Excerpt: ...and not to permit any one to visit her without his authority. Thereupon he betook himself to the traveller's room, and tried to convince her of the error in which she was entangled. He entirely failed, however, and, furious before that settled calm and earnestness, was led to curse the Ba b and to load him with insults. Then K urratu'l 'Ayn looked into his face, and said to him, "Woe unto thee, for I see thy mouth filling with blood."' Such is the oral tradition which our informant reproduces. In criticizing it, ...
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Excerpt: ...and not to permit any one to visit her without his authority. Thereupon he betook himself to the traveller's room, and tried to convince her of the error in which she was entangled. He entirely failed, however, and, furious before that settled calm and earnestness, was led to curse the Ba b and to load him with insults. Then K urratu'l 'Ayn looked into his face, and said to him, "Woe unto thee, for I see thy mouth filling with blood."' Such is the oral tradition which our informant reproduces. In criticizing it, we may admit that the gift of second sight was possessed by the Ba bi and Bahai leaders. But this particular anecdote respecting our heroine is (may I not say?) very improbable. To curse the Ba b was not the way for an uncle to convince his erring niece. One may, with more reason, suppose that her father and uncle trusted to the effect of matrimony, and committed the transformation of the lady to her cousin Mulla Muh ammad. True, this could not last long, and the murder of Tak i in the mosque of Kazwin must have precipitated K urratu'l 'Ayn's resolution to divorce her husband (as by Muh ammadan law she was entitled to do) and leave home for ever. It might, however, have gone hardly with her if she had really uttered the prophecy related above. Evidently her husband, who had accused her of complicity in the crime, had not heard of it. So she was acquitted. The Ba b, too, favoured the suggestion of her leaving home, and taking her place among his missionaries. Footnote: Nicolas, AMB, p. 277. At the dead of night, with an escort of Ba bi s, she set out ostensibly for Khurasan. The route which she really adopted, however, took her by the forest-country of Mazandaran, where she had the leisure necessary for pondering the religious situation. The sequel was dramatic. After some days and nights of quietude, she suddenly made her appearance in the hamlet of Badasht, to which place a representative conference of Ba bi s had been...
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