circa 1930s: Houses in which Tahirih lived in Qazvin

 

Táhirih’s husband and his father, two influential clerics in Qazvin, rose against her

So stern and unyielding a reply roused both Mullá Muḥammad and his father to a burst of fury. They immediately pronounced her a heretic, and strove day and night to undermine her position and to sully her fame. Táhirih vehemently defended herself and persisted in exposing the depravity of their character.  Her father, a peace-loving and fair-minded man, deplored this acrimonious dispute and endeavoured to bring about a reconciliation and harmony between them, but failed in his efforts. 

- Nabil (‘The Dawn-Breakers’ chapter 15)

Táhirih’s “stern and unyielding a reply” to her husband’s request to “transfer her residence from her father’s house to his own”

On her arrival at the house of her father, her cousin, the haughty and false-hearted Mullá Muhammad, son of Mullá Taqí, who esteemed himself, next to his father and his uncle, the most accomplished of all the mujtahids of Persia, sent certain ladies of his own household to persuade Táhirih to transfer her residence from her father’s house to his own. “Say to my presumptuous and arrogant kinsman,” was her bold reply to the messengers: “‘If your desire had really been to be a faithful mate and companion to me, you would have hastened to meet me in Karbilá and would on foot have guided my howdah all the way to Qazvín. I would, while journeying with you, have aroused you from your sleep of heedlessness and would have shown you the way of truth. But this was not to be. Three years have elapsed since our separation. Neither in this world nor in the next can I ever be associated with you. I have cast you out of my life for ever.’” 

- Nabil (‘The Dawn-Breakers’ chapter 15)

Táhirih directed those “who had accompanied her from ‘Iráq to proceed to their native land” and proceeded to Qazvin accompanied by some of her close companions

Ere she departed, she bade those who had accompanied her from ‘Iráq to proceed to their native land. Among them were Shaykh Sultán, Shaykh Muhammad-i-Shibl and his youthful son, Muhammad-Mustafá, Abid and his son Násir, who subsequently was given the name of Hájí Abbás. Those of her companions who had been living in Persia, such as Siyyid Muhammad-i-Gulpaygání, whose pen-name was Ta’ir, and whom Táhirih had styled Fata’l-Malih, and others were also bidden to return to their homes. Only two of her companions remained with her—Shaykh Sáliḥ and Mullá Ibráhím-i-Gulpaygání, both of whom quaffed the cup of martyrdom, the first in Tihrán and the other in Qazvín. Of her own kinsmen, Mírzá Muhammad-‘Alí, one of the Letters of the Living and her brother-in-law, and Siyyid ‘Abdu’l-Hádí, who had been betrothed to her daughter, travelled with her all the way from Karbilá to Qazvín. 

- Nabil (‘The Dawn-Breakers’ chapter 15)

The delegation sent from Qazvin to meet Táhirih in Hamadán included her brothers

According to Muhammad Mustafá (p. 117), among those who had been sent from Qazvín were the brothers of Táhirih. 

(Footnotes to chapter 15 of ‘The Dawn-Breakers’ provided by Shoghi Effendi)

Táhirih’s father encouraged her to visit her native town Qazvin

While in Hamadán, Táhirih was met by those whom her father, Hájí Mullá Sálih, had sent from Qazvín to welcome and urge her, on his behalf, to visit her native town and prolong her stay in their midst. She reluctantly consented. 

- Nabil (‘The Dawn-Breakers’ chapter 15)