2.    Manifestation of The Point of Bayan
The Primal Point did not consider himself to be a new BÂB. The Point’s 18 disciples did not look on him as the Imam himself. The Primal Point spoke of himself as the Qaim in the sense that he was the author of the resurrection. The Primal Point did not begin to think of himself not only as an Imam but as a prophet. God reveals Himself in the person of His Manifestation, whom the Primal Point calls H-Who-Has-Appeared and He-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest (Exordium, p.2). As regards their human personality these poems differ in different cycles, but that which speaks in them is the Primal Volition that undergoes no change (vii, 10).Hence the uniform term He-Who-Has-Appeared and He-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest. The Primal Volition will be the First to believe in Him-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest and is the First that has believed in Him-Who-Has-Appeared (Exordium, p.2).

This is in the sphere of Names. In the realm of the First Creation the first to believe is the One who has believed in him (The Point’s Five Grades, Panj Sha’n, p.104), the person of His Manifestation is the Manifestation of the Primal Volition; he is the Primal Unity; One without number, and the Living One (Exordium, p.2).

The person of His Manifestation in his age is subject to the earlier manifestation as regards his personality and revelation (III, 4). The person of His Manifestation in his age is the Point, that appears in the name of divinity; he precedes all and is permanent (I, 15).

The manifestation of the Point of the Bayan in his first manifestation is identical with that of the Point of Quran in his later manifestation or return (I, 1, p.4, p.5; I, 2, p.7).


Following the precedent created by the manifestations of the past, the Primal Point promised his return in the next resurrection as Him-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest, whose revelation, on the strength of the Point’s theory of theophanies summarized above, will be more perfect than his own. There is, therefore nothing spectacular about Him Whom God Will Make Manifest.

Each manifestation is more perfect or greater than its predecessor. God reveals Himself in the person of His Manifestation, whom the Primal Point calls He-Who-Has-Appeared (Man-Zahara) and He-Who-Will-Appear (Man-Yazhar) or He-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest (Man-Yuzhiruhullah). God created all things by the Primal Volition (Mashiyyat-i Awwaliyya) and this volition by Himself. The Will (Irada) of God can in no wise be revealed save through the Will of the person of His Manifestation, nor His wish be manifested except through the wish of the manifestation, the Manifestation of the Age, is identical with the Primal Volition, called the Point, from which all are created and unto which all return.

The person of His Manifestation, the Point, has two stations: The station of divinity in the realm of Names and attributes, where the Point is the Mouthpiece of god and utters “Verily, I am God; there is none other but Me; All beside me is my Creation” and the station of Creation, where the Point worships god as a creature.

The person of His Manifestation and his revelation in a succeeding manifestation are more perfect than the person of His Manifestation and his revelation in a preceding manifestation.
The person of His Manifestation in his cycle is a major manifestation and oversees all. All minor manifestations such as those of the Imams are subsidiary or subordinate to the major manifestation.

Mirza Jani speaks of a number of “manifestations” and refers to two special “manifestations”, alleged to have been foretold by the Primal Point and Mulla Shaykh Ali entitled Azim, quoting a so-called authority therefore.
As you know, the Shi'as expect the re-appearance in person of the Absent Twelfth Imam as the Qaim. They also expect the return of the Imam Hussein after the Qaim.

Unknowingly and deliberately or out of sheer all other pretenders spoken of by Mirza Jani, contrary to the specific provisions of the Bayan, identified the Primal Point with the Absent Twelfth Imam as the Qaim in the Shi'a sense of the word, and set up a pretension to the return of the Imam Hussein, whom they identified with Him-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest due to appear, according to the Bayan, 1511 or 2001 years after the Primal Point.

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