The insignia of a mullá.
Qur’án 6:91.
Ustád ‘Alí-Akbar, one of the staunch believers in Yazd. He designed the Mashriqu’l-Adhkár of Ishqábád and his design was approved by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. Ustád ‘Alí-Akbar offered up his life as a martyr in Yazd in 1903.
Arabic.
Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥaydar-‘Alí, outstanding Persian Bahá’í teacher and author. He spent nine years in prison and exile in Khártúm, travelled extensively in Írán, and passed away in 1920 in the Holy Land. Western pilgrims knew him as the Angel of Mount Carmel.
Qur’án 34:12.
Jesus.
Ḥájí Mullá Hádí Sabzívarí, a renowned philosopher and poet of Írán contemporary with Bahá’u’lláh. He passed away in 1873.
Mírzá Abu’l-Qásim Faráhání, the Qá’im Maqám, a distinguished poet and scholar during the reign of Fatḥ ‘Alí Sháh. He was a friend of Mírzá Buzurg, father of Bahá’u’lláh. Qá’im Maqám became Prime Minister of Persia in 1821, but in 1835 he was put to death by order of Muḥammad Sháh, at the instigation of Ḥájí Mírzá Aqásí.
cf. Qur’án 4:129.