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Have you read the "Epistle to the Son of the Wolf"?

http://bahai-library.com/writings/ba...esw/index.html

It was probably the last major Tablet revealed about a year before the ascension of Baha'u'llah in 1892.

It's actually a kind of synopsis of some of Baha'u'llah's earlier Writings.

It's not a very large book in itself ...about the size of the Qur'an.

So who was the "Wolf" referring to?

There were two brothers in Isfahan, men of means..widely know for their philanthropy. The head priest or Mullah owed them a large sum of money. To avoid paying the debt he denounced the brothers as followers of the Bab. He knew what would happen after that. A mob destroyed their home and tore up their gardens. Everything they possessed was looted. Then a Shaykh Muhammad Baqir pronounced their death sentence... this man was designated by Baha'ullah as the "Wolf". The brothers were chained up and decapitated. Their bodies were then dragged to a large open square and exposed to the gaze of the multitude.

But this Tablet was addressed to the "Son of the Wolf" and he was the son of the man who murdered the brothers mentioned above. He was called Shaykh Muhammad Taqiy-i-Najafi, a Muslim cleric of Isfahan. He and his pupils kicked and trampled the corpse of Mirza Ashraf a Baha'i who in 1888 was killed by order of the Mullahs of the city.

The Tablet though really addresses humanity and not just the "Son of the Wolf".

You could ask yourself was their any precedent in previous Holy Books for such a name as "Wolf" to designate a cowardly figure?

The answer is yes. His Holiness the Christ referred to Herod as that "fox"..

And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

(King James Bible, Luke 13:32)