The date of the Manifestation [the Báb] is fixed by the
following passage in the Persian Bayán [Vahíd 2, Báb 7):
“The beginning thereof
was when two hours and eleven minutes [had passed] from the evening preceding
the fifth of Jamádiyu’l-Ula, 1260 [A.H.], [May 23, 1844] which is the year 1270
of the mission [of Muhammad].”
- The Báb (From manuscript copy of Bayán written
by the hand of Siyyid Husayn, amanuensis and companion of the Báb; a footnote
in the Dawn-Breakers, translated and edited by Shoghi Effendi)
