"This is the Day Spring of the revelation of God...This is the Dawning-Place of the cause of God..."   ~ Bahá'u'lláh  (R-30)

Ninteen years after the Báb's declaration, Mírzá Husayn-'Alí, announced that He was the Divine Teacher for this Day promised by the Báb.  He was born to a noble family in Tehran, Persia in 1817 but gave up the life of political nobility and became a Báb'i.  Mírzá Husayn-'Alí's title was Bahá'u'lláh, meaning "the Glory of God."  Those who recognized His exalted station were filled with new spiritual radiance.  The followers of Bahá'u'lláh are called Bahá'ís (D-39).

As more people embraced the Bahá'í Faith, many rulers of the Middle East again became alarmed, although Baha'u'llah said "I have never aspired after worldly leadership.  My sole purpose hath been to hand down unto men that which I was bidden to deliver by God...."  The Sháh of Persia banished Baha'u'llah and His family from their native home and later convinced the Sultán of the Ottoman empire to send them to the far reaches of Turkey.  Yet, throughout Their exile, the message of Bahá'u'lláh was embraced by many, and He continued to reveal the thousands of letters, tablets, and books which make up the Bahá'í Sacred Writings (D-40).

In 1868, after spending five years under government control in Turkey,  the Holy Family and some Bahá'ís were forced to sail to 'Akká, Israel, the prison colony of the Ottoman Empire (D-41).

  'Akká

He lived 40 years in exile from His home in Tehran to Baghdád, Constantinople, Adrianople, and the prison city of 'Akká, at the hands of Ottoman leaders (T-22).