Baha'i Fulfills "Great News" of Islam

You stated: "So basically the Shias state it refers to the announcement of Imam Ali's Guardianship, the Sunnis state it refers to when people die and are again resurrected, and Baha'u'llah comes along claiming you've got it wrong, and this verse refers to ME! Yet he fails to provide a shred of evidence as why it refers to him. " RESPONSE: Actually the Shias also believe that this verse has multiple levels of meaning, just as I stated anove. As you pointed out the Shia Imam Sadiq says this verse is about Imam Ali while this is stated on a Shia website: "To gather the contents of these narrations and the commentary of the verse, in the same sense as 'Resurrection', which was previously mentioned, is possible in two ways: (1) The phrase /naba'-in-'azim/ has a broad meaning which includes all of the meanings previously given, though when these verses were revealed the Qur'an insisted on 'Resurrection' more than anything else. Still, this does not hinder us from finding more interpretations, of the verse, other than the above and (Tafsir-i-Borhan, vol.4, p.419, Tradition 3.) as we know and as it has been mentioned repeatedly, the Qur'an has various meanings; that is, a verse may have several meanings, in different dimensions, among which only one is obvious by the apparent words and the other meanings are hidden, but they can be found with the help of other explanations and are not clear to anyone except 'the distinguished ones'." So, since there are different levels of meaning agreed by both Shia and Sunni Muslims of the different verses of the Quran, such as the verse in question here, the Baha'i position is in conformity with this view of all Muslims. So the question whether this verse has multiple meanings has been resolved, and it is likely that Baha'u'llah is correct that this Chapter of the Quran about al-naba al-azim refers to him. Here are some reason why Baha'u'llah fulfills this verse: 1. Azim is from the same Arabic root word as Azam. Azam is a superlative form of Azim. Azim is Great, Azam is Greater or Greatest. Baha'u'llah's titles include Ism-i-Azam (Greatest Name), and his revelation is known as Zuhur-i-Azam (Greatest Revelation). 2. As I posted earlier, the phrase Naba Azim is claimed by Baha'u'llah in his writings to refer to him. 3. Elsewhere in his writings (I have not posted them here) he refers to the other signs associated with the events in this chapter of the Quran to all have been fulfilled through the Bahai revelation. Now to your question about proofs that this is fulfilled? The proofs that this has been fulfilled are as follows: 1. Scientific advances exploded around the same time Baha'u'llah lived in the mid 1800s. 2. Islamic nations of Iranian and the Ottoman Empires both began to decline during this time period. The Ottoman split up entirely into the countries of the Middle East today, and Iran lost a lot of land and wealth and prestige after this time period as well. 3. Globalization of people really because established around this time with telephone, automobile, press, airplane, ships, etc. 4. Communication explosion like internet and space travel all came about around and after the lifetime of Bahaullah. 5. Prophecies of historic events. 6. The concept of the Sun as its own proof: the writings of Baha'u'llah are vast and mindboggling. 7. Survival of the Bahai Faith in spite of exile, imprisonment and persecution. 8. No other claimants made the same extraordinary claims as Baha'u'llah did. Oft-cited contemporary claimants did not make similar claims: Joseph Smith of Mormonism is still considered to be Christian, and Qulam Ahmad of Ahmadiyyah is still considered to be Muslim, and Sai Baba is still considered to Hindu. Only Baha'u'llah founded an independent religion. This is important in that Islam is distinct from Christianity, and Christianity is distinct from Judaism, so Baha'i is distinct from Islam.