Sequential excerpts from the book ‘God Passes By’, written in 1944 by Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha’i Faith

6/24/25

The “source of envy and the quintessence of mischief”: - Siyyid Muhammad of Isfahán

To him [Siyyid Muhammad of Isfahán] Bahá’u’lláh had later referred in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas as the one who had “led astray” Mírzá Yayá, and stigmatized him, in one of His Tablets, as the “source of envy and the quintessence of mischief,” while ‘Abdu’lBahá had described the relationship existing between these two as that of the sucking child to the much-prized breast of its mother. 

- Shoghi Effendi  (God Passes By, chapter 7)