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Section Three: Treachery, Torture and Some Recant
The opposition to the BábĂs was mounting in the capital city, Tihrán, and would reach a climax very soon. The trigger would come from a treacherous siyyid from Káshán, who pretended to have become a BábĂ.
The Treachery of the Káshánà Siyyid
A siyyid from Káshán pretended to have been converted and become a BábĂ but he was a spy. He came to the religious school, madrisiy-i-Dáru’sh-Shafá’ which is attached to the Masjid-i-Sháh in Tihrán, where many of the BábĂs were staying. There he befriended a BábĂ, Siyyid Muhammad, who began teaching him the Faith. At least one other senior BábĂ, who was also a lecturer at the same school, saw through this KáshánĂ siyyid, and told Siyyid Muhammad this man was unreliable and should not be given access to the gathering of the believers. But Siyyid Muhammad thought otherwise and continued his close association with this KáshánĂ siyyid.
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