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INTRODUCTION


The decade-long exile of Bahá’u’lláh in ‘Iráq began under the harshest of
conditions and at the lowest ebb in the fortunes of the Bábí Faith. It
witnessed, however, the gradual crystallization of those potent spiritual
forces which were to culminate in the declaration of His world-embracing
mission in 1863. In the course of these years, and from the city of
Ba_gh_dád, there radiated, Shoghi Effendi writes, “wave after wave, a
power, a radiance and a glory which insensibly reanimated a languishing
Faith, sorely-stricken, sinking into obscurity, threatened with oblivion.
From it were diffused, day and night, and with ever-increasing energy, the
first emanations of a Revelation which, in its scope, its copiousness, its
driving force and the volume and variety of its literature, was destined
to excel that of the Báb Himself.”(1)