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      believers coming to see Him (Dawn-Breakers Chapter 13, p245-249). Following MĂĄh-KĂș, he continues to accompany the BĂĄb to the prison of ChihrĂ­q (Dawn-Breakers Chapter 17, p307). He was present in TabrĂ­z at the interrogation of the BĂĄb, where the BĂĄb publicly announces: “I am, I am, I am the Promised One!” (Dawn-Breakers Chapter 18, p315-316). 

      Shaykh Hasan-i-ZunĂșzĂ­ was also related to another BĂĄbĂ­ from ZunĂșz, the young man Muhammad ‘AlĂ­y-i-ZunĂșzĂ­, surnamed AnĂ­s, who in later years is martyred with the BĂĄb. AnĂ­s’ father (who was not a believer in the BĂĄb) had asked Shaykh Hasan to talk some sense into AnĂ­s who wanted to go join the BĂĄb in ChihrĂ­q. The account NabĂ­l gives about AnĂ­s and his dream of being martyred with the BĂĄb was related by Shaykh Hasan to NabĂ­l (Dawn-Breakers Chapter 17, p307-308).  

      Siyyid KĂĄzim’s prophecy to Shaykh Hasan-i-ZunĂșzĂ­ had a further dimension that was fulfilled later. This is related by NabĂ­l in Dawn-Breakers Chapter 2, p31-33. While in the prison of ChihrĂ­q, when the great encounter at Fort Shaykh TabarsĂ­ had started, the BĂĄb bade all His companions to hasten to that place and join that struggle. The BĂĄb told Shaykh Hasan that if He [the BĂĄb] had not been a prisoner in ChihrĂ­q, He Himself would also have gone to TabarsĂ­. Then the BĂĄb said to Shaykh Hasan:

      Participation in that struggle is not enjoined upon you. You should proceed to KarbilĂĄ and should abide in that holy city, inasmuch as you are destined to behold, with your own eyes, the beauteous countenance of the promised Husayn. As you gaze upon that radiant face, do also remember Me. Convey to Him the expression of My loving devotion.

      He again emphatically added these words: 

      Verily I say, I have entrusted you with a great mission. Beware lest your heart grow faint, lest you forget the glory with which I have invested you.45PORT

      Soon after this prophecy of the Báb, Shaykh Hasan left Chihríq and went to Karbalá’ as commanded by the Báb. He worked there as a scribe, but his life was hard due to the persecution the Bábís faced. He was there when the Báb was martyred (9 July 1850) and he remained at his post in obedience to the command of the Báb to him. Nothing out of the ordinary happened until the day of 5 October 1851. Nabíl recounts what Shaykh Hasan told him happened that day:

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