June 1845: The Message of the Báb is proclaimed publically for the first time

After his return to Shiraz from Mecca (his pilgrimage with the Báb), Quddus met a believer by the name of Ismu'llahu'l-Asdaq, Mulla Sadiq-i-Khurasani. Quddus entrusted him with a copy of one of the Báb’s Tablet, the Khasa'il-i-Sab'ih, and stressed the necessity of putting into effect immediately all its provisions. Among its precepts was the emphatic injunction of the Báb to every loyal believer to add the following words to the traditional formula of the adhan:[Muslim call to prayer] "I bear witness that He whose name is Ali-Qabl-i-Muhammad [‘Ali preceding Muhamad, meaning the Báb] is the servant of the Baqiyyatu'llah."[The Remenant of God, one the Titles of Baha’u’llah] Mulla Sadiq, who in those days had been extolling from the pulpit-top to large audiences the virtues of the imams of the Faith, was so enraptured by the theme and language of that treatise that he unhesitatingly resolved to carry out all the observances it ordained. Driven by the impelling force inherent in that Tablet, he, one day as he was leading his congregation in prayer in the Masjid-i-Naw, suddenly proclaimed, as he was sounding the adhan, the additional words prescribed by the Báb. The multitude that heard him was astounded by his cry. Dismay and consternation seized the entire congregation. (Adapted from the Dawn-Breakers, by Nabil; and The Báb, by Balyuzi]