Baha’is regard the Bab and Baha’u’llah as twin manifestations of God, both prophets and founders of independent religions, whose Faiths ultimately came together as one.

In 1863 Baha’u’llah fulfilled the Bab’s prophecies by proclaiming and establishing the Baha’i Faith, which eventually subsumed the Bab’s followers and became a global religion.

Baha’u’llah made pivotal comments about the Bab’s revelation. He described the Bab in personal terms as a necessary catalyst in their combined enterprise to build a new society. The Bab, allied with Baha’u’llah, was a “twin figure,” a prophet in his own right invested with the authority of presiding with Baha’u’llah over the destinies of this new dispensation.

The Bab, referred to by Baha’u’llah as “My Forerunner,” as well as his Herald and Primal Point, prepared the way for Baha’u’llah’s revelation. Baha’u’llah described the Bab’s supreme sacrifice as the one “Who laid down His life for this Great Announcement.” – Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, p.140.

Baha’u’llah pledged his reciprocal support to the Bab in this statement: “We stand, life in hand, wholly resigned to His will; that perchance, through God’s loving kindness and His grace, this revealed and manifest Letter (Baha’u’llah) may lay down His life as a sacrifice in the path of the Primal Point, he most exalted Word.” – Baha’u’llah, The Book of Certitude, p. 251.