was
later ignominiously expelled to Karbila, falling a prey to disease,
poverty and gnawing sorrow--a piteous vindication of that denunciatory
Tablet in which his Prisoner had foreshadowed his doom and denounced his
infamy. As to the low-born and infamous Amir-Nizam, Mirza Taqi _Kh_an, the
first year of whose short-lived ministry was stained with the ferocious
onslaught against the defenders of the Fort of Tabarsi, who authorized and
encouraged the execution of the Seven Martyrs of Tihran, who unleashed the
assault against Vahid and his companions, who was directly responsible for
the death-sentence of the Bab, and who precipitated the great upheaval of
Zanjan, he forfeited, through the unrelenting jealousy of his sovereign
and the vindictiveness of court intrigue, all the honors he had enjoyed,
and was treacherously put to death by the royal order, his veins being
opened in the bath of the Palace of Fin, near Ka_sh_an. "Had the
Amir-Nizam," Baha'u'llah is reported by Nabil to have stated, "been aware
of My true position, he would certainly have laid hold on Me. He exerted
the utmost effort to discover the real situation, but was unsuccessful.
God wished him to be ignorant of it." Mirza Aqa _Kh_an, who had taken such
an active part in the unbridled cruelties perpetrated as a result of the
attempt on the life of the sovereign, was driven from office, and placed
under strict surveillance in Yazd, where he ended his days in shame and
despair.

Husayn _Kh_an, the governor of _Sh_iraz, stigmatized as a "wine-bibber"
and a "tyrant," the first who arose to ill-treat the Bab, who publicly
rebuked Him and bade his attendant strike Him violently in the face, was
compelled not only to endure the dreadful calamity that so suddenly befell
him, his family, his city and his province, but afterwards to witness the
undoing of all his labors, and to lead in obscurity the remaining days of
his life, till he tottered to his grave abandoned alike by his friends and
his enemies. Hajibu'd-Dawlih, that bloodthirsty fiend, who had strenuously
hounded down so many innocent and defenseless Babis, fell in his turn a
victim to the fury of the turbulent Lurs, who, after despoiling him of his
property, cut off his beard, and forced him to eat it, saddled and bridled
him, and rode him before the eyes of the people, after which they
inflicted under his very eyes shameful atrocities upon his womenfolk and
children. The Sa'idu'l-'Ulama', the fanatical, th