Passages from 'The Dawn-Breakers': The venerable Haji Mirza Siyyid 'Ali, the maternal uncle of the Báb who reared Him when His father passed away, becomes “the first, after the Letters of the Living, to embrace the Cause in Shíráz”

February 26, 2021

The venerable Haji Mirza Siyyid 'Ali, the maternal uncle of the Báb who reared Him when His father passed away, becomes “the first, after the Letters of the Living, to embrace the Cause in Shíráz”

Shiraz-1850

Quddús, with feelings of unshakable determination to carry out the expressed wishes of his Master, set out from Búshihr. Arriving at Shíráz, he was affectionately welcomed by Hájí Mírzá Siyyid ‘Alí, who received him in his own home and eagerly enquired after the health and doings of his beloved Kinsman. Finding him receptive to the call of the new Message, Quddús acquainted him with the nature of the Revelation with which that Youth had already fired his soul. The Báb’s maternal uncle, as a result of the endeavours exerted by Quddús, was the first, after the Letters of the Living, to embrace the Cause in Shíráz.

(Chapter 8, ‘The Dawn-Breakers’)

Shaykh Ahmad

February 26, 2021

The venerable Haji Mirza Siyyid 'Ali, the maternal uncle of the Báb who reared Him when His father passed away, becomes “the first, after the Letters of the Living, to embrace the Cause in Shíráz”