The Significance of the Báb
The Báb — Forerunner of Bahá'u'lláh — represents a complete divine Manifestation who inaugurated a new spiritual era.
The Báb (Gate) was the forerunner and herald of Bahá'u'lláh, claiming the station of an independent Manifestation of God in 1844. His brief mission (1844-1850) inaugurated the Bahá'í era and laid the spiritual foundation for Bahá'u'lláh's revelation. He was publicly executed in 1850; his remains now rest in the golden-domed Shrine on Mount Carmel.
I am the Primal Point from which have been generated all created things.
The Báb declared his mission in Shiraz on 23 May 1844 and was executed by firing squad in Tabriz in 1850.
Selections from the Writings of the Báb