Baha'i Allegations Against Subh-i Azal
2. Allegations By Baha
2.3 The Truth
The truth is that following the practice established during the Baghdad period the apportional breakfast and supper of Subh-i-Azal and his family had been from Baha’s house as Baha was the family factotum. Remittance received from Iran were acknowledged by Subh-i-Azal as the paramount authority, and were held and disbursed by Baha through his brother Mirza Musa. Allowances allotted by the Ottoman authorities were received by Baha through Mirza Musa, who collected them at the government treasury.
When the rupture took place between Subh-i-Azal and Baha, the latter stopped to provide food to Subh-i-Azal’s family for their sentence in a bid to starve Subh-i-Azal into submission through pressure thus brought to bear on the members of Subh-i-Azal’s family. This pressure was maintained relentlessly. Subh-i-Azal’s young children fell sick. Their mother, without Subh-i-Azal’s “permission “, visited the governor’s wife in her home and pleaded her case to save her children from their unenviable plight, into which they were driven by Baha himself. This is what Baha alleges to have “dishonoured me and god”.
Baha’s S.O.S to Count Gobineau (see section 17.6.2), in which he complains that “not a single farting has so far been paid for expenses” and Count upon Gobineau to use his good offices with Napoleon III to enable Baha to become a French Protégé apparently have not “dishonoured me and god”.
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