5.   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 BÂBi 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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