Baha'u'llah - His Life and Exiles

The Life and Exiles of Bahá’u’lláh

Baha’is believe that throughout history, God has revealed Himself to humanity through a series of divine Messengers. The messengers include Abraham, Krishna, Zoroaster, Moses, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad.

The latest of these Messengers is Bahá’u’lláh, who brings new spiritual and social teachings for our modern age.

Bahá’u’lláh taught

• There is only one God.

• All the world’s religions are from God.

• Mankind is one.

This presentation presents a brief overview of his life, trials and exiles in bringing this message to humanity

<div class="sg sgTitle" id="s16" data-sgid="Title 1" style="z-index:2;left:35.51px;top:5.50px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s16_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:-14.16px;top:0.00px;width:662.68px;height:125.08px;"><div><p><span data-textwidth="491.36" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:24.62px;top:42.07px;">The childhood of Bahá’u’lláh</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s18" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:4;left:680.44px;top:86.10px;width:315.45px;height:377.05px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="B1ED7025315x377.png" id="s18_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:315.45px;height:377.05px" > <div id="s18_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:7.42px;top:8.51px;width:300.10px;height:360.03px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="254.80" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:4.97px;">Bahá’u’lláh was born in 1817 in Tehran, </span><span data-textwidth="42.61" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:22.02px;">Persia.</span></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="261.76" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:45.06px;">His given name was Husayn Ali, and He </span><span data-textwidth="240.28" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:7;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:61.98px;">was the son of a wealthy government </span><span data-textwidth="272.92" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:8;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:79.03px;">minister, Mirza Buzurg-i-Nuri. The family </span><span data-textwidth="257.08" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:14;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:96.07px;">could trace its ancestry back to the great </span><span data-textwidth="211.36" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:15;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:113.00px;">dynasties of Iran's imperial past. </span><span data-textwidth="262.96" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:16;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:130.04px;">Bahá’u’lláh led a princely life as a young </span><span data-textwidth="264.28" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:17;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:147.08px;">man, receiving an education that focused </span><span data-textwidth="243.28" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:18;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:164.01px;">largely on calligraphy, horsemanship, </span><span data-textwidth="221.08" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:19;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:181.05px;">classic poetry, and swordsmanship</span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="261.64" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:20;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:227.02px;">It has been recorded that even as a child, </span></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="237.04" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:21;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.22px;top:250.07px;">He was advanced beyond His age and </span><span data-textwidth="279.41" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:22;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:267.11px;">superior to His surroundings. All who knew </span><span data-textwidth="259.60" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:23;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.22px;top:284.03px;">Him were astonished at His precocity. It </span><span data-textwidth="279.89" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:24;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:301.08px;">was usual for them to say, ‘Such a child will </span><span data-textwidth="264.64" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:25;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:318.12px;">not live, ‘ for it is commonly believed that </span><span data-textwidth="277.73" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:26;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.22px;top:335.05px;">precocious children do not reach maturity.” </span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s15" data-sgid="Picture 5" style="z-index:1;left:62.61px;top:97.73px;width:617.82px;height:377.65px"> <img class="sg" src="2B002311.png" id="s15_i" title="" alt="bahaullah-born" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:617.82px;height:377.65px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s17" data-sgid="TextBox 4" style="z-index:3;left:66.92px;top:471.66px;width:608.11px;height:27.57px" data-valign="top"> <div id="s17_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-1.33px;width:610.52px;height:34.55px;"><div><p para="{al:3,spbf:0.20}"><span data-textwidth="367.74" class="sg nowrap f4" style="z-index:2;font-size:89%; left:233.25px;top:8.26px;">The city of Tehran, Iran, where Bahá’u’lláh was born</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s19" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:1;left:35.51px;top:-6.47px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s19_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:0.00px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="499.64" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:74.67px;top:42.04px;">Bahá’u’lláh’s Early Adulthood</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s21" data-sgid="Picture 4" style="z-index:3;left:56.02px;top:97.50px;width:617.82px;height:394.55px"> <img class="sg" src="96ECD640.png" id="s21_i" title="" alt="bahaullah-house-takur-2" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:617.82px;height:394.55px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s23" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:5;left:680.44px;top:85.62px;width:315.45px;height:428.48px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="5A9D69CD315x428.png" id="s23_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:315.45px;height:428.48px" > <div id="s23_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:7.42px;top:8.99px;width:301.18px;height:410.98px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="263.44" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:4.97px;">After the death of His father, Bahá’u’lláh </span><span data-textwidth="237.52" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:22.02px;">declined the ministerial career in the </span><span data-textwidth="250.24" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:39.06px;">government that was available to Him. </span><span data-textwidth="272.45" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:5;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:55.98px;">When the prime minister was informed of </span><span data-textwidth="276.29" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:6;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:73.03px;">Bahá’u’lláh's decision he remarked: "Leave </span><span data-textwidth="283.61" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:7;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:90.07px;">him to himself. Such a position is unworthy </span><span data-textwidth="67.09" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:8;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:106.99px;">of him.…“</span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="262.36" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:9;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:153.08px;">In addition Baha’u’llah inherited several </span><span data-textwidth="274.97" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:10;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:170.01px;">slaves on his father’s death which he freed </span><span data-textwidth="271.85" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:11;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:187.05px;">(in 1839). In a letter he addressed to them, </span><span data-textwidth="261.28" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:12;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:204.10px;">he says that all humans are symbolically </span><span data-textwidth="283.25" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:13;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:221.02px;">“owned” by God — therefore no person can </span><span data-textwidth="283.25" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:16;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:238.06px;">be the owner of another human being. This </span><span data-textwidth="254.80" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:17;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:255.11px;">letter may be one of the world’s earliest </span><span data-textwidth="185.07" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:18;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:272.03px;">emancipation proclamations.</span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="253.12" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:19;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:318.12px;">Instead of pursuing a life of power and </span><span data-textwidth="257.56" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:20;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:335.05px;">leisure, Bahá’u’lláh chose to devote His </span><span data-textwidth="280.61" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:21;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:352.09px;">energies to a range of philanthropies which </span><span data-textwidth="282.65" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:22;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:369.13px;">had, by the early 1840s, earned Him renown </span><span data-textwidth="143.66" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:23;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:386.06px;">as "father of the poor.”</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s20" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 1" style="z-index:2;left:106.99px;top:155.43px;width:505.56px;height:327.01px" data-pointer-events="none"> <div style='width:100%;height:100%;background:rgba(0,0,0,0)'></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s22" data-sgid="Rectangle 3" style="z-index:4;left:47.49px;top:484.48px;width:624.90px;height:27.46px" data-valign="top" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s22_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-1.44px;width:627.31px;height:34.67px;"><div><p para="{al:3,spbf:0.20}"><span data-textwidth="600.83" class="sg nowrap f4" style="z-index:2;font-size:89%; left:16.72px;top:8.27px;">The house of Bahá’u’lláh in Takur, Mázindarán, destroyed by the government in 1981</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s24" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:1;left:33.33px;top:-6.47px;width:674.69px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s24_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:-14.27px;top:0.00px;width:688.96px;height:125.08px;"><div><p><span data-textwidth="635.51" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:23.55px;top:42.04px;">Ardent Supporter of a new Religion…</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s28" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:5;left:680.44px;top:87.91px;width:315.45px;height:176.99px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="1C6D0550315x177.png" id="s28_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:315.45px;height:176.99px" > <div id="s28_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:7.42px;top:6.70px;width:300.10px;height:166.10px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="256.12" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:4.97px;">In 1844, a youth named the Báb arose in </span><span data-textwidth="280.73" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:22.02px;">Persia to proclaim that the great day of God </span><span data-textwidth="247.12" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:39.06px;">awaited by all religions had come. He </span><span data-textwidth="260.56" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:5;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:55.98px;">claimed that His purpose was to prepare </span><span data-textwidth="274.97" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:6;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:73.03px;">people for the coming of “Him whom God </span><span data-textwidth="278.81" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:7;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:90.07px;">shall make manifest.” His teachings shook </span><span data-textwidth="266.92" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:8;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:106.99px;">the country to its core and spread rapidly. </span><span data-textwidth="279.41" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:9;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:124.04px;">Bahá’u’lláh immediately became one of the </span><span data-textwidth="221.08" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:10;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:141.08px;">most active of the Báb’s followers. </span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s27" data-sgid="Picture 2" style="z-index:4;left:96.91px;top:97.50px;width:525.36px;height:396.71px"> <img