Áqáy-i-Kalím [faithful younger brother of Bahá’u’lláh],40_ACT13 together with Mírzá Ahmad, transferred those remains from … where they were first taken, to a place the site of which remained unknown to anyone excepting themselves [and Bahá’u’lláh]. That place remained secret … [and] until now, unknown to the believers, nor can anyone conjecture where the remains will eventually be transferred.41_ACT13
Notes on some future events
When Nabíl completed The Dawn-Breakers, he did not know the whereabouts of the Báb’s remains. Eventually on Naw Rúz (March 21) 1909 they will be interred by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá at the very spot indicated by Bahá’u’lláh on Mount Carmel in Haifa. The story of how the holy remains get to the Holy Land, their eventual interment, the building of the mausoleum over the Shrine of the Báb, and its significance are all another story. 42_ACT13
Hájí Sulaymán Khán who was instrumental in rescuing the holy remains, will meet a martyr’s death in two years’ time in Tihrán [DB 25-26 Part A, Section A4].
As to the prime mover of the forces that caused the Báb’s martyrdom, the Amír-Kabír and his brother, within two years of that event, both will fall from power and be executed. The Amír-Kabír’s execution will be a gruesome one. 43_ACT13 …
And as to the regiment of seven hundred and fifty soldiers which had fired the shots that martyred the Báb and Anís, two hundred and fifty of them will die the same year. They will be killed in an earthquake. And three years later, the remaining five hundred will suffer the same fate they delivered the Báb. The regiment will mutiny, be captured and then executed by firing squads in Tabríz. Their bodies will then be pierced with spears and lances, and left exposed to the gaze of the people of Tabríz. It is reported the populace remembered what this regiment had done to the Báb and began to murmur that perhaps this was the vengeance of God. When the ‘ulamá of Tabríz heard of these misgivings, they had
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