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Epilogue
NabĂl concludes his description of the BĂĄbĂ upheaval in Zanjan with these words:
I was privileged, nine years after the termination of that memorable struggle, to visit ZanjĂĄn and witness the scene of those terrible butcheries. I beheld with grief and horror the ruins of the fort of âAlĂ-MardĂĄn KhĂĄn, and trod the ground that had been saturated with the blood of its immortal defenders. I could discern on its gates and walls traces of the carnage that marked its surrender to the enemy, and could discover upon the very stones that had served as barricades, stains of the blood that had been so profusely shed in that neighbourhood.
⊠Many and conflicting are the reports as to the exact number of those who struggled and fell under the banner of Hujjat in Zanjån. Some have estimated that there were as many as a thousand martyrs; according to others, they were more numerous. I have heard it stated that one of the companions of Hujjat who undertook to record the names of those who had suffered martyrdom, had left a written statement in which he had computed the number of those who had fallen prior to the death of Hujjat to be a thousand, five hundred and ninety-eight, whilst those who had suffered martyrdom afterwards were thought to have been in all two hundred and two persons.
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End of âDB 24: The Crimson Rain â ZanjĂĄnâ