2.   Allegations Against Subh-i Azal

2.4  Subh-i Azal's Remarks on Baha's Claims
Hoist with his own petard, Baha was denounced by Subh-i-Azal.
In his reply dated March 21, 1911, addressed to Mons, England, Blochet, Keeper of the Oriental section, National library, Paris France, Subh-i-Azal Says: "Many a pretender set up a pretension to the office of Him-Whom-God-Will-Make -Manifest, the pretender of Acre [i.e. Baha] made his business more secure. He wrought havoc into this Cause in its entirety. He denied all manifestations of god….."

"At Edirne he sent Abu-Jahl [i.e. Mirza Aqa Jan of Kashan, Baha's scribe] [in allusion to Muhammad's most embittered opponent Abu Jihal surnamed and summoned me unto idolatry. He set about murdering the friends [i.e. BÂBis loyal to Subh-i-Azal and
"He slayed many of them at Edirne. He circulated drafted letters which brought about the banishment …."

"The gravamen of the dispute was that he regarded His Holiness [i.e. Sayyid Ali Muhammad the Primal Point] as his herald, and set up a pretension to divinity." "… Despite this stupidity, he wrote that the person to appear in the Ghiyath and Mustaghath will be speaking in his name …"

" I have his pretensions not withstanding, I did not wish him harm … I simply wanted him not to talk much, and not to compel me to denounce him. Finally he could not contain himself, and with of an overdose of opium, he flung the goblet of his pretensions to the root of his home [i.e. threw down the gauntlet, lured by the temptation of the scald-headed [i.e. Mirza Aqa Jan of Kashan, Baha's scribe], and abetted by his full brother [i.e. Mirza Musa. surnamed interlocutor because he talked to god, Baha]".

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