Ali Muhammad Shirazi, the young man from Shiraz city, who claimed for being the gate for Imam of the Time (P.H.) on the lunar month of Sha’ban, 28, 1264 during the Naseruddin Shah’s succession to the throne due to Sheikh Ahmad Ehsaee and Seyyed Kazem Rashti’s errors and mistakes intrigued by the Russian spy Kiniaz Dolgoroukov confessed his mistake and repented after being captured.[1]

     That wasn’t the first time when he claimed for his superstitions. At the end of that year, he posed his claim and got busy writing the book “Bayan” and introduced himself in his meetings: I am the very promised one whom you are waiting for his reappearance[2] and called his claim as Mahdism.[3]

     Claiming so, he had made himself come out of Shiite ring and out of Islam too. In the third phase when he finished the book Bayan he claimed for prophethood and divinity and in the forth phase, he wrote the tablet called “Heykeluddin” and claimed for divinity.[4]

     Concerning his claiming for prophethood, he wrote: During each period of time, the Almighty God has foreordained a book and proof for creatures. In 1270 after the prophetic mission of Muhammad the Messenger of Allah (P.H.), He appointed the sever letters (Ali Muhammad possesses 7 letters) as the book and proof[5] and claimed for him and the Bayan for being the messenger of Allah and Forqan respectively.[6]

     During this period of time when he was advanced to prophethood position, he gave good news about a person called the one whom God will manifest and recommended everybody to obey him when he emerged and says about hi8m: “I swear by God it will be better for everybody to listen a verse from him than reciting the Bayan one thousand times.[7]”

     However, there is a strange note in the order. He says if he weren’t the one whom God will manifest and he claimed too you must obey him[8]. He announces his emergence time, too and says: The one whom God will manifest will be emerged 1511 years later; but if it didn’t happen he would be emerged 2001 years after him.[9]

     He says about the one whom God will manifest: The man whom God will manifest’s name is Muhammad[10]. His emergence place is the Sacred Mosque.[11]

     Mirza Hussein Ali Nouri who had recently quitted being dervish and come back to Yahya Sobhi Azal started to plan to pose his claim based on the book Bayan and his annunciations regarding the emergence of the one whom God will manifest in spring 1280.[12]

     Although he hadn’t possessed the conditions for announcing the one whom God will manifest position, he called himself as the promised one. He introduced himself as the one whom God will manifest in Najib Pash garden in Baqdad city supported by the Russian government. He writes in a letter to Naseruddin Shah Qajar: O’ the king, I am living like an ordinary slaves. I had slept in bed while the glorious breezes were blowing on me and thought me the existence knowledge… I haven’t learned the humane sciences and I haven’t gone to school. You can ask my follow-citizens.[13]

     In order to convince his prophethood to people, Hussein Ali Nouri wanted to perk himself as illiterate like the holy prophet (P.H.) and claimed: We haven’t entered into schools and haven’t learned issues[14]; but after him the Baha’i proselytizers differed and said: Several proselytizers like Ahmad Yazdani said: He hadn’t educated at school, at all.[15]  Several proselytizers could proved the claim: Evidently he has learned writing and reading in the presence of his father.[16]

     The most important document which is available now and can counteract his claiming for being illiteracy is Ezziyeh Khanom’s –Mirza Hussein Ali Nouri’s sister- writing called Tanbihunnaemin. She writes for Abdul Baha: when the Excellency Mirza (Mirza Hussein Ali Nouri became mature, he got busy studying and educating because the opportunities were provided…[17]”

     Although it was clearly written in the letter that Mirza Hussein Ali was educated, Abdul Baha says shamelessly: It is certain for all Iranian people that he didn’t participate at any school and didn’t have any intercourses with scholars and learned men.[18]