During the third interview the circumstances attending the
revelation of the Báb’s commentary on the súrih of Kawthar, comprising no less
than two thousand verses, so overpowered the delegate of the Sháh that he,
contenting himself with a mere written report to the Court Chamberlain, arose
forthwith to dedicate his entire life and resources to the service of a Faith
that was to requite him with the crown of martyrdom during the Nayríz upheaval.
He who had firmly resolved to confute the arguments of an obscure siyyid of
Shíráz, to induce Him to abandon His ideas, and to conduct Him to Tihrán as an
evidence of the ascendancy he had achieved over Him, was made to feel, as he
himself later acknowledged, as “lowly as the dust beneath His feet.” Even
Husayn Khán, who had been Vahíd’s host during his stay in Shíráz, was compelled
to write to the Sháh and express the conviction that his Majesty’s illustrious
delegate had become a Bábí.
- Shoghi Effendi (Chapter 1, ‘God Passes By’)