class="sg" src="3ABA31BC.png" id="s27_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:525.36px;height:396.71px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s25" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 1" style="z-index:2;left:106.99px;top:155.43px;width:505.56px;height:327.01px" data-pointer-events="none"> <div style='width:100%;height:100%;background:rgba(0,0,0,0)'></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s26" data-sgid="Rectangle 3" style="z-index:3;left:-6.49px;top:484.48px;width:624.90px;height:27.46px" data-valign="top" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s26_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-1.44px;width:627.31px;height:34.67px;"><div><p para="{al:3}"><span data-textwidth="471.56" class="sg nowrap f4" style="z-index:2;font-size:89%; left:146.07px;top:8.27px;">Door of house in Shiraz where the Bab first proclaimed his mission</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s29" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:1;left:35.51px;top:-6.47px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s29_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:-0.62px;top:0.00px;width:649.63px;height:134.89px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="600.46" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:24.88px;top:18.03px;">Bahá’u’lláh tortured in Mázindarán</span><span data-textwidth="449.47" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:4;font-size:222%; left:100.37px;top:66.04px;">and Imprisoned in Tehran</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s31" data-sgid="Picture 2" style="z-index:3;left:23.87px;top:98.47px;width:682.48px;height:293.08px"> <img class="sg" src="B78A0F68.png" id="s31_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:682.48px;height:293.08px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s33" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:5;left:704.65px;top:85.76px;width:290.98px;height:412.03px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="30591865291x412.png" id="s33_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:290.98px;height:412.03px" > <div id="s33_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:7.19px;top:8.85px;width:278.75px;height:394.18px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="261.16" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:4.97px;">The clergy and government united to try </span><span data-textwidth="203.67" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:22.02px;">and exterminate the new Faith. </span><span data-textwidth="247.72" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:39.06px;">Thousands of followers were killed in </span><span data-textwidth="250.24" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:5;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:55.98px;">these days, (and persecution of Baha’is </span><span data-textwidth="154.83" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:6;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:73.03px;">in Iran continues today.)</span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="184.35" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:7;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:119.00px;">In 1848, in the providence of </span><span data-textwidth="235.12" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:8;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:136.04px;">Mázindarán, Persia, Bahá’u’lláh was </span><span data-textwidth="258.28" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:9;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:153.08px;">arrested and bastinadoed (beaten with a </span><span data-textwidth="240.16" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:10;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:170.01px;">rod on the soles of His feet until they </span><span data-textwidth="235.96" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:11;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:187.05px;">bled) for being a follower of the Báb.</span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="232.00" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:12;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:233.02px;">He was transferred to Tehran where </span><span data-textwidth="231.76" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:13;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:250.07px;">Bahá’u’lláh was cast into a dungeon </span><span data-textwidth="241.72" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:14;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:267.11px;">known as the Black Pit, a filthy, pitch-</span><span data-textwidth="237.16" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:16;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:284.03px;">black prison stories underground. It </span><span data-textwidth="260.68" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:17;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:301.08px;">was while He had a 100 lb. chain around </span><span data-textwidth="234.76" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:18;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:318.12px;">His neck and suffering from lack of </span><span data-textwidth="255.40" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:19;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:335.05px;">decent food and water, that He received </span><span data-textwidth="202.59" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:20;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:352.09px;">the first intimations of a divine </span><span data-textwidth="146.18" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:21;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.48px;top:369.13px;">revelation within Him.</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s32" data-sgid="Picture 3" style="z-index:4;left:369.29px;top:303.29px;width:311.74px;height:185.99px"> <img class="sg" src="D8A15647.png" id="s32_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:311.74px;height:185.99px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s30" data-sgid="Rectangle 3" style="z-index:2;left:71.14px;top:485.22px;width:624.87px;height:27.57px" data-valign="top" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s30_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-1.45px;width:627.28px;height:34.78px;"><div><p para="{al:3}"><span data-textwidth="363.06" class="sg nowrap f4" style="z-index:2;font-size:89%; left:254.47px;top:8.26px;">Síyáh-Chál dungeon in Tehran (literally -“Black Pit”)</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s37" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:4;left:35.51px;top:-12.48px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s37_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:0.00px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="410.34" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:119.32px;top:42.05px;">Banishment to Iraq <span class="f3" style="font-size:70%; position:relative;bottom:2px;">(1853)</span></span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s36" data-sgid="5-Point Star 8" style="z-index:3;left:401.32px;top:252.68px;width:40.44px;height:36.09px" data-fillcolor="16776960"> <img class="sg" src="4F1FFA8E40x36.png" id="s36_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:40.44px;height:36.09px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s35" data-sgid="TextBox 7" style="z-index:2;left:479.28px;top:265.99px;width:88.05px;height:37.19px" data-valign="middle"> <img class="sg" src="F63CE8D188x37.png" id="s35_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:88.05px;height:37.19px" > <div id="s35_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-2.87px;width:88.05px;height:45.93px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="55.93" class="sg nowrap f6" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:56%; left:17.84px;top:5.18px;">Bahá’u’lláh </span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="66.01" class="sg nowrap f6" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:56%; left:11.36px;top:17.18px;">left Tehran on</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="70.69" class="sg nowrap f6" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:56%; left:9.08px;top:29.18px;">Jan. 13th, 1853</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s38" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:5;left:680.44px;top:85.62px;width:315.45px;height:429.45px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="6997322B315x429.png" id="s38_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:315.45px;height:429.45px" > <div id="s38_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:7.42px;top:8.99px;width:302.62px;height:411.35px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="279.53" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:4.97px;">After 4 months in the Black Pit, Bahá’u’lláh </span><span data-textwidth="260.68" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:22.02px;">was banished from His native land – the </span><span data-textwidth="194.55" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:6;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:39.06px;">beginning of 40 years of exile, </span><span data-textwidth="272.81" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:7;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:55.98px;">imprisonment and persecution. He had no </span><span data-textwidth="284.92" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:8;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:73.03px;">time to recuperate from the ill health caused </span><span data-textwidth="245.80" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:10;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:90.07px;">by being in the dungeon and from the </span><span data-textwidth="273.89" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:11;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:106.99px;">wounds resulting from the weighty chains </span><span data-textwidth="112.46" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:12;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:124.04px;">around His neck. </span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="278.93" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:13;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:170.01px;">He went first to Baghdad, then a part of the </span><span data-textwidth="270.05" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:14;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:187.05px;">Ottoman Empire. Complicity between the </span><span data-textwidth="262.36" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:15;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:204.10px;">Persian and Ottoman rulers governed all </span><span data-textwidth="181.59" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:16;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:221.02px;">His remaining banishments.</span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="228.51" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:17;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:267.11px;">Bahá’u’lláh and His family were ill-</span><span data-textwidth="260.20" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:19;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:284.03px;">equipped for the rigors of a three month </span><span data-textwidth="252.64" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:20;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:301.08px;">journey during the winter of 1853. The </span><span data-textwidth="230.44" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:21;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:318.12px;">route passed through snow-covered </span><span data-textwidth="255.04" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:24;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:335.05px;">mountains in western Iran. Inadequate </span><span data-textwidth="244.36" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:25;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:352.09px;">shelter, poor clothing and insufficient </span><span data-textwidth="250.36" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:26;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:369.13px;">provisions made their travel especially </span><span data-textwidth="59.77" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:27;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:386.06px;">perilous. </span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s34" data-sgid="Picture 4" style="z-index:1;left:66.69px;top:90.18px;width:587.95px;height:441.08px"> <img class="sg" src="A9170CCE.png" id="s34_i" title="" alt="map-ottoman-empire" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:587.95px;height:441.08px" > </div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s39" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:1;left:11.53px;top:-4.79px;width:700.94px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s39_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:-14.16px;top:0.00px;width:719.89px;height:125.08px;"><div><p><span data-textwidth="671.27" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:24.59px;top:42.04px;">Solitude in the mountains of Kurdistan</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s40" data-sgid="Picture 4" style="z-index:2;left:67.51px;top:103.12px;width:588.94px;height:383.77px"> <img class="sg" src="9090A306.png" id="s40_i" title="" alt="mountains-bahaullah" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:588.94px;height:383.77px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s42" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:4;left:680.44px;top:85.50px;width:315.45px;height:434.13px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="785D8541315x434.png" id="s42_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:315.45px;height:434.13px" > <div id="s42_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:7.42px;top:9.11px;width:301.55px;height:415.91px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="269.20" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:4.97px;">Just over a year after arriving in Baghdad, </span><span data-textwidth="269.32" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:22.02px;">Bahá’u’lláh withdrew to the mountainous </span><span data-textwidth="262.72" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:39.06px;">wilderness of Kurdistan, where He lived </span><span data-textwidth="247.36" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:5;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:55.98px;">alone for two years. He spent His time </span><span data-textwidth="276.53" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:6;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:73.03px;">reflecting on the implications of the divine </span><span data-textwidth="271.97" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:7;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:90.07px;">purpose to which He had been called. The </span><span data-textwidth="280.37" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:8;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:106.99px;">period is reminiscent of Moses' withdrawal </span><span data-textwidth="282.29" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:9;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:124.04px;">to Mount Sinai, Jesus’ 40 days and nights in </span><span data-textwidth="272.69" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:10;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:141.08px;">the desert, and Muhammad's retreat to the </span><span data-textwidth="130.58" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:11;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:158.01px;">cave on Mount Hira.