Vahíd’s house. The mob followed, and this time tried to attack Vahíd’s home. Vahíd sent out a band of seven companions. The lead was Muhammad-Ridáy-i-Manshádí
, who had been one of the leading
‘ulamá of Manshád, and after becoming a Bábí discarded his turban, and was now serving as doorkeeper at Vahíd’s house. This band of seven rode out with the cry of
“Alláh-u-Akbar” and dispersed the soldiers and the mob. That day was 10 May 1850.
Vahíd leaves Yazd
As soon as night fell, Vahíd bade his companions to disperse right away. He had his wife leave for her father’s home with younger two of their four sons; the older two sons remained behind with Vahíd.19_ACT11 He told his wife to leave everything behind, saying:
This palatial residence I have built with the sole intention that it should be eventually demolished in the path of the Cause … then will friend and foe alike realise that … an earthly mansion, however sumptuously adorned and magnificently equipped, had no worth in his [Vahíd’s] eyes, that It had sunk, in his estimation to the state of a heap of bones to which only the dogs of the earth could feel attracted. 20_ACT11
Vahíd then gathered all the writings of the Báb that were in his possession, and together with copies of all his own treatises, entrusted them to his close servant Hasan. He ordered Hasan to leave right away, and to take a particular path to a place outside the city gates and await Vahíd there. He warned Hasan that if he did not follow his instructions fully, they would not meet again.
In midst of the dark night, Vahíd himself left together with his two older sons, and two other companions, who were Bábís of Yazd. He followed the same route he had told Hasan to follow.
Aftermath in Yazd
Unfortunately, Vahíd’s servant Hasan, did not follow his master’s instructions. As he rode out on the path Vahíd had instructed him to take, he heard the cries of sentinels from the nearby fort. This made him fear that he might be caught and
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