From: Baha'i Historical Facts
In October 1848 Mulla Husayn and about seventy one of his
companions arrive near the town of Barfurush in northern Persia. One of the
lead clergy in that town felt threatened by their presence. He instructs the townspeople
to go outside the gates of the town and attack them. Seven of Mulla Husayn’s
companions were subsequently killed. In the resulting battle the townspeople
were defeated and they beg for truce, to which Mulla Husayn agreed. It was
during this battle that Mulla Husayn, in one blow from his sword, cut in half
an attacker, his musket and the tree behind which the man was hiding. (Adapted
from the ‘The Dawn Breakers’)(To see a picture of this sword please visit Baha'i Sacred Relics)
