An instance is mentioned of a Babi who did recant in order to escape the martyr's death, but he afterwards returned to his faith, and suffered calmly the death he had feared before.
The Babi reform manifests an important advance upon all previous modern Oriental systems in its treatment of woman.
It was probably an outcome of the Babi massacre which had taken place at Isfahan the previous year, and which, owing to the fiercely hostile attitude of the priests, was allowed to pass unnoticed by any strong public condemnation.
The Babi sect of Mohammedans, regarded as seceders from Islam, but who assert their claim to be only the advocates for Mohammedan Church reform, are at last better understood and more leniently treated--certainly at Tehran.
Also Baha’u’llah says that in the year 9 of the Babi Dispensation the time was ripe for the Revelation of “He whom God will make manifest”.
As these statements clearly reveal, the Babi Dispensation was essentially in the nature of a religious and indeed social revolution, and its duration had therefore to be short, but full of tragic events, of sweeping and drastic reforms.
She met a smallbabi (pig), caught it, and brought it home.
For the sake of convenience the Malay name babi for a pig, perfectly known to the Dayaks, has been maintained in this tale.
He stopped at the same place where he had killed the big babi and made a hut.
When her time had come the child arrived through the wound made by the babi bone, and the kapala washed the child and took care of it.
As a typical case of head-hunting I give the following description of a raid which, twelve years previous to my visit, was made by ten Bukats upon a small party of Saputans who were on a babi hunt.
This is done in order to prevent birds, monkeys, rusa, or babifrom eating the paddi.
A babi was immediately killed and the blood sacrificed to induce a good antoh to come and help them; they also danced for the same purpose, while some of them prepared the material with which to catch the reptile.
The babi had been killed with spears and, in accordance with custom, the head had been cut off with a parang.
Inyah Otuntaga brought the rattan to the man, who tied the babi all around, and she took it up and carried it home.
Another man was almost his equal, and these two danced well around the babi which was lying at the foot of two thin upright bamboo poles; to the top of one of these a striped cloth had been tied.
The babi came and saw Inyah above, but could not reach her, and waited there many days.
One babi (pig) that had belonged to the deceased had been killed and was served with rice.
Two large and four species of small deer are found in the Peninsula, besides the babi rusa or hog-deer, which however is not a member of the same order.
Her father-in-law and uncle was also a mulla, and also called Muhammad; he was conspicuous for his bitter hostility to the Sheykhi and the Babi sects.
Some time after, Yahya made an expedition in company with some of his relations, making congenial friends, and helping to strengthen the Babi cause.
Babi name, and his Babi period was to him the only part of his life that was worth living.
The Babi community was too much divided to yield a new Head a frank and loyal obedience.
It was this, indeed, which specially promoted the early Babi propagandism, and which probably came up for discussion at the Badasht conference.
So, then, we see our Babi apostles and their followers, with changed route, proceeding to the province of Mazandaran, where Kuddus resided.
In the Babi colony at Baghdad there were some who were not thoroughly devoted to Baha-'ullah.
It is given neither in the Babi nor in the Muslim histories of this period.
There are about twenty-five houses in Mungu Babi (i.
And with that Frau Babi raised the cover of an old chest and rummaged about for garments suitable for a young peasant girl's wear.
Frau Babi led the way down into this hollow, which was then, luckily, free from water.
Of this latter phenomenon Pulo Babi appears to be an example, since, for some distance inland the shore is flat, and composed of coral sand and debris, with a substratum of fresh-looking coral rock.
In April the division moved forward, and the brigade again marched past the Babi Bend, northward of Mushaidie to Beled Station, where we had a few days' halt and some of us shot a number of sandgrouse.
Meanwhile our brigade received orders to concentrate on the Tigris at the Babi Bend, some six miles east of Mushaidie.
So far as my knowledge goes, it has never happened save in the case of the Babi religion.
The term Babiis not appropriate to the religion of Baha nor to his followers.
The Babi history as well as their sacred scriptures prove that a terrible corruption, changing and transposing of its meanings, has been going on in the hands of the Behaists.
At that time Baha had been for many years a leader in the Babi religion, had written the "Ikan," and announced his mission.
I will now give some details from the history of the Babi and Bahai "Manifestations" to show their practice in regard to marriage.
They pertain for the most part to the Babi period.
However vague Babi doctrine may be on certain points, it is essentially dogmatic, and every utterance or command uttered by the Manifestation of the Period, i.
The Babi and Bahai historians indulge so much in diatribes and maledictions that Professor Browne wearies of translating them and omits pages of abuse.
The Babi alphabet, unlike the Arabic and Persian, was written from left to right.
Babi or Bahai Writers By the Bab: "Beyan Persan" (Fr.
Such an excuse might be accepted for a man like Mullah Mohammed Ali, the Babi leader of the Zenjan insurrection, for, as far as is known, he entered upon his polygamous life while he was a Mohammedan.
He spoke much on "Universal peace," thoughBabi history, which they boast of, has some of the cruelest and bloodiest conflicts of arms recorded in history.
Such in brief is the history of the early Babi Church (1)--a Church which has grown up and expanded greatly within the memory of many yet living.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "babi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
