Following this public seance provoked by the folly of the Mullás and which won for him numerous partisans, the trouble became serious in all the provinces of Persia; the dispute grew into such a grave situation that Muhammad Sháh sent to Shíráz a man in whom he had complete confidence, instructing him to make a report of everything he saw and understood. This envoy was Siyyid Yahyáy-i-Darábí.
- A. L. M. Nicolas ('Siyyid ‘Alí-Muhammad dit le Báb,' pp. 232–233; Footnotes to chapter 8 provided by Shoghi Effendi)
