Chapter 11: The Grievous Mountain

Opening quotation: _In Memoriam A.H.H._ (Prologue, v. 5.)

[1] _The Dawn-Breakers_, p. 219 (Brit.), p. 303 (U.S.).

[2] After the martyrdom of the Báb, a number of His followers turned to Dayyán for guidance. They were known as 'Dayyáníyyih'. Most of them lived in the provinces of Á[_dh_]arbáyján and Gílán. It has been thought that Dayyán claimed to be 'He Whom God shall make manifest', but Bahá'u'lláh refuted this in his _Kitáb-i-Badí`_. When Dayyán came into the presence of Bahá'u'lláh in `Iráq, He fully recognized His station.

[3] _The Dawn-Breakers_, p. 220 (Brit.), p. 304 (U.S.).

[4] _ibid._, pp. 21-2 (Brit.), p. 305 (U.S.).

[5] See ch. 2, n. 7.

[6] Browne (ed.), _A Traveller's Narrative_, Vol. II, pp. 278-89. The questions and replies are extracted from this much longer report of the trial.

[7] _The Dawn-Breakers_, pp. 230-1 (Brit.), pp. 316-19 (U.S.). The quotations are taken from these pages; one reply of the Báb is paraphrased.

[8] Browne, _Materials for the Study of the Bábí Religion_, pp. 260-2.

[9] _The Dawn-Breakers_, p. 234 (Brit.), p. 323 (U.S.).

[10] Ḥájí Qásí's end was sad. Some seventeen years later, in spite of assurances given to him, he was strangled on the platform of Persepolis, and his corpse was left dangling there, by the orders of an uncle of Náṣiri'd-Dín [_Sh_]áh, Ḥájí Sulṭán Murád Mírzá, the Ḥisámu's-Salṭanih, who was on his way to take up the reins of governorship in [_Sh_]íráz.