Ya Tahirih-Qurratu’l-Ayn !
Tahirih and the Surah of Joseph
Recently someone on line had a dream about Tahirih and a man with a torn shirt of many colours. The dream reminded me of Tahirih and the Story of Joseph so I thought I’d write up something that indicates the relationship of Tahirih and the Story of Joseph , especially in that She is the One who knew the WORDS that the Bab would pen in relation to the Story of Joseph years before any one else did. The very Words that would prove he was the one that was being sought after as the return of the twelfth Imam. This is why she says “I am the Word the Promised One utters”.
Basically in the story of Joseph, the half brothers of Joseph were jealous of him because he had prophetic dreams and his father loved him so and had even given him a coat of many colours. In one of his prophetic dreams he told of a time when the brothers would bow down and worship him. In their jealousy they threw him into a shallow pit or well. The half brothers took him out of the pit and sold Joseph into slavery. They bloodied Joseph’s coat and told the father Joseph was killed, which caused the father to be grief stricken.
Through his life Joseph continued to have dreams which ended up giving him position with the King as the Kings dream-interpreter. Thus the King named him as Governor. Joseph’s interpretation of the King’s dreams saved the region as they were able to store enough corn to see the region through a seven year season of famine. In the end the brothers bowed down to Joseph, not knowing who he was, and showed that they had changed into people of integrity, therefore, Joseph saved their lives and reunited the family.
How does this story relate to Tahirih? She was the one who had the prophetic dreams and was recognized by the Bab as the “Mirror of the Word of God on Earth”. This caused great jealousy among two brothers of the Babi community or family, namely Subh-i Azal, and Mirza Husayn Ali Nuri (later known as Bahá’u’lláh) who started sects of the Babi religion. Both completely ignored Tahirih and personally did not name her in any of their own works. This left their movements without the Spirit. In fact Mirza Husayn Ali Nuri even penned tablets where the Maiden of Heaven or Spirit cried in anguish because She could find no sincerity among them.
We are now at a period of time where Tahirih’s Divine and Prophetic Voice is rising again to usher people into the Shift of the Ages, giving people a chance to regain their integrity before there is a complete draught of the Spirit. Surely, like Joseph of a coat of many colours, Tahirih will embrace the progeny of those who went astray and bring the various hues of humanity into a united family under Her Banner once they show their hearts have been purified. Thus the bloodied torn coat of humanity will have been mended and melded together producing a beautiful multicoloured fabric.
*There’s another mystery regarding the dream the person on line had about Tahirih yet to be revealed.
Birth of Universal Guidance
The Breeze of Guidance commanded the breath of life to begin
The Universe has been illuminated, every horizon, every Being
No more sits the sheikh in the seat of hypocrisy
No more is the mosque a business selling holiness
The epiglottis is cut from the throat
Silencing the pretentious sheikhs and their deception
The world is set free from superstitions and vain imaginings
Humankind set free from confusion and misconceptions
With the Power of Equality injustice becomes evaporated
And with intuition and knowledge ignorance destroyed
The carpet of justice is spread everywhere
The seeds of love and friendship scattered throughout
The false verdicts eradicated from all horizons
And concepts of opposition and separation changed to that of unity.
Poem of Tahereh Qurratu’l-Ayn 1840
from the Book of Poems of Fatemeh Zarin Taj – Tahirih Qurratu’l-Ayn
Edited by Dr. Sam Vaseghi and Dr. Soheila Vaseghi
Published by the Iranian Burnt Books Foundation
World Archives of Iranian Exile Literature
Translated from Farsi to English by Sophia 2009
Tahirih, Cosmic Spirit of the Age
Selection from the poems of Tahirih
Starr* Saffa said,
October 19, 2008 at 4:26 pm
It should be recognized that the man who started the Baha’i Faith had been under the Leadership and Teachings of Tahirih when he was a Babi. Eleven years after Her martyrdom (1852) he began Baha’i. When She was martyrded he did not believe himself a Manifestation.
Trista said,
November 10, 2008 at 12:18 pm
People should read this.