Vahid, pronounced in the Kitáb-i-Íqán to be the "unique
and peerless figure of his age," a man of immense erudition and the most
preeminent figure to enlist under the banner of the new Faith, to whose
"talents and saintliness," to whose "high attainments in the
realm of science and philosophy" the Báb had testified in His
Dala'il-i-Sab'ih (Seven Proofs), had already, under similar circumstances, been
swept into the maelstrom of another upheaval, and was soon to quaff in his turn
the cup drained by the heroic martyrs of Mazindaran.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God
Passes By’)