</span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="281.33" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:12;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:204.10px;">In 1856 Bahá’u’lláh rejoined His family and </span><span data-textwidth="249.64" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:13;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:221.02px;">the other Bábís in Baghdad. Under His </span><span data-textwidth="277.01" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:14;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:238.06px;">renewed leadership, the stature of the Bábí </span><span data-textwidth="262.84" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:15;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:255.11px;">community grew and His reputation as a </span><span data-textwidth="246.28" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:16;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:272.03px;">spiritual leader spread throughout the </span><span data-textwidth="278.81" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:17;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:289.07px;">region. Bahá’u’lláh wrote some of His most </span><span data-textwidth="280.13" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:18;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:306.12px;">renowned works in Baghdad, including the </span><span data-textwidth="268.72" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:19;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:323.04px;">"Hidden Words," "Seven Valleys," and the </span><span data-textwidth="249.28" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:20;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:340.09px;">"Book of Certitude" (Kitab-i-Iqan). His </span><span data-textwidth="267.76" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:25;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:357.13px;">writings alluded to His station, but it was </span><span data-textwidth="284.21" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:26;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:374.05px;">still not the time for a public announcement </span><span data-textwidth="100.22" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:27;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:391.10px;">of His mission. </span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s41" data-sgid="Rectangle 3" style="z-index:3;left:27.58px;top:484.48px;width:625.02px;height:27.46px" data-valign="top" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s41_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-1.44px;width:627.31px;height:34.67px;"><div><p para="{al:3,spbf:0.20}"><span data-textwidth="463.16" class="sg nowrap f4" style="z-index:2;font-size:89%; left:154.37px;top:8.27px;">View of the mountains where Bahá’u’lláh stayed in Sulaymaniyyih</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s43" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:1;left:35.51px;top:-0.48px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s43_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:0.00px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="547.77" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:50.66px;top:42.05px;">Bahá’u’lláh declares His mission</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s46" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:4;left:680.44px;top:86.35px;width:315.45px;height:347.29px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="3887F181315x347.png" id="s46_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:315.45px;height:347.29px" > <div id="s46_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:7.42px;top:8.26px;width:300.10px;height:331.01px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="260.80" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:4.97px;">Bahá’u’lláh had been in Baghdad for ten </span><span data-textwidth="255.16" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:22.02px;">years. Fearing that His growing acclaim </span><span data-textwidth="279.89" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:39.06px;">would re-ignite popular enthusiasm in Iran </span><span data-textwidth="281.81" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:7;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:55.98px;">for the new religion, the regime of the Shah </span><span data-textwidth="217.60" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:8;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:73.03px;">successfully pressed the Ottoman </span><span data-textwidth="240.64" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:9;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:90.07px;">authorities to send Him farther away. </span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="267.88" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:10;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:136.04px;">In April 1863, before leaving Baghdad for </span><span data-textwidth="275.45" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:11;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:153.08px;">Constantinople (Istanbul), Bahá’u’lláh and </span><span data-textwidth="278.69" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:12;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:170.01px;">His companions camped in a garden on the </span><span data-textwidth="267.04" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:13;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:187.05px;">banks of the Tigris River for twelve days. </span><span data-textwidth="269.56" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:14;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:204.10px;">Bahá’u’lláh told these few friends that He </span><span data-textwidth="273.17" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:15;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:221.02px;">was the Promised One foretold by the Báb </span><span data-textwidth="237.64" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:16;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:238.06px;">— foretold, indeed, in all the world's </span><span data-textwidth="279.77" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:18;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:255.11px;">scriptures. Today, the most joyous of Bahá’í </span><span data-textwidth="252.64" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:19;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:272.03px;">holy days is the Ridván Festival, which </span><span data-textwidth="270.29" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:20;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:289.07px;">celebrates the anniversary of those twelve </span><span data-textwidth="36.49" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:21;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:306.12px;">days. </span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s44" data-sgid="Picture 4" style="z-index:2;left:62.84px;top:103.12px;width:588.94px;height:383.77px"> <img class="sg" src="B09DA823.png" id="s44_i" title="" alt="baghdad-tigris" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:588.94px;height:383.77px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s45" data-sgid="Rectangle 4" style="z-index:3;left:21.95px;top:485.22px;width:625.02px;height:27.46px" data-valign="top" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s45_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-1.45px;width:627.42px;height:34.67px;"><div><p para="{al:3,spbf:0.20}"><span data-textwidth="330.66" class="sg nowrap f4" style="z-index:2;font-size:89%; left:287.10px;top:8.26px;">Historical view of Baghdad and the Tigris River</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s48" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:2;left:22.32px;top:-6.47px;width:685.70px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s48_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:-5.64px;top:0.00px;width:691.34px;height:125.08px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="647.99" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:24.85px;top:42.04px;">Second Exile - Constantinople <span class="f3" style="font-size:70%; position:relative;bottom:2px;">(Istanbul)</span></span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s51" data-sgid="TextBox 13" style="z-index:5;left:322.76px;top:139.23px;width:88.53px;height:49.42px" data-valign="middle"> <img class="sg" src="D6009E4E89x49.png" id="s51_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:88.53px;height:49.42px" > <div id="s51_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-2.63px;width:88.53px;height:57.93px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="49.33" class="sg nowrap f7" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:56%; left:20.86px;top:4.47px;">Bahá’u’lláh </span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="42.85" class="sg nowrap f7" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:56%; left:24.10px;top:16.47px;">arrived in </span><span data-textwidth="65.17" class="sg nowrap f7" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:56%; left:11.98px;top:28.48px;">Constantinople</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="62.89" class="sg nowrap f7" style="z-index:5;font-weight:bold; font-size:56%; left:13.06px;top:40.48px;">Aug. 16th, 1863</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s49" data-sgid="5-Point Star 11" style="z-index:3;left:294.69px;top:180.74px;width:40.41px;height:36.09px" data-fillcolor="16776960"> <img class="sg" src="6C42CE8540x36.png" id="s49_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:40.41px;height:36.09px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s52" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:6;left:680.44px;top:86.95px;width:315.45px;height:281.93px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="539A446315x282.png" id="s52_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:315.45px;height:281.93px" > <div id="s52_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:7.42px;top:7.66px;width:301.77px;height:268.03px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="251.08" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:4.97px;">On 3 May 1863, Bahá’u’lláh rode out of </span><span data-textwidth="253.36" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:22.02px;">Baghdad on His way to Constantinople </span><span data-textwidth="284.21" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:39.06px;">(known today as Istanbul), the capital of the </span><span data-textwidth="246.88" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:5;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:55.98px;">Ottoman Empire, accompanied by His </span><span data-textwidth="275.09" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:6;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:73.03px;">family and some of His devoted followers. </span><span data-textwidth="270.77" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:7;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:90.07px;">He had become much loved by the people </span><span data-textwidth="248.44" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:8;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:106.99px;">of Baghdad. Eyewitnesses said crowds </span><span data-textwidth="224.68" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:9;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:124.04px;">gathered along the road, and many </span><span data-textwidth="219.16" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:10;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:141.08px;">onlookers, including scholars and </span><span data-textwidth="272.09" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:11;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:158.01px;">government officials, were overcome with </span><span data-textwidth="232.12" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:12;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:175.05px;">emotion as they paid their respects. </span><span data-textwidth="253.72" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:13;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:192.09px;">Bahá’u’lláh had become well-known in </span><span data-textwidth="269.44" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:16;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:209.02px;">Baghdad and Kurdistan, and people came </span><span data-textwidth="235.36" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:17;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:226.06px;">out to meet Him all along the way to </span><span data-textwidth="102.26" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:18;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:243.10px;">Constantinople.