BROADCASTS.com

b'

Baha\\u2019is around the world celebrate the 22nd of May, 1844 as the day of the Declaration of the Bab, who was the forerunner of Baha\\u2019u\\u2019llah, the founder of the Baha\\u2019i Faith. (The date to commemorate this joyous historic occasion shifts within the Gregorian calendar from year to year but according to the Baha\\u2019i calendar, it is always honoured on the 8th of Azamat.)

Baha\\u2019is view the Bab as a Messenger of God, who had a role that can be likened to John the Baptist (who told of the coming of Christ) in heralding the coming of the latest Manifestation of God: Baha\\u2019u\\u2019llah.

The events surrounding the Declaration of the Bab have been told in many ways, but perhaps the most widely read is the account in The Dawn-Breakers: Nabil\\u2019s Narrative of the Early Days of the Baha\\u2019i Revelation. This book was written by Nabil, and chronicles the early days of the Revelations of the Bab and Baha\\u2019u\\u2019llah.