Baha'ullah
| Bahá'u'lláh | |
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Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh in Bahá'í Gardens, Acre
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| Born |
Mírzá Ḥusayn-`Alí Núrí 12 November 1817 Tehran, Persia (present-day Iran) |
| Died |
29 May 1892 (aged 74) Acre, Beirut Vilayet, Ottoman Empire, (present-day Israel) |
| Known for | Founder of the Bahá'í Faith |
| Successor | `Abdu'l-Bahá |
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Bahá'u'lláh (/bəˈhɑːʊˌlɑː/; Arabic: بهاء الله, "Glory of God"; 12 November 1817 – 29 May 1892), born Mírzá Ḥusayn-`Alí Núrí (Persian: میرزا حسینعلی نوری), was the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. He claimed to be the prophetic fulfilment of Bábism, a 19th-century outgrowth of Shaykhism, and, in a broader sense to be a Manifestation of God. He also claimed he was the fulfillment of the eschatological expectations of Islam, Christianity, and other major religions.
Bahá'u'lláh became a follower of the Báb in Persia in 1845. Three years after the Báb was executed, he was exiled to Baghdad (then a part of the Ottoman Empire), where in 1863 he proclaimed the Bahá'í Faith when he declared himself He whom God shall make manifest, a messianic figure in the religion of Bábism. Bahá'u'lláh based this announcement on an experience he had where he is said to have had a vision of the Maid of Heaven while imprisoned in the Síyáh-Chál in Tehran, Persia. He would be further exiled to Edirne and ultimately to the prison city of Acre, Palestine (present-day Israel), where he died. He wrote many religious works, most notably the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Kitáb-i-Íqán and Hidden Words.
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