Baha’s Date of Annunciation
Shoghi Effendi’s ‘The Year Eighty’
1. Baha’s Date of Annunciation
1.1 Explanation of Some Terms
1.1.7 Shoghi Effendi’s ‘The Year Eighty’
In his footnote 1, ibid, p. 354, Shoghi Effendi tells us that “the year “80” appearing in the passage is “Reference to the year 1280 A.H. (1863-4 A.D), in which Baha declared his mission in Baghdad.”
As regards “the year ’80’, Shoghi Effendi interprets as “the year 1280 A.H. in which Baha declared his mission in Baghdad,” in his god passes by, p.255, Shoghi Effendi contradicts himself and says that Baha left Baghdad for Istanbul on “Dhil Qa’da 14, A.H. 1279 (May 3, 1863).” Baha had therefore left Baghdad before the year A.H. 1280. In actual fact Baha left Baghdad for Istanbul in the year A.H. 1279.
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