2.14 The Axe of Excommunication
Following in the footsteps of his grandfather Sir Abbas Effendi who disposed, among other persons, of Baha's amanuensis Mirza Aqa Jan of Kashan and Baha's historian Nabil as an expendable commodity, the first person to be purged by Shoghi Effendi was lady Munira, Sir Abbas Effendi's wife, the first lady of the Baha's realm, who contributed so much to the making of Shoghi Effendi. The purge continued unabated. Members of Sir Abbas Effendi's family failed to pass muster. All the mentors of Sir Abbas Effendi's family, his daughters, his descendants, his son-in-laws, Shoghi Effendi's sisters, their husbands, and Shoghi Effendi's brothers purged and excommunicated, and the last to go excommunicated were Shoghi Effendi's own parents. The only exception was Baha's daughter the supreme leaf who was already dead and gone.

Sir Abbas Effendi had already excommunicated members of Baha's family. Shoghi Effendi excommunicated the remainder members of Sir Abbas Effendi's family. In the result at the time of exit of Shoghi Effendi himself, there was not a single member of Baha's family left "to worship god alone, Baha, who himself covenanted with himself before the creation of heaven and the earth that man shall worship none save god alone."

The bringer of the so called 'The most Great Peace" has failed to bring peace even to members of his own family.
At the same time Shoghi Effendi turned his attention to the Bahai settlers in Palestine. Undesirables, according to him, were ordered by him to liquidate their affairs forthwith and move out of the country. Few of the complied with the order and emigrated. The rest refused to move out and were summarily expelled from the faith.

Shoghi Effendi then proceeded to spring-clean the Bahai fold in the United States, where Mirza Sohrab had already established himself.

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