A’ẓama...zamThe Greatest.
‘Azíz Khán-i-Sardáraz-ease-con-eh-sar-dawr
(ar as in Harry)Slayer of Tahirih.
‘Azím (Turshízí)a-zeem; tor-shoe-zeeMan who publicly confessed his complicity in the
attempt on the life of Náṣiri’d-Dín Sháh.
B
B and EBe. Qur’án 3:42 states: “When He decreeth a thing, He only saith, ‘Be,’ and it is.” The reference in Prayers and Meditations, page 85, thus means, “through His name creation was created.” The Arabic is “k” and “n”—kun.
Bá and Hábaw-and-hawB and H meaning Bahá. The Bahá’í ring symbol
shows two “b’s”, four “h’s” and two stars.
Bábrhymes with throbThe Gate. The Prophet-Herald of Bahá’u’lláh, “The Manifestation of the Unity and Oneness of God and the Forerunner of the Ancient Beauty” (BA 11); the return of the Prophet Elijah, of John the Baptist and of the Twelfth Imám (GPB 276, 58); “My First Name,” (GPB 57), Whom “posterity will recognize as standing at the confluence of two universal prophetic cycles, the Adamic...and the Bahá’í....” (GPB 54). “the independent Author of a divinely revealed Dispensation...also...the Herald of a new Era and the Inaugurator of a great universal prophetic cycle.” (GPB 57). Born Shíráz, Oct. 20, 1819; martyred Tabríz, July 9, 1850.
Bábíbob-eeOf or pertaining to the Báb.
Bábí DispensationBegan May 22, 1844 A.D. at two hours and eleven minutes after sunset in Shíráz, Persia. Ended in the year 1280 A.H. (WOB 102; GPB xi).
Babí-Dukhtaránbob-ee-dock-tar-awnSite in Shíráz where the Báb’s son is buried.
Bábu’l-Bábbob-ol-bobThe Gate of the Gate. Title of Mullá Ḥusayn, the first Letter of the Living.
Bábu’lláhbob-ol-láhThe Gate of God; designation of the Báb.
Badashtba-dashtHamlet in a plain on the border of Mázindarán. Conference of, lasted twenty-two days (June-July 1848), and proclaimed the annulment of the old Order. (DB 301, n. 1).
Badí‘ba-dee...“Wonderful.” Seventeen-year-old boy who delivered Bahá’u’lláh’s Tablet to the Sháh of Persia and was in consequence tortured and killed. His given name was Áqá Buzurg of Khurásán; he was converted by the historian Nabíl and won the title of the “Pride of Martyrs.”
Badí‘ calendarba-dee...Name of the Bahá’í calendar. It begins with the year 60 (1844 A.D.). It is found in the Kitáb-i-Asmá’, a work of the Báb.
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