# 1844 A.D.: Pinpoint Target of All Faiths

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> Source: Bahá'í Library Online (bahai-library.com), curated by Jonah Winters. Used by permission of the curator. Original citation: Harilal M. Munje, 1844 A.D.: Pinpoint Target of All Faiths, New Delhi, India: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1982/1987, bahai-library.com.
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> 1844AD.
> PINPOINT TARGET
> OF ALL FAITHS
> 
> by
> DR H.M. MUNJE
> 
> Baha'i Publishing Trust
> New Delhi
> Published by BA.HA.'~PUBLISHING TRUST oflndia
> Baha'f House, 6 Canning Road, New Delhi I 10001, India
> 
> Copyright© Dr. RM Munje 1982
> 
> Originally published in 1982in Malaysia by the Spiritual
> Assembly of the Baha'is of Malaysia .
> 
> This First Indian 1987 edition is published with the per-
> mission of the National Spiritual Assembly of the
> Baha'is of Malaysia .
> 
> ISBN 81-85091-26-9
> 
> Printed in India by Unicom Iteroational
> THE GREATNESS
> OF THIS DAY
> 
> Baha'u' llah says :
> 
> "The time fore-ordained unto the peoples and kindreds of
> the earth is now come. The promises of God, as recorded in
> the Holy Scriptures, have all beenfulfilled.
> "This is the Day which the Pen of the Most High hath
> glorified in all the Scriptures. " - Gleanings, X
> 
> "There hath appeared in this Revelation what hath never
> appeared before. " - Gleanings, LXVII
> 
> "This New World Order... this wondrous system - the like
> of which mortal eyes have never witnessed. Immerse yourselves
> in the ocean of My words, that ye may unravel its secrets,and
> discover all the pearls of wisdom that lie hid in its depths. "
> -Gleanings, LXX
> 
> "Canst thou discover any one but Me, 0 Pen, in this
> Day? What hath become of the creation and the manifes-
> tations thereof? What of the names and their kingdoms ?
> Whither are gone all created things, whether seen or unseen ?
> What of the hidden secrets of the universe and its revelations?
> Lo, the entire creation hath passed away. Nothing remaineth
> except My Face, the Ever-abiding, the Resplendent, the All-
> Glorious." - Gleanings, XIV
> 
> ''/ beseech Thee, 0 my God, by that Letter which, as soon
> as it proceeded out of the mouth of Thy will, hath caused the
> oceans to surge, and the winds to blow, and the fruits to be
> revealed, and the trees to springforth, and all past traces to
> vanish, and all veils to be rent asunder, and them who are
> devoted to Thee to hasten unto the light of the Countenanceof
> their Lord, the Unconstrained, to make known unto me what
> lay hid in the treasuries of Thy Knowledge and concealed
> within the repositories of Thy wisdom. " - Prayers and
> Meditations, CLXXVII
> 
> "I testify that no scionerhad the First Word proceeded,
> through the potency of Thy will and purpose, out of His
> mouth , and the First Call gone forth from His lips that the
> whole creation was revolutionized, and all that are in the
> heavens and all that are on earth were stirred to the depths.
> Through that Word the realities of the created things were
> shaken , were divided, separated, scattered, combined and
> reunited, disclosing, in both the contingent world and the
> heavenly kingdom, entities of a new creation, and revealing,
> in the unseen realms, the signs and tokens of Thy unity and
> oneness. Through that Call Thou didst announce unto all Thy
> servants the advent of Thy Most Great Revelation and the
> appearance of Thy Most Pe,ject Cause." - Prayers and
> Meditations, CLXXVIII
> 
> "This is the Day wherein naught can be seen except the
> splendorsof the Light that shinethfrom the Face of Thy Lord,
> the Gracious, the Most Bountiful. Verily, We have caused
> every soul to expire by virtue of our i"esistible and all subdu-
> ing sovereignty. We have, then , called unto being a new crea-
> tion , as a token of Our grace unto men . I am, verily, the
> All-Bountiful, the Ancient of Days." - Gleanings.,XIV
> 
> "This is a matchless Day ... the Desireof all nations .... The
> whole human race hath longedfor this Day ... The allusions
> made in the Scriptures have been unfolded, and the signs
> recordedtherein have been revealed..." - Gleanings, XV
> 
> "The promise is fulfilled, that which had been announced
> in the Holy Writ of God, the Most Exalted, the Almighty, the
> Most Beloved, is made manifest." - Gleanings, CV
> 
> "Say: 0 people: The Day, promised unto you in all the
> Scriptures, is now come. " - Gleanings, CXLIV
> 
> "Neither Sun nor Moon hath witnessed a day such as
> this."
