InvestigateTruth

In Some Answered Questions, Abdul-Baha explains the interpretation of 1290 years, mentioned in Bible:

Afterward, in verse 11, it is said: “And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolation be set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.”

The beginning of this lunar reckoning is from the day of the proclamation of the prophethood of Muḥammad in the country of Ḥijáz; and that was three years after His mission, because in the beginning the prophethood of Muḥammad was kept secret, and no one knew it save Khadíjah and Ibn Nawfal.‡ After three years it was announced. And Bahá’u’lláh, in the year 1290 from the proclamation of the mission of Muḥammad, caused His manifestation to be known.

What is the interpretation of the second part: Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.”?


Is it 45 years after 1290? If so, what is significant about that?

Lunitik

This would correlate to 1917, which is around the time of Hazrat Inayat Khan's teachings... it is interesting that the following conversation is recording in his Biography:

I had the pleasure of meeting Abdul Baha when he was in Paris, who showed great interest in my music and with whom I had an interesting talk about our experiences in the Western world. During the conversation we had, he exclaimed, "There should be no secret, you must speak; either you know or you do not know." I answered, "The whole nature of things and beings has a secret; each thing and each being has a secret which reveals its nature and character and the life itself has its secret and it is the uncovering of its secret which is the purpose of life. Speaking out aloud does not prove a person to be the knower of the secret. Neither every occasion is a suitable occasion, nor is every person a person fitted for the truth to be spoken to." "You are also preaching the brotherhood of nations?" I said, "I am not preaching brotherhood, but sowing the seed of Tawhid, the unity of God, that from the plant of Sufism may spring up fruits and flowers of brotherhood."

InvestigateTruth

I actually found this:



While it is clear that the prophecy concerning the 1,335 days is associated with the spread of the Baha'i Faith throughout the world, several different dates are given in our authoritative texts for the actual fulfilment of this prophecy. As mentioned earlier, the two Tablets of the Master which are cited in "The Passing of `Abdu'l-Baha", page 31, suggest different dates for the fulfilment of the prophecy of the 1,335 days: 1963 and 1957. Further, in the letters written by or on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian indicates that these same Tablets form the basis for his interpretation of the date of the fulfilment of the 1,335 days referred to in Daniel. Three different dates are either given by the Guardian or can be inferred from these same Tablets -- 1957, 1960, and 1963.

In addition, these same Tablets are also given as the reference for the one-hundred-year period that began in 1853.

In light of the foregoing, it is, therefore, suggested that:


- The prophecy of Daniel about the 1,335 days is not fulfilled by just one single date. Its fulfilment is, rather, a process that extends over a period of time.
- The fulfilment of the prophecy coincides with the period of the Ten Year Crusade, 1953-1963, a span of time that includes 1953 (the end of the hundred years whose significance is unclear), 1957, 1960, and 1963.


It is interesting to note that Shoghi Effendi described the Ten Year Crusade as the "ninth part" of that "majestic process, set in motion at the dawn of the Adamic cycle" by means of which the "light" of God's Revelation will be diffused

in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, through the operation of a decade-long world spiritual crusade whose termination will, God willing, coincide with the Most Great Jubilee commemorating the Centenary of the Declaration of Baha'u'llah in Baghdad.
(30 April 1953 to the All-America Intercontinental Teaching
Conference, published in "Messages to the Baha'i World
1950-1957" (Wilmette: Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1971), p. 155)


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Furthermore, the Guardian in a letter dated 7 March 1955 written on his behalf to an individual believer states:

Thus in the Ten Year Crusade, we are actually fulfilling the prophecy of Daniel, because with the completion of the Ten Year Crusade in 1963 we will have established the Faith in every part of the globe.

Source:
http://bahai-library.com/uhj/beckwit....prophecy.html

Seeroos

all of this shows the prophecies do not point to a specific year but an entire time period (1800's)

InvestigateTruth

In our view, the public declaration of the Bab and Baha'u'llah points to specific dates, the 1260 days and 1290 days prophecies, respectively. This is because, on these specific dates, the Bab and Baha'u'llah publically declared their mission to people. So, each year the Baha'is celebrate the anniversary of the declarations.

The Bab Wrote:

"God beareth Me witness, I was not a man of learning, for I was trained as a merchant. In the year sixty God graciously infused my soul with the conclusive evidences and weighty knowledge which characterize Him Who is the Testimony of God—may peace be upon Him—until finally in that year I proclaimed God’s hidden Cause and unveiled its well-guarded Pillar, in such wise that no one could refute it."


And Baha'u'llah Wrote in a Tablet to the King:

"The learning current amongst men I studied not; their schools I entered not. Ask of the city wherein I dwelt, that thou mayest be well assured that I am not of them who speak falsely. This is but a leaf which the winds of the will of thy Lord, the Almighty, the All-Praised, have stirred."


But for the 1335 Days prophecy, it comes to the year 1957, which marks the beginning of a period in which the Baha'i Faith was spread in the world.

So, what Denial prophesized was that "Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days"
It means after passing of 1335 days, the Baha'is would start to see the progress of the Faith in the world.

InvestigateTruth

It is interesting that the first Universal House of Justice was elected in April 1963, six years after the passing of Shoghi Effendi.
In a Letter written on behalf of the Guardian:

"The 1335 days referred to by Daniel will be fulfilled in 1963. The date of the Hijra is 622 A.D. The 1335 days is figured according to the solar calendar, but in adjusting the 1335 days, one must take into consideration the time at which the prophecies were given and change them into solar time, which would bring the date to 1963."

In another Letter there is references in letters written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi which give 1957 as the date of the fulfilment of the prophecy:


"It is far too early to make any predictions about peace of any sort, judging by the ebullitions of the world's affairs these days! `Abdu'l-Baha, in His Tablets, connects the prophecy of Daniel -- 1957 -- with the proclamation and spread of the Cause." (31 July 1946 to an individual believer)




Shoghi Effendi Passed in 1957. It was after His passing that the Hands of the Cause determined the transition of the International Bahá'í Council into the Universal House of Justice.


So, it seems to me the Danial prophecy marks 1957 as the beginning of the process that for the first time in the history of mankind, a Universal House of Justice is elected in a perfect democracy way.

Seeroos

1335 = 1917 actually

InvestigateTruth

Abdul-Baha explained in a Tablet that, it's calculated from 622 A.D., the year that Muhammad migrated to Medina in 622.

1335+622=1957