This same Shaykh Abú-Turáb, [a leading disciple of Siyyid
Kázim] who in the early days of the Dispensation proclaimed by the Báb thought
it wiser and better not to identify himself with His Cause, cherished in his
heart the fondest love for the revealed Manifestation, and in his faith
remained firm and immovable as the rock. Eventually that smouldering fire
blazed forth in his soul and was responsible for such behaviour on his part as
to cause him to suffer imprisonment in Tihrán, in the same dungeon within which
Bahá’u’lláh was confined. He remained steadfast to the very end, and crowned a
life of loving sacrifice with the glory of martyrdom.
(Chapter 2, ‘The
Dawn-Breakers’)
