The chief figures mainly responsible for, and immediately concerned with, this ghastly tragedy were the envious and hypocritical Amír Arslán Khán, the Majdu’d-Dawlih, a maternal uncle of Násiri’d-Dín Sháh, and his associates, the Sadru’d-Dawliy-i-Isfahání and Muhammad Khán, the Amír-Túmán, who were assisted, on the one hand, by substantial military reinforcements dispatched by order of the Amír-Nizám, and aided, on the other, by the enthusiastic moral support of the entire ecclesiastical body in Zanján.
- Shoghi Effendi (Chapter 3, ‘God Passes By’)