Sequential excerpts (including footnotes) from ‘The Dawn-Breakers’ by Nabil-i-‘Azam, translated and edited by Shoghi Effendi

July 25, 2019

1827: The passing of Shaykh Ahmad

Medina 1800s
Shaykh Ahmad died soon after, [Siyyid Kazim received his answer] in the year 1242 A.H., [1827] at the age of eighty-one, and was laid to rest in the cemetery of Baqí’, in the close vicinity of the resting place of [Prophet] Muhammad in the holy city of Medina. 
(Chapter 1, ‘The Dawn-Breakers’)