> 
> Baha'u'llah declared this truth over a hundred years
> ago and , it has been literally proved and made manifest
> in many respects . Moon had never in the past seen a day
> in which a man from this earth could have gone onto the
> moon , and , after digging out a specimen from its
> ground , would have brought it back to this earth for
> chemical analysis . Sun also , from an immensity of space-
> distance must have been astonished, musing within itself.
> While looking at such an unprecedented and even
> unbelievable event in the universe as a whole .
> 
> Baha'u'llah has rightly said : "In the days to come, ye
> will verily, behold things of which ye have never heard
> before . Thus hath it been decreed in the Tablets of God ,
> and none can comprehend it except they whose sight is
> sharp."
> 
> 1844
> But, now, everybody can see them because promised
> events have actually and openly taken place and results
> thereof are manifest .
> 
> Similarly, the pinpoint target year, viz. 1844 A.D.
> had been prophesied in the Holy Books of each and all
> the Religions of the past, including the Hindu Faith ,
> Jewish Faith , Zoroastrian Faith , Buddhist Faith , Chris-
> tianity and Islam .
> 
> The period of arrangement while well establishing
> Islam, even in the West was 260 years A.H., and in that
> same year, 11th Imam, }Jasan 'Askari who was the last
> Imam , ascended to paradise , and thereafter, one thou-
> sand years, as per prophecy in the Holy Qur'an in the
> Surih of Sijdih, Verse 1, when the Command of God
> ascended back unto God. This took place in 1260 A .H .
> when the Bab declared Himself as the long awaited Imam,
> Mihdi, and terminated "Duru's-satr", the Age of Hiding,
> "and inaugurated" the New Cycle of Discoveries, "Duru'l
> Kashr:
> 
> Jesus Christ promised His Second Coming and de-
> scribed many signs attending His Second appearance in
> this world , including the renovation of the sanctuary.
> When asked about the time , he referred His disciples
> to Daniel the Jewish Prophet, who had symbolically
> prophesied the time of Renovation at the completion of
> 2300 days and , according to the Book of "Numbers" in
> the Old Testament a day is equal to a year. Now, this
> sanctuary was built up by the Jewish Prophet Ezra in 456
> B .C. So, by deducting this period of 456 B .C. from 2300
> years, the exact year 1844 A .D. comes, when, actually
> the Bab declared. The Renewal , and a New Baha'i Cycle
> started. This had fulfilled both the Jewish and the Chris-
> tian prophecies indeed.
