ahmad. He surrendered
> his will to Bahá'u'lláh and returned to Persia to teach and propagate His Message
> to the Bábís. He traveled extensively and a great number of (approximately two
> thousand) Bábís recognized the station of Bahá'u'lláh through Ahmad's dedicated
> efforts and teaching work. Some of the Bábís even showed hostility toward the
> Bahá'i teachings and bore physical threats.
> 
> Ahmad then lived and worked
> in Kashan and carried the original tablet on his person. His wife died
> and his daughter married an official to the court of Nasiri'd-Din Shah
> in Tehran. His son, who died shortly after Ahmad became a Bábí, left a grandson,
> Jamal in his care. Jamal become a lifelong, steadfast Bahá'i.
> 
> Ahmad then went to Shiraz
> and later to Nayriz where he remarried and lived for about twenty years. He wanted
> to see his Daughter in Tehran and arrangements were made for him to stay in Munj.
> By this time he was well into his nineties and was still maintaining utmost health
> and vigor, spending most of his time in meditation on his Tablet. He stayed in
> Munj for four years before he was able to travel to Tehran and also visited Qázvin.
> He lived to be over one hundred and passed away in 1902. His date of birth was
> unknown and one account placed his age at the time of his death to be one hundred
> and thirteen.
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