Circumstances leading to the revelation of the Tablet of Kullu’t-Ta‘ám by Bahá'u’lláh and the resulting attraction of the Bábís to Him

It was at this time that Haji Mirza Kamálu’d-Din-i-Naráqí came to Baghdad. He was a grandson of Hàji Mullá Ahmad-i-Naràqi, a distinguished divine of past times, and was himself a man of learning. Through Áqáy-i-Kalím, he asked Mirza Yahyá to write for him a commentary on the Qur'ânic verse: ‘All food was allowed to the children of Israel'. Of course as soon as Mirza Yahyá became aware of the fact that the Bábís of Naráq had learned of his whereabouts, fear overcame him. Nevertheless, he wrote a commentary, but it was an affront to the intellect of such a man as Hájí Mirzá Kamálu'd-Dín, who saw clearly Mirzá Yahyá's incompetence. Instead he looked to Bahá'u'lláh for guidance and enlightenment, and in response to his request Bahá'u'lláh revealed a Tablet which is known as the Tablet of Kullu't-Ta'am (All Food). In this Tablet, as the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith writes,

 “... Israel and his children were identified with the Báb and His followers respectively - a Tablet which by reason of the allusions it contained, the beauty of its language and the cogency of its argument, so enraptured the soul of its recipient that he would have, but for the restraining hand of Bahá'u'lláh, proclaimed forthwith his discovery of God's hidden Secret in the person of the One Who had revealed it.” (‘God Passes By’) 

- Hasan Balyuzi (‘Bahá’u’lláh King of Glory’)