As to the low-born and infamous Amír-Nizám, Mírzá Taqí Khán,
the first year of whose short-lived ministry was stained with the ferocious
onslaught against the defenders of the Fort of Tabarsí, who authorized and
encouraged the execution of the Seven Martyrs of Tihrán, who unleashed the
assault against Vahíd and his companions, who was directly responsible for the
death-sentence of the Báb, and who precipitated the great upheaval of Zanján,
he forfeited, through the unrelenting jealousy of his sovereign and the
vindictiveness of court intrigue, all the honors he had enjoyed, and was
treacherously put to death by the royal order, his veins being opened in the
bath of the Palace of Fín, near Káshán. “Had the Amír-Nizám,”
Bahá’u’lláh is reported by Nabíl to have stated, “been aware of My true
position, he would certainly have laid hold on Me. He exerted the utmost effort
to discover the real situation, but was unsuccessful. God wished him to be
ignorant of it.” (Shoghi Effendi, ‘God Passes By’)
