The fame of the Tablet of Kullu’t-Ta‘ám aroused fresh jealousy in the heart of Mirzá Yahá, who could not realize his own inability. Siyyid Muhammad-i-Isfaháni, the Antichrist of the Bahá'í Revelation, was pushing Mirzá Yahyá more and more to oppose and thwart Bahá’u’lláh. Friends were gathering around Bahá’u’lláh from every side, not only from the ranks of the Bábís, who were just beginning to hold their heads high once again, but from circles well beyond. The Válí of Baghdád had come to see that this Exile, recently arrived from Irán, was of a different category from the many Persian princes and princelings banished to Iráq or who had fled there. Bahá’u’lláh was well in the public eye. It was He Who had suffered months of inhuman incarceration in the dungeon of Tihrán, whereas Mirzá Yahyá's cowardice had condemned him to feel always insecure, to be always on the run and, not daring to use his own name, to pursue an obscure existence in a dilapidated corner of Baghdád.
- Hasan Balyuzi (‘Bahá’u’lláh King of Glory’)