</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s50" data-sgid="TextBox 12" style="z-index:4;left:443.32px;top:273.90px;width:75.56px;height:37.30px" data-valign="middle"> <img class="sg" src="9BDC7A8376x37.png" id="s50_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:75.56px;height:37.30px" > <div id="s50_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-2.86px;width:75.56px;height:46.04px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="49.33" class="sg nowrap f7" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:56%; left:14.44px;top:4.70px;">Bahá’u’lláh </span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="55.09" class="sg nowrap f7" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:56%; left:10.48px;top:16.70px;">left Baghdad</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="57.97" class="sg nowrap f7" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:56%; left:9.04px;top:28.71px;">May 3rd, 1863</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s47" data-sgid="Picture 4" style="z-index:1;left:66.69px;top:90.18px;width:587.95px;height:441.08px"> <img class="sg" src="A9170CCE.png" id="s47_i" title="" alt="map-ottoman-empire" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:587.95px;height:441.08px" > </div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s53" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:1;left:35.51px;top:-0.48px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s53_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:0.00px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="266.44" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:191.33px;top:42.05px;">Constantinople</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s57" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:5;left:680.44px;top:85.87px;width:315.45px;height:399.21px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="CE3CC05C315x399.png" id="s57_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:315.45px;height:399.21px" > <div id="s57_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:7.42px;top:8.74px;width:301.77px;height:381.96px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="259.60" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:4.97px;">Bahá’u’lláh and his family disembarked </span><span data-textwidth="250.00" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:22.02px;">from the steamer in Constantinople on </span><span data-textwidth="257.20" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:39.06px;">Sunday, 16 August 1863 but did not stay </span><span data-textwidth="68.41" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:5;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:55.98px;">there long.</span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="273.29" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:6;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:102.07px;">His enemies were able to stir up suspicion </span><span data-textwidth="273.77" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:7;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:119.00px;">against Him, leading to His banishment to </span><span data-textwidth="276.65" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:8;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:136.04px;">Adrianople (Edirne) just four months later. </span><span data-textwidth="258.52" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:9;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:153.08px;">It was in the depth of winter that Sultan </span><span data-textwidth="246.99" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:10;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:170.01px;">'Abdu'l-Azíz, the ruler of the Ottoman </span><span data-textwidth="275.69" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:13;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:187.05px;">Empire, ordered Bahá’u’lláh expelled from </span><span data-textwidth="266.44" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:14;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:204.10px;">Constantinople. In response, Bahá’u’lláh </span><span data-textwidth="253.96" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:15;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:221.02px;">wrote a letter to the Sultan in which He </span><span data-textwidth="268.00" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:16;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:238.06px;">"severely censured his ministers, exposed </span><span data-textwidth="274.01" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:17;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:255.11px;">their immaturity and incompetence … and </span><span data-textwidth="253.72" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:18;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:272.03px;">sternly admonished [them] not to pride </span><span data-textwidth="284.08" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:19;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:289.07px;">themselves on their worldly possessions… " </span><span data-textwidth="250.00" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:22;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:306.12px;">One of the officials who read the letter </span><span data-textwidth="283.85" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:23;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:323.04px;">remarked, "It is as if the King of Kings were </span><span data-textwidth="264.16" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:24;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:340.09px;">issuing his behest to the humblest vassal </span><span data-textwidth="215.44" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:25;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:357.13px;">king and regulating his conduct." </span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s55" data-sgid="Picture 4" style="z-index:3;left:68.73px;top:103.12px;width:588.91px;height:386.41px"> <img class="sg" src="5E29848E.png" id="s55_i" title="" alt="bahaullah-constantinople" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:588.91px;height:386.41px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s54" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 1" style="z-index:2;left:106.99px;top:155.43px;width:505.56px;height:327.01px" data-pointer-events="none"> <div style='width:100%;height:100%;background:rgba(0,0,0,0)'></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s56" data-sgid="Rectangle 3" style="z-index:4;left:33.22px;top:482.92px;width:625.02px;height:46.89px" data-valign="top" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s56_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-1.30px;width:627.31px;height:48.20px;"><div><p para="{al:3,spbf:0.20}"><span data-textwidth="314.21" class="sg nowrap f4" style="z-index:2;font-size:89%; left:303.32px;top:8.13px;">View of Constantinople (now called Istanbul)</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s59" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:2;left:47.49px;top:-6.47px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s59_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:0.00px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="526.77" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:61.13px;top:42.04px;">Third Exile - Adrianople <span class="f3" style="font-size:70%; position:relative;bottom:2px;">(Edirne)</span></span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s60" data-sgid="5-Point Star 8" style="z-index:3;left:222.48px;top:186.72px;width:40.44px;height:36.09px" data-fillcolor="16776960"> <img class="sg" src="C56F870D40x36.png" id="s60_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:40.44px;height:36.09px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s61" data-sgid="TextBox 11" style="z-index:4;left:149.44px;top:196.91px;width:77.26px;height:49.30px" data-valign="middle"> <img class="sg" src="955611F277x49.png" id="s61_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:77.26px;height:49.30px" > <div id="s61_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-2.75px;width:77.26px;height:57.93px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="49.33" class="sg nowrap f7" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:56%; left:15.11px;top:4.52px;">Bahá’u’lláh </span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="42.85" class="sg nowrap f7" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:56%; left:18.35px;top:16.53px;">arrived in </span><span data-textwidth="47.29" class="sg nowrap f7" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:56%; left:15.11px;top:28.53px;">Adrianople</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="58.08" class="sg nowrap f7" style="z-index:5;font-weight:bold; font-size:56%; left:9.71px;top:40.53px;">Dec. 13<span class="f7" style="font-size:70%; position:relative;bottom:3px;">th</span>, 1863</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s62" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:5;left:607.63px;top:75.32px;width:397.84px;height:457.39px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="AC228CDA398x457.png" id="s62_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:397.84px;height:457.39px" > <div id="s62_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:8.27px;top:9.33px;width:381.66px;height:438.58px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="329.93" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:5.09px;">Shortly after the arrival of the exiles in Adrianople, </span><span data-textwidth="341.34" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:22.13px;">many residents of the city became deeply attracted to </span><span data-textwidth="342.78" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:39.18px;">Bahá’u’lláh. The governor, high-ranking officials and </span><span data-textwidth="359.58" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:7;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:56.10px;">leaders of thought sought out His company and showed </span><span data-textwidth="337.02" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:8;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:73.14px;">great reverence. Bahá’u’lláh’s teachings continued to </span><span data-textwidth="337.14" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:10;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:90.19px;">spread and the intensity of His revelation required a </span><span data-textwidth="350.70" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:11;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:107.11px;">number of secretaries to work day and night recording </span><span data-textwidth="69.25" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:12;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:124.16px;">His words.</span></p><p></p><p><span data-textwidth="342.30" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:13;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:170.49px;">It was during the time in Adrianople that Bahá’u’lláh </span><span data-textwidth="331.98" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:14;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:187.29px;">wrote one of His best known works — the Tablet of </span><span data-textwidth="339.06" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:17;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:204.09px;">Ahmad. The tablet was addressed to one of His most </span><span data-textwidth="340.86" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:18;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:220.90px;">ardent followers, who had suffered numerous acts of </span><span data-textwidth="347.94" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:19;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:237.70px;">persecution for accepting the teachings of the Báb and </span><span data-textwidth="76.57" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:22;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:254.50px;">Bahá’u’lláh.</span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="320.93" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:23;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:293.99px;">One of the tragic episodes of Bahá’u’lláh's time in </span><span data-textwidth="337.98" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:24;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:311.04px;">Adrianople concerned the actions of his half-brother </span><span data-textwidth="353.22" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:27;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:327.96px;">Mírzá Yahyá. Because of this reverence for Bahá’u’lláh, </span><span data-textwidth="341.34" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:28;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:345.01px;">and Mírzá Yahyá was so jealous that he had someone </span><span data-textwidth="338.34" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:29;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:362.05px;">poison Him. Bahá’u’lláh became extremely ill, and it </span><span data-textwidth="344.82" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:30;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:378.97px;">took Him months to recuperate. The episode left Him </span><span data-textwidth="364.02" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:31;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:396.02px;">with a tremor that showed in His handwriting to the end </span><span data-textwidth="68.17" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:32;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.40px;top:413.06px;">of His life.