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Unbeknownst to all, Bahá’u’lláh summoned a trusted believer, Muhammad-Hádí , who was from Qazvín. Bahá’u’lláh gave him instructions on what to do to rescue Táhirih was being confined in her father’s house. Muhammad-Hádí’s wife, Khátún-Ján , went to Táhirih’s father’s house dressed as a beggar. Khátún-Ján carried a sealed message from Bahá’u’lláh which she got delivered to Táhirih. She waited outside the house, until Táhirih, in a disguise, was sneaked out in the middle of the night. Together they got to the gate of the city of Qazvín in the night. Bahá’u’llah had dispatched an attendant with three horses to wait there for them. They all escaped and, without anyone else knowing, Muhammad-Hádí was able to bring Táhirih to Bahá’u’lláh’s house in Tihrán. 74ACT6 The challenge which Táhirih had issued to her husband was met. Nabíl comments:
It was her steadfast conviction in the unconquerable power of Bahá’u’lláh that prompted her to utter her prediction with such confidence, and to fling her challenge so boldly in the face of her enemies. Nothing short of an immovable faith in the unfailing efficacy of that power could have induced her, in the darkest hours of her captivity, to assert with such courage and assurance the approach of her victory. 75ACT6
Táhirih’s stay in Bahá’u’lláh’s House in Tihrán and her recognition of His Station
Nabíl also notes that Táhirih “knew full well into whose presence she had been admitted; she was profoundly aware of the sacredness of the hospitality she had been graciously accorded.” 76ACT6 This was because Táhirih had recognized from the very early days the Station and Missions of both the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh. This was clear in her odes written as early as “the year ’60” [meaning 1844] in Karbalá’. A verse from one such ode is:
The effulgence of the Abhá Beauty hath pierced the veil of night;
behold the souls of His lovers dancing, moth-like,
in the light that has flashed from His face! 77ACT6
behold the souls of His lovers dancing, moth-like,
in the light that has flashed from His face! 77ACT6
Táhirih’s stay in Tihrán at Bahá’u’lláh’s house was only for a few days, but is remembered years later by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, in the context of a visit paid by Vahíd to Táhirih at that time:
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