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Several Dervish friends of Baha'u'llah. From left to right Dervish Yoghdeh, Dervish Teighoor, Dervish Moones, Dervish Moosadeh, Dervish Tavangar, the first person from the right is unknown. |
On April 10 in 1854, Bahá'u'lláh
left Baghdad for the mountains of Kurdistan almost one year to the date of his arrival in Baghdad from Iran on April 8, 1953. Bahá'u'lláh spent two years using the name
Darvish Muhammad-i-Irani studying with various
Sufi sheikhs. His studies with the
Sufis led to his writing the
Four Valleys in 1857 and
Seven Valleys in 1860. Both books are usually published together and their contents are largely based on the experiences he had as
Darvish Muhammad-i-Irani. Similarly, the
Kitáb-i-Íqán, written in 1861, contains many themes common to
Sufi teaching. Finally,
Bahá'í cosmology is largely a reflection of
Sufi cosmology.
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