Had they but known, this very crime of theirs was the means of giving greater vigor to the Cause.

The martyrdom of the Bab fulfilled His own cherished wish and inspired His followers with increased zeal.
Such was the fire of their spiritual enthusiasm that the bitter winds of persecution but fanned it to a fiercer blaze: The greater the efforts at extinction, the higher mounted the flames.
Tomb on Mount Carmel After the Bab's martyrdom, His remains, with those of His devoted companion, were thrown on the edge of the moat outside the city wall.

On the second night they were rescued at midnight by some of the Babis, and after being concealed for years in secret depositories in Persia, were ultimately brought, with great danger and difficulty, to the Holy Land.
There they are now interred in a tomb beautifully situated on the slope of Mount Carmel, not far from the Cave of Elijah, and only a few miles from the spot where Baha'u'llah spent His last years and where His remains now lie.

Among the thousands of pilgrims from all parts of the world who come to pay homage at the Holy Tomb of Baha'u'llah, none omit to offer a prayer also at the shrine of His devoted lover and forerunner, the Bab.
Writings of Bab The Writings of the Bab were voluminous, and the rapidity with which, without study or premeditation, He composed elaborate commentaries, profound expositions or eloquent prayers was regarded as one of the proofs of His divine inspiration.
The purport of His various Writings has been summarized as follows:-- Some of these [the Bab's Writings] were commentaries on, and interpretations of the verses of the Kur'an; some were prayers, homilies, and hints of [the true significance of certain] passages; other were exhortations, admonitions, dissertations on the different branches of the doctrine of the Divine Unity ...
encouragements to amendment of character, severance from worldly states, and dependence on the inspirations 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.