- [...] ritten to Illustrate the Episode of the Bab
Touching the individual known as the [...]
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Touching the individual known as the Bab and the true nature of this sect divers [...]
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The Bab was a young merchant of the Pure Lineag [...]
- [...] gan to speak and to declare the rank of Bab-hood.* Now what He intended by the term [...]
- [...] hood.* Now what He intended by the term Bab [Gate] was this, that He was the channe [...]
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The Bab Himself set out to perform the circumam [...]
- [...] or of Fars, to inflict a beating on the Bab's missionaries, that is on Mulla Sadiq [...]
- [...] ient, sent several horsemen, caused the Bab to be brought before him, censured and [...]
- [...] the demand for reparation. And when the Bab returned his censure and withstood him [...]
- [...] dent that His meaning was the Gatehood [Babiyyat] of another city and the mediumshi [...]
- [...] s rife; and their interference with the Bab cast a clamor throughout Persia, causin [...]
- [...] id arrived at Shiraz he interviewed the Bab three times. In the first and second co [...]
- [...] and proper, returned with some [of the Bab's] writings. When the divine heard how [...]
- [...] embrace the doctrine], and wrote to the Bab his own declaration and confession. [...]
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The Bab in His reply signified to him the oblig [...]
- [...] cure and decisive remedy is to kill the Bab. And the Bab has assembled a great host [...]
- [...] sive remedy is to kill the Bab. And the Bab has assembled a great host and mediates [...]
- [...] gh constable to attack the house of the Bab's maternal uncle at midnight on all sid [...]
- [...] osts found no one in the house save the Bab, His maternal uncle, and Siyyid Kazim o [...]
- [...] ed Husayn Khan to flee, he released the Bab on condition of His quitting the city. [...]
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On the morning after that night the Bab with Siyyid Kazim of Zanjan set out fro [...]
- [...] t a decree had been issued ordering the Bab to be sent to Tihran in order that some [...]
- [...] dents of the Mu'tamid knew aught of the Bab. [...]
- [...] the Mu'tamid's nephew, was aware of the Bab's being in the private apartments, and [...]
- [...] instructions that they should send the Bab secretly in disguise under the escort o [...]
- [...] period of twenty days. After that, the Bab forwarded a letter to the Royal Presenc [...]
- [...] re is no doubt that the presence of the Bab will be the cause of the gravest troubl [...]
- [...] w' a letter was issued addressed to the Bab in his Majesty's own writing, and, acco [...]
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Besides this the followers of the Bab recount certain messages conveyed [from [...]
- [...] requested the government to punish the [Bab's] followers, and to remove the Bab to [...]
- [...] he [Bab's] followers, and to remove the Bab to the Castle of Chihriq. So they sent [...]
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But the Bab Himself attached no importance to this [...]
- [...] ed a severe punishment in regard to the Bab for the intimidation and frightening of [...]
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When the Bab reached Tabriz they brought Him after s [...]
- [...] They asked concerning the claims of the Bab. He advanced the claim of Mihdi-hood; w [...]
- [...] ammar. So the assembly broke up and the Bab returned to His own dwelling. [...]
- [...] onounced no sentence with regard to the Bab, nor did he desire to interfere with Hi [...]
- [...] his own hand. After this they sent the Bab back to Chihriq and subjected Him to a [...]
- [...] united in uprooting and dispersing the Babis. But the late King Muhammad Shah acte [...]
- [...] arned persons who were followers of the Bab opposition, discussion, and strife did [...]
- [...] the eradication and suppression of the Babis as necessary: at another time he woul [...]
- [...] mon folk to molest the followers of the Bab, and a general onslaught took place. Mo [...]
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But the Babi chiefs composed treatises against them [...]
- [...] in spite of His lack of education, the Bab had composed, as due to the promptings [...]
- [...] the steadfastness and constancy of the Bab a most mighty sign, and related miracle [...]
- [...] ts certain persons appeared amongst the Babis who had a strange ascendancy and appe [...]
- [...] was the associate and companion of the Bab in His pilgrimage journey. After a whil [...]
- [...] ge set himself to exalt the word of the Bab with the utmost steadfastness, and the [...]
- [...] with the utmost steadfastness, and the Bab did full justice to speech in praising [...]
- [...] y sacrificed her life in the way of the Bab. She discussed and disputed with the do [...]
- [...] smen, he issued orders to persecute the Babis, imagining that by overweening force [...]
- [...] elate that the possessions of a certain Babi in Kashan were plundered, and his hous [...]
- [...] hat very day entered the society of the Babis, saying, "This very ill-usage and pub [...]
- [...] l directions to punish and chastise the Babis. Governors and magistrates sought a p [...]