</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s58" data-sgid="Picture 4" style="z-index:1;left:18.72px;top:90.18px;width:587.95px;height:441.08px"> <img class="sg" src="DFC6ED01.png" id="s58_i" title="" alt="map-ottoman-empire" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:587.95px;height:441.08px" > </div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s63" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:1;left:17.50px;top:-10.78px;width:684.52px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s63_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:-3.60px;top:0.00px;width:691.60px;height:125.08px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="643.07" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:24.51px;top:42.03px;">Bahá’u’lláh writes to Kings and Rulers</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s68" data-sgid="Picture 6" style="z-index:6;left:224.18px;top:66.33px;width:156.75px;height:189.11px"> <img class="sg" src="537C743D.png" id="s68_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:156.75px;height:189.11px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s70" data-sgid="Picture 7" style="z-index:8;left:344.96px;top:66.33px;width:155.67px;height:189.22px"> <img class="sg" src="C82BA440.png" id="s70_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:155.67px;height:189.22px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s76" data-sgid="Picture 11" style="z-index:14;left:464.41px;top:80.00px;width:155.67px;height:189.22px"> <img class="sg" src="F9D652BB.png" id="s76_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:155.67px;height:189.22px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s78" data-sgid="Picture 13" style="z-index:16;left:103.88px;top:84.91px;width:152.93px;height:179.29px"> <img class="sg" src="FFB0EF7B.png" id="s78_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:152.93px;height:179.29px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s65" data-sgid="Picture 5" style="z-index:3;left:-7.31px;top:91.49px;width:145.25px;height:179.18px"> <img class="sg" src="57BAD408.png" id="s65_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:145.25px;height:179.18px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s64" data-sgid="Picture 4" style="z-index:2;left:581.35px;top:93.30px;width:156.55px;height:189.22px"> <img class="sg" src="3B2228AD.png" id="s64_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:156.55px;height:189.22px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s85" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:41;left:721.70px;top:87.77px;width:273.82px;height:194.89px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="F78F635F274x195.png" id="s85_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:273.82px;height:194.89px" > <div id="s85_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:7.08px;top:6.84px;width:259.18px;height:183.12px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="239.56" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:4.97px;">It was in Adrianople that Bahá’u’lláh </span><span data-textwidth="227.44" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:22.02px;">wrote to the kings and rulers of the </span><span data-textwidth="222.28" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:39.06px;">world. In these letters, Bahá’u’lláh </span><span data-textwidth="223.60" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:5;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:55.98px;">openly proclaimed His station as a </span><span data-textwidth="240.16" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:6;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:73.03px;">Messenger of God. He urged leaders </span><span data-textwidth="227.56" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:7;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:90.07px;">to pursue justice and disarmament, </span><span data-textwidth="233.92" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:8;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:106.99px;">band together into a commonwealth </span><span data-textwidth="206.55" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:9;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:124.04px;">of nations warning them of dire </span><span data-textwidth="211.36" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:10;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:141.08px;">consequences should they fail to </span><span data-textwidth="103.70" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:11;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:158.01px;">establish peace. </span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s71" data-sgid="TextBox 51" style="z-index:9;left:378.41px;top:219.09px;width:86.97px;height:29.28px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="A80F58C387x29.png" id="s71_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:86.97px;height:29.28px" > <div id="s71_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-0.48px;width:86.97px;height:30.58px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="68.17" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:2;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:50%; left:9.73px;top:4.32px;">Austria’s Emperor</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="55.81" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:3;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:50%; left:15.86px;top:15.12px;">Francis Joseph</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s69" data-sgid="TextBox 49" style="z-index:7;left:260.77px;top:219.09px;width:85.27px;height:29.28px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="6372D55A85x29.png" id="s69_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:85.27px;height:29.28px" > <div id="s69_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-0.48px;width:85.27px;height:30.58px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="65.41" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:2;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:50%; left:10.24px;top:4.32px;">Germany’s Kaiser</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="35.41" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:3;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:50%; left:25.24px;top:15.12px;">Wilhelm I</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s79" data-sgid="TextBox 59" style="z-index:17;left:137.21px;top:230.87px;width:86.23px;height:29.73px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="E45E826086x30.png" id="s79_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:86.23px;height:29.73px" > <div id="s79_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-0.37px;width:86.23px;height:30.70px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="66.73" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:2;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:50%; left:9.93px;top:4.31px;">France’s Emperor</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="46.57" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:3;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:50%; left:20.02px;top:15.11px;">Napoleon III</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s77" data-sgid="TextBox 57" style="z-index:15;left:497.75px;top:230.87px;width:92.72px;height:29.73px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="7ACDB78D93x30.png" id="s77_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:92.72px;height:29.73px" > <div id="s77_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-0.37px;width:92.72px;height:30.70px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="71.29" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:2;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:50%; left:11.13px;top:4.31px;">Catholicism’s Pope</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="25.20" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:3;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:50%; left:34.18px;top:15.11px;">Pius IX</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s66" data-sgid="TextBox 46" style="z-index:4;left:30.10px;top:239.23px;width:67.77px;height:29.28px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="3FD3CB7D68x29.png" id="s66_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:67.77px;height:29.28px" > <div id="s66_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-0.45px;width:67.77px;height:30.55px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="48.97" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:2;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:50%; left:9.51px;top:4.19px;">Russia’s Czar</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="45.85" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:3;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:50%; left:11.07px;top:15.00px;">Alexander II</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s67" data-sgid="TextBox 47" style="z-index:5;left:623.83px;top:242.84px;width:72.33px;height:29.28px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="83961AB72x29.png" id="s67_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:72.33px;height:29.28px" > <div id="s67_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-0.49px;width:72.33px;height:30.58px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="54.13" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:2;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:50%; left:9.52px;top:4.34px;">Great Britain’s</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="56.17" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:3;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:50%; left:8.56px;top:15.15px;">Queen Victoria</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s80" data-sgid="Group 60" style="z-index:18;left:178.49px;top:258.00px;width:355.34px;height:133.06px" data-shape="group"> <div class="sg" id="s86" data-sgid="Group 63" style="z-index:3;left:253.44px;top:8.67px;width:101.90px;height:124.38px" data-shape="group"> <div class="sg" id="s87" data-sgid="TextBox 65" style="z-index:2;left:11.38px;top:96.93px;width:83.60px;height:27.57px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="FA763D2684x28.png" id="s87_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:83.60px;height:27.57px" > <div id="s87_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-3.00px;width:83.60px;height:34.07px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="31.21" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:2;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:56%; left:26.56px;top:4.80px;">Canada</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="69.73" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:3;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:56%; left:7.36px;top:16.80px;">John Macdonald</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s88" data-sgid="Picture 3" style="z-index:1;left:-20.17px;top:-16.88px;width:142.96px;height:164.31px"> <img class="sg" src="E66A651E.png" id="s88_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:142.96px;height:164.31px" > </div> </div> <div class="sg" id="s89" data-sgid="Group 62" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:8.67px;width:97.94px;height:124.38px" data-shape="group"> <div class="sg" id="s90" data-sgid="TextBox 67" style="z-index:2;left:15.70px;top:96.93px;width:70.03px;height:27.57px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="C076CE8170x28.png" id="s90_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:70.03px;height:27.57px" > <div id="s90_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:-0.12px;top:-3.00px;width:70.29px;height:34.07px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="30.85" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:2;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:56%; left:19.93px;top:4.80px;">Mexico</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="57.37" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:3;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:56%; left:6.72px;top:16.80px;">Benito Juarez</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s91" data-sgid="Picture 2" style="z-index:1;left:-19.93px;top:-16.88px;width:138.77px;height:164.31px"> <img class="sg" src="D88F4C2C.png" id="s91_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:138.77px;height:164.31px" > </div> </div> <div class="sg" id="s92" data-sgid="Group 61" style="z-index:1;left:124.99px;top:0.00px;width:103.07px;height:125.74px" data-shape="group"> <div class="sg" id="s93" data-sgid="TextBox 69" style="z-index:2;left:7.89px;top:98.40px;width:90.79px;height:27.49px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="DDEC8B8091x27.png" id="s93_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:90.79px;height:27.49px" > <div id="s93_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-3.10px;width:90.79px;height:33.93px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="57.25" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:2;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:56%; left:17.11px;top:4.78px;">United States</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="70.93" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:3;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:56%; left:10.27px;top:16.78px;">Andrew Johnson</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s94" data-sgid="Picture 3" style="z-index:1;left:-19.95px;top:-16.84px;width:143.95px;height:166.70px"> <img class="sg" src="14222616.png" id="s94_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:143.95px;height:166.70px" > </div> </div> </div> <div class="sg" id="s73" data-sgid="Picture 9" style="z-index:11;left:-7.79px;top:263.72px;width:150.89px;height:190.07px"> <img class="sg" src="B7B2A32.png" id="s73_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:150.89px;height:190.07px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s72" data-sgid="Picture 10" style="z-index:10;left:578.12px;top:265.87px;width:151.74px;height:190.18px"> <img class="sg" src="8CAFA5E2.png" id="s72_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:151.74px;height:190.18px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s74" data-sgid="TextBox 54" style="z-index:12;left:15.24px;top:415.06px;width:105.07px;height:29.25px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="9AA1AB02105x29.png" id="s74_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:105.07px;height:29.25px" > <div id="s74_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-0.62px;width:105.07px;height:30.84px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="85.21" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:2;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:50%; left:10.08px;top:4.61px;">The