> 
> Nearly 2000 years ago , Jesus Christ appeared and pro-
> mised His second coming , describing many signs attend-
> ing His second appearance in this world . One important
> sample of these promises is found in Thief in the Night by
> William Sears, and the reader can refer to that book for
> details . Our treatment here will be brief. One promise
> that Jesus Christ made about His return was recorded in
> the New Testament of the Bible in the book of Matthew,
> Chapter 24. In verse 3 we find, "And as he sat upon the
> mount of Olives, the disciples came upto him privately,
> saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? And what
> shall be the sign of thy coming?" Jesus Christ then
> foretold that "iniquity shall abound" in that day and the
> "love of many shall wax cold" and followed with His pro-
> mise in verse 15: "When ye therefore shall see the
> abomination of desolation , spoken of by Daniel the pro-
> phet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him
> understand.)" Chapters 8-12 of the Old Testament book
> of Daniel deal with this subject. Specifically, in Daniel,
> Chapter 8, verses 13-14, we read," How long shall be the
> vision concerning the daily sacrifice , and the abomina-
> tion of desolation , to give the sanctuary and the host to be
> trodden under foot? And he said upto me, Unto two
> thousand and three hundred days : then shall the
> sanctuary be cleansed." Now, Biblical scholars have
> noted that in the Bible a "day" becomes a "year" when
> calculating the passing of time. For instance, in the book
> of Numbers 14: 34 it is stated, "Even forty days, each
> day for a year." Therefore, 2300 years were to pass before
> the sanctuary would be cleansed . Some Biblical scholars
> prior to 1844 felt that this referred to one of four decrees
> mentioned in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah to rebuild
> Jerusalem, with the third decree, mentioned in the 7th
> chapter of Ezra , most generally accepted as the correct
> one. This was issued by Artaxerxes in the year 457 B .C.
> "Some scholars pointed out that from the issuing of the
> decree in 457 until the birth of Christ there were 456
> years , not 457 ; therefore, it was necessary to subtract 456
> from 2300. This left the year 1844."
> 
> In "D asatir-1-~mam
> ' ' • " - ' '" th e "Book of H eaven 1y Com-
> mandments" of the Zoroastrian Faith , the exact time is
> indicated in this way : "When the people of Iran will
> become wicked and do evils ... at that time a Man shall
> rise up from the Arabs , through whose disciples they will
> loose the crown , the throne , the land , and their religion ,
> and be destroyed ... By the lapse of one thousand years ,
> after the establishment of that Arabic Religion, His
> followers will have already spoiled their Faith so much by
> splitting up themselves into sects that, were it to be pre-
> sented to its Founder, He would not recognise the same .
> Thus shalt thou see the Iranians that they shall not listen
> to any Wise Man. Were some one to say the Truth, they
> shall feel ill , and, instead of responding wisely they shall
> come out with weapons to fight with Him . The worst
> among the evil deeds of Iranians is that they have killed
> the One Who , though from amongst themselves , was the
> Sovereign Lord of all the Angelic Attributes."
> 
> The above prophecy foretells the coming of Islam in
> Iran , and then , when the establishment of Islam will be
> completed, that is to say that, from the year of the ascen-
> sion of the 11th Imam l;Iasan 'Askari in 260 A.H. one
> thousand years more will pass , and, exactly in the year
> 1260 A.H. i.e. 1844 A .D. a New Era will start. Also the
> Martyrdom of the Bab , "the Sovereign Lord of all the
> Angelic Attributes" is already foretold in this prophecy.
> 
> Now, we shall see clearly the ancient most prophecies
> for the pinpoint year - 1844 A .D. in the Hindu Holy
> Books:
> 
> "Manu Smriti", "the Memorandum of Manu" , the
> Divine Law-Giver to mankind , described the life span of
> the Universe which is merely a speck in the Creation of
> God . He also specified calculations of the eternally cyclic
> life span of Brahma . The Divine Agency of the Creative
> Attribute of God , large and minor Religious Cycles of
> Virtues comprising of various aeons , ages , epocs and
> their linking periods , His book is known as the Source of
> all laws , or "Law-Codes of Manu" , also "Yug-Shastra"
> means "the Book of Yug ," in which Manu has declared
> the beginning of a long big cycle of 12000years containing
> within itself 4 minor and uneven periodic cycles , at the
> termination of which the beginning of a new "Krit Yug"
> which means the "Cycle of Truth in Deeds" will start .
