The great bulk of the writings emanating from the Báb’s
prolific mind was, however, reserved for the period of His confinement in
Máh-Kú and Chihríq. To this period must probably belong the unnumbered Epistles
which, as attested by no less an authority than Bahá’u’lláh, the Báb
specifically addressed to the divines of every city in Persia, as well as to
those residing in Najaf and Karbilá, wherein He set forth in detail the errors
committed by each one of them. It was during His incarceration in the fortress
of Máh-Kú that He, according to the testimony of Shaykh Ḥasan-i-Zunúzí, who
transcribed during those nine months the verses dictated by the Báb to His
amanuensis, revealed no less than nine commentaries on the whole of the
Qur’án—commentaries whose fate, alas, is unknown, and one of which, at least
the Author Himself affirmed, surpassed in some respects a book as deservedly
famous as the Qayyúmu’l-Asmá.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
