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 Ḥusayn
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 (Chapter 1, ‘God Passes By’)