Mullá Husayn, as soon as he had won to the Cause
such able and devoted supporters, decided to address a written report
concerning his activities to the Báb. In his communication he referred at
length to his sojourn in Isfáhán and Káshán, described the account of his
experience with Bahá’u’lláh, referred to the departure of the latter for
Mázindarán, related the events of Núr, and informed Him of the success which
had attended his own efforts in Khurásán. In it he enclosed a list of the names
of those who had responded to his call, and of whose steadfastness and
sincerity he was assured. He sent his letter by way of Yazd, through the
trustworthy partners of the Báb’s maternal uncle who were at that time residing
in Tabas. That letter reached the Báb on the night preceding the twenty-seventh
day of Ramadán, [1] a night held in
great reverence by all the sects of Islám and regarded by many as rivalling in
sacredness the Laylatu’l-Qadr itself, [2] the night which, in the words of the
Qur’án, “excelleth a thousand months.”
The only companion of the Báb, when that letter reached Him that night,
was Quddús, with whom He shared a number of its passages.
(Chapter 6, ‘The
Dawn-Breakers’)
[1] Corresponding with the night preceding the 10th of
October, 1844 A.D.
[2] The Laylatu’l-Qadr, meaning literally “Night of Power,”
is one of the last ten nights of Ramadán, and, as is commonly believed, the
seventh of those nights reckoning backward.