> 
> "Manu-smriti" or "Manava Dharma-sastra" the Code or
> Institutes of Manu . A collection of laws based on custom
> and precedent and the teaching of the Vedas . It is
> traditionally attributed to the mythical first Manu,
> Svayambhuva, but it is obviously the work of many
> hands . Buhler suggests that is was probably based on
> 'manuals written by the teachers of the Vedic schools for
> the guidance of their pupils . . . and only later ack-
> nowledged as sources of sacred law applicable to all
> Aryas' . (Laws of Manu, SBE Sacred Books of the East, pp .
> XIF; V. also CHI The Cambridge History of India, I, p .
> 278 .) Thus they represent 'the sum of the conditions of
> social co-existence with regard to the activity of the com-
> munity and of the individual' (R . Pal , History of Indian
> lAw, p . 2) in India during almost the whole of the first
> millennium B .C. . ...
> 
> Divine revelation (sruti) and empirical knowledge
> (smrti) are drawn upon to define the Law of Conduct and
> to apply it, though not always impartially, to all classes of
> the community.
> 
> As per the calculations given in Manu Smriti , Chapter
> I, Verses 68 to 72: that long cycle was to end exactly in
> 1844 A .D. and the New Era was to begin, which Most
> Great Event has already taken place at the moment when
> the Bab declared himself.
> 
> The exact calculation is as follows :
> NameofYug           Prelink       Duration    Post-    Full
> Link     Period
> 
> SatYug              100       +1000          +100     =1200
> Treta Yug           200       +2000          +200     =2400
> DwaparYug           300       +3000          +300     =3600
> Kali Yug            400       +4000          +400     =4800
> 
> Grand Total                                    years = 12000
> 
> In India we have roughly the history of 5000 years , or
> a little more. We have no records of the pre-historic
> Yugas and their prelink and postlink periods . Of course ,
> we have all legendary records about Sat Yug, Treta Yug
> and Dwapar Yug, along with Manifestations of God Who
> appeared in succession , one after the other, during those
> three Yugas and even those before Manu. Rig Ved was
> revealed by Agni Rishi, Yajur Ved by Vayu Rishi, Sam
> Ved by Aditya Rishi and Atharva Ved by Angira Rishi.
> "Rishi" means "a Divine Sage" or a "Sage having Divine
> Authority" .
> 
> Manu , like Moses , confirmed all the four previous
> Holy Revelations and the Divine Revealers thereof and
> gave ten commandments, and many codes of laws, de-
> scribed Genesis of this world , Cycles of previous Manus
> and prophesied future aeons , cycles and ages .
> 
> What we can now calculate with historic accuracies is
> the period of little more than 5000 years , viz . from the
> time of Bhagwan Shri Krishna, The Divine Revealer of
> the Holy Gita, Who was born 5207 years ago from now
> i.e . 1982 A .D. In those days Solar System of almanac
> was not known, and a calendar showing Lunar years was
> prevailing. After about 3000 years from Bhagwan Shri
> Krishna there was a noble king Vikramaditya who in 56
> B .C. in-augurated the Solar Calendar, using the same
> names of the months but adding one duplicate month
> "Adhik Mas" in every third year. which became a leap
> year, and also adjusting some duplicate dates "Adhik
> Tithies" in various months . This Vikram Samvat is now
> running its 2039th year. But, Shri Krishna Samvat is also
> simultaneously running 5207th year because Shri
> Krishna's devotees are observing their religious rites and
> sacred duties according to Shri Krishna Samvat Calen-
> dar. Vikram Samvat has always been, and even now is ,
> 56 years ahead of the Christian Calendar which runs on
> the Gregorian Solar System .
> 
> Shri Krishna Calendar has 355 days in each year, and
> hence 10¼ days less than the Christian Calendar year.
> We have therefore to add 10¼ days per year to Shri
> Krishna Samvat which is now 5207 .
