Baha'u'llah was unhappy with the uprisings of Nayriz and Zanjan

Whatever his attitude towards the exploits of the Bābīs at the Shaykh Ṭabarsī shrine, it is evident that Ḥusayn 'Alī (Baha'u'llah) was generally unhappy about the course of events after 1848 and that he viewed the uprisings in Nayrīz and Zanjān as contrary to the divine purpose. Writing in later years, he expresses his disapproval of Bābī militancy in explicit and unequivocal terms: ‘the excesses of some at the beginning of the cause were like devastating, ruinous winds that cast down the saplings of trust and hope. On account of them, the state became opposed and the people disturbed, for they were ignorant of the divine will and decrees, and acted according to their own desires’. In a letter written in Acre about 1890, he contrasts the violence of early Babism with the reformation instituted by him in Baghdad: ‘All know that, previously, in every year there was strife and fighting: how many souls were slain on both sides! In one year at Ṭabarī (i.e. Shaykh Ṭabarsī), in the next at Zanjān, in the next at Nayrīz. After this wronged one went to Arab Iraq by permission of the king (i.e. Nāsir al-Dīn Shāh), we forbade all ̣ to engage in sedition or strife’. Similarly, in a letter addressed to the French diplomat, Comte de Gobineau, during the early Acre period (about 1869), he draws much the same comparison: ‘In the sixteen years since my arrival in Baghdad until now, no offense has been committed by anyone. Your excellency will have heard that, before those sixteen years, this sect did not endure oppression, but took revenge...’

(The Messiah of Shiraz, Denis MacEoin, Page 504-505)