- [...] principles and hidden doctrines of the Bab's teachings, and did not recognize thei [...]
- [...] cient usage. The way of approach to the Bab was, moreover, closed, and the flame of [...]
- [...] Mazindaran, scattered and separated the Babis in that forest on the road and off th [...]
- [...] e at night and the army was routed. The Babis fired the tents and huts, and night b [...]
- [...] n authority, issued commands to put the Bab to death. This befell in brief as follo [...]
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Now the Siyyid Bab had disposed all His affairs before set [...]
- [...] tian regiment of Urumiyyih; suspend the Bab before all the people; and give orders [...]
- [...] him his instructions. They removed the Bab's turban and sash which were the signs [...]
- [...] ief of the farrashes delivered over the Bab and a young man named Aqa Muhammad-'Ali [...]
- [...] o ropes were hung down. By one rope the Bab was suspended and by the other rope Aqa [...]
- [...] t the head of that young man was on the Bab's breast. The surrounding housetops bil [...]
- [...] hey saw that young man standing and the Bab seated by the side of His amanuensis Aq [...]
- [...] ard, advanced; and they again bound the Bab together with that young man to the sam [...]
- [...] th that young man to the same nail. The Bab uttered certain words which those few w [...]
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On the second night at midnight the Babis carried away the two bodies. [...]
- [...] quiry it hath been proved that when the Bab had dispersed all His writings and pers [...]
- [...] he nobles of Adhirbayjan devoted to the Bab, arrived, and proceeded straightway to [...]
- [...] sheltered the body in the workshop of a Babi of Milan: next day they manufactured a [...]
- [...] rsia fire fell on the households of the Babis, and each one of them, in whatever ha [...]
- [...] peared, and it became certain that [the Babis] were increasing. The flame rose high [...]
- [...] is event there was wrought by a certain Babi a great error and a grave presumption [...]
- [...] is this, that during the time when the Bab was residing in Adhirbayjan a youth, Sa [...]
- [...] ffected with the utmost devotion to the Bab, night and day was busy in serving Him, [...]
- [...] reason. Now when that which befell the Bab in Tabriz took place, this servant, act [...]
- [...] unt from the first manifestation of the Bab until the present time; but when the th [...]
- [...] owever, to our original subject. Of the Bab's writings many remained in men's hands [...]
- [...] e beginning of the manifestation of the Bab there was in Tihran (which the Bab call [...]
- [...] the Bab there was in Tihran (which the Bab called the Holy Land) a Youth of the fa [...]
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When the question of the Bab was noised abroad signs of partiality a [...]
- [...] ng and entering into relations with the Bab. The medium of this correspondence was [...]
- [...] la 'Abdu'l-Karim of Qazvin, who was the Bab's mainstay and trusted intimate. Now si [...]
- [...] wer of the Amir-Nizam, whereby both the Bab and Baha'u'llah were in great danger an [...]
- [...] rs, ostensibly at his dictation, to the Bab. And since secret correspondences were [...]
- [...] ret correspondences were in process the Bab highly approved of this scheme. So Mirz [...]
- [...] e (which was termed in the books of the Bab "the year of 'after a while'" and where [...]
- [...] increase and multiply; still, since the Bab was but beginning to lay the foundation [...]
- [...] le guiding principle being love for the Bab. This ignorance was the reason that in [...]
- [...] lested and grievously injured a certain Babi. The victim unclosed his hand in retal [...]
- [...] he local authorities; and that all [the Babis] in 'Iraq would shortly be delivered [...]
- [...] ver with bound hands to Persia. But the Babis passed the time in calmness and silen [...]
- [...] how he might grieve and humiliate [the Babis]. Every day he sought some pretext fo [...]
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Now when [the Babis] found themselves unable to treat thi [...]
- [...] or distracting the senses [of the Babis]. Finally, however, being dismissed, [...]
- [...] tisement and punishment," yet still the Babis continued to conduct themselves with [...]
- [...] f abode and residence. To that city the Babis, accompanied by [Turkish] officers, p [...]
- [...] f Isfahan, one of the followers [of the Bab], laid the foundations of intimacy and [...]
- [...] , nay in the court itself, saying, "The Babis say thus, and expound in this wise: [ [...]
- [...] ection; the expediency of banishing the Babis came under consideration; and all of [...]
- [...] vine support in the affair of the Bab; the inability of whosoever is upon the [...]
- [...] rvants of God, a certain number [of the Babis] appealed to the governor of 'Iraq. I [...]
- [...] eople are mad,' this [too] is very improbable, for it is not [a thing] confined to [...]
- [...] the presence of the King by the name of Babis, and forthwith engage in slaughter an [...]
- [...] d outcry saying "These two brothers are Babis and deserve severe punishment from th [...]