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The Fortress of Mah-Ku
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When…He [the Báb] was incarcerated in the fortress of
Máh-Kú, in the province of Ádhirbayján, I [Shaykh Hasan-i-Zunúzí] was engaged
in transcribing the verses which He dictated to His amanuensis. Every night,
for a period of nine months, during which He was a prisoner in that fort, He
revealed, after He had offered His evening prayer, a commentary on a juz’ [1]
of the Qur’án. At the end of each month a commentary on the whole of that
sacred Book was thus completed. During His incarceration in Máh-Kú, nine
commentaries on the whole of the Qur’án had been revealed by Him. The texts of
these commentaries were entrusted, in Tabríz, to the keeping of a certain
Siyyid Ibráhím-i-Khalíl, who was instructed to conceal them until the time for
their publication might arrive. Their fate is unknown until now. .
- Shaykh
Hasan-i-Zunúzí (One of the Báb’s scribes, quoted by Nabil; Chapter 2, ‘The
Dawn-Breakers)
[1] A juz’ is one-thirtieth of the Qur’án.
