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to God knows no bounds. If you love me, suffer not that this joy be obscured by the sight of your lamentations. 19_ACT9
Mullá Husayn’s swordsmanship: “in him resided a spirit which God alone could bestow”
Some years after the episode of Fort Shaykh Tabarsí, the survivors on both sides remembered the amazing swordsmanship of Mullá Husayn. One of the main captains who led part of the army that attacked Fort Shaykh Tabarsí, describing one battle scene during the siege, said:
Then I saw Mullá Husayn unsheathe his sword raise his face towards heaven, and heard him exclaim: “O God I have completed the proof to this host, but it availeth not.” Then he began to attack us on the right and on the left. I swear by God that on that day he wielded the sword in such wise as transcends the power of man. … And, during that war not once was his sword-stroke at fault, but every blow that he struck fell true. And by the nature of their wounds I could recognise all whom Mullá Husayn had cut down with his sword, and since I had heard and knew that none could rightly wield the sword save the Chief of Believers [Imám ‘Alí]20_ACT9, and that it was well-nigh impossible for sword to cut so true, therefore I forbade all who were aware of this thing to mention it or make it known, lest the troops should be discouraged and should wax faint in the fight.21_ACT9
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