e sake of those
same defenders, whom He had intended to join, that He suffered His second
imprisonment, this time in the masjid of Amul to which He was led, amidst
the tumult raised by no less than four thousand spectators,--for their sake
that He was bastinadoed in the namaz-_kh_anih of the mujtahid of that town
until His feet bled, and later confined in the private residence of its
governor; for their sake that He was bitterly denounced by the leading
mulla, and insulted by the mob who, besieging the governor's residence,
pelted Him with stones, and hurled in His face the foulest invectives. He
alone was the One alluded to by Quddus who, upon his arrival at the Fort
of _Sh_ay_kh_ Tabarsi, uttered, as soon as he had dismounted and leaned
against the shrine, the prophetic verse "The Baqiyyatu'llah (the Remnant
of God) will be best for you if ye are of those who believe." He alone was
the Object of that prodigious eulogy, that masterly interpretation of the
Sad of Samad, penned in part, in that same Fort by that same youthful
hero, under the most distressing circumstances, and equivalent in
dimensions to six times the volume of the Qur'an. It was to the date of
His impending Revelation that the Lawh-i-Hurufat, revealed in _Ch_ihriq by
the Bab, in honor of Dayyan, abstrusely alluded, and in which the mystery
of the "Musta_gh_a_th_" was unraveled. It was to the attainment of His
presence that the attention of another disciple, Mulla Baqir, one of the
Letters of the Living, was expressly directed by none other than the Bab
Himself. It was exclusively to His care that the documents of the Bab, His
pen-case, His seals, and agate rings, together with a scroll on which He
had penned, in the form of a pentacle, no less than three hundred and
sixty derivatives of the word Baha, were delivered, in conformity with
instructions He Himself had issued prior to His departure from _Ch_ihriq.
It was solely due to His initiative, and in strict accordance with His
instructions, that the precious remains of the Bab were safely transferred
from Tabriz to the capital, and were concealed and safeguarded with the
utmost secrecy and care throughout the turbulent years following His
martyrdom. And finally, it was He Who, in the days preceding the attempt
on the life of the _Sh_ah, had been instrumental, while sojourning in
Karbila, in spreading, with that same enthusiasm and ability that had
distinguished His earlier exertions in Mazindaran, the tea