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that Mullá Husayn had expired. A faint smile still lingered upon his face. Such was the peacefulness of his countenance that he seemed to have fallen asleep.41_ACT9
Daytime 2 February 1849: Mullá Husayn is buried
Nabíl’s account continues:
Quddús attended to his [Mullá Husayn’s] burial, clothed him in his own shirt, and gave instructions to lay him to rest to the south of, and adjoining, the shrine of Shaykh Tabarsí.
“Well is it with you to have remained to your last hour faithful to the Covenant of God,” he said, as he laid a parting kiss upon his eyes and forehead. “I pray God to grant that no division ever be caused between you and me.” He spoke with such poignancy that the seven companions who were standing beside him wept profusely, and wished they had been sacrificed in his stead.
Quddús, with his own hands, laid the body in the tomb, and cautioned those who were standing near him to maintain secrecy regarding the spot which served as his resting place, and to conceal it even from their companions. 42_ACT9
He afterwards instructed them to inter the bodies of the thirty-six martyrs who had fallen in the course of that engagement in one and the same grave on the northern side of the shrine of Shaykh Tabarsí. “Let the loved ones of God,” he was heard to remark as he consigned them to their tomb, “take heed of the example of these martyrs of our Faith. Let them in life be and remain as united as these are now in death.” 40_ACT9
And there were seventy-two companions
It was dawn of 2 February 1849 when Mullá Husayn died. He was thirty-six years old when he drank the cup of martyrdom. It was one hundred and sixteen days from
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