Ch.XXVI, p.622, f.1
"She remained in Tihran a long time receiving numerous visitors both men
and women. She aroused the women by showing them the abject role which
Islam assigned to them and she won them over to the new religion by
showing them the freedom and respect which it would bestow upon them. Many
domestic disputes followed, not always to the advantage and credit of the
husband. These discussions might have continued at length, if Mirza Aqa
Khan-i-Nuri had not been appointed Sadr-i-A'zam. The premier ordered
Haji Mulla Muhammad Andirmani and Haji Mulla Ali Kini to call on
her in order to examine into her belief. They held seven conferences with
her in which she argued with much feeling and affirmed that the Bab was
the promised and expected Imam. Her adversaries called her attention to
the fact that, in accordance with the prophecies, the promised Imam was to
come from Jabulqa and Jabulsa. She retorted feelingly that those
prophecies were false and forged by false traditionalists and, as these two
cities never existed, they could only be the superstitions of diseased
brains. She expounded the new doctrine, bringing out its truth, but always
encountered the same argument of Jabulqa. Exasperated, she finally told
them: `Your reasoning is that of an ignorant and stupid child; how long
will you cling to these follies and lies? When will you lift your eyes
towards the Sun of Truth?' Shocked by such blasphemy, Haji Mulla Ali
rose up and led his friend away saying, `Why prolong our discussion with an
infidel?' They returned home and wrote out the sentence which established
her apostasy and her refusal to retract, and condemned her to death in the
name of the Qur'an!" (A. L. M. Nicolas' "Siyyid Ali-Muhammad dit le
Bab," pp. 446-447.)