Immediately before and soon after this humiliating treatment
meted out to the Bab two highly significant incidents occurred, incidents that
cast an illuminating light on the mysterious circumstances surrounding the
opening phase of His martyrdom. The farrash-bashi had abruptly interrupted the
last conversation which the Bab was confidentially having in one of the rooms
of the barracks with His amanuensis Siyyid Husayn, and was drawing the latter
aside, and severely rebuking him, when he was thus addressed by his Prisoner:
"Not until I have said to him all those things that I wish to say can any
earthly power silence Me. Though all the world be armed against Me, yet shall
it be powerless to deter Me from fulfilling, to the last word, My intention."
To the Christian Sam Khan -- the colonel of the Armenian regiment ordered to
carry out the execution -- who, seized with fear lest his act should provoke
the wrath of God, had begged to be released from the duty imposed upon him, the
Bab gave the following assurance: "Follow your instructions, and if your
intention be sincere, the Almighty is surely able to relieve you of your
perplexity." - Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
