One of the very first to recognize in Bahá’u’lláh that true mentor, counsellor and guide which the community of the Báb sorely needed, was Hàji Háshim-i-‘Attár, a wealthy Persian merchant who lived in new Baghdad. Having once attained the presence of Bahá’u’lláh, he became devoted to Him, and in the end gave Him his allegiance…Aqá Muhammad-Hasan, a merchant of Isfahan; Siyyid Muhammad-Ridá and Siyyid Muhammad-Taqi, two brothers, sons of Siyyid-i-Buká'; Haji ’Abdu’l-Majid-i-Shírází - the father of that glorious martyr, Mirzá ’Abdu’l-Vahháb and his brother, Mirza Hasan, who was known as ’Gul-i-Guláb’ (Red Rose, literally, ‘the flower of the rose-water') - all Persians who lived in Kázimayn - rallied round Him. And so did the Arab Bábis of Baghdad, notably Shaykh Sultán and Áqá Muhammad-Mustafá. Another veteran of the Faith of the Báb, who very soon came to see that the hopes of the Bábis must be centred in the person of Bahá’u’lláh, was Haji Siyyid Javád-i-Karbilá'i.
Shaykh-Ali Mirza of Shiraz, a distinguished figure related to the imám-jum’ih of Shiráz, as well as Siyyid ‘Abdu’r-Rahim of Isfahan (honoured in later years with the designation of Ismu'llahi'r-Rahim 1 the Name of God, the Merciful), and Mirza Muhammad-'Ali, the physician of Zanjan, who was to meet a martyr's death, were the most notable of the Babis in Iran who. from that early time, became convinced that only by turning to Jináb-i-Bahá could they find that sure anchor which could and would steady the storm-tossed ship of their Faith.
- Hasan Balyuzi (‘Bahá’u’lláh King of Glory’)
