Mullá Hádí () was the fifteenth
Letter of the Living in the
Bábí movement and also the son of Mullá Abdu'l-Vahhab-i-Qazvíni who was a close companion of Shaykh Ahmad with whom he shared the message of fast approaching Revelation. Mullá Hádí was initially a Shaykhi a student of
Siyyid Kázim. He did not get involved in the
Battle of fort Shaykh Tabarsi and shielded his life through the practice of
Taqiyya
In Islam, ''taqiyya'' ()R. STROTHMANN, MOKTAR DJEBLI. Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd ed, Brill. "TAKIYYA", vol. 10, p. 134. Quote: "TAKIYYA "prudence, fear" ... denotes dispensing with the ordinances of religion in cases of constraint of preaching ...
. He was also the brother of another letter of the living
Mullá Muhammad-'Aliy-i-Qazvini.
After the death of the
Báb
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, the
Bábís split into a number of factions one of which was led by Mullá Hádí. He later became a devout Azalí and was expelled from the community by
Baháʼu'lláh
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during the
Edirne
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period "and spent his final days in oblivion".
Mullá Hádí is a controversial Letter of the Living since it is not entirely clear that he was actually one. He is noted as absent in the list formed by Amanat
987and replaced by
Mullá Muhammad-i-Mayáma'í. This is explained in a footnote that although he is included in Nabil's list provided in ''
The Dawn-breakers
''The Dawn-Breakers: Nabíl's Narrative of the Early Days of the Baháʼí Revelation'' (''Maṭāleʿ al-anwār'') or ''Nabíl's Narrative'' (''Táríkh-i-Nabíl'') is an account of the early Bábí and Baháʼí Faiths written in Persian by N ...
'', the incomplete list provided by al-Karbalá'í al-Qatíl has Mullá Muhammad-i-Mayáma'í in his place. Qatíl described Mullá Hádí as "in darkness" in spite of his brother's vigour and the fact that in later years he never showed any serious interest in the movement. Mullá Muhammad-i-Mayáma'í's preaching in his home town of Mayámay gave him weight in Amanat's eyes.
References
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External links
A summary of the dawnbreakers*
ttp://www.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/notes/vol3/taqiya.htm Sepehr Manuchehri 1999, The Practice of Taqiyyah (Dissimulation) in the Babi and Bahai Religions
Letters of the Living
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
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