Ottoman Empire’s</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="70.68" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:3;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:50%; left:17.29px;top:15.42px;">Sultan Abdu‘l-'Aziz</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s75" data-sgid="TextBox 55" style="z-index:13;left:611.22px;top:419.12px;width:83.85px;height:29.28px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="2E51F56F84x29.png" id="s75_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:83.85px;height:29.28px" > <div id="s75_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-0.48px;width:83.85px;height:30.58px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="21.12" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:2;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:50%; left:31.73px;top:4.37px;">Iran’s</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="64.34" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:3;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:50%; left:10.12px;top:15.18px;">Nasiri‘d-Din Shah</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s82" data-sgid="Group 74" style="z-index:32;left:129.17px;top:403.04px;width:100.63px;height:123.50px" data-shape="group"> <div class="sg" id="s98" data-sgid="TextBox 76" style="z-index:2;left:2.29px;top:95.97px;width:97.87px;height:27.57px" data-valign="top"> <div id="s98_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-3.01px;width:97.87px;height:34.07px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="20.52" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:2;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:56%; left:38.85px;top:4.91px;">Chile</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="80.17" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:3;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:56%; left:8.96px;top:16.91px;">José Joaquín Pérez</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s99" data-sgid="Picture 6" style="z-index:1;left:-20.03px;top:-16.88px;width:141.66px;height:164.40px"> <img class="sg" src="DB3775FA.png" id="s99_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:141.66px;height:164.40px" > </div> </div> <div class="sg" id="s84" data-sgid="Group 80" style="z-index:38;left:478.09px;top:403.04px;width:92.63px;height:123.74px" data-shape="group"> <div class="sg" id="s102" data-sgid="TextBox 82" style="z-index:2;left:22.91px;top:96.31px;width:50.86px;height:27.46px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="462038AA51x27.png" id="s102_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:50.86px;height:27.46px" > <div id="s102_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-3.12px;width:50.86px;height:33.96px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="23.28" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:2;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:56%; left:14.25px;top:4.92px;">Brazil</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="32.89" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:3;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:56%; left:9.45px;top:16.92px;">Pedro II</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s103" data-sgid="Picture 5" style="z-index:1;left:-20.02px;top:-16.88px;width:133.47px;height:164.40px"> <img class="sg" src="47FFB6DB.png" id="s103_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:133.47px;height:164.40px" > </div> </div> <div class="sg" id="s83" data-sgid="Group 77" style="z-index:35;left:362.20px;top:402.00px;width:93.80px;height:126.00px" data-shape="group"> <div class="sg" id="s100" data-sgid="TextBox 79" style="z-index:2;left:1.45px;top:98.57px;width:92.49px;height:27.46px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="CA72521B92x27.png" id="s100_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:92.49px;height:27.46px" > <div id="s100_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-3.12px;width:92.49px;height:33.93px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="27.72" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:2;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:56%; left:32.66px;top:4.90px;">Bolivia</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="79.46" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:3;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:56%; left:6.73px;top:16.90px;">Mariano Melgarejo</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s101" data-sgid="Picture 7" style="z-index:1;left:-20.01px;top:-16.92px;width:134.72px;height:165.48px"> <img class="sg" src="9489333.png" id="s101_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:134.72px;height:165.48px" > </div> </div> <div class="sg" id="s81" data-sgid="Group 70" style="z-index:28;left:246.49px;top:402.00px;width:95.24px;height:127.97px" data-shape="group"> <div class="sg" id="s95" data-sgid="TextBox 73" style="z-index:3;left:4.90px;top:95.19px;width:80.85px;height:27.46px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="DD49A42D81x27.png" id="s95_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:80.85px;height:27.46px" > <div id="s95_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:-0.96px;top:-2.98px;width:82.64px;height:33.82px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="41.65" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:2;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:56%; left:20.70px;top:4.78px;">Argentina</span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="69.73" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:3;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:56%; left:6.65px;top:16.78px;">Bartolomé Mitre</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s96" data-sgid="Picture 4" style="z-index:2;left:-18.01px;top:-16.92px;width:134.24px;height:145.59px"> <img class="sg" src="4731EE31.png" id="s96_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:134.24px;height:145.59px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s97" data-sgid="Rounded Rectangle 71" style="z-index:1;left:-0.62px;top:-0.75px;width:95.83px;height:128.82px" data-fillcolor="16777215"> <img class="sg" src="3DA24C7396x129.png" id="s97_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:95.83px;height:128.82px" > </div> </div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s105" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:2;left:35.51px;top:-6.47px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s105_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:0.00px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="580.05" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:34.46px;top:42.04px;">Fourth Exile – Prison city of ‘Akká</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s108" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:5;left:680.44px;top:86.21px;width:315.45px;height:359.66px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="97D2FDE1315x360.png" id="s108_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:315.45px;height:359.66px" > <div id="s108_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:7.42px;top:8.40px;width:302.26px;height:342.98px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="228.88" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:4.97px;">In 1868 the Sultan further banished </span><span data-textwidth="244.84" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:22.02px;">Bahá’u’lláh to the prison city of ‘Akká </span><span data-textwidth="237.40" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:39.06px;">where the worst criminals were sent. </span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="274.36" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:5;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:85.03px;">In the mid-1800s ‘Akká (today Acre, Israel) </span><span data-textwidth="284.69" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:8;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:102.07px;">was the end of the world, a final destination </span><span data-textwidth="277.85" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:9;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:119.00px;">for the most notorious murderers, highway </span><span data-textwidth="236.44" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:10;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:136.04px;">robbers, and political enemies of the </span><span data-textwidth="255.40" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:11;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:153.08px;">Ottoman regime. A walled city of filthy </span><span data-textwidth="264.28" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:12;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:170.01px;">streets and damp, desolate houses, ‘Akká </span><span data-textwidth="258.76" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:13;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:187.05px;">had no source of fresh water, and the air </span><span data-textwidth="264.28" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:14;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:204.10px;">was popularly described as being so foul </span><span data-textwidth="274.13" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:15;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:221.02px;">that birds flying overhead would fall dead </span><span data-textwidth="93.02" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:16;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:238.06px;">out of the sky. </span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="264.76" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:17;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:284.03px;">The authorities expected that Bahá’u’lláh </span><span data-textwidth="275.33" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:18;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:301.08px;">and His companions would perish quickly </span><span data-textwidth="114.38" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:19;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:318.12px;">in this prison city.</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s106" data-sgid="5-Point Star 8" style="z-index:3;left:325.65px;top:252.68px;width:40.30px;height:36.09px" data-fillcolor="16776960"> <img class="sg" src="9934C81340x36.png" id="s106_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:40.30px;height:36.09px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s104" data-sgid="Picture 4" style="z-index:1;left:66.69px;top:90.18px;width:587.95px;height:441.08px"> <img class="sg" src="A9170CCE.png" id="s104_i" title="" alt="map-ottoman-empire" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:587.95px;height:441.08px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s107" data-sgid="TextBox 11" style="z-index:4;left:352.52px;top:297.76px;width:77.11px;height:37.30px" data-valign="middle"> <img class="sg" src="DCD10BAE77x37.png" id="s107_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:77.11px;height:37.30px" > <div id="s107_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:-4.07px;top:-2.87px;width:85.27px;height:46.04px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="49.33" class="sg nowrap f7" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:56%; left:19.17px;top:4.74px;">Bahá’u’lláh </span></p><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="66.49" class="sg nowrap f7" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:56%; left:9.57px;top:16.74px;">arrived in ‘Akká</span><span data-textwidth="72.25" class="sg nowrap f7" style="z-index:5;font-weight:bold; font-size:56%; left:6.69px;top:28.74px;">August. 31<span class="f7" style="font-size:70%; position:relative;bottom:3px;">st</span>, 1868</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s109" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:1;left:29.51px;top:-0.48px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s109_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:0.00px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="340.38" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:153.28px;top:35.81px;">An imposing prison</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s112" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:4;left:680.44px;top:85.87px;width:315.45px;height:400.17px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="B519C61E315x400.png" id="s112_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:315.45px;height:400.17px" > <div id="s112_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:7.42px;top:8.74px;width:302.51px;height:382.92px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="284.69" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:4.97px;">A group of family and followers numbering </span><span data-textwidth="236.20" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:22.02px;">some 70 souls were imprisoned with </span><span data-textwidth="76.57" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:39.06px;">Bahá’u’lláh.