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In brief outline the narrative is this. For some while He wandered about in those districts. After the death of the late prince Muhammad Shah He returned to Tihran, having in His mind (the intention of) corresponding and entering into relations with the Bab. The medium of this correspondence was the celebrated Mulla 'Abdu'l-Karim of Qazvin, who was the Bab's mainstay and trusted intimate. Now since a great celebrity had been attained for Baha'u'llah in Tihran, and the hearts of men were disposed towards Him, He, together with Mulla 'Abdu'l-Karim, considered it as expedient that, in face of the agitation amongst the doctors, the aggressiveness of the greater part of (the people of) Persia, and the irresistible power of the Amir-Nizam, whereby both the Bab and Baha'u'llah were in great danger and liable to incur severe punishment, some measure should be adopted to direct the thoughts of men towards some absent person, by which means Baha'u'llah would remain protected from the interference of all men. And since further, having regard to sundry considerations, they did not consider an outsider as suitable, they cast the lot of this augury to the name of Baha'u'llah's brother Mirza Yahya. (37:1) By the assistance and instruction of Baha'u'llah, therefore, they made him notorious and famous on the tongues of friends and foes, and wrote letters, ostensibly at his dictation, to the Bab. And since secret correspondences were in process the Bab highly approved of this scheme. So Mirza Yahya was concealed and hidden while mention of him was on the tongues and in the mouths of men. And this mighty plan was of wondrous efficacy, for Baha'u'llah, though He was known and seen, remained safe and secure, and this veil was the cause that no one outside (the sect) fathomed the matter or fell into the idea of molestation, until Baha'u'llah quitted Tihran at the permission of the King and was permitted to withdraw to the Supreme Shrines.
(37:2)
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