The gathering of the Bábís at Bada[_sh_]t coincided with the removal of the Báb, from the castle of [_Ch_]ihríq to Tabríz, for His public examination. Contrary to certain allegations, the Bábís did not congregate in Bada[_sh_]t to concert plans to rescue Him. They came there, guided by Bahá'u'lláh, to settle a vital and cardinal issue: was this persuasion of theirs just an offshoot of Islám, or was it an independent Faith? Until then no public claim had been made that the Báb, as the Qá'im of the House of Muḥammad, was an Inaugurator of a new theophany. Strange it seems, in perspective, that about the time when a decision was being reached in a tiny hamlet on the edge of [_Kh_]urásán, hundreds of miles away in the city of Tabríz, the Báb was announcing His station before a tribunal summoned to question Him.[EW] [Footnote EW: The station of the Báb is discussed and defined by Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith, in _The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh_, reprinted in the collection of his writings entitled _The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh_, to which the reader is referred.] `Abdu'l-Bahá states that Bahá'u'lláh and Quddús had agreed that the time had come to declare the advent of a new Dispensation.[4] However, there were faint hearts in the Bábí ranks, as events were to prove. Ṭáhirih had met opposition from fellow-Bábís because she had always been bold enough to assert that this was indeed a new day. Any announcement at Bada[_sh_]t would have to be emphatic and unhedged, to make a persuasive impact. And this it was, in a most dramatic way. Bahá'u'lláh had rented three gardens in Bada[_sh_]t: Quddús lived in one, Ṭáhirih in the second, and Bahá'u'lláh had a tent pitched in the third. Other Bábís, among whom were a number of the Letters of the Living such as Mírzá Muḥammad-`Alí, the brother-in-law of Ṭáhirih, and Mullá Báqir-i-Tabrízí, lived under tents in the grounds facing the three gardens.[EX] [Footnote EX: Mullá Ḥusayn was prevented from reaching Bada[_sh_]t.] During the three weeks of the conference, argument and counter-argument were put forward, and differences of view and approach arose between Quddús and Ṭáhirih. At last it was Ṭáhirih's unheard-of gesture, courageous beyond belief and description, followed by Bahá'u'lláh's decisive intervention, which made clear to all that a new Dispensation had begun. Ṭáhirih's brave act was to cast aside her veil. Men were shaken to the depths of their being to see her thus. Some fled with horror from the scene. One, in desperation, tried to cut his throat. When the uproar subsided, Bahá'u'lláh called for a copy of the Qur'án and directed a reciter to read the fifty-sixth súrih, 'al-Wáqi`a':[EY]