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The treachery at Bárfurúsh’s Sabzih-Maydán
Upon arriving at the caravanserai, Mullá Husayn sent some of the companions to the town-centre to get some bread and water. However, the companions returned empty handed, as no one would sell them anything. At this, Mullá Husayn ordered the gates of the caravanserai to be closed and assembled his companions together. He asked them to be patient and put their trust in God and resign themselves to His Will.
A youth gladly responded. No sooner had the opening words of “Alláh-u-Akbar” dropped from his lips than a bullet suddenly struck him and immediately caused his death.
“Let another one among you arise,” Mullá Husayn urged them, “and, with the selfsame renunciation, proceed with the prayer which that youth was unable to finish.”
Another youth started to his feet, and had no sooner uttered the words, “I bear witness that Muhammad is the Apostle of God,” than he also was struck down by another bullet from the enemy.
With the fall of his third companion, Mullá Husayn ordered the gates of the caravanserai to be opened. The Sabzih-Maydán was seething with an armed mass, who had gathered there at the instigation again of the treacherous Sa‘ídu’l-‘Ulamá’. Nabil then recounts:
Leaping on horseback, he [Mullá Husayn] gave the signal to charge upon the assailants who had massed before the gates and had filled the