16.   Temple of the Lord
In contrast to this humble slave wherein Mirza Muhammad Ali’s physical remains were laid to rest, Sir Abbas Effendi’s were entombed in a pretentious building on Mount Carmel at Haifa, in the Holy Land built by himself as the “branch,” in fulfilment of the prophet Zachariah’s prophecy that “the Branch shall build the temple of the lord.” This is the belief of the Bahais, we are led to believe Mirza Abd-al-Husayn Ayati surnamed Awara in his Al-Kawakib-al, Durriya, vol II, pp. 47-48, composed by him in the hey-days of his Bahai missionary enterprise as one of the Hands of the Cause of God, when he was in the services of Sir Abbas Effendi and Shoghi Effendi prior to his abjuration of Bahaism and return to the fold of Islam.

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