The Kitáb-i-Íqán : The Book of Certitude
Part Two
also was Siyyid Yaḥyá, that unique and peerless figure of his age,
Mullá Muḥammad-‘Alíy-i-Zanjání
Mullá ‘Alíy-i-Basṭámí
Mullá Sa’íd-i-Barfurúshí
Mullá Ni‘matu’lláh-i-Mázindarání
Mullá Yúsuf-i-Ardibílí
Mullá Mihdíy-i-Khu’í
Siyyid Ḥusayn-i-Turshízí
Mullá Mihdíy-i-Kandí
Mullá Báqir
Mullá ‘Abdu’l-Kháliq-i-Yazdí
Mullá ‘Alíy-i-Baraqání
and others, well nigh four hundred in number, whose names are all inscribed upon the “Guarded Tablet” of God.
249All these were guided by the light of that Sun of divine Revelation, confessed and acknowledged His truth. Such was their faith, that most of them renounced their substance and kindred, and cleaved to the good-pleasure of the All-Glorious. They laid down their lives for their Well-Beloved, and surrendered their all in His path. Their breasts were made targets for the darts of the enemy, and their heads adorned the spears of the infidel. No land remained
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