2.   Allegations against Subh-i Azal

2.1    Overview
In the Will, PP. 2-4, Sir Abbas Effendi says : "And still another of the triads of the Ancient Beauty [i.e. Baha] was the wrong-doing, the hostility, the iniquity and rebellion of Mirza Yahya [Subh-i Azal]. Although that wronged one, that prisoner had nurtured him in his own bosom of kindness ever since his early years, had lavished at every moment all kinds of caresses upon him, exalted his name, shielded him from every misfortune, endured his to this world and the next, and despite the firm behests and counsels of his Holiness the Supreme [i.e. the Primal Point] and his provision in conclusive text beware, beware, lent the Primal Unity and that which has been revealed in the Bayan veil thee! and the Primal Unity is His Holiness the Supreme, himself the blessed, and the eighteen letters of the living, yet notwithstanding this, Mirza Yahya denied him, treated him as a liar, cast doubts about him, closed his eyes to the clear verses, and connived at them. Would that he had been content therewith! Nay, he even shed the most pure blood [of Baha] with impunity, and then made clamour for help, and raised a cry of lamentation, attributing [into Baha] wrong-doing and iniquity [towards himself]. What sedition and intrigue he stirred up whilst in the land of Mystery [i.e. Edirne]. At least he wrought that which caused the Day-Star of Splendour [i.e. Baha] to be sent to exile to this most lent Great Prison [i.e. Acre].
The text sums as follows:

« از جمله از بلایای قدم ظلم و عدوان و ستم و طغیان میرزا یحیی بود که آن مظلوم مسجون با وجود اینکه او را از صغر سن در آغوش عنایت پرورش داد و در هر دمی انواع نوازش مبذول فرمود و ذکرش ر ا بلند کرد و ازهر آفاق محافظه نمد و عزیز دو جهان فرمود باوجود وصایا و نصایح شدیده حضرت اعلی و تصریح بنص قاطع « ایاک ان تحتجب بالواحد الاول و مانزل فی البیان » و واحد اول نفس مبارک حصرت اعلی و هجده حروف حیّ هستند باز میرزا یحیی انکار نمود و تکذیب کرد و الغای شبهات نمود و از آیات بینات چشم پوشید و اغماض کرد ایکاش باین اکتفا نمد بلکه دام اطهر را هدر کرد و فریاد واویلا بلند نمود و نسبت ظلم و ستم داد در ارض سّر چه فساد و فتنه بر پا کرد تا آنکه سبب شد که نیّر اشراق باین سجن اعظم سرکون شد و در مغرب این زندان مظلوماً افول نمود. »

Full text of this allegation is given as it does not appear in the excerpts in the Bahai World. Sir Abbas Effendi's allegations against Subh-i Azal may be summarised as follows:

1. Denunciation of Baha by Subh-i-Azal in the presence of the Point's specific provision. Tampered with, misquoted, by Sir Abbas Effendi;
2. Alleged shedding of the most pure blood of Baha with impunity, which Baha himself does not allege against Subh-i Azal.
3. Alleged sedition and intrigue of Subh-i-Azal, which had to do the banishment of Baha from Edirne to Acre.

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