> 
> From Vishnu Puran, Part IV, Chapter 24, Verses 109
> and 113 , we learn that "on the day Bhagwan Krishna
> ascended to His Holy Abode, at his age of 126 years
> according to Shri Krishna Samvat Calendar, Kali Yug
> did put its first foot on earth". "Kali" literally means "a
> bud ; a petal of the flower; then , strifes , clash , quarrel;
> wars; one side of die;" (Refer to "Amar-Koshi" Sanskrit
> Dictionary) . In Vishnu Puran it is also stated that so long
> as Bhagwan Shri Krishna was touching this earth with His
> wtus Feet, Kali Yug could not put its foot on earth . The
> word "Kali" has a dual meaning, which depicts that a
> beautiful bud and a fragrant rose also, ultimately decays,
> dries up and dies out. Hence, there are clear-cut proph-
> ecies in the Hindu Scriptures about the bad events to
> come and evil occurrances to happen at the end part of
> Kali Yug - "Kaliyugantey". Usually Hindus and also the
> generality of the people think that Kali Yug as a whole is
> an evil age , which it is not . Because it is God's open and
> loudest declaration that whenever a God-Man, Manifes-
> tation of Divinity, appears on earth He most assuredly
> brings once again and establishes Religion, and an age of
> Righteousness in the world of Humanity is renewed. The
> same thing was exactly done by Shri Krishna . He did
> establish a beautifully budding civilisation, a spiritualised
> nobility flourishing like the opening of a petal - "Kali" -
> of a fragrant rose . He specially claims : ' I am the flowery
> Spring Season" "Aham Rutuna Kusumakarah" , Gita X.
> So Kali was a budding age of goodness, which, at the last
> end, during its "Sandhayansh" the twilight point of 400
> years , decayed and became worse and worse and finally
> died in 1844 A .D. which was the 5065th year of Shri
> Krishna Samvat.
> 
> From these 5065 years of Shri Krishna Samvat we
> deduct 126 years of Shri Krishna's life on earth, what
> remained is 4939 years of 355 days each . Converting them
> into Solar years of 365 .25 days each : 4939 X 355 =
> 1753345 + 365 .25 = 4800 .3969 years . The year 1844 A .D .
> synchronizes with this year 4800 .3969 . The fraction
> 0 .3969 depicts 4 months , 24 days , 23 hours , 13 minutes
> and 31 .008 seconds of the year 1844 A .D. or the year
> 4800 of the expiry of Kali Yug. The prophecy says that
> Kali Yug will end at this particular year, and by the end
> of the age there will appear a Manifestation of God Who
> will inaugurate a New "Krityug" which means "the Age of
> Deeds" . This is exactly what the Bab had done on the
> 23rd of May 1844 A .D. 2 hours and 11 minutes after sun-
> set, and fulfilled the great and long-standing prophecy.
> 
> There is a definite method of God usually found in all
> the prophetic Books , that prophecies and predictions for
> the remote future events are always made in the form of
> riddles and allegories , so that they remain concealed and
> locked up in the safe custodies of the knowledge of God
> and His Saints and the possessors of spiritual insight only
> till the actual happenings and events take place and the
> Promised One from God appears and unlocks mysteries
> with His Master Key . This Divine arrangement is a very
> wise system meant for just safeguarding the real truth
> seekers and devotees of God from false claimants and
> pseudo prophets who generally try to misguide the peo-
> ple , though themselves know nothing about the mysteries
> and are ignorant of the realities of the Divine prophecies .
> saints and holy persons make significant prophecies and
> indicate hidden mysteries. In the year 1565 A .D. saint
> Surdas straightaway made an exact pinpoint prophecy for
> the target year 1844 A .D. in unambiguous and very
> emphatic terms . Surdas was a blind saint who lived in
> Parsavli village , near Mathura , the birth-place of Shri
> Krishna in Uttar Pradesh, India. In the year 1587 he
> passed away at the age of 94 years . At that time Vikram
> Samvat was prevailing in India and the Gregorian Solar
> Calendar throughout the world .
