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Mírzá Asadu’lláh rose with untiring zeal to promote the Cause of the Báb, undeterred by anything that stood in his path. His father sent a report to the Grand Vazír describing this and the other conversions that had transpired in Khuy and the neighboring areas. What added more fuel to this fire, was the coming of seekers from other faraway areas to meet the Báb. One among these was a navváb [viceroy/governor] from India. While in India, one night, he had a vision of the Báb, which he described like this:
In the days when I occupied the exalted position of a navváb in India, the Báb appeared to me in a vision. He gazed at me and won my heart completely. I arose, and had started to follow Him, when He looked at me intently and said: “Divest yourself of your gorgeous attire, depart from your native land, and hasten on foot to meet Me in Ádhirbayján. In Chihríq you will attain your heart’s desire.” I followed His directions and have now reached my goal. 11ACT7
This high-born Indian navváb had left behind all his wealth, and taking on the life of a dervish who has no possessions, had walked all the way from India to this extreme northwestern corner of Persia, to Chihríq. As soon as he met the Báb, he recognized Him and believed. The Báb gave him the title Qahru’lláh12ACT7. All who met this Indian dervish were enamoured by his charm and power of faith that shone through him. His arrival and teaching activities were causing a stir amongst the Kurdish leaders in Chihríq.
When all this news reached the capital, the Grand Vazír, was very alarmed. He decided that the Báb should be transferred to Tabríz, in the hopes of allaying the effects the Báb’s stay in Chihríq was causing.
It was now July 1848. The incident at Níyálá, following the Conference of Badasht had occurred in the middle of July 1848 in the eastern end of the province of Mázindarán. And now, towards the end of this same month, at this far northwestern end of the land, the Báb was brought to Tabríz from Chihríq. 14ACT7
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