Edited sentence: Ordinary Iranians meanwhile have always tended to conflate the two, despite Baha'ism's renunciation of jihad.Such descriptions may be familiar from Baha'i literature, but obscure the central reality of the Babi uprisings--that the Babis (after 1848) had taken up arms against the state, with a view toward replacing the existing regime with a Babi one; and intended also to replace the establised religion.While Baha'u'llah's writings rue their militancy (perhaps as an "olive branch" on his part toward the Persian throne), Baha'i tradition valorizes it