The Fate of the Point’s Writings

5.   Abbas Effendi’s Version of Account
The Traveller’s Narrative, Vol I, Persian Text, PP. 69-70:
“Of the BAB’s writings many remained in man’s hands. Some of these were commentaries on, and interpretations of, verses of the Quran; Some were prayers, homilies, and hints of [the true significance of certain] passages; others were exhortations, admonitions, dissertations on the different branches of the doctrine of the Divine Unity, demonstrations of the special prophetic mission of the Lord of existing things [Muhammad], and (as hath been understood) encouragements to amendment of character, severance from worldly states, and dependence on the inspiration of god. But the essence and purport of his compositions were the praises and descriptions of that Reality soon to appear which was his only object and aim, his darling, and his desire.”

According to Sir Abbas Effendi, in Traveller's Narrative, English Translation, Vol. II, PP. 89-90, "When the edict for the removal of Baha from Baghdad was issued by his majesty the Ottoman Monarch, Mirza Yahya would neither quit nor accompany him; at one time he meditated setting out for India; at another, settling in Turkistan; but being able to decide on either of these two plans, he finally, at his own wish, set out before all in the garb of a dervish, in disguise and change of raiment for Kirkuk and Arbil by continuous advance, he reached Mosul, where on the arrival of the main body, he took up his abode and station alongside their caravan.”