</span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="283.61" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:5;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:85.03px;">“So filthy and brackish was the water in the </span><span data-textwidth="251.32" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:6;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:102.07px;">pool of the courtyard that no one could </span><span data-textwidth="270.77" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:7;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:119.00px;">drink it… All fell sick, except two, shortly </span><span data-textwidth="241.24" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:8;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:136.04px;">after their arrival. Malaria, dysentery, </span><span data-textwidth="267.52" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:9;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:153.08px;">combined with sultry heat, added to their </span><span data-textwidth="67.81" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:10;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:170.01px;">miseries.” </span></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="247.36" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:11;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:193.05px;">Soon after their arrival the sentence of </span><span data-textwidth="276.52" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:12;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:210.10px;">Sultan 'Abdu'l-Azíz was read — a sentence </span><span data-textwidth="284.93" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:17;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:227.02px;">that "not only condemned them to perpetual </span><span data-textwidth="245.08" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:18;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:244.06px;">banishment, but stipulated their strict </span><span data-textwidth="283.13" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:19;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:261.11px;">incarceration, and forbade them to associate </span><span data-textwidth="249.76" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:20;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:278.03px;">either with each other or with the local </span><span data-textwidth="81.97" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:21;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:295.08px;">inhabitants."</span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="284.81" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:22;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:341.05px;">Bahá’u’lláh was to spend the rest of His life, </span><span data-textwidth="221.80" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:23;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:358.09px;">24 years, in ‘Akká and its environs.</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s110" data-sgid="Picture 4" style="z-index:2;left:61.88px;top:103.26px;width:588.94px;height:379.18px"> <img class="sg" src="4F06F9C9.png" id="s110_i" title="" alt="bahaullah-entered-akka" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:588.94px;height:379.18px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s111" data-sgid="Rectangle 3" style="z-index:3;left:21.95px;top:477.30px;width:625.02px;height:27.46px" data-valign="top" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s111_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-1.33px;width:627.42px;height:34.52px;"><div><p para="{al:3,spbf:0.20}"><span data-textwidth="532.17" class="sg nowrap f4" style="z-index:2;font-size:89%; left:85.47px;top:8.14px;">The sea gate where Bahá’u’lláh and His companions entered ‘Akká in 1868</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s113" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:1;left:35.51px;top:-0.48px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s113_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:0.00px;width:725.41px;height:125.08px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="563.73" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:137.56px;top:42.05px;">The cell of Bahá’u’lláh                   </span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s117" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:5;left:680.44px;top:86.21px;width:315.45px;height:364.57px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="8CF4C33B315x365.png" id="s117_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:315.45px;height:364.57px" > <div id="s117_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:7.42px;top:8.40px;width:301.55px;height:348.03px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="256.00" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:4.97px;">Bahá’u’lláh states, <span class="f5" style="font-style:italic; ">“None knoweth what </span></span><span data-textwidth="274.12" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:4;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:22.02px;">befell Us, except God, the Almighty, the All-</span><span data-textwidth="254.44" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:6;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:39.06px;">Knowing…. From the foundations of the </span><span data-textwidth="283.97" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:7;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:55.98px;">world until the present day, a cruelty such as </span><span data-textwidth="257.68" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:8;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:73.03px;">this hath neither been seen nor heard of.” </span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="268.84" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:9;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:119.00px;">The first months in the prison were harsh </span><span data-textwidth="213.52" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:10;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:136.04px;">and restrictive, the prison guards </span><span data-textwidth="274.97" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:11;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:153.08px;">interpreting the Sultan's decree rigorously. </span><span data-textwidth="259.36" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:12;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:170.01px;">Bahá’u’lláh was kept under surveillance </span><span data-textwidth="264.64" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:13;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:187.05px;">and was virtually isolated. But gradually, </span><span data-textwidth="273.77" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:14;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:204.10px;">although not a single word of the sentence </span><span data-textwidth="258.52" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:15;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:221.02px;">was changed, the officials began to treat </span><span data-textwidth="282.53" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:16;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:238.06px;">their Bahá'í prisoners differently. His eldest </span><span data-textwidth="281.92" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:17;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:255.11px;">son, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's, care of the sick and His </span><span data-textwidth="258.16" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:20;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:272.03px;">concern for the welfare of the prisoners, </span><span data-textwidth="269.56" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:21;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:289.07px;">together with Bahá’u’lláh's demeanor and </span><span data-textwidth="268.24" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:22;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:306.12px;">nobility, so impressed the authorities that </span><span data-textwidth="234.28" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:23;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:323.04px;">they relaxed some of the restrictions.</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s115" data-sgid="Picture 4" style="z-index:3;left:69.33px;top:108.77px;width:589.05px;height:383.74px"> <img class="sg" src="2BA11D85.png" id="s115_i" title="" alt="cell-bahaullah-interior" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:589.05px;height:383.74px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s114" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 1" style="z-index:2;left:106.99px;top:155.43px;width:505.56px;height:327.01px" data-pointer-events="none"> <div style='width:100%;height:100%;background:rgba(0,0,0,0)'></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s116" data-sgid="Rectangle 3" style="z-index:4;left:27.58px;top:488.20px;width:625.02px;height:27.46px" data-valign="top" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s116_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-1.42px;width:627.31px;height:34.64px;"><div><p para="{al:3,spbf:0.20}"><span data-textwidth="326.45" class="sg nowrap f4" style="z-index:2;font-size:89%; left:291.19px;top:8.25px;">The interior of the cell occupied by Bahá’u’lláh</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s118" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:1;left:41.49px;top:-12.48px;width:762.48px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s118_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:-14.13px;top:0.00px;width:776.61px;height:125.08px;"><div><p><span data-textwidth="706.31" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:24.61px;top:42.05px;">Bahá’u’lláh’s followers begin to visit ‘Akká</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s121" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:4;left:680.44px;top:85.76px;width:315.45px;height:416.60px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="C411618D315x417.png" id="s121_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:315.45px;height:416.60px" > <div id="s121_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:7.42px;top:8.85px;width:302.74px;height:398.98px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="249.64" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:4.97px;">As news of His arrival in ‘Akká spread </span><span data-textwidth="203.31" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:22.02px;">throughout the region, many of </span><span data-textwidth="267.76" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:39.06px;">Bahá’u’lláh’s followers in other places set </span><span data-textwidth="226.72" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:5;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:55.98px;">out, often on foot over hundreds of </span><span data-textwidth="279.89" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:6;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:73.03px;">kilometers, to visit Him. They usually were </span><span data-textwidth="280.85" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:7;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:90.07px;">denied entrance to the walled city and were </span><span data-textwidth="234.04" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:8;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:106.99px;">forced to settle for a glimpse of Him </span><span data-textwidth="187.47" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:9;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:124.04px;">standing at a distant window.</span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="259.72" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:10;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:170.01px;">In 1873, Bahá’u’lláh completed His most </span><span data-textwidth="239.32" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:11;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:187.05px;">important work, the Most Holy Book </span><span data-textwidth="250.00" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:12;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:204.10px;">(Kitáb-i-Aqdas). The book outlines the </span><span data-textwidth="284.45" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:17;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:221.02px;">essential laws and principles to be observed </span><span data-textwidth="271.85" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:18;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:238.06px;">by His followers, lays the groundwork for </span><span data-textwidth="246.52" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:19;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:255.11px;">Bahá'í institutions, and articulates His </span><span data-textwidth="241.36" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:20;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:272.03px;">vision for the development of human </span><span data-textwidth="283.12" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:21;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:289.07px;">civilization. Bahá’u’lláh stated: <span class="f5" style="font-style:italic; ">"They whom </span></span><span data-textwidth="265.96" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:23;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:306.12px;">God hath endued with insight will readily </span><span data-textwidth="285.17" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:24;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:323.04px;">recognize that the precepts laid down by God </span><span data-textwidth="225.76" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:25;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:340.09px;">constitute the highest means for the </span><span data-textwidth="264.28" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:26;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:357.13px;">maintenance of order in the world and the </span><span data-textwidth="146.54" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:27;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:374.05px;">security of its peoples."