Baha'u'llah was God??

Explicit Claims and Interpretations of Divinity:

• Dr. I. G. Khayru'llah, an early Baha'i propagandist in America, made the most direct assertions concerning Baha'u'llah's divinity in his classes and teachings.
  • Khayru'llah taught that Baha'u'llah was God Himself.
  • He insisted that God did not manifest through the personality of Baha'u'llah (as in the case of Jesus), but that He really was God.
  • Khayru'llah stated that Baha'u'llah declared himself God to the world in 1866.
  • In the context of the Incarnation, Khayru'llah claimed that the Incarnation of God (Baha) appeared in 1852-1853.
  • Khayru'llah also taught that Baha'u'llah manifested himself for five days as the Lord of Hosts.
  • He asserted that Baha'u'llah explicitly declared that He was the Visage and Very Self of the Eternal Essence.
  • Khayru'llah also claimed Baha'u'llah was the Enunciator (mubayyin), that is, God.
• The fundamental belief required for salvation, as taught by Khayru'llah, was that Baha'u'llah himself was God, the Almighty.
• In one of Baha'u'llah's letters, a passage asks: "O thou who circlest round my Throne and art present before my Face, dost thou weep for God's own self working for His purpose, or do I weep with mine eyes for it?".
• A Babi poem (ascribed to Nabil) contains an address to the Manifestation, suggesting divine claim and affirmation: "Then speak the word, 'Am I not your Lord?' and 'Thou art, Thou art' we will all reply".

Claims to Supreme Divine Authority and Status:

• Baha'u'llah is referenced using titles that denote supreme spiritual authority:
  • He is called the Beauty of Eternity and the Sovereign One.
  • In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the recognition of the Dawning-place of His Revelation and the Day-spring of His Dispensation is stated as "the first thing which God [Baha'u'llah] hath prescribed unto His servants".
  • He addressed letters to rulers, calling upon them to throw their kingdoms at his feet and worship him.
• Baha'u'llah's brother, Musa, was entitled Kalim ("Talker"), because, like Moses, he conversed with God, i.e., Baha'u'llah.
• Baha'u'llah offered proof of his divinity to the Ottoman Sultan by writing a book larger than the Koran in six hours.

(Extracted from Materials for the Study of the Bábí Religion, by Edward G. Browne)

https://ia601303.us.archive.org/30/items/materialsforstud00browuoft/materialsforstud00browuoft.pdf