The Mu‘tamid, in his great embarrassment, and in order to
appease the rising tumult, conceived a plan whereby an increasingly restive
populace were made to believe that the Báb had left for Tihrán, while he
succeeded in insuring for Him a brief respite of four months in the privacy of
the ‘Imárat-i-Khurshíd, the governor’s private residence in Isfahán.
- Shoghi
Effendi (Chapter 1, ‘God Passes By’)