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Mirza Baqir- i- Shirazi, who had transcribed the Tablets of Baha'u'llah in Adrianople with such unsparing devotion, was slain in Kirman, while in Ardikan the aged and infirm Gul- Muhammad was set upon by a furious mob, thrown to the ground, and so trampled upon by the hob- nailed boots of two siyyids that his ribs were crushed in and his teeth broken, after which his body was taken to the outskirts of the town and buried in a pit, only to be dug up the next day, dragged through the streets, and finally abandoned in the wilderness. In the city of Mashhad, notorious for its unbridled fanaticism, Haji Abdu'l- Majid, who was the eighty- five year old father of the afore- mentioned Badi' and a survivor of the struggle of Tabarsi, and who, after the martyrdom of his son, had visited Baha'u'llah and returned afire with zeal to Khurasan, was ripped open from waist to throat, and his head exposed on a marble slab to the gaze of a multitude of insulting onlookers, who, after dragging his body ignominiously through the bazaars, left it at the morgue to be claimed by his relatives.
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