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The great bulk of the writings emanating from the Bab's prolific mind was, however, reserved for the period of His confinement in Mah- Ku and Chihriq. To this period must probably belong the unnumbered Epistles which, as attested by no less an authority than Baha'u'llah, the Bab specifically addressed to the divines of every city in Persia, as well as to those residing in Najaf and Karbila, wherein He set forth in detail the errors committed by each one of them. It was during His incarceration in the fortress of Mah- Ku that He, according to the testimony of Shaykh Hasan- i- Zunuzi, who transcribed during those nine months the verses dictated by the Bab to His amanuensis, revealed no less than nine commentaries on the whole of the Qur'an-- 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 Qayyumu'l- Asma.
(24:2)
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