“among the visitors and fellow-disciples who crossed His [Bahá’u’lláh] threshold, caught a glimpse of the splendor of His majesty, and communicated far and wide the creative influences instilled into them through their contact with His spirit.”

• Four of the Báb’s cousins and His maternal uncle, Hájí Mírzá Siyyid Muhammad;
• a grand-daughter of Fatḥ-‘Alí Sháh and fervent admirer of Ṭáhirih, surnamed Varaqatu’r-Ridván;
• the erudite Mullá Muhammad-i-Qá’iní, surnamed Nabíl-i-Akbar;
• the already famous Mullá Sádiq-i-Khurásání, surnamed Ismu’lláhu’l-Asdaq, who with Quddús had been ignominiously persecuted in Shíráz;
• Mullá Báqir, one of the Letters of the Living;
• Siyyid Asadu’lláh, surnamed Dayyán;
• the revered Siyyid Javád-i-Karbilá’í;
• Mírzá Muhammad-Hasan and Mírzá Muhammad-Husayn, later immortalized by the titles of Suitánu’sh-Shuhadá and Maḥbúbu’sh-Shuhadá (King of Martyrs and Beloved of Martyrs) respectively;
• Mírzá Muḥammad-‘Alíy-i-Nahrí, whose daughter, at a later date, was joined in wedlock to ‘Abdu’l‑Bahá;
• the immortal Siyyid Ismá‘íl-i-Zavári’í;
• Hájí Shaykh Muhammad, surnamed Nabíl by the Báb;
• the accomplished Mírzá Áqáy-i-Munír, surnamed Ismu’lláhu’l-Muníb;
• the long-suffering Hájí Muhammad-Taqí, surnamed Ayyúb;
• Mullá Zaynu’l-‘Ábidín, surnamed Zaynu’l-Muqarrabín, who had ranked as a highly esteemed mujtahid—

all these were numbered among the visitors and fellow-disciples who crossed His threshold, caught a glimpse of the splendor of His majesty, and communicated far and wide the creative influences instilled into them through their contact with His spirit.

• Mullá Muḥammad-i-Zarandí, surnamed Nabíl-i-A‘ẓam, who may well rank as His Poet-Laureate, His chronicler and His indefatigable disciple, had already joined the exiles, and had launched out on his long and arduous series of journeys to Persia in furtherance of the Cause of his Beloved.

- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’, chapter 8)