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In a letter to the despotic ruler who was persecuting Him, Baha'u'llah
wrote:
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O king , I have seen in the way of God what no eye hath seen and
no ear hath heard....
How
many calamities have descended, and how many will descend!... My
eyes rain down
tears
until My bed is drenched; but My sorrow is
not for Myself ....Yea, because I see
mankind
going astray in their intoxication and they know it not : they have exalted
their
lusts
and put aside their God , as though they took the
command of God for
a
mockery, a sport and a playing; and they
think that they do well , and that
they
are harboured in the citadel of security.
The matter is not as they
suppose:
tomorrow they shall see what they now deny. we are about to
shift
from this most remote place of banishment ( Adrianople
) unto
the
prison of Akka
. And according to what they say , it is
assuredly
the most desolate of the cities of the world, the most
unsightly
of them in appearance , the most detestable in climate, and the
foulest
in water; it is as though it were the metropolis of the owl ; there is
naught
heard
therein save the sound of its hooting. And
in it they intend to imprison this
servant,
and to shut in our faces the doors of leniency and take away
from us the good
things
of the life of the world during
what remaineth of our days. By God,
though
weariness
should weaken Me, and hunger should destroy
Me, though My couch should made of the hard rock and My associates
of the beasts of the desert , i will not blench , but
will
be patient, as the resolute and determined are
patient , in the strength of God
.... Through affliction hath
His light shone and His praise been
bright unceasingly: this
hath
been His method through past ages and bygone times .
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Baha'u'llah's
room in the prison of Akka
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