Muḥammad [_Sh_]áh had already instructed Manú[_ch_]ihr [_Kh_]án to send the Báb to Ṭihrán. The transforming power of the Báb can now be discerned. Manú[_ch_]ihr [_Kh_]án had served the Qájár monarch faithfully at all times. His generalship had helped to secure Muḥammad [_Sh_]áh's position. But, once conquered by the Báb and won over to His Cause, Manú[_ch_]ihr [_Kh_]án unhesitatingly availed himself of the [_Sh_]áh's command, not to send the Báb immediately to the capital which would have put Him at the mercy of Ḥájí Mírzá Áqásí, but to shield Him from His enemies. Under public gaze the Báb was escorted out of Iṣfahán, guarded by five hundred horsemen. Nabíl-i-A`ẓam writes: Imperative orders had been given that at the completion of each farsang[CR] one hundred of this mounted escort should return directly to Iṣfahán. To the chief of the last remaining contingent, a man in whom he placed implicit confidence, the Mu`tamid confidentially intimated his desire that at every maydán[CS] twenty of the remaining hundred should likewise be ordered by him to return to the city. Of the twenty remaining horsemen, the Mu`tamid directed that ten should be despatched to Ardistán for the purpose of collecting the taxes levied by the government, and that the rest, all of whom should be of his tried and most reliable men, should, by an unfrequented route, bring the Báb back in disguise to Iṣfahán. They were, moreover, instructed so to regulate their march that before dawn of the ensuing day the Báb should have arrived at Iṣfahán and should have been delivered into his custody.... At an unsuspected hour, the Báb re-entered the city, was directly conducted to the private residence of the Mu`tamid, known by the name of `Imárat-i-[_Kh_]ur[_sh_]íd [the Sun-House], and was introduced, through a side entrance reserved for the Mu`tamid himself, into his private apartments. The governor waited in person on the Báb, served His meals, and provided whatever was required for His comfort and safety.[9] [Footnote CR: Three miles roughly to a farsang or farsa[_kh_].] [Footnote CS: Maydán is a public square or an arena; as a measure of distance it was an indeterminate sub-division of a farsang.] `Abdu'l-Bahá states in _A Traveller's Narrative_ that Manú[_ch_]ihr [_Kh_]án gave secret orders for the return of the Báb when He and His escort had reached Múr[_ch_]ih-[_Kh_]ár, some thirty-five miles to the north of Iṣfahán.[10]