Manú[_ch_]ihr [_Kh_]án had come to realize that his wealth was the product of oppression. The Báb accepted both his repentance and his wealth, then returned to him his riches for his use until his death, which occurred in the month of Rabí`u'l-Avval 1263 A.H. (February-March 1847 A.D.) Even though in his will Manú[_ch_]ihr [_Kh_]án left all his property to the Báb, his nephew and successor, Gurgín [_Kh_]án, appropriated everything after his death, and informed Muḥammad [_Sh_]áh that the Báb was in Iṣfahán, having been kept, well-protected, by the late Governor in the seclusion of `Imárat-i-[_Kh_]ur[_sh_]íd. Muḥammad [_Sh_]áh's trust in Manú[_ch_]ihr [_Kh_]án was not shaken. He felt certain that that wise man and faithful servant had guarded the Báb against all possible harm until an opportune time when a meeting between himself and the Báb could be arranged. He issued orders for the removal of the Báb to the capital in such wise that He should not be recognized _en route_. Those four months in the private residence of the Governor of Iṣfahán were the calmest that the Báb was to experience throughout His Ministry.[13] CHAPTER 9 THE ANTICHRIST OF THE BÁBÍ REVELATION No! by heav'n, which He Holds, and the abyss and the immensity Of worlds and life, which I hold with Him--No! I have a victor, true, but no superior. Homage he has from all, but none from me. I battle it against Him, as I battled In highest heav'n. Through all eternity And the unfathomable gulfs of Hades And the interminable realms of space And the infinity of endless ages, All, all, will I dispute. And world by world And star by star and universe by universe Shall tremble in the balance, till the great Conflict shall cease, if ever it shall cease.... --Lucifer in _Cain_ by Lord Byron Ḥájí Mírzá Áqásí, the Grand Vizier and the spiritual guide of Muḥammad [_Sh_]áh, has been called the Antichrist of the Bábí Revelation.[1] He was a man bankrupt of ideas and bereft of graces. A native of Íraván[CU] in the Caucasus, his real name was Mírzá `Abbás. From the day he learned of the advent of the Báb, he bore Him intense enmity which never abated. It was he who prevented a meeting between the Báb and Muḥammad [_Sh_]áh, when, by the direct order of the [_Sh_]áh himself, the Báb was moved from Iṣfahán and it seemed that the cherished hope of Manú[_ch_]ihr [_Kh_]án for their meeting would at last be realized. [Footnote CU: Yerevan or Erivan, today the capital of the Armenian Socialist Soviet Republic.]