> 
> Manu in His Divine wisdom, knew that by the time
> Kali Yug will end there shall be Solar System of all the
> Calendars prevailing universally. And hence , he gave all
> calculations in His prophecy in Solar Years .
> 
> Brief but poignant prophecy of saint Surdas is as
> follows:
> 
> 0 Mind! Why dost thou not have patience ? None can
> put back the destined march of events.
> 
> Meghnath - the son of Ravana shall take birth again .
> 
> One thousand nine hundred and above, such event shall
> occur that a cycle of Truth shall prevail for a thousand
> years to come and the creeperof Religion shall start rising
> high.
> 
> The Golden Flower shall bloom on earth , and then alone
> the condition of the World shall take a tum .
> 0 Surdas ! This is the Mysterious Play of God, which
> cannot be averted.
> 
> In the above prophecies saint Surdas begins and ends
> with strong and firm and unambiguous notes of assertion
> that whatever he has said shall inevitably come to pass
> and none can resist it, or put it back.
> 
> He says that there shall be the return of "Meghnath"
> who was a monstrous king and the enemy of Rama - the
> Manifestation of God. Also Meghnath was the son of
> "Ravana" who was also a king and the enemy of Rama.
> This has actually taken place : King Muhammad Shah
> was the enemy of the Bab , and after Muhammad Shah
> came his son Na{>iru'd-DinShah, by whose order the Bab
> -was martyred , thousands of His followers were killed ,
> butchered , burnt alive and tyranized in the most horrible
> fashions in the history of human beings . Also N.i&iru'd-
> Din Shah imprisoned Baha'u'llah, 'Abdu'l-Baha, and the
> whole Holy Family, and banished them to 'Akka, in
> league with the Turkish government, and thirty thousand
> Baha'1s were most cruelly martyred, men, women and
> children, and even suckling babes in the unprecedented
> demonical manner . Then saint Surdas says that one thou-
> sand nine hundred and above , such an event shall occur
> that the cycle of Truth shall prevail for a thousand years
> to come and religion shall start rising high slowly like a
> creeper.
> 
> As we already know that this Hindu Vikram Samvat
> runs 56 years ahead of the Christian calendar , 1900
> Vikram Samvat was therefore exactly in 1844A.D. to wit:
> 1900 - 56=1844. And saint Surdas says "1900 and above;
> this "above" means not one full-year but a fraction more
> than 1900. And that also was fulfilled , because the Bab
> declared in the month of May on the 22nd, 2 hours and
> 11 minutes after sunset to be exact 4 months , 22 days 2
> hours and 11 minutes above 1900Vikram Samvat.
> 
> The Baha'i Era started in 1844 A.D. and the Baha'i
> Faith shall run its first course for not less than one thou-
> sand years as no Manifestation of God, according to
> Baha'u'llah , shall appear before the completion of one
> full thousand years . According to saint Surdas the Baha'i
> Faith is now growing like a creeper , and a time will surely
> come when the Golden Age of the Cause of Baha'u'llah
> shall certainly come, when "the golden flower" shall
> bloom on earth and the condition of the world shall be
> changed and "Heaven on earth" or "Ramrajya" i.e. "the
> Kingdom of God" shall be firmly established on earth.
> 
> Of course, this shall come to pass and "none shall
> have the power to resist or avert it" .
> 
> ONE
> UNIVERSAL SOURCE
> 
> Baha'u'llah says :
> 
> "Soon will the present day order be rolled up and a New
> One spread out in its stead. Verily, Thy Lord speaketh the
> Truth and is the Knower of things unseen. "
> "When the moon, the Sun, similarly the Heavenly Archer
> Jupiter, the Master - shall come evenly in one Zodiacal sign
> then the Krit Yug - the Cycle of Truth shall be."
> Vishnu Puran - W, Chapter24, Verse102.
