The Rise of Baha
7. Alleged Baha’s Inspection of the fortifications in the fort of Sheykh Tabarsi
Baha’s Inspection of the fortifications in the fort of Sheykh Tabarsi and his counsels and exhortations to its defenders devoid of historical foundation.
7.4 Baha’s Account in ‘Epistle to the Son of the Wolf’
In ibid, P. 373, footnote 1: Shoghi Effendi quotes from Baha’s epistle to the son of the wolf of 1891:
“O Shaykh! Things the like of which no eye hath seen have befallen this wronged one. Gladly and with the utmost resignation I have accepted to suffer, that thereby the soul of men may be enlightened and the word of god be established. Where we were imprisoned in the land of Mim [Mazandaran], they one day delivered us into the hands of the Ulamas, that which ensured, thou canst well imagine! (“The epistle to the son of the wolf.” (P. 57)
The same passage is rendered as follows in the Epistle to the Son of the Wolf, Shoghi Effendi’s translation, PP. 86-87:
“O Shaykh! That which hath touched this wronged one is beyond compare or equal. We have borne it all with the utmost willingness and resignation, so that the souls of men may be edified, and word of god be exalted. While confined in the prison of the Land of Mim (Mazandaran) we were one day delivered into the hands of the divines. Thou canst well imagine what befell us.”
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