Daniel
Tablets[edit]
- Star of the West, vol. 11, issue 1, p. 17
Letters[edit]
- Passing of `Abdu'l-Bahá (pp. 24-25)
- https://bahai-library.com/uhj_beckwith_allegations
- https://bahai-library.com/uhj_prophecy_daniel_esslemont
- https://bahai-library.com/nsa_beckwith_esslemont (by NSA)
Prophecies of[edit]
"As regards the question concerning prophecies of Daniel in Some Answered Questions… The seventy weeks comes right to the martyrdom of Christ. The sixty-nine weeks must be understood to mean that after 69 weeks He was crucified, which, as the Master points out, brings us to the last week, the week between 69 and 70, when He ascended."
- (From a letter written on behalf of the Guardian to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States, September 21, 1957, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1686)
Predicting the advent of the Báb—1260 Days[edit]
"Consider how closely the prophecies correspond one to another! The Book of Revelation fixes the advent of the Promised One after forty-two months. The Prophet Daniel specifies three times and a half, which is also forty-two months or 1,260 days. Another passage of the Revelation of John directly states 1,260 days, and it is explicitly indicated in the Bible that each day signifies one year. Nothing could be clearer than this agreement of the prophecies with each other. The Báb appeared in the year A.H. 1260 according to the calendar followed by all Muslims. There are no clearer prophecies than this in the Bible for any Manifestation. If one be fair, the agreement between the times indicated by these glorious Souls is the most conclusive proof and can in no wise be subject to any other interpretation. Blessed are the fair-minded who search after truth.
- ('Abdu'l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions, Chapter 13, par. 13)
Predictions of Peace, Prophecy of Daniel—1335 Days[edit]
"Now concerning the verse in Daniel, the interpretation whereof thou didst ask, namely, 'Blessed is he who cometh unto the thousand three hundred and thirty five days'. These days must be reckoned as solar and not lunar years. For according to this calculation a century will have elapsed from the dawn of the Sun of Truth, then will the teachings of God be firmly established upon the earth, and the Divine Light shall flood the world from the East even unto the West. Then, on this day, will the faithful rejoice."
- (‘Abdu’l-Bahá: From a Tablet to a Kurdish friend: The Passing of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, p. 31, Shoghi Effendi and Lady Blomfield, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1414)
"… The 1335 days is figured according to the solar calendar, but in adjusting the 1335 days, one must take into consideration the time at which the prophecies were given and change them into solar time, which would bring the date to 1963.
"There is one thing of importance for the Bahá’ís to understand; and that is, that this prophecy refers to happenings within the Faith, not occurrences outside the Faith. It refers specifically to the spread of the Faith over the face of the earth. This will be accomplished when the Bahá’í Faith is firmly established in all the virgin areas outlined in the Ten-Year Crusade, and the other goals of the Crusade are completed. Thus it behooves us to work day and night in order to accomplish this glorious goal."
- (From a letter written on behalf of the Guardian to an individual believer, May 4, 1946: Some Extracts from a letter written on behalf of the Guardian on the subject of the Prophecy of Daniel: A compilation from the World Centre to the compiler, in Lights of Guidance, no. 1414)
