Fate of those who persecuted the Báb

• Muhammad Shah, who disregarded the appeal of the Báb  to meet Him in person and plead His Cause, sustained a sudden reverse of fortune, and succumbed, at the age of forty, to a complication of maladies.
• Nasiri’d-Din Shah, during whose reign the Báb  was executed, and under whose aegis the greatest massacre of the Bábis  took place, was, in the plenitude of his power, dramatically assassinated on the eve of his jubilee. The Qajar dynasty, to which he belonged, was subsequently brought to an ignominious end.
• Haji Mirza Aqasi, the Grand Vazir of Muhammad Shah and chief instigator of the outrages perpetrated against the Báb , was disgraced by his sovereign, lost his fortune, was expelled to Karbila, and became a victim of disease and poverty.
• Miza Taqi Khan, the Amir Nizam, the Grand Vazir of Nasiri'd-Din Shah, who was directly responsible for the execution of the Báb , was disgraced and put to death by royal order in the bath of the Palace of Fin, near Kashan.
• Mirza Hasan Khan, who carried out the execution of the Báb , was subjected, two years after, to a dreadful punishment which ended in his death.
• Miza ‘Ali-Asghar, the Shaykhu’l-Islam of Tabriz, who inflicted the bastinado on the Báb  with his own hand, was stricken, in that same year, with paralysis, and died a miserable death.
• The Regiment, which constituted the firing squad that executed the Báb , lost, in that same year, two hundred and fifty of its officers and men in an earthquake near Ardibil, while the remaining five hundred were shot, two years later, in Tabriz, for mutiny. The head of the regiment, Aqa Jan Big, lost his life, six years after the Martyrdom of the Báb , during the bombardment of Muhammarih by the British.
• The Shi’ih Sacerdotal, which violently opposed the Báb , aroused the populace and instigated the government against Him, was discredited, fell from power, and ceased to exercise its paramount influence on both the people and the government.          

('The Baha’i Faith 1844 -1963, Statistical and Comparative', compiled by the Hands of the Cause Residing in the Holy Land)