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The confidence instilled in Mirza Aqa Jan by this unexpected and sudden contact with the spirit and directing genius of a new- born Revelation stirred his soul to its depths-- a soul already afire with a consuming love born of his recognition of the ascendancy which his newly- found Master had already achieved over His fellow- disciples in both Iraq and Persia. This intense adoration that informed his whole being, and which could neither be suppressed nor concealed, was instantly detected by both Mirza Yahya and his fellow- conspirator Siyyid Muhammad. The circumstances leading to the revelation of the Tablet of Kullu't- Ta'am, written during that period, at the request of Haji Mirza Kamalu'd- Din- i- Naraqi, a Babi of honorable rank and high culture, could not but aggravate a situation that had already become serious and menacing. Impelled by a desire to receive illumination from Mirza Yahya concerning the meaning of the Qur'anic verse "All food was allowed to the children of Israel," Haji Mirza Kamalu'd- Din had requested him to write a commentary upon it-- a request which was granted, but with reluctance and in a manner which showed such incompetence and superficiality as to disillusion Haji Mirza Kamalu'd- Din, and to destroy his confidence in its author. Turning to Baha'u'llah and repeating his request, he was honored by a Tablet, in which Israel and his children were identified with the Bab and His followers respectively-- a Tablet which by reason of the allusions it contained, the beauty of its language and the cogency of its argument, so enraptured the soul of its recipient that he would have, but for the restraining hand of Baha'u'llah, proclaimed forthwith his discovery of God's hidden Secret in the person of the One Who had revealed it.
(116:1)
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