A Traveler's Narrative
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way; I crave naught but to be slain in Thy love; and God the
Supreme sufficeth as an Eternal Protection."
He likewise composed a number of works in explanation
and elucidation of the verses of the Qur'án, of sermons, and of
prayers in Arabic; inciting and urging men to expect the
appearance of that Person; and these books He named "Inspired
Pages" and "Word of Conscience." But on investigation
it was discovered that He laid no claim to revelation from
an angel.
Now since He was noted amongst the people for lack of
instruction and education, this circumstance appeared in the
sight of men supernatural. Some men inclined to Him, but
the greater part manifested strong disapproval; whilst all the
learned doctors and lawyers of repute who occupied chairs,
altars, and pulpits were unanimously agreed on eradication
and suppression, save some divines of the Shaykhí party who
were anchorites and recluses, and who, agreeably to their
tenets, were ever seeking for some great, incomparable, and
trustworthy person, whom they accounted, according to their
own terminology, as the "Fourth Support" and the central
manifestation of the truths of the Perspicuous Religion.
Of this number Mullá Husayn of Bushrúyih, Mírzá
Ahmad of Azghand, Mullá Sádiq Muqaddas [the Holy],
Shaykh Abú-Turáb of Ishtihard, Mullá Yúsúf of Ardibíl,
Mullá Jalíl of Urúmíyyih, Mullá Mihdí of Kand, Shaykh
Sa'íd the Indian, Mullá `Alí of Bastám, and the like of these
came out unto Him and spread themselves through all parts of
Persia.
The Báb Himself set out to perform the circumambulation
of the House of God. (4) On His return, when the news of His
arrival at Búshihr reached Shíráz, there was much discussion,
and a strange excitement and agitation became apparent in
4. Undertake the pilgrimage to Mecca.
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