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,[call to prayer] 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’)
