Shaykh Ahmad

Category
People (Religion)
Begin
1753
End
1826
Region
Middle East
Shaykh Ahmad
Reference
Picture; [Wikipedia];
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"The first of the 'twin resplendent lights' who heralded the Bab and Baha'u'llah. Born 1753, died near Medina at the age of 81." [Baha'i Glossary by Marzieh Gail, p. 46] "He was a native of the Al-Ahsa region (Eastern Arabian Peninsula), educated in Bahrain and the theological centers of Najaf and Karbala in Iraq. Spending the last twenty years of his life in Iran, he received the protection and patronage of princes of the Qajar dynasty." [Wikipedia] "There burned in his soul the conviction that no reform, however drastic, within the Faith of Islam, could achieve the regeneration of this perverse people. He knew . . . . that nothing short of a new and independent Revelation, as attested and foreshadowed by the sacred Scriptures of Islam, could revive the fortunes and restore the purity of that decadent Faith." [The Dawn-Breakers, p. 2]