With the Báb’s return to Shíráz the initial collision of
irreconcilable forces may be said to have commenced…Mullá Sádiq-i-Khurásání,
impelled by the injunction of the Báb in the Khasá’il-i-Sab‘ih to alter the
sacrosanct formula of the adhán, sounded it in its amended form before a scandalized
congregation in Shíráz, and was instantly arrested, reviled, stripped of his
garments, and scourged with a thousand lashes. The villainous Husayn Khán, the
Nizámu’d-Dawlih, the governor of Fárs, who had read the challenge thrown out in
the Qayyúmu’l-Asmá’, having ordered that Mullá Sádiq together with Quddús and
another believer be summarily and publicly punished, caused their beards to be
burned, their noses pierced, and threaded with halters; then, having been led
through the streets in this disgraceful condition, they were expelled from the
city.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)