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Mulla Ali Jan was conducted on foot from Mazindaran to Tihran, the hardships of that journey being so severe that his neck was wounded and his body swollen from the waist to the feet. On the day of his martyrdom he asked for water, performed his ablutions, recited his prayers, bestowed a considerable gift of money on his executioner, and was still in the act of prayer when his throat was slit by a dagger, after which his corpse was spat upon, covered with mud, left exposed for three days, and finally hewn to pieces. In Namiq Mulla Ali, converted to the Faith in the days of the Bab, was so severely attacked and his ribs so badly broken with a pick- axe that he died immediately. Mirza Ashraf was slain in Isfahan, his corpse trampled under foot by Shaykh Muhammad Taqiy- i- Najafi, the "son of the wolf," and his pupils, savagely mutilated, and delivered to the mob to be burnt, after which his charred bones were buried beneath the ruins of a wall that was pulled down to cover them.
(201:1)
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