Baha'i Allegations Against Subh-i Azal - Alleged attempted fratricide - Subh-i Azal’s Account
11. Alleged attempted fratricide
11.3 Subh-i Azal’s Account
In his Kitab-al-Wajh written by him in Edirne as well as in his Kitab-i-Al-Hayat written by him a few years after his arrival in Cyprus and in his Epistles Subh-i-Azal dismisses all the allegations preferred against him as false and devoid of foundation, and states that the star witness Ustad Muhammad Ali, the barber of Kashan, was tutored by Baha to circulate that faked report in order to discredit him. The following excerpts are from Subh-i-Azal’s writings:
“…. O faithless brother [i.e. Baha] what has happened that in vain you joined hands to violate my honor, and to stain your own hand with my blood. You gathered round yourself a band of persons addicted to vice … you excited this gang of villains to hate me … I appointed you to act for me. I ordered my friends to obey you … you are now out to destroy me. I was your guest you abused me. You swore at me in my face. That which you yourself deserved you ascribed to me. You inspired your servants with rancorous hatred of me. Even you taught your own barber your own falsehoods. He gave false evidence against the truth. You set in motion this great sedition …. Outwardly you pretended to be my friend. You attended my feast. You ate my meal of trust. Inwardly you manifested your falsehood until Shawal 23 [Presumably March 11, 1866] when I was keeping a fast you withheld bread and water from me. … By deceit you intercepted my epistles. Some of them which were to your advantage you paraded before the inhabitants of the city [i.e. Edirne]. At present I am in straitened circumstances and you are in affluence. And yet you pretend the contrary ….”
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