The Kitáb-i-Aqdas : The Most Holy Book
Notes
Effendi as the “
Arch-Breaker of the Covenant of the Báb” (see
God Passes By, chapter X).
191.remember how We nurtured thee by day and by night for service to the Cause
¶184
In
God Passes By,
Shoghi Effendi refers to the fact that
Bahá’u’lláh, Who was thirteen years older than
Mírzá Yaḥyá, had counselled him and watched over his early youth and manhood.
192.God hath laid hold on him who led thee astray.
¶184
A reference to
Siyyid Muḥammad-i-Iṣfahání, who is described by Shoghi Effendi as the “
Antichrist of the Bahá’í Revelation”. He was a man of corrupt character and great personal ambition who induced Mírzá Yaḥyá to oppose Bahá’u’lláh and to claim prophethood for himself (see note
190). Although he was an adherent of Mírzá Yaḥyá, Siyyid Muḥammad was exiled with Bahá’u’lláh to
‘Akká. He continued to agitate and plot against Bahá’u’lláh. In describing the circumstances of his death, Shoghi Effendi has written in
God Passes By:
A fresh danger now clearly threatened the life of Bahá’u’lláh. Though He Himself had stringently forbidden His followers, on several occasions, both verbally and in writing, any retaliatory acts against their tormentors, and had even sent back to Beirut an irresponsible Arab convert, who had meditated avenging the wrongs suffered by his beloved Leader, seven of the companions clandestinely sought out and slew three of their persecutors, among whom were Siyyid Muḥammad and Áqá Ján.
The consternation that seized an already oppressed community was indescribable. Bahá’u’lláh’s indignation knew no bounds. “Were We”, He thus voices His emotions, in a Tablet revealed shortly after this act had
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