Battle of Fort Tabarsi - After The Battle

After The Battle

It is believed that eight of the disciples of the Báb also called the Letters of the Living were killed in the series of battles:

• Mullá Husayn-i-Bushru'i
• Muhammad-Hasan-i-Bushru'i
• Muhammad-Baqir-i-Bushru'i
• Mullá Mahmud-i-Khu'i
• Mullá Jalil-i-Urumi
• Mullá Ahmad-i-Ibdal-i-Maraghi'i
• Mullá Yusif-i-Ardibili
• Mullá Muhammad-'Aliy-i-Qazvini

Quddús was taken prisoner in the city of Barfurush. There the high priest rallied the townsfolk into a vicious frenzy. Quddus was then left to the hands of the mob who beat him to death on May 16, 1849. What remained of Quddus' body was gathered by a friend and buried nearby.

The battle is considered the most important upheaval of the Bábí religion because the Báb himself instructed Mullá Husayn-i Bushru'i to initiate it with raising the Black Standard as well as a call for support of the initiative toothier Bábís, the episode included two leading figures of the religion in Mulla Husayn and Quddús and overall nine out of eighteen of the Letters of the Living, and actually reached a widespread response from across the country. No other upheaval the Bábís suffered had this pattern of importance in it.