The Báb was still in Máh-Kú when He wrote the most detailed
and illuminating of His Tablets to Muhammad Sháh. Prefaced by a laudatory
reference to the unity of God, to His Apostles and to the twelve Imáms;
unequivocal in its assertion of the divinity of its Author and of the
supernatural powers with which His Revelation had been invested; precise in the
verses and traditions it cites in confirmation of so audacious a claim; severe
in its condemnation of some of the officials and representatives of the Sháh’s
administration, particularly of the “wicked and accursed” Husayn Khán; moving
in its description of the humiliation and hardships to which its writer had
been subjected, this historic document resembles, in many of its features, the
Lawh-i-Sultán, the Tablet addressed, under similar circumstances, from the
prison-fortress of Akká by Bahá’u’lláh to Násiri’d-Dín Sháh, and constituting
His lengthiest epistle to any single sovereign.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes
By’)
