Claimants to The Office of He Whom God Will Make Manifest
Dayyan
5. Dayyan
5.1 Dayyan's Claim And Baha's Charge Against Subh-i Azal
Mirza Asadullah of Khuy surnamed Dayyan, who had been appointed by the Primal Point as amanuensis to Subh-i Azal declared that he was He-Whom-God-Shall-Make-Manifest and demanded that all obey him. Dayyan was one of the second group of “Letters of the Living” or “Second Unity”. The Hasht Bihisht refers to him as the Judas Iscariot of his people’. He was learned in the Hebrew and Syriac languages.
Baha had a long dissension with him, but he remained obstinate. One Mirza Ibrahim believed in him. Mirza Hussein Ali commonly called Bahaullah had a protracted discussion with him. Later Baha instructed his servant Mirza Muhammad of Mazandaran to slay him, which was accordingly done. PP. 302, 303, the Hasht-Bihisht.
According to Baha, the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, pp.175-176, “Dayyan suffered martyrdom through the decree pronounced by Mirza Yahya [Subh-i Azal].”
According to Shoghi Effendi, god passes by, p.124 and p.165, “Subh-i Azal cased the murder of Dayyan.”
Baha admits to have met with Dayyan in Baghdad after the former’s return from Kurdistan. The Epistle to the Son of the Wolf. P.177.
This is confirmed by Shoghi Effendi in god passes by, p.130, that the murder took place in Baghdad upon Baha’s return from Kurdistan is also confirmed by Aqa Muhammad Ali in Isfahan in his Risala-i Badi quoting Baha as his authority.
Enclosure V, VI and VII respectively. The author of the Risala admits that the murder was committed by Mirza Muhammad of Mazandaran.
According to T.A note W. P.357, which quotes the Hasht Bihisht as authority, “Mirza Hussein Ali [Baha], after a protracted discussion with him [i.e. Mirza Asadullah Dayyan] instructed his servant Mirza Muhammad of Mazandaran to slay him, which was accordingly done.”
Both parties are therefore agreed that the murderer was Mirza Muhammad of Mazandaran.
Mirza Asadullah of Khuy in Azarbayjan was surnamed Dayyan as the word Asad and Dayyan have the same numerical value and equivalent, viz. 65.
“We have made thee an angel”, the Primal Point says to Dayyan, “to rehearse that which the Mirror of Eternity [i.e. Subh-i Azal] speaks of his illuminator [i.e. the Primal Point].” The collection containing some of the autograph Epistles of the Primal Point and of his amanuensis Aqa Sayyid Hussein of Yazd, p.10. A copy of the collection was sent to author.
Sometime after the execution of the Primal Point, Dayyan advanced a vain claim that He-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest, whom he identified with the Imam Hussein. He had a certain following known as “Dayyaniyya” or “Asadiyyun.” One of his followers Sayyid Ibrahim surnamed Khalid and Rahim. He was instructed by the Primal Point to ‘compile’ the mass literature emanating from the Primal Point, which is known collectively as “the-Bayan” for publication by “the name of the One [Wahid], 28, Yahya, Subh-i Azal’s name] if the time should be propitious for the “believers.” Old BÂBi manuscripts and Subh-i Azal’s Mustayqath, printed, pp.382-382.