The Cause Of the Banishment of Babis From Edirne to Palestine & Cyprus

2.    Ottoman Archives

2.8   Conclusion
It does not stand to reason that a person who intends to rise against an established authority should give advance notice in writing of his intended rising by circulating leaflets to the public as alleged by Baha in his information against Subh-i-Azal.

Baha overreached himself. The Ottoman authorities would not swallow this bluff and in the end Baha was hoist with his own petard.
What is to be deplored is that Baha n his Epistle to the Son of the Wolf of 1890, with his foot in the grave and in his wake, Sir Abbas Effendi, in his Will and Testament with his foot in grave should seek to hoist Baha’s misfortunes of which Baha was in reality himself the author, on Subh-i-Azal.

The strange part of it is that in his letter addressed to Conte Gobineau on the eve of his removal from Edirne to Acre, begging him to plead for him with Napoleon III to become a French protégé, Baha plants the blame not on Subh-i-Azal as alleged in his information but on the Iranian and Turkish Government. Facsimile of this historical letter accessed by me from Archives of Bibliotheque de la ville de Strarsburg (Bas-Rhin), France, whose letters exchanged between Baha & Cont Gobineau are kept, will be forwarded in due course.

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