No sooner had ‘Abdu’l-Ḥamíd Khán witnessed the signs of the recovery of his son than he wrote a letter to the governor in which he acquainted him with the whole situation and begged him to cease his attacks on the Báb. “Have pity on yourself,” he wrote him, “as well as on those whom Providence has committed to your care. Should the fury of this plague continue its fatal course, no one in this city, I fear, will by the end of this day have survived the horror of its attack.” Husayn Khán replied that the Báb should be immediately released and given freedom to go wherever He might please. [1]
- Nabil (‘The Dawn-Breakers’, chapter 9)
[1] According to “A Traveller’s Narrative” (p. 11), “Husayn
Khán released the Báb on condition of his quitting the city; footnote provided
by Shoghi Effendi.
