Kashan

In fact, after bidding to impose upon the Balbi by crooked talk, Ghorghin, as soon as he found out where the Balbi had taken refuge, made him start that same night, just as he was, and without bidding farewell to his newly married wife for the capital.

Quote, So incensed was he, the Balbi, at this treatment, that he determined to eat nothing till he arrived at Kashan, a journey of five stages.

And in this resolution he persisted, till he reached the second stage, Murchikur.

There, however, he met Mullah Sheikh Ali and another of his missionaries, whom he had commissioned two days previously to proceed to Tehran, and then, on learning from his guards how matters stood, succeeded in prevailing on him to take some food.

Recording by Nicholas James Bridgewater.

Section 7.

Certainly, it was a notable journey, diversified by happy meetings with friends and inquirers at Kashan, Khanler, Zanjan, Milan, and Tabriz.

At Kashan the Balbi saw for the first time that fervent disciple who afterwards wrote the history of early Balbism, and his equally true-hearted brother, merchants both of them.

These things have been put to the proof, and the greatest proof is this very transaction.

Thus they relate that the possessions of a certain Barbie in Kashan were plundered, and his household scattered and dispersed.

They stripped him naked and scourged him, defiled his beard, mounted him face backwards on an ass, and paraded him through the streets and bazaars with the utmost cruelty to the sound of drums, trumpets, guitars, and tambourines.

A certain Gubra, who knew absolutely naught of the world or its denizens, chanced to be seated apart in a corner of a caravanserai.

These things have been put to the proof, and the greatest proof is this very transaction.

Thus they relate that the possessions of a certain Barbie in Kashan were plundered and his household scattered and dispersed.

They stripped him naked and scourged him, defiled his beard, mounted him face backwards on an ass, and paraded him through the streets and bazaars with the utmost cruelty to the sound of drums, trumpets, guitars, and tambourines.

A certain Gubra, who knew absolutely naught of the world or its denizens, chanced to be seated apart in a corner of a caravanserai.