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How old was the Báb when he claimed to be a messenger of God?

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At the age of 25, Sayyid'Alí Muḥammad Shírází, later known as the Báb, began his public mission to proclaim himself as the messenger of God and the herald of the promised Mahdi, the return of the twelfth imam of Twelver Shia Islam.
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