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| Tihran - late 19th Century |
From Qum, Mullá Ḥusayn proceeded directly to Tihrán. He
lived, during his stay in the capital, in one of the rooms which belonged to
the madrisih of Mírzá Sáliḥ, better known as the madrisih of Pay-i-Minar. Hájí
Mírzá Muhammad-i-Khurásání, the leader of the shaykhí community of Tihrán, who
acted as an instructor in that institution, was approached by Mullá Husayn but
failed to respond to his motivation to accept the Message. “We had cherished
the hope he said to Mullá Husayn, “that after the death of Siyyid Kázim you
would strive to promote the best interests of the shaykhí community and would
deliver it from the obscurity into which it has sunk. You seem, however, to
have betrayed its cause. You have shattered our fondest expectations. If you
persist in disseminating these subversive doctrines, you will eventually
extinguish the remnants of the shaykhís in this city.” Mullá Ḥusayn assured him
that he had no intention of prolonging his stay in Tihrán, that his aim was in
no wise to abase or suppress the teachings inculcated by Shaykh Ahmad and
Siyyid Kázim.
(Chapter 4, ‘The Dawn-Breakers’)
