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After an attempt on the Shah's life by two Bábís in 1852, Bahá'u'lláh is held for four months in the Síyáh-Chál, the Black Pit of Tehran. Bahá'ís understand this imprisonment as the moment of his intimation of revelation, the vision of the Maid of Heaven recorded in his own writings.
In the garden outside Baghdad that his followers name Ridván, paradise, Bahá'u'lláh declares to his companions, over twelve days in April and May 1863, that he is the one foretold by the Báb. The festival of Ridván is the Bahá'í Faith's holiest celebration, and the declaration opens the faith's own history.
Exiled successively to Baghdad, Constantinople, and Adrianople, Bahá'u'lláh is finally banished by the Ottoman Sultan to the prison city of Akka in Ottoman Palestine, arriving on 31 August 1868. He remains a prisoner and exile in the Akka and Haifa area for the rest of his life, and the region becomes the faith's world centre.
In Akka about 1873 Bahá'u'lláh reveals the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, the Most Holy Book, his book of laws: the charter of Bahá'í personal and communal life, prescribing prayer, fasting, marriage, and the institutions of the Administrative Order, and naming his son 'Abdu'l-Bahá as his successor and interpreter.
Bahá'u'lláh dies on 29 May 1892 at the Mansion of Bahjí outside Akka, where he had lived under eased confinement, and is buried in the room adjoining the mansion. His shrine at Bahjí is the point toward which Bahá'ís turn in prayer, the faith's holiest place.
