[_Kh_]uy was another town of Á[_dh_]arbáyján which was not far from [_Ch_]ihríq. Not long had passed since the Báb's arrival at [_Ch_]ihríq when [_Kh_]uy became aware that a number of its prominent citizens among the siyyids, divines and officials had become Bábís. Mírzá Asadu'lláh, on whom the Báb conferred the designation of Dayyán,[2] was one of them. Dayyán means the conqueror or the judge. Mírzá Asadu'lláh, a proud man, high in the service of the government, and a man of vast learning who wielded a fluent pen,[DJ] had for long withstood the attempts of the Bábís to convert him. Not only did he refuse to yield any ground to them, he also proved a vociferous antagonist. Then he had a dream which induced him to write to the Báb. And when he received the answer to his letter he gave the Báb his allegiance with a zeal and fervour that thoroughly alarmed his father, who was a personal friend of the Grand Vizier. He wrote to Ḥájí Mírzá Áqásí, expatiating on his son's bewitchment and deploring his grave aberrations.[DK] [Footnote DJ: He was a master of Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew and Syriac.] [Footnote DK: The Báb revealed the _Lawḥ-i-Ḥurúfát_ (Tablet of the Letters) in honour of Mírzá Asadu'lláh. 'Had the Point of the Bayán [Nuqṭiy-i-Bayán] no other testimony with which to establish His truth,' He states, 'this were sufficient--that He revealed a Tablet such as this, a Tablet such as no amount of learning could produce.'[3]] Once again Ḥájí Mírzá Áqásí found himself thwarted. The Faith of the Báb was spreading and he could not contain it. And now the Grand Vizier had the additional anxiety of watching the rapid deterioration of Muḥammad [_Sh_]áh's health. The monarch was only forty years old, but as a sufferer from gout his malady was wearing him down. At [_Ch_]ihríq itself a dervish arrived from India. Who he truly was, no one knew and no one knows even now. The Báb gave him the name Qahru'lláh (the Wrath of God). All that this dervish would say about himself was: In the days when I occupied the exalted position of a navváb in India, the Báb appeared to me in a vision. He gazed at me and won my heart completely. I arose, and had started to follow Him, when He looked at me intently and said: 'Divest yourself of your gorgeous attire, depart from your native land, and hasten on foot to meet Me in Á[_dh_]irbáyján. In [_Ch_]ihríq you will attain your heart's desire.' I followed His directions and have now reached my goal.[4] The Báb instructed him to go back to his native land, the same way he had come, as a dervish and on foot. Qahru'lláh would have no companion on that long journey back. His fate remains a mystery, just as does the fate of [_Sh_]ay[_kh_] Sa`íd, the Indian Letter of the Living.