rom His wounded heart, as He
languished, for no less than five months, solitary and disconsolate, in
His prison.

The pillars of His infant Faith had, for the most part, been hurled down
at the first onset of the hurricane that had been loosed upon it. Quddus,
immortalized by Him as Ismu'llahi'l-A_kh_ir (the Last Name of God); on
whom Baha'u'llah's Tablet of Kullu't-Ta'am later conferred the sublime
appellation of Nuqtiy-i-U_kh_ra (the Last Point); whom He elevated, in
another Tablet, to a rank second to none except that of the Herald of His
Revelation; whom He identifies, in still another Tablet, with one of the
"Messengers charged with imposture" mentioned in the Qur'an; whom the
Persian Bayan extolled as that fellow-pilgrim round whom mirrors to the
number of eight Vahids revolve; on whose "detachment and the sincerity of
whose devotion to God's will God prideth Himself amidst the Concourse on
high;" whom 'Abdu'l-Baha designated as the "Moon of Guidance;" and whose
appearance the Revelation of St. John the Divine anticipated as one of the
two "Witnesses" into whom, ere the "second woe is past," the "spirit of
life from God" must enter--such a man had, in the full bloom of his youth,
suffered, in the Sabzih-Maydan of Barfuru_sh_, a death which even Jesus
Christ, as attested by Baha'u'llah, had not faced in the hour of His
greatest agony. Mulla Husayn, the first Letter of the Living, surnamed the
Babu'l-Bab (the Gate of the Gate); designated as the "Primal Mirror;" on
whom eulogies, prayers and visiting Tablets of a number equivalent to
thrice the volume of the Qur'an had been lavished by the pen of the Bab;
referred to in these eulogies as "beloved of My Heart;" the dust of whose
grave, that same Pen had declared, was so potent as to cheer the sorrowful
and heal the sick; whom "the creatures, raised in the beginning and in the
end" of the Babi Dispensation, envy, and will continue to envy till the
"Day of Judgment;" whom the Kitab-i-Iqan acclaimed as the one but for whom
"God would not have been established upon the seat of His mercy, nor
ascended the throne of eternal glory;" to whom Siyyid Kazim had paid such
tribute that his disciples suspected that the recipient of such praise
might well be the promised One Himself--such a one had likewise, in the
prime of his manhood, died a martyr's death at Tabarsi. Vahid, pronounced
in the Kitab-i-Iqan to be the "unique and peerless figure of his age," a
man of immense eruditio