Baha'i Allegations Against Subh-i Azal - Allegations of foul play

10. Allegations of foul play

1. Subh-i-Azal’s “condemnation to death of all the Mirrors of the BÁBi Dispensation” as alleged by Shoghi Effendi is not supported by documentary evidence. Shoghi Effendi should have quoted the specific documents to which the allegations relates, giving the names of the Mirrors to enable one to verify his allegation. In the absence of documentary evidence Shoghi Effendi’s allegation is dismissed as devoid of foundation.

2. In his Risala (Tract) of 1286 A.H. (1869), PP. 67-68, Baha prefers an identical allegation against Subh-i-Azal and alleges: “He has pronounced sentence of death on a body of persons. The Book of Mustayqadth (the Vigilant) is extant. Observe it. I swear by the sun of significances that in that book he has desired the death of all the manifestation of Oneness.”

3. The Mustayqath was written by Subh-i-Azal during the Baghdad period. Neither a “body of persons” nor “all the manifestations of Oneness” are condemned to death in the Mustayqath. Baha’s allegation is false.

The only persons denounced in the Mustayqath were Mirza Asadullah of Khuyi surnamed Dayyan and his adherent Sayyid Ibrahim of Tabriz surnamed Rahim and Khalil. Dayyan set up a pretension to the office of Him-Whom-God-Will-Make-Manifest prior to Baha, who produced him as a proof of his own later pretensions to the same office.

4. “his [i.e. Subh-i-Azal’s] dastardly act in causing the murder of Dayyan” is alleged by Shoghi Effendi. See note on assassinations referred to above.

5. “his [i.e. Subh-i-Azal’s] foul deed in bringing about the assassination of Mirza Ali Khan, the BÁB’s cousin” is alleged by Shoghi Effendi. See note on See note on assassinations referred to above.

6. “his unspeakably repugnant violation of the honor of the BÁB himself” is alleged by Shoghi Effendi. See note on assassinations referred to above.

All these, according to Shoghi Effendi, were “attached by Aqa-i-Kalim [Baha’s full brother Mirza Musa], and reported by [Baha’s historian] Nabil in his Narrative, of which the original Persian text was not released for publication by Shoghi Effendi.

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