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FORWARD
Far too long has the clarion-call of The Bayan lain unvoiced, stifled by the abrasive bellow of counterfeit prophets and deceptive pretenders cloaked with the undeserved title of Divine Glory. Now, over 160 years since His Holiness the Primal Point (Sayyid Ali Muhammad, the Bab) unveiled His call, the true story of this mission, a story long-hidden from the luminosity of day, perverted and twisted by the forces of the anti-Christ, the exact account of the Bayanic Faith, is now coming forward from obscurity.

Despite the material evolution of man, certain unalterable laws of spirituality remain locked in place. Man progresses through time. Spiritual realities are gradually revealed by the Creator. Yet the archetypical pattern of the formation, rise and disintegration of religion remains unswerving. Every goodness has its counterpart in evil and the cycles of religious revelation – no matter how different they appear in exterior form – bear certain conspicuous similarities to their predecessors. The moment a divine prophet, messenger, or saint conveys a new dispensation, the caustic might of the material world begins to eat it away.
Many a prophet was sent to the Children of Israel to remind them of their covenants with previous prophets, which were warped and altered over and over. Within a century of Jesus, the simple faith that he taught was turned into a monstrous mass of mutually hostile sects and cults that bore little resemblance to the Way of Christ. Before the Prophet Muhammad could be buried his companions usurped the rights of Imam Ali, forever altering the course of Islam; for as Islam had had been maneuvered into an involuntary direction by those who illegitimately commandeered leadership, the successors of Jesus was overshadowed by Paul and his minions, all unauthorized to carry divine successorship. These perfidious claimants to divine authority are known in Arabic as Dajjals, or anti-Christs, purveyors of a sham, counterfeit religion, often treacherously blended with 8 shards of truth, making their claims appear misleadingly credible to the masses.

So too did these very events (albeit under different guise) befall the People of the Bayan. In the years following the martyrdom of His Holiness the Primal Point on July 9th 1850, several of these Dajjals came forward to claim not only successorship to the Bab, but to present their fantasies of being He-Whom-God-Shall-Make–Manifest, the individual foretold by the Bab who would, in the distant future, usher in the succeeding divine dispensation. This in spite of the fact that His Holiness the Primal Point made it very clear and explicit that Mirza Yahya (who was titled Subh-i Azal, the Everlasting Dawn, by the Bab) - who bore all the adversity, malevolence, betrayal and abandonment inflicted upon him by the anti-Christ and his underlings with patience, grace and humility – was to be His successor as leader and spiritual head of the People of the Bayan.
Echoing the religions that came before, only a small remnant remained faithful to the call of His Holiness the Primal Point and The Bayan while the greater part of the folk fell recklessly into the deceit and lies of that “envious Iblis” and his “whispering” son, headlong into the Hell of heedlessness and the Misery of blindness.

This small book (the first voice of opposition in the West to the Dajjal) is only one of the shining rays that are now busting forth through the dome of lead thrown over the Bayani Faith by those who debase the station of the Primal Point by labeling Him a “forerunner” or “precursor” to a desirous idol, a 19th century Hubal and Baal. The works of the Bab and His successor, His Saintliness Subh-i Azal, are now being unbolted in homes, universities and on the internet (with sites like www.bayanic.com) and it is only a matter of time before that valueless statue is smashed, as the Temple was cleared of its moneylenders and the Ka’bah rinsed of its idols in days gone by.

---Daltaban Peyrevi
Shahr ul-Qudrat 5, 159 BE
January 6, 2007