Mírzá Yahyá’s devilish scheme: - to murder a “cousin of the Báb”

He even, as a further evidence of the enormity of his crimes, ordered that the cousin of the Báb, Mírzá ‘Alí-Akbar, a fervent admirer of Dayyán, be secretly put to death—a command which was carried out in all its iniquity. 

- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’, chapter 7)

Mírzá Yahyá’s devilish scheme: - “to perpetrate himself, and permit Siyyid Muḥammad to repeat after him”

His shamelessness and effrontery had waxed so great as to lead him to perpetrate himself, and permit Siyyid Muhammad to repeat after him, an act so odious that Bahá’u’lláh characterized it as “a most grievous betrayal,” inflicting dishonor upon the Báb, and which “overwhelmed all lands with sorrow. 

- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’, chapter 7)

Mírzá Yahyá’s devilish scheme: - “attempt on the life of the sovereign”

In his folly he had, furthermore, induced Mírzá Áqá Ján to proceed to Núr, and there await a propitious moment when he could make a successful attempt on the life of the sovereign. 

- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’, chapter 7)

Mírzá Yahyá’s devilish scheme: - “dispatched… one of his supporters” to murder “Dayyán, the ‘repository of the knowledge of God’”

In his fear of any potential adversary he had dispatched Mírzá Muḥammad-i-Mázindarání, one of his supporters, to Ádhirbáyján for the express purpose of murdering Dayyán, the “repository of the knowledge of God,” whom he surnamed “Father of Iniquities” and stigmatized as “Ṭághút,” and whom the Báb had extolled as the “Third Letter to believe in Him Whom God shall make manifest.” 

- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’, chapter 7)

“a campaign designed [by Mírzá Yahyá] to utterly discredit Bahá’u’lláh”

Mírzá Yahyá, closeted most of the time in his house, was secretly directing, through his correspondence with those Bábís whom he completely trusted, a campaign designed to utterly discredit Bahá’u’lláh. 

- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’, chapter 7)

While Bahá’u’lláh was in Kurdistan: - the “situation of the Bábí community was rapidly going from bad to worse”

While the foundations of Bahá’u’lláh’s future greatness were being laid in a strange land and amidst a strange people, the situation of the Bábí community was rapidly going from bad to worse. Pleased and emboldened by His unexpected and prolonged withdrawal from the scene of His labors, the stirrers of mischief with their deluded associates were busily engaged in extending the range of their nefarious activities. 

- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’, chapter 7)

‘Abdu’l-Baha’s reference to Bahá’u’lláh’s period of His retirement in Kurdistan

“In a short time,” is ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá’s own testimony, “Kurdistán was magnetized with His love. During this period Bahá’u’lláh lived in poverty. His garments were those of the poor and needy. His food was that of the indigent and lowly. An atmosphere of majesty haloed Him as the sun at midday. Everywhere He was greatly revered and loved.” 

- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’, chapter 7)