far away as Damascus, Aleppo, Beirut and Cairo, sent their written tributes to Him, and
Nabíl the historian could not be consoled and drowned himself in the Mediterranean Sea.
This book has therefore a special place in the hierarchy of all
Bahá’u’lláh’s books. It is the last one. It is besides, a kind of anthology, and one particularly valuable, the material having been selected by the Author Himself. It includes some of the best-known and most characteristic of His writings, as well as proofs establishing the validity of His Cause.
4.
There were two brothers in
Iṣfahán, men of wealth, widely known for their philanthropies and the excellence of their character. The head priest,
Mír Muḥammad-Ḥusayn, the cleric whose function it was to recite the prayers in the Friday mosque, owed them a large sum of money. To evade the debt, he denounced them as followers of
the Báb. He knew exactly what this would mean. Their beautiful houses were at once given over to the mob and stripped, and even the trees and flowers in their gardens were torn away. Whatever they had was taken. Then
Shaykh Muḥammad-Báqir, whom Bahá’u’lláh names “The Wolf,” pronounced their death sentence. The Prince-Governor, Ẓillu’s-Sulṭán, eldest son of the
Sháh, ratified it. The brothers were chained. Their heads were severed. Their bodies were dragged to the great open square of the city, and there they were exposed to every indignity