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feet. I was bending towards the ground, when, lo! that radiant figure vanished from before me. Overpowered with joy and gladness, I ran out to meet Mullá Husayn, who with transport received me and assured me that I had, at last, attained the object of my desire. He bade me, however, repress my feelings. ”Declare not your vision to anyone,” he urged me; ”the time for it has not yet arrived. You have reaped the fruit of your patient waiting in Isfáhán.” 23ACT3
The Báb had told Mullá Husayn that Mullá Sádiq would unhesitatingly respond to His call and enroll himself under His banner, and it happened exactly as foretold. 24ACT3 Mullá Sádiq is destined to cross all the crossings of the Bridge of Sirát. 25ACT3 We will continue Mullá Sádiq’s story later.
We will also return to the life of Muhammad-‘Alí of Nahrí [in whose house Mullá Sádiq meets Mullà Husayn], and his elder brother Ibráhím, and their children, all of whom, like Mullá Sádiq, play important roles in the Cause of God and are able to cross all the crossings of the Bridge.
Another historian of the time, recorded:
The sojourn of Bushrú’í [Mullá Husayn] in Isfáhán proved a triumph for the Báb. The conversions that he performed were numerous and brilliant; but, such are the ways of the world, that they drew upon him the fierce hatred of the official clergy … In fact, the conversion of Mullá Muhammad Taqí-i-Harátí , a jurist of the first rank, brought their fury to a climax, because over-flowing with zeal as he was, he would go every day to the mambar
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