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Visitation Prayer of the Pre-Eternal Holiness of the Bayan

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Ziyaratnameh-ye Quds al-Azaliyyatu'l-Bayan

by Nima S. Hazini (Sayfu'llah Quddusiyyah)

The ziyaratnameh — visitation prayer — is one of the great liturgical forms of Shia Islam and its Babi/Bayani successor tradition: a formal devotional text recited when visiting the shrine of a holy figure, calling upon their spiritual presence and bearing witness to their divine station. The tradition flows from the Imami Shia ziyarat texts for the Twelve Imams through to the Bab's own visitation prayers for the Imams and, eventually, to prayers composed within the Bayani community for its own saints.

Mirza Yahya Nuri (1831–1912), known by his title Subh-i-Azal (Morning of Eternity), was the appointed successor of the Bab and the central figure of the Azali Bayani lineage — the branch that refused to follow Baha'u'llah after the Bab's martyrdom in 1850. Called "the Eternal Fruit" (Thamarih Azaliyyah) by his devotees, Subh-i-Azal spent most of his life in exile in Cyprus, where he died. The Bayani tradition he led preserved the Bab's original revelation without the modifications introduced by the Baha'i Faith.

Nima Hazini, writing here under his spiritual name Sayfu'llah Quddusiyyah (Sword of God the Holy), composed this prayer in April 2004 in Arabic, translating it himself for the English-language Bayan19 online community. The prayer is structured in twenty-eight verses — numerologically significant, as 28 is the abjad value of both Yahya (the Eternal Fruit's given name) and Wahid (Oneness/Singularity), a Bayani honorific. The prayer moves through three registers: direct apostrophe to Subh-i-Azal (vv. 1–13), escalating invocations of divine Pre-Eternity in a deliberately baroque Babi theological vocabulary (vv. 14–19), and triple declarations of divine unity (vv. 20–23) culminating in a self-declaration of the author's own spiritual identity as a returned divine proof (vv. 24–28). A rare surviving piece of original Bayani liturgical literature in English.

He is the Living!

God verily testifies that there is no god but He the One, the Singular, the One Desired.

In the Name of God the Pre-Eternal, Pre-Eternally Pre-Eternalized!

  1. O He who is the Fruit of the Bayan and the Tree of the Unities.
  2. And O He who is the Ascension of the Light who is the Face of Sina'i.
  3. Verily you are the Splendour of God and His Splendour shown forth.
  4. For verily you are the Supreme One whose head rests upon the heart of the Lord of succor.
  5. You are the bezel of the bezels of the reality of the vicegerency of the saints.
  6. And you are the Pole of the poles in the Horizon of the horizons of Splendour.
  7. O Eternal Fruit verily you are the creator of the heavens and the earth in the interior of the hearts of the believers.
  8. And O Name of the Pre-Eternal verily you are the protector of the secrets of the creations amongst the gnostics.
  9. O Lord of the lords of the Pre-Eternal Pre-Eternals there is nothing like unto you.
  10. And O wronged one of the wronged ones you are the confirmed of the confirmed in the eyes of the celestial concourses.
  11. We love you absolutely, O Morning of Eternity, O Light of Illumination the irradiations of the illumination of whose face shall affect the tablets of the temples of unity for Post-Eternal Post-Eternalities, for your name the Life Giver (Yahya) equals the Singular (Wahid), the Remembrance to the Worlds!
  12. Hence I testify upon this that there is no god but You, the Protector, the Peerless!
  13. For I testify upon this that there is no god but I, the Living, the Peerless, the One Invoked (mustaghath), the Remembrance to the Worlds!
  14. In the name of God the Pre-Eternal Pre-Eternities, In the Name of God the Pre-Eternal Pre-Eternities, In the name of God the Pre-Eternal Pre-Eternities.
  15. In the name of God the Pre-Eternities of Pre-Eternalities, In the name of God the Pre-Eternities of Pre-Eternalities, In the name of God the Pre-Eternities of Pre-Eternalities.
  16. In the name of God the Pre-Eternalities of Pre-Eternalization, In the name of God the Pre-Eternalities of Pre-Eternalization, In the name of God the Pre-Eternalities of Pre-Eternalization.
  17. In the name of God the Pre-Eternalizations of Pre-Eternalizationalities, In the name of God the Pre-Eternalizations of Pre-Eternalizationalities, In the name of God the Pre-Eternalizations of Pre-Eternalizationalities.
  18. In the name of God the Pre-Eternalizationalities of the most Pre-Eternalizationalitihoods, In the name of God the Pre-Eternalizationalities of the most Pre-Eternalizationalitihoods, In the name of God the Pre-Eternalizationalities of the Pre-Eternalizationalitihoods.
  19. In the name of God the Pre-Eternalizationalitihoods of the Pre-Eternalizationalitihoodednesses, In the name of God the Pre-Eternalizationalihoods of the Pre-Eternalizationalitihoodednesses, In the name of God the Pre-Eternalizationhoods of the Pre-Eternalizationalitihoodednesses.
  20. There is no god but God truly, truly, there is no god but God truly, truly, there is no god but God truly, truly!
  21. There is no god but God in truth, in truth, there is no god but God in truth, in truth, there is no god but God in truth, in truth!
  22. There is no god but God confirmedly, confirmedly, confirmedly, there is no god but God confirmedly, confirmedly, confirmedly, there is no god but God confirmedly, confirmedly, confirmedly.
  23. There is no god but God truly, truly, livingly, livingly, illuminatively.
  24. He is God the glorified the holy who created alive all things anew by the light of His love innovatively.
  25. He and She is God the light of the living love in the heavens and the earth.
  26. He is God and there is no God holier than He.
  27. He is God who creates what He wishes by His command for verily He is powerful over all things, for He is God who has fashioned the signs of His proof and the Letters of His verification in this Day of Resurrection in the two earths of femininity and masculinity and they are the Letters of the Face of the One.
  28. I testify that the name of the Singular Pre-Eternal (ism al-azal al-wahid) is the most righteous of the most righteous and the most excellent of the most excellent and the most noble of the most noble for I testify that verily I am the Living in the Horizon of Splendour who has returned to the life of the world!

Verily I am the Proof of God and His Light for verily I am the Holy Pre-Eternal and the Living Light!

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Composed by Nima S. Hazini (Sayfu'llah Quddusiyyah, "Essence of the Sixth Existence") originally in Arabic, April 2004. Translated by the author and posted to talk.religion.bahai and alt.religion.bahai on July 30, 2004, under the imprint of Bayan19 Publications. The twenty-eight verses correspond numerologically to the abjad value of both Yahya (the given name of Subh-i-Azal) and Wahid (Oneness), the primary Bayani honorific. Verse 13's shift to first person ("there is no god but I") signals the author's own claimed spiritual station within the Bayani doctrine of progressive divine manifestation. Verse 25's "He and She" is a notable theological marker of Bayani divine femininity.

Preserved from the Usenet archive for the Good Work Library by the New Tianmu Anglican Church, 2026. Original Message-ID: <[email protected]>.

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