Religious leader. He began as a follower of Bab-ed-Din (Mizra Ali Mohammed), the founder of the Babi Sect in Iran, who prophesied the coming of a new Shiite Imam but was executed as a heretic in 1850. Baha-Allah then assumed the mantle of the prophet and founded Bahaism, a new religion which states that God is unknowable, that all religions are one because they are all successive emanations of the incomprehensible truth of God, and that Jesus, Mohammed, and Bab-ed-Din were examples of such emanations.