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The Bab was still in Mah- Ku when He wrote the most detailed and illuminating of His Tablets to Muhammad Shah. Prefaced by a laudatory reference to the unity of God, to His Apostles and to the twelve Imams; unequivocal in its assertion of the divinity of its Author and of the supernatural powers with which His Revelation had been invested; precise in the verses and traditions it cites in confirmation of so audacious a claim; severe in its condemnation of some of the officials and representatives of the Shah's administration, particularly of the "wicked and accursed" Husayn Khan; moving in its description of the humiliation and hardships to which its writer had been subjected, this historic document resembles, in many of its features, the Lawh- i- Sultan, the Tablet addressed, under similar circumstances, from the prison- fortress of Akka by Baha'u'llah to Nasiri'd- Din Shah, and constituting His lengthiest epistle to any single sovereign.
(26:1)
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