A common story told in regards to the history of the Baha'i faith, and one that would shape the very history of the faith through the exile of Baha'ullah, was a failed assassination of the Shah of Iran, Nasser Al-Din Shah Qajar, by three Babists while he was hunting in 1852. The entire Babist community of Iran was blamed for this, and there were many violent reprisals. Baha'ullah, a follower of the Báb (spiritual founder of the Baha'i faith who was executed in 1850, for preaching that God would soon send a new prophet), was exiled to Iraq, where the nascent faith found some relief.
But what if the Shah had been successfully assassinated by the radical Babists in 1852? What effect would it have on the history of the faith, and Iran?
But what if the Shah had been successfully assassinated by the radical Babists in 1852? What effect would it have on the history of the faith, and Iran?
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