The Babi and Baha'i Religion — Page 39
THE B Ā B Ī AND BAH Ā ’ Ī RELIGION 39 collaboration with Qurratul ‘Ain, he was the man who devised the plan to abandon the Islamic Sharia, a resolution to this effect having been passed at the Badasht Conference, as mentioned earlier. In, 1850 when the B a b was executed while he had not yet had time to complete the new sharia, Mirz a H usain ‘Al i was greatly shocked and upset. But he immediately busied himself in schemes to carry out the intention of the Badasht resolution. Bah a ’ull a h’s Schemes after Execution of the B a b While Bah a ’ull a h was still deep in devising his plans some B a b i s made an attempt on the life of the king, but failed. Bah a ’ull a h was among those arrested in this connection. He remained in prison for four months, of which the effect on his mind may be gauged from his own words: "During the period of imprisonment, on account of hardship caused by the chains in which I was kept, and the foul air of the cell, I could get very little sleep. But sometimes when sleep did come, it seemed as if something were falling from my head on my breast—like a big stream falling down from the top of a hill. This resulted in a peculiar feeling, as if a tire were burning in all my limbs During such moments words and passages came on my lips of such stupendous, awful import that I do not