Shaykh Hasan-i-Zunuzi who, as one of the secretaries of the
Báb, was engaged in transcribing the verses which He dictated to His amanuensis
while imprisoned in Mah-ku for nine months, related the following fascinating
account to Nabil, the author of the Dawn-Breakers:
"When subsequently He was incarcerated in the fortress
of Mah-Ku, in the province of Adhirbayjan, I was engaged in transcribing the
verses which He dictated to His amanuensis. Every night, for a period of nine
months, during which He was a prisoner in that fort, He revealed, after He had
offered His evening prayer, a commentary on a juz' [a juz' is one-thirtieth of
the Qur'án] of the Qur'án. At the end of each month a commentary on the whole
of that sacred Book was thus completed. During His incarceration in Mah-Ku,
nine commentaries on the whole of the Qur'án had been revealed by Him. The
texts of these commentaries were entrusted, in Tabriz, to the keeping of a
certain Siyyid Ibrahim-i-Khalil, who was instructed to conceal them until the
time for their publication might arrive. Their fate is unknown until now.”
(‘The
Dawn-Breakers, Nabil's Narrative of the Early Days of the Bahá'í Revelation’,
Translated and Edited by Shoghi Effendi)
