InvestigateTruth
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You seem to have created a dilemma based on hypothetical questioning:But the real question here is not whether the "ignorant Persian Muslims" (I doubt you'd have got away with suggesting that back there and then) were unaware of Daniels 2300 days prophecy, but whether Baha'u'llah was ignorant of its "proper" Baha'i interpretation. Had this perfect and infallible Manifestation of God forgotten what He had caused to be written about himself?
First you began by thinking that the reason the Bab proclaimed His mission in year 1260 AH, which is 1844AD is, because He had learned from Miller that this is the year the Promised One is to appear. Then it shown that, year 1260 AH was calculated based on Muslim Traditions and Scriptures.
Now, you realized this was not the case. So, now you make another hypothetical questioning that perhaps the Bab and Bahaullah did not know the Baha'i interpretation of the Daniel vision.
I said dilemma, because if let's say there was a writing from the Bab and Bahaullah about Daniel Prophecy, then you would take it as evidence They had learned from Miller. And if there is no mention specifically to the Danial vision in Their Writings, you take that as evidence They did not know!
Dear siti, make up your mind! Now, I called it 'hypothetical', because the absence or existence of a direct reference to Daniel vision is not a proof for the dilemma you are arguing.
Now let me give some factual information here, so it may make things more clear for you. I say factual, because I can back it up with evidences that proves it. And that information is this: the Bab and Bahaullah in the early time of their missions declared that 'the End Time' has come to pass.
Now, the vision of Daniel as the Bible states is about the End Time, and Jesus also confirmed it.
Now, it is another hypothetical idea to think that Bahaullah spent very much time with Muslim Scholars, because you cannot back this up with any historical evidence. Because you only had a statement from His aunt, which you cannot even prove to be true or accurate or unbiased, and secondly other than this, you cannot find any great number of encounters of Bahaullah in any valid history books with the presumed scholars, and any details of such hypothetical connections. This is why in Baha'i view these hypothetical questionings is not taken as disproving Bahaullah.
But I do not mean to say, it is not good to investigate, but I only mean, hypothetically without the proper evidences, it only remains at that.