Siyyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi
Orphaned, too wise for school, merchant by trade
At 25: “I am, I am, I am the Promised One”
Conquered the first 18 in silence, captured the next hundred thousand with His words
Insulted, imprisoned, beaten, banished – martyred at 30 in Tabriz
Blew the Trumpet for “Him Whom God shall make manifest”
Pure, Audacious, Triumphant – the Bab
the City 