“It was a strange circumstance,” writes Lady Sheil, “that among those who adopted [the] Báb’s doctrine there should have been a large number of mullás, and even mujtahids, who hold a high rank as expounders of the law in the Muhammadan church. Many or these men sealed their faith with their blood.”
(Lady Sheil, “Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia,” pp. 178–9; footnotes provided by Shoghi Effendi to chapter 9)
