The scene of such a challenging and far-reaching
proclamation [the independent nature of the Dispensation of the Báb and its
break with the past] was the hamlet of Badasht, where Bahá’u’lláh had rented,
amidst pleasant surroundings, three gardens, one of which He assigned to
Quddús, another to Táhirih, whilst the third He reserved for Himself. The
eighty-one disciples who had gathered from various provinces were His guests
from the day of their arrival to the day they dispersed. On each of the
twenty-two days of His sojourn in that hamlet He revealed a Tablet, which was
chanted in the presence of the assembled believers. On every believer He
conferred a new name, without, however, disclosing the identity of the one who
had bestowed it. He Himself was henceforth designated by the name Bahá. Upon
the Last Letter of the Living was conferred the appellation of Quddús, while
Qurratu’l-‘Ayn was given the title of Táhirih. By these names they were all
subsequently addressed by the Báb in the Tablets He revealed for each one of
them.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
