According to Mirza Jawad’s historical Epitome, PP. 87-91, Materials for the study of BءBi Religion by Professor Browne, “The Servant of God” passed strictures on Abdul Baha Abbas for his acts and deeds contrary to God’s command.” On being informed of the “Servant of God”’s words by Sayyid Hadi the father of Shoghi Effendi, Abdul Baha Abbas “appeared on the scene, seized him by the hand, and expelled him from the house bare-headed and bare footed, while his followers beat him on the head and face.”

The “Servant of God” was denounced as “reprobate, apostate, croaker, hypocrite and devil”. The Historical Epitome seeks to tone down the incident. The “Servant of God”’s tract entitled ‘The Dreaded Calamity of the Servant of God in the Blessed and Supreme Garden” (Waqaia-i Haila-i Khadim-i Baha dar Rawza-i Mubaraka-i Ulya), PP 197-198, Materials for the Study of the BءBi Religion by Professor Browne, contains “an account of the cruel treatment to which the “servant of god” was exposed in the garden of Bahja at Acre in May 1899, at the hands of the partisans of Abdul Baha Abbas. ….. “He was grievously maltreated, beaten, imprisoned in a stable, rubbed of his books, threatened with strangulation and excommunication by the followers of Abdul Baha.”

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