Baha'i Assassinations
9. Allegations Against Sayyid Muhammad of Isfahan
9.1 Epistle to the Son of Wolf
In the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, Juli Chamler's translation, P. 130, Baha says: "There, the Sayyid Muhammad [of Isfahan murdered at Acre see section 1 of this topic] joined him [i.e. Subh-i-Azal] and their activities resulted in the greatest calamity. Why have you not questioned the officials of the government, the deeds of Mirza Yahya [Subh-i-Azal] in this country [i.e. Edirne], passed the bounds of imagination?
9.2 Abbas Effendi's Will & Testament
In his Will and Testament (P. 6) Sir Abbas Effendi says:
"What sedition and intrigue stirred up whilst in the land of mystery [i.e. Edirne]. At last he wrought that which caused the Day-Star of Splendour [i.e. Baha] to be sent as exile to this, the most great prison [i.e. Acre]."
In his reply addressed to Mons Edgard Blochet (see section 12.4.1.5] Subh-i-Azal refers to the forged letters circulated by Baha, which brought about the banishment.
9.3 Starving of Subh-i Azal's Family
Baha cut off supplies and means of subsistence to Subh-i Azal in a forlorn hope to starve him and members of the family into submission. In his footnote 1 in P. 99 in the Traveller's Narrative, Vol II, English Translation Professor Browne writes: "Subh-i Azal appears to have been almost left without supporters in Adrianopole, so that according to his own account, he and his boy were compelled to go themselves to the market to buy their daily food.”
In one of his Persian writings, Subh-i Azal states that “one of the members of my family called on the district authorities, and complained without my permission.” This accounts for Baha's outburst in his statement of claim that “he dishonoured me ….”
Mirza Jawad refers to this matter in his Historical Epitome, Materials for the Study of the BÁBi Religion by Prof. Browne, P. 24; but he suppressed entirely the true facts of the cause and gave a different slant to it.
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