The commotion had assumed such proportions that the Sháh,
unable any longer to ignore the situation, delegated the trusted Siyyid Yaḥyáy-i-Dárábí,
surnamed Vahíd, one of the most erudite, eloquent and influential of his
subjects—a man who had committed to memory no less than thirty thousand
traditions—to investigate and report to him the true situation.
- Shoghi
Effendi (Chapter 1, ‘God Passes By’)