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heroes of old. Your daring exploits will win the praise and admiration of the dwellers in the eternal Kingdom. 25ACT6
The Báb then instructed Mullá Husayn to first go to Tihrán and on the way to stop by various towns and convey the greetings and love of the Báb to the believers and strive to inflame their hearts anew with the fire of the love of the Beauty of God. He then added:
From Tihrán you should proceed to Mázindarán, where God’s hidden treasure will be made manifest to you. You will be called upon to perform deeds so great as will dwarf the mightiest achievements of the past. The nature of your task will, in that place, be revealed to you, … 26ACT6
On the morning of the ninth day after Naw-Rúz, Mullá Husayn, as bidden by the Báb, left Máh-Kú to go Tihrán and then Mázindarán, taking his attendant Qambar-‘Alí with him. They had arrived in Máh-Kú on the day of Naw-Rúz, exactly nine days before. The Báb Himself, as He had prophesied would be moved to another prison a few days later [it was eleven days later; twenty days after Naw-Rúz 27ACT6].
The Báb’s parting words to Qambar-‘Alí were:
The Qambar-‘Ali of a bygone age28ACT6
would glory in that his namesake has lived to witness a Day for which even He who was the Lord of his lord29ACT6
sighed in vain; of which He, with keen longing, has spoken: “Would that My eyes could behold the faces of My brethren who have been privileged to attain unto His Day!” 30ACT6
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