A glance at Ali Mohammad Bab’s presence in Bushehr

Bahaismiran: Seyyed Ali Mohammad Shirazi the founder of the deviant cult of Babism was born in the lunar month of Moharram, 1235 Hijra in Shiraz. His father’s name was Reza and his mother was Fatima Bagom or Khadijeh Bagom. He started learning to read and write regularly in Shiraz. He missed his father when he was just a kid; so, he went to Boushehr port and was under the guardianship of his maternal uncle; He learned in one of Sheikieh cult’s followers school for a period of time. When he became mature worked in Sasoon company which belonged to a Jewish capitalist in Baqdad with his maternal uncle. That company was merchandising opium in Boushehr and Mumbai ports. At the beginning of this cooperation, it was Seyyed Ali Mohammad’s duty to rub the opium; that is he must put the raw opium which was kept in big jars in the form of liquid on a special board rub it for hours in order for the liquid to change into hard and compressed bullets. Then he changed them into 20-gram roll in order to be sent to the office of “Sasoon” commercial firm in Mumbai and to be distributed among the native people of southern Asia specially China with a low price according to the colonial policy of England. The famous Namazi family in Shiraz was distributing the opium in China and earning a great deal of money through receiving free opium from the Jewish people and distributing in the region.

Many experts believe that at least 10 hours working under the blazing sun of Boushehr port had med Seyyed Ali Mohammad Shirazi’s common sense and he had suffered from melancholia because he was claiming for dominance on the moon and stars. These note has been written in prince Kiniaz Dalgorki’s –The Russian ambassador- memoirs.

Seyyed Ali Mohammad Bab’s familiarity with the Jewish capitalist family

Sasoon company had important impressions on him and made him familiar with the great Jewish centers. According to some historians, the main bases of his claims for being the gate of Imam Mehdi (P.H.) or according to Sheikieh belief his claim for the forth pillar were formed since these days and because of his relationship with these centers.

Seyyed Ali Mohammad Bab Shirazi (Bab) was trained his rudimentary education in Boushehr by a teacher call Sheik Abed who was strictly in the direction of Sheikieh cult and was one of Sheik Ahmad Ehsaee’s –the great leader and the founder of this cult- followers. Seyyed Ali Mohammad Shirazi was one of Sheikieh cult’s followers. He traveled to Karbala to complete his knowledge…