Baha'u'llah and the Bobby Movement

Baha'u'llah claims to have had several intense mystical experiences and visions which changed his life trajectory in very significant ways. He would keep these experiences and the implications of them a secret for many years afterwards. His brother Sobiyazal was the recognized leader of the community who was still in hiding. There also appears to have been internal strife and differences of opinion between these leaders. These tensions between the two brothers and within the community at large became so hidden that Baha'ullah eventually left Baha'U'llah in 1854 to live in the mountains of Kurdistan as an ascetic or dervish.