ry. "Day and night," an
eye-witness has written, "the Divine verses were raining down in such
number that it was impossible to record them. Mirza Aqa Jan wrote them as
they were dictated, while the Most Great Branch was continually occupied
in transcribing them. There was not a moment to spare." "A number of
secretaries," Nabil has testified, "were busy day and night and yet they
were unable to cope with the task. Among them was Mirza
Baqir-i-_Sh_irazi.... He alone transcribed no less than two thousand
verses every day. He labored during six or seven months. Every month the
equivalent of several volumes would be transcribed by him and sent to
Persia. About twenty volumes, in his fine penmanship, he left behind as a
remembrance for Mirza Aqa Jan." Baha'u'llah, Himself, referring to the
verses revealed by Him, has written: "Such are the outpourings ... from
the clouds of Divine Bounty that within the space of an hour the
equivalent of a thousand verses hath been revealed." "So great is the
grace vouchsafed in this day that in a single day and night, were an
amanuensis capable of accomplishing it to be found, the equivalent of the
Persian Bayan would be sent down from the heaven of Divine holiness." "I
swear by God!" He, in another connection has affirmed, "In those days the
equivalent of all that hath been sent down aforetime unto the Prophets
hath been revealed." "That which hath already been revealed in this land
(Adrianople)," He, furthermore, referring to the copiousness of His
writings, has declared, "secretaries are incapable of transcribing. It
has, therefore, remained for the most part untranscribed."

Already in the very midst of that grievous crisis, and even before it came
to a head, Tablets unnumbered were streaming from the pen of Baha'u'llah,
in which the implications of His newly-asserted claims were fully
expounded. The Suriy-i-'Amr, the Lawh-i-Nuqtih, the Lawh-i-Ahmad, the
Suriy-i-A_sh_ab, the Lawh-i-Sayyah, the Suriy-i-Damm, the Suriy-i-Hajj,
the Lawhu'r-Ruh, the Lawhu'r-Ridvan, the Lawhu't-Tuqa were among the
Tablets which His pen had already set down when He transferred His
residence to the house of Izzat Aqa. Almost immediately after the "Most
Great Separation" had been effected, the weightiest Tablets associated
with His sojourn in Adrianople were revealed. The Suriy-i-Muluk, the most
momentous Tablet revealed by Baha'u'llah (Surih of Kings) in which He, for
the first time, directs His words collectiv