His love.

Amongst others is this sentence: "O Remnant of God, I am wholly sacrificed
to Thee; I am content with curses in Thy way; I crave naught but to be
slain in Thy love; and God the Supreme sufficeth as an Eternal
Protection."

He likewise composed a number of works in explanation and elucidation of
the verses of the Qur'an, of sermons, and of prayers in Arabic; inciting
and urging men to expect the appearance of that Person; and these books He
named "Inspired Pages" and "Word of Conscience." But on investigation it
was discovered that He laid no claim to revelation from an angel.

Now since He was noted amongst the people for lack of instruction and
education, this circumstance appeared in the sight of men supernatural.
Some men inclined to Him, but the greater part manifested strong
disapproval; whilst all the learned doctors and lawyers of repute who
occupied chairs, altars, and pulpits were unanimously agreed on
eradication and suppression, save some divines of the _Sh_ay_kh_i party
who were anchorites and recluses, and who, agreeably to their tenets, were
ever seeking for some great, incomparable, and trustworthy person, whom
they accounted, according to their own terminology, as the "Fourth
Support" and the central manifestation of the truths of the Perspicuous
Religion.

Of this number Mulla Husayn of Bu_sh_ruyih, Mirza Ahmad of Az_gh_and,
Mulla Sadiq Muqaddas [the Holy], _Sh_ay_kh_ Abu-Turab of I_sh_tihard,
Mulla Yusuf of Ardibil, Mulla Jalil of Urumiyyih, Mulla Mihdi of Kand,
_Sh_ay_kh_ Sa'id the Indian, Mulla 'Ali of Bastam, and the like of these
came out unto Him and spread themselves through all parts of Persia.

The Bab Himself set out to perform the circumambulation of the House of
God.(4) On His return, when the news of His arrival at Bu_sh_ihr reached
_Sh_iraz, there was much discussion, and a strange excitement and
agitation became apparent in that city. The great majority of the doctors
set themselves to repudiate Him, decreeing slaughter and destruction, and
they induced Husayn _Kh_an Ajudan-ba_sh_i, who was the governor of Fars,
to inflict a beating on the Bab's missionaries, that is on Mulla Sadiq
Muqaddas; then, having burnt his moustaches and beard together with those
of Mirza Muhammad-'Ali of Barfuru_sh_ and Mulla 'Ali-Akbar of Ardistan,
they put halters on all the three and led them round the streets and
bazaars.

Now since the doctors of Persia have no administrative capacity, they