Mullá Báqir
A brother of Mullá Mihdíy-i-Kandí, martyred at Ṭabarsí.

Mullá Ḥusayn
The first to believe in the Báb, the first “Letter of the Living,” the Bábu’l-Báb—meaning “the Gate of the Gate,” a title given to him by the Báb. Born in 1813, he was for nine years a student of Siyyid Káẓim and for five a follower of the Báb. He was martyred at the Fort of Shaykh Ṭabarsí on 2 February, 1849.

Mullá Mihdíy-i-Khu’í
A close companion of Bahá’u’lláh and tutor to the children of His household. Martyred at the fort of Shaykh Ṭabarsí.

Mullá Muḥammad-‘Alíy-i-Zanjání
Surnamed Ḥujjat. “One of the ablest and most formidable champions of the Faith” (Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 44), the leader of the Bábís in what Lord Curzon called “the terrific siege and slaughter” they suffered at Zanján where he, with 1,800 fellow disciples, was martyred.

Mullá Ni‘matu’lláh-i-Mázindarání
A Bábí martyred at Shaykh Ṭabarsí

Mullá Yúsuf-i-Ardibílí
One of the Letters of the Living, martyred at Shaykh Ṭabarsí

Mustagháth
Literally He Who Is Invoked (for help), God. Refers to the appearance of Bahá’u’lláh at the time announced by the Báb.

Nebuchadnezzar
King of Babylon. In 599 b.c. he captured Jerusalem, and in 588 B.C. he destroyed the city and removed most of the inhabitants to Chaldea.

Nimrod
Ancient king of Babylon. In Muḥammadan commentaries, he is represented as the persecutor of Abraham.

Noah
A prophet to whom the Muḥammadans give the title the