[5] After the Báb's arrest in early 1848, Mulla Muhammad Ali Barfurushi, aka Quddús, had sought to raise the Black Standard in Mashad.
[5]) At the same time Táhirih had expressed an interest in making a pilgrimage to the fortress of Máh-Kú in the province of Azarbaijan where the Báb, founder of the Bábí faith, was being held.
[13] The major events included, as an act of symbolism, Táhirih taking off her traditional veil in front of an assemblage of men on one occasion and brandished a sword on another.
She quoted from the Quran, "verily, amid gardens and rivers shall the pious dwell in the seat of truth, in the presence of the potent King" as well as proclaiming herself the Word the Qa'im would utter on the day of judgement.
This became the key way of differentiating the dispensation of Islam from the events in the garden[7][16] According to Moojan Momen, the accusation of immorality among the Babis is confirmed by some Bábí and Baháʼí sources.
[17] Mongol Bayat refers to the accusations of immorality at the conference as "grossly exaggerated", though she echoes that there was "mischief which a few of the irresponsible among the adherents of the Faith had sought".
When they neared the village of Níyálá, the local mullá, outraged at seeing an unveiled woman sitting next a group of men and chanting poems aloud, led a mob against them.
[5] Although the unveiling led to accusations of immorality by a Christian missionary[20] and Muslim[2] clerics of the time, the Báb responded by supporting her position and endorsing the name Baháʼu'lláh gave her at the conference:[11] the Pure (Táhirih).
[15] Baháʼís have noted there is a synchronicity in time and a likeness in theme and events between Iran and the United States between the conference at Badasht and the Seneca Falls Convention.