In his rudimentary works like the interpretation of Ahsanul Qassas, Ali Muhammad Bab introduced his sciences and knowledges from the Imam of the Time (P.H.):
" اللهُ قَد قَدَّرَ أن یَخرُجَ ذلِکَ الکِتابَ فی تَفسیرِ أحسَنِ القَصَصِ مِن عِندِ مُحَمَّدِ بنِ الحَسَنِ ... عَلی عَبدِهِ لِیَکُونَ حُجَّةَ اللهِ مِن عِندِ الذِّکرِ عَلَی العالَمینَ بَلیغاً"
“God has predestined that book in interpreting the best stories (the story of the Excellency Yosof (P.H.) to be exitted out of Muhammad ibn Al-Hassan (Imam of the Time (P.H.))… on his slave (: Bab) in order for God’s reason to be gentle for people of the world.[1]”
In his next works like the Bayan book, he has posed the claim for sending the verses down by God: “At each time, the Almighty God predestined a book and proof for people and says in 1270 A.H. since the prophetic mission of the holy prophet Muhammad (P.H.), the messenger of God, God has appointed the book Bayan as the proof for Ali Muhammad and the religion doors as the number 19 …[2]”
However, the most interesting thing is his dream which has been defined by him in “Sahifeh Adliyeh” about the source of his divine sciences. Of course, his claim to achieve sciences through dreaming isn’t unprecedented. Before him, Sheikh Ahmad Ehsaee had claimed for receiving sciences via dreaming.[3]
However; now, we are investigating the adventure of Ali Muhammad Bab’s dream:
“… And know that the source of these divine signs and fervent prayers and sciences is from the dream I drank seven sips of (blood) of the holy head of the Excellency Lord of the Martyrs (P.H.). Due to the blessings of the blood, these firm verses and fervent prayers have been said by me. Thanks God for making me drink His proof’s blood)[4]”
However; as a matter of fact, is it blessing and pleasure for him to drink God’s Hojjat’s blood?! Of course, It is likely that the interpretation of such a dream would be Bab’s commandment concerning the Shiite massacres! As he has ordered to his followers: “Each authority must kill non- Babis on Earth.[5]”
The events related to after Babism announcement and even after Hussein Ali Nouri founded Baha’ism based on Ali Muhammad’s idea show that one side of the deviant movements of Babism and Baha’ism has been violence and killing human beings. Pay attention to the historical events after Babism. The assassination of Muhammad Taqi Baraqani, the bloody events of Tabarsi castle, the bloody events of Zanjan and Neyriz and the punishment committee assassinations managed by Hussein Ali Nouri, the events of Abarqou village, killing people and torturing them by the Baha’i heads in the Pahlavi period of time are all originated from preaching violence among Babis and Baha’is.
[1] Ali Muhammad Shirazi, the interpretation of Yosof chapter, handwriting copy, p. 1.
[2] Ali Muhammad Shirazi, the Arabic Bayan, Babiyan publishing house, p. 3.
[3] Refer to Muhammad ibn Soleyman Tonekaboni, Qessasul Ulama, 1296 A.H., pp. 37- 38.
[4] Ali Muhammad Shirazi, Sahifeh Adliyeh, Babieh publishing house, p. 14.
[5] Ali Muhammad Bab, the Persian Bayan, the electronic copy, p. 262.