Mírzá Muhammad-Báqir, known as Haratí, though originally a
resident of Qayin. He was a close relative of the father of Nabíl-i-Akbar, and
was the first in Mashhad to embrace the Cause. It was he who built the
Bábíyyih, and who devotedly served Quddús during his sojourn in that city. When
Mullá Husayn hoisted the Black Standard, he, together with his child, Mírzá
Muhammad-Kázim, eagerly enrolled under his banner and went forth with him to
Mázindarán… It was Mírzá Muḥammad-Báqir who acted as the standard-bearer of the
company, who designed the plan of the fort, its walls and turrets and the moat
which surrounded it, who succeeded Mullá Husayn in organising the forces of his
companions and in leading the charge against the enemy, and who acted as the
intimate companion, the lieutenant and trusted counsellor of Quddús until the
hour when he fell a martyr in the path of the Cause.
- Nabil (‘The
Dawn-Breakers’; translated and edited by Shoghi Effendi)