> 
> "When the prevailingcycleshall be coming to naught there
> shall be tumultous upheavals and clashes. When the Moon,
> the Sun . as also the Heavenly Archer Jupiter - the Master -
> shall come in a single Zodiacal sign , it is then that the Age of
> Action - the Krit Yug - shall come " - Mahabharat. Vana
> Parva, Chapter1 , Verse90.
> 
> This prophecy is symbolical; like that of the Qur'an,
> where also , the Sun and the Moon are foretold as coming
> together and the moon to be eclipsed , means Baha'u'llah
> and Bab together and the Bab to be martyred .
> 
> In this Hindu Prophecy : Moon - the Bab , Sun -
> Baha'u'llah and the Master, 'Abdu'l-Baha, all the three
> are prophesied as coming together, at that appointed
> time , in 1844 A .D . and , Lo , when the Bab declared
> Himself as the Forerunner of a Mightier Manifestation of
> God, Baha'u'llah - Who was hidden behind the Veils of
> Glory and at whose indications the Bab Himself was mov-
> ing and speaking , 'Abdu'l- Baha - "the Master" also was
> born on that same date, viz., 23rd May 1844 A .D.
> Hence, this prophecy was also fulfilled completely and
> the Promised Krit Yug - the Cycle of Truth indeed -
> started.
> 
> From all the above references of the prophecies from
> the Holy Books of all religions - some revealed as far
> back as 12000 years ago in Sanskrit in India, some 500
> years ago in Hindi over here, some more than 3000 and
> 2000 years ago in Semetic series of religions in Hebrew
> and ancient Greek languages , some 3500 years ago in
> Zend-Avastha in Iran; and some about 1300 years ago in
> Qur'an in Arabic - it is proved beyond even a shadow of
> doubt, that the original source of all these prophecies is
> One and the only One - God Himself has so accurately
> fulfilled all these promises through Manifestations, the
> Bab, Baha'u'llah and also 'Abdu'l-Baha on that PIN-
> POINT TARGET YEAR 1844A .D.
> 
> Prophecies were made in various lands thousands and
> thousands of miles away from each other , and in widely
> different ages , being thousands and thousands of years
> apart from one another , and in completely different
> languages unknown to one another, and , that too , during
> the ages in which there was no international transporta-
> tion and no means of communication at all .
> 
> Had there not been one universal source , all these
> prophecies could not have one common target . On the
> other hand, had the Bab not declared His Divine Mission
> on that very date and at that very time , all these and
> innumerable other various prophecies would have been
> proved wrong, and those Holy Souls Who had made
> these prophecies could have been known, God forbid, as
> false.
> 
> But , praise be to God , Who is the All-Prevailing
> Lord, the Omnipresent both in time and in space, the
> All-Knowing, the Omnipotent, the All-Wise , the Ruler
> and Protector of all , the Source of all Truth, the All-
> Merciful , the All-Bountiful , the Loving and the only one
> Beloved of all .
> 
> It is for this reason that Baha'u'llah has rightly said :
> 
> "This is that Most Great Beauty foretold in the books of the
> Messengers, through Whom Truth shall be distinguishedfrom
> e"or and the wisdom of every command shall be tested. Veri-
> ly, He is the Tree of Life that bringethforth the fruits of God,
> the Exalted, the Powe,ful, the Great. "
> 
> "Be thou assured in thyself that, Verily, he who turns
> away from this Beauty hath also turned away from the
> Messengers of the past and showeth pride towards God from
> all eternity to all eternity. "
> 
> "O people! If ye deny these verses, by what proof have ye
> believed in God? Produce it, 0 assemblage of the false ones!
> Nay, by the one in Whose Hand in My Soul, they are not and
> never shall be able to do this, even should they combine to
> assist one another. "
> 
> "Thus doth the Nightingale utter His Call unto you from
> this prison, He hath but to deliver this clear Message, who-
> soever desireth let him tum aside from this counsel, and
> whosoeverdesireth let him choose the Path to His Lord. "
>
> — *1844 A.D.: Pinpoint Target of All Faiths (Used by permission of the curator)*