f which had captured the imagination and entranced the soul of
Hujjat; and whose contents had set afire the intrepid defenders of the
Fort of _Sh_ay_kh_ Tabarsi and the heroes of Nayriz and Zanjan.

This work, of such exalted merit, of such far-reaching influence, was
followed by the revelation of the Bab's first Tablet to Muhammad _Sh_ah;
of His Tablets to Sultan 'Abdu'l-Majid and to Najib Pa_sh_a, the Vali of
Ba_gh_dad; of the Sahifiy-i-baynu'l-Haramayn, revealed between Mecca and
Medina, in answer to questions posed by Mirza Muhit-i-Kirmani; of the
Epistle to the _Sh_erif of Mecca; of the Kitabu'r-Ruh, comprising seven
hundred surihs; of the _Kh_asa'il-i-Sab'ih, which enjoined the alteration
of the formula of the a_dh_an; of the Risaliy-i-Furu-i-'Adliyyih, rendered
into Persian by Mulla Muhammad-Taqiy-i-Harati; of the commentary on the
surih of Kaw_th_ar, which effected such a transformation in the soul of
Vahid; of the commentary on the surih of Va'l-'Asr, in the house of the
Imam-Jum'ih of Isfahan; of the dissertation on the Specific Mission of
Muhammad, written at the request of Manu_ch_ihr _Kh_an; of the second
Tablet to Muhammad _Sh_ah, craving an audience in which to set forth the
truths of the new Revelation, and dissipate his doubts; and of the Tablets
sent from the village of Siyah-Dihan to the 'ulamas of Qazvin and to Haji
Mirza Aqasi, inquiring from him as to the cause of the sudden change in
his decision.

The great bulk of the writings emanating from the Bab's prolific mind was,
however, reserved for the period of His confinement in Mah-Ku and
_Ch_ihriq. To this period must probably belong the unnumbered Epistles
which, as attested by no less an authority than Baha'u'llah, the Bab
specifically addressed to the divines of every city in Persia, as well as
to those residing in Najaf and Karbila, wherein He set forth in detail the
errors committed by each one of them. It was during His incarceration in
the fortress of Mah-Ku that He, according to the testimony of _Sh_ay_kh_
Hasan-i-Zunuzi, who transcribed during those nine months the verses
dictated by the Bab to His amanuensis, revealed no less than nine
commentaries on the whole of the Qur'an--commentaries whose fate, alas, is
unknown, and one of which, at least the Author Himself affirmed, surpassed
in some respects a book as deservedly famous as the Qayyumu'l-Asma.

Within the walls of that same fortress the Bayan (Exposition)--that
monumental repositor