A spike was driven into a pillar which separated two rooms
of the barracks facing the square. Two ropes were fastened to it from which the
Báb and one of his disciples, the youthful and devout Mirza
Muhammad-'Ali-i-Zunuzi, surnamed Anis, who had previously flung himself at the
feet of his Master and implored that under no circumstances he be sent away
from Him, were separately suspended. The firing squad ranged itself in three
files, each of two hundred and fifty men. Each file in turn opened fire until
the whole detachment had discharged its bullets. So dense was the smoke from
the seven hundred and fifty rifles that the sky was darkened.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
