Mirza Muhammad Jawad of Qazwin appears to have been involved in the murder of Aqa Sayyid Ali the Arab of Tabriz., one of the prominent Bayanis who withstood Baha's pretensions. He underwent imprisonment for a term at Tabriz in the year A.H. 1284 (1867).

Having secured his release by hook or by crook, Mirza Jawad took to his heals and fled to Edirne, where he placed himself to the disposal of his master Baha. His meritorious services according to him were acknowledged by Baha in a special tablet revealed in his name, from which the following excerpt were given:-

از لقا مگذر ؟ تشهد ما ورد علینا ؟ من خیر نصرت امر رّبک باستطعت و کنت من الناصرین الی ان بدل الله ارض التی کنت علیها و ؟ الی مقر القدس الی ان حضرت تلقآء الوجه و هذا ما سئلک به الله ربّک و رّب العالمین تسئل الله بان بیعت امنا الله فی الارض لینصرن الله ربّهم انه علی کلشیئ قدیر فو نفس ان لل عندلله > عظیما انده لو تتفکر فی نفسک لتعرف احبائی الذین ذکرناهم فی ذلک اللوح و تکون من العارفین انّک ؟ ؟ ما ورد منک علی احد فی خیر بل کل فی اجبته و ؟ ؟ علیه مما ؟ الله ثجدنا فی نفس غلاً منک و کذلک احصینا الامور فی کتاب مبین الی قول تعالی لانظن لنفسک ظناً قد شهدالله بانک لست من الذین حزن بها مظهر نفسه فاستعن بشهادته من شهاده من فی السموات والارضین الی قوله تعاله والروح والعز والبهاء علی جوادی والمطرود فی سبیلی والا سیر فی هوائی والخریب ؟ والسکن معه فی سجن انتهی

Having broken the record in his flight from Tabriz to Edirne he was surnamed by Baha Jawad or Jued (fleet-footed).

The title of Baha's revelation authorising the disposal of Aqa Sayyid Ali the Arab sums as follows:-

تا الله الحمد قد اشرقت عن افق الجبینین شمس ترحم علیها

من قلم الله العلی الاعلی الملک یومئذ لله المقتدر المتعالی العل الابهی و هذا سیف لو یضرب به علی ظهر الشیطان ؟ علی جنود الی اسفل النیران و کذلک اشرقه الحکم ال آخر الا به این ایه مبارکه  در بر لوح آقا سید علی عرب که در تبریز بود و به حساب از معرضین بدان مرقوم فرموده بودند

With the special tablet a feather in his cap, we next find Mirza Jawad an accessory before the fact in the Acre assassinations on his own admission.- Material for the Study of the BءBi Bahai Religion by Prof. Browne, P.54.

Mirza Jawad's sister in-law Masuma Khanum was married to Baha's second son Mirza Muhammad Ali, head of the Unitarians. In the schism which succeeded Baha's death Mirza Jawad sided with Mirza Muhammad Ali and took up the cudgels for him.

In the several pamphlets he wrote and published, he criticised the acts and deeds of Sir Abbas Effendi Mirza Jawad's criticism was tantamount to lose - Majesty according to sir Abbas Effendi, by whom he was swept out of the faith at the stroke of the pen.

It would appear that the Bahai faith was the pleasure and one could hold it during sir Abbas Effendi's pleasure.

Mirza Jawad's most important accomplishment according to him, was his historical Epitome of the Bahai movement, of the life of Baha. Of the further schism which succeeded his death and of the Bahai propaganda in the United States. The Historical Epitome was completed in Safar, A.H. 1322 (April, 1904). Originally drafted and approved by Mirza Muhammad Ali, the Historical Epitome was rendered into Arabic by the latter. Prof. Browne translated the Arabic version of the Historical Epitome into English and incorporated it in his Materials For the Study of BءBi Religion

Treatment of the Acre murders in the Historical Epitome exasperated Sir Abbas Effendi who laboured under the miss-apprehension that Bahai history books should be modelled on the lines of "Traveller’s Narrative" written by him anonymously, in which he blacked out all Bahai assassinations and invoked himself for himself in support of his tales in the Narrative.

Mirza Muhammad Jawad of Qazwin, who took to his heels from Tabriz to Edirne, for which feat he was surnamed fleet-foot, an accessory before the fact on his own admission passed to the mercy of God, blessed and consecrated by Baha and anathematised by Abdul Baha, the son.

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[?] Question marks in the Persian text indicate that the word was not legible.

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