A Traveler's Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb

"Yea, these servants [of God] regard God as 'doing what He pleaseth and ordering what He willeth.'(36) There is no retreat nor way of flight for anyone save unto God, and no ref...

"O God, this is a letter which I wish to send to the King; and Thou knowest that I have not desired aught of him save the display of his justice to Thy people, and the showing f...

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Next day the chief of the farra_sh_es delivered over the Bab and a young man named Aqa Muhammad-'Ali who was of a noble family of Tabriz to Sam _Kh_an, colonel of the Christian...

Now when the news of this beating, chastisement, imprisonment, and rigor reached all parts of Persia, learned divines and esteemed lawyers who were possessed of power and influe...

Now Baha'u'llah so acted that the hearts of this sect were drawn towards Him, while most of the inhabitants of 'Iraq were reduced to silence and speechlessness, some being amaze...

So likewise during the period of their sojourn in 'Iraq certain functionaries of foreign governments were desirous of intimacy, and sought friendly relations [with them], but th...

At all events, in the beginning of the year one thousand two hundred and eighty-five [A.H.] they transferred Baha'u'llah and all those persons who were with Him from Adrianople...