Assisted by another believer, Haji Shah Muhammad buried the
casket beneath the floor of the inner sanctuary of the shrine of Imam-Zadih
Zayd, where it lay undetected until Mirza Asadu'llah-i-Isfahani was informed of
its exact location through a chart forwarded to him by Bahá'u'lláh. Instructed
by Bahá'u'lláh to conceal it elsewhere, he first removed the remains to his own
house in Tihran, after which they were deposited in several other localities
such as the house of Husayn-'Aliy-i-Isfahani and that of Muhammad-Karim-i-'Attar,
where they remained hidden until the year 1316 (1899) A.H., when, in pursuance
of directions issued by 'Abdu'l-Bahá, this same Mirza Asadu'llah, together with
a number of other believers, transported them by way of Isfahan, Kirmanshah,
Baghdad and Damascus, to Beirut and thence by sea to 'Akká, arriving at their
destination on the 19th of the month of Ramadan 1316 A.H. (January 31, 1899),
fifty lunar years after the Báb's execution in Tabriz.
- Shoghi Effendi ('God
Passes By')
