This work, of such exalted merit, of such far-reaching influence, was
followed by the revelation of the Báb’s first Tablet to Muḥammad _Sh_áh;
of His Tablets to Sulṭán ‘Abdu’l-Majíd and to Najíb Pá_sh_á, the Valí of
Ba_gh_dád; of the Sahífiy-i-baynu’l-Harámayn, revealed between Mecca and
Medina, in answer to questions posed by Mírzá Muhít-i-Kirmání; of the
Epistle to the _Sh_eríf of Mecca; of the Kitábú’r-Rúh, comprising seven
hundred súrihs; of the _Kh_asá’il-i-Sab‘ih, which enjoined the alteration
of the formula of the a_dh_án; of the Risáliy-i-Furú-i-‘Adlíyyih, rendered
into Persian by Mullá Muḥammad-Taqíy-i-Haratí; of the commentary on the
súrih of Kaw_th_ar, which effected such a transformation in the soul of
Vahíd; of the commentary on the súrih of Va’l-‘Asr, in the house of the
Imám-Jum’ih of Iṣfáhán; of the dissertation on the Specific Mission of
Muḥammad, written at the request of Manú_ch_ihr _Kh_án; of the second
Tablet to Muḥammad _Sh_áh, craving an audience in which to set forth the
truths of the new Revelation, and dissipate his doubts; and of the Tablets
sent from the village of Síyáh-Dihán to the ‘ulamás of Qazvín and to Ḥájí
Mírzá Aqásí, inquiring from him as to the cause of the sudden change in
his decision.
The great bulk of the writings emanating from the Báb’s prolific mind was,
however, reserved for the period of His confinement in Máh-Kú and
_Ch_ihríq. To this period must probably belong the unnumbered Epistles
which, as attested by no less an authority than Bahá’u’lláh, the Báb
specifically addressed to the divines of every city in Persia, as well as
to those residing in Najaf and Karbilá, wherein He set forth in detail the
errors committed by each one of them. It was during His incarceration in
the fortress of Máh-Kú that He, according to the testimony of _Sh_ay_kh_
Ḥasan-i-Zunúzí, who transcribed during those nine months the verses
dictated by the Báb to His amanuensis, revealed no less than nine
commentaries on the whole of the Qur’án—commentaries whose fate, alas, is
unknown, and one of which, at least the Author Himself affirmed, surpassed
in some respects a book as deservedly famous as the Qayyúmu’l-Asmá.
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