When Mírzá Muḥammad-`Alí reached the presence of the Báb, he gave Him the letter and the message; and the Báb numbered her among the Letters of the Living. Thus it was that this fearless, eloquent pioneer of woman's emancipation joined the ranks of the first disciples of the Báb. Qurratu'l-`Ayn is better known as Ṭáhirih--the Pure One--a designation by which she will ever be remembered.[Z] [Footnote Z: We shall see on p. 163 how she acquired this name.] * * * * * The Letters of the Living, the eighteen disciples who found the Báb 'independently and of their own accord', were: _Mullá Muḥammad-`Alíy-i-Bárfurú[_sh_]í_, entitled Quddús. _Mullá Ḥusayn-i-Bu[_sh_]rú'í_, entitled Bábu'l-Báb. _Mírzá Muḥammad-Ḥasan-i-Bu[_sh_]rú'í_, brother of Mullá Ḥusayn. _Mírzá Muḥammad-Báqir_, nephew of Mullá Ḥusayn. _Mírzá Muḥammad-`Alíy-i-Qazvíní_, brother-in-law of Ṭáhirih. _Mullá Aḥmad-i-Ibdál-i-Mará[_gh_]i'í_. _Mullá Yúsuf-i-Ardibílí._ _Mullá Jalíl-i-Urúmí._ _Mullá Maḥmúd-i-[_Kh_]u'í._ These nine were martyrs who fell during 'the Mázindarán upheaval' (see p. 175). _Mullá `Alíy-i-Basṭámí_, the first martyr of the Bábí Dispensation. He was put to death somewhere in `Iráq. _Qurratu'l-`Ayn, Ṭáhirih_, whose original name was Umm-Salamih. _Siyyid Ḥusayn-i-Yazdí_, known as Kátib (the Amanuensis), and also `Azíz. Ṭáhirih and Siyyid Ḥusayn-i-Yazdí suffered martyrdom in the holocaust of August 1852, subsequent to the attempt made by two Bábís on the life of Náṣiri'd-Dín [_Sh_]áh. _[_Sh_]ay[_kh_] Sa`íd-i-Hindí_ (the Indian). He met his death somewhere in India, though no one knows how and where. _Mullá Báqir-i-Tabrízí_. He lived on to the advent of Bahá'u'lláh and believed in Him. _Mírzá Hádíy-i-Qazvíní_, son of Ḥájí Mírzá `Abdu'l-Vahháb, and brother of Mírzá Muḥammad-`Alí (the fifth name above). Mírzá Hádí remained apart from other Bábís and taught the Faith with caution. _Mírzá Muḥammad Rawḍih-[_Kh_]án-i-Yazdí_. He too remained apart from other Bábís and was generally known as a [_Sh_]ay[_kh_]í. But he never renounced his faith and taught it whenever he could. _Mullá [_Kh_]udá-Ba[_kh_][_sh_]-i-Qú[_ch_]ání_, later known as Mullá `Alíy-i-Rází. He died a natural death, but his son Ma[_sh_]íyyatu'lláh later met with martyrdom in his youth. _Mullá Ḥasan-i-Bajistání_. Doubts assailed him after the martyrdom of the Báb, because he did not consider himself worthy of the station given to him. Forced to leave his home, he went to `Iráq and attained the presence of Bahá'u'lláh. Mullá `Alíy-i-Basṭámí was given the mission to return to `Iráq and inform the people in that heartland of the [_Sh_]í`ah persuasion that the Báb had appeared, but not to divulge, as yet, any particulars that might reveal His identity. To him the Báb said: