6.   Allegations against Mirza Muhammad Ali

6.8  Alleged Fratricide
Facsimile of Mirza Shuaullah's letter referred to in Sir Abbas Effendi's Will document appear as annex in the printed copy of Sir Abbas Effendi's Will for purposes of examination of the body of the letter and of verification of the handwriting.

In the Will, Sir Abbas quotes a passage purporting to be from the letter, and deduces from it that it is linked up with a provision in the Aqdas, E.T. P.34, which lays down that whoever claim command before the completion of a thousand years is a false, liar." Failing repentance one who will have no mercy on him will be sent off against him".

Having jumped to the conclusion, Sir Abbas Effendi in his Will raises a hue and cry that there is a planned design to dispose of him by foul play and produces no corroborative supporting evidence. Mirza Shuaullah and Sir Abbas Effendi's daughter Ruha Khanum were in love with each other, and wanted to get married. Their heart's desire could not be realised because of the strained relations between their respective fathers. Frustrated Mirza Shuaullah proceeded to the United States in August 1900 and returned home in August 1935.

In his Marginal work, penned in his own handwriting, in the relevant page of the Will, Mirza Badiullah dismisses the allegation as 'false' and adds:- "Sir Abbas Effendi lived for more than thirty years after Baha, and died suddenly in the middle of the night in his own house. "What were the need for one who was to succeed him to have him murdered?"

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