</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s119" data-sgid="Picture 4" style="z-index:2;left:188.67px;top:103.12px;width:325.87px;height:389.39px"> <img class="sg" src="401ECA.png" id="s119_i" title="" alt="view-from-prison" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:325.87px;height:389.39px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s120" data-sgid="Rectangle 3" style="z-index:3;left:151.26px;top:487.23px;width:360.76px;height:27.46px" data-valign="top" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s120_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-1.41px;width:363.17px;height:34.64px;"><div><p para="{al:3,spbf:0.20}"><span data-textwidth="175.35" class="sg nowrap f4" style="z-index:2;font-size:89%; left:178.07px;top:8.25px;">The view from the prison</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s122" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:1;left:35.51px;top:-4.79px;width:792.44px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s122_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:-14.16px;top:0.00px;width:811.90px;height:125.08px;"><div><p><span data-textwidth="763.33" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:24.62px;top:42.04px;">Recognition of Bahá’u’lláh continues to grow</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s125" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:4;left:680.44px;top:86.21px;width:315.45px;height:359.18px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="94AA76F2315x359.png" id="s125_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:315.45px;height:359.18px" > <div id="s125_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:7.42px;top:8.40px;width:300.10px;height:342.98px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="226.24" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:4.97px;">Many of the ‘Akká citizens became </span><span data-textwidth="275.20" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:22.02px;">Bahá’u’lláh’s admirers. On one occasion, a </span><span data-textwidth="263.32" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:5;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:39.06px;">European general who, together with the </span><span data-textwidth="279.89" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:6;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:55.98px;">governor, was granted an audience by Him, </span><span data-textwidth="230.08" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:7;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:73.03px;">was so impressed that he 'remained </span><span data-textwidth="253.60" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:8;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:90.07px;">kneeling on the ground near the door.’ "</span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="263.44" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:9;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:136.04px;">In such esteem was Bahá’u’lláh held that </span><span data-textwidth="274.73" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:10;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:153.08px;">local officials said He was free to leave the </span><span data-textwidth="70.21" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:11;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:170.01px;">prison city.</span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="280.61" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:12;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:216.10px;">In September 1879, a deserted mansion was </span><span data-textwidth="219.88" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:13;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:233.02px;">rented near ‘Akká. This would be </span><span data-textwidth="271.61" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:14;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:250.07px;">Bahá’u’lláh’s last home. It provided space </span><span data-textwidth="268.24" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:15;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:267.11px;">required to meet visitors and friends who </span><span data-textwidth="228.28" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:16;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:284.03px;">came to see Him as the Bahá’í Faith </span><span data-textwidth="264.76" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:17;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:301.08px;">continued to grow beyond Persia and the </span><span data-textwidth="110.42" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:18;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:318.12px;">Ottoman Empire.</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s123" data-sgid="Picture 4" style="z-index:2;left:67.29px;top:103.12px;width:608.34px;height:383.77px"> <img class="sg" src="8BA141BF.png" id="s123_i" title="" alt="mansion-bahji-south" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:608.34px;height:383.77px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s124" data-sgid="Rectangle 3" style="z-index:3;left:27.58px;top:485.22px;width:646.00px;height:27.46px" data-valign="top" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s124_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-1.45px;width:648.29px;height:34.67px;"><div><p para="{al:3,spbf:0.20}"><span data-textwidth="321.53" class="sg nowrap f4" style="z-index:2;font-size:89%; left:317.00px;top:8.26px;">A view of the Mansion of Bahjí from the south</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s126" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:1;left:35.51px;top:-6.47px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s126_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:-3.59px;top:0.00px;width:665.80px;height:125.08px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="617.26" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:24.37px;top:42.04px;">Professor Browne meets Bahá’u’lláh </span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s129" data-sgid="Picture 2" style="z-index:4;left:6.23px;top:99.55px;width:189.03px;height:375.72px"> <img class="sg" src="4E5ECAA1.png" id="s129_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:189.03px;height:375.72px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s127" data-sgid="Picture 4" style="z-index:2;left:200.79px;top:131.06px;width:477.61px;height:312.77px"> <img class="sg" src="B00185D4.png" id="s127_i" title="" alt="bahaullah-room-bahji" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:477.61px;height:312.77px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s131" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:6;left:673.95px;top:67.15px;width:333.92px;height:469.62px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="B24F6331334x470.png" id="s131_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:333.92px;height:469.62px" > <div id="s131_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:7.68px;top:9.47px;width:322.05px;height:450.67px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="271.85" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:4.96px;">In April 1890, Professor Edward Granville </span><span data-textwidth="243.52" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:22.00px;">Browne of Cambridge University met </span><span data-textwidth="267.76" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:39.05px;">Bahá’u’lláh in four successive interviews. </span><span data-textwidth="285.29" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:5;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:55.97px;">Professor Browne wrote of his first meeting: </span><span data-textwidth="301.25" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:6;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:73.01px;">"The face of Him on Whom I gazed I can never </span><span data-textwidth="265.12" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:7;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:90.06px;">forget, though I cannot describe it. Those </span><span data-textwidth="288.65" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:8;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:106.98px;">piercing eyes seemed to read one's very soul; </span><span data-textwidth="299.45" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:9;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:124.02px;">power and authority sat on that ample brow.… </span><span data-textwidth="295.97" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:10;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:141.07px;">No need to ask in whose presence I stood, as I </span><span data-textwidth="304.25" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:11;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:157.99px;">bowed myself before one who is the object of a </span><span data-textwidth="303.77" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:12;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:175.04px;">devotion and love which kings might envy and </span><span data-textwidth="174.87" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:13;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:192.08px;">emperors sigh for in vain.” </span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="298.00" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:14;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:238.05px;">Bahá’u’lláh stated at that meeting: <span class="f5" style="font-style:italic; ">"… That all </span></span><span data-textwidth="296.69" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:16;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:255.09px;">nations should become one in faith and all men </span><span data-textwidth="271.25" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:17;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:272.02px;">as brothers; that the bonds of affection and </span><span data-textwidth="253.72" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:18;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:289.06px;">unity between the sons of men should be </span><span data-textwidth="288.89" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:19;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:306.10px;">strengthened; that diversity of religion should </span><span data-textwidth="270.16" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:20;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:323.03px;">cease, and differences of race be annulled —</span><span data-textwidth="297.89" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:22;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:340.07px;">what harm is there in this? … Yet so it shall be; </span><span data-textwidth="291.89" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:23;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:357.12px;">these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall </span><span data-textwidth="279.65" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:24;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.21px;top:374.04px;">pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall </span><span data-textwidth="273.65" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:25;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:391.08px;">come.… Let not a man glory in this, that he </span><span data-textwidth="285.77" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:26;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:408.13px;">loves his country; let him rather glory in this, </span><span data-textwidth="144.38" class="sg nowrap f5" style="z-index:27;font-style:italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.45px;top:425.05px;">that he loves his kind."</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s128" data-sgid="Rectangle 3" style="z-index:3;left:50.49px;top:437.25px;width:624.90px;height:27.46px" data-valign="top" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s128_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-1.45px;width:627.31px;height:34.67px;"><div><p para="{al:3,spbf:0.20}"><span data-textwidth="311.33" class="sg nowrap f4" style="z-index:2;font-size:89%; left:306.33px;top:8.22px;">Room of Bahá’u’lláh at the Mansion of Bahjí</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s130" data-sgid="TextBox 11" style="z-index:5;left:-6.49px;top:473.22px;width:201.75px;height:62.84px" data-valign="top"> <div id="s130_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-5.28px;width:201.75px;height:74.84px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="132.02" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:2;left:36.98px;top:8.17px;">Edward Granville </span><span data-textwidth="170.07" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:3;left:17.89px;top:26.17px;">Browne of Cambridge </span><span data-textwidth="80.29" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:4;left:62.78px;top:44.17px;">University </span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s132" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:1;left:77.48px;top:-6.47px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s132_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:-14.16px;top:0.00px;width:662.68px;height:125.08px;"><div><p><span data-textwidth="526.77" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:24.65px;top:49.12px;">The passing of Bahá’u’lláh <span class="f3" style="font-size:70%; position:relative;bottom:2px;">(1892)</span></span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s133" data-sgid="Picture 4" style="z-index:2;left:63.10px;top:96.54px;width:589.02px;height:384.82px"> <img class="sg" src="7ABD5C50.png" id="s133_i" title="" alt="bahaullah-passed-away" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:589.02px;height:384.82px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s135" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:4;left:680.44px;top:85.76px;width:315.45px;height:416.60px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="C411618D315x417.png" id="s135_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:315.45px;height:416.60px" > <div id="s135_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:7.42px;top:8.85px;width:303.59px;height:398.98px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="218.08" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:4.97px;">In the early hours of 29 May 1892, </span><span data-textwidth="275.81" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:22.02px;">Bahá’u’lláh passed away at the Mansion of </span><span data-textwidth="224.92" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:39.06px;">Bahjí. Nine days later His will was </span><span data-textwidth="245.20" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:5;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:55.98px;">unsealed. It designated his eldest son, </span><span data-textwidth="275.80" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:6;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:73.03px;">‘Abdu’l-Bahá, as His successor and head of </span><span data-textwidth="271.01" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:9;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:90.07px;">the Bahá'í Faith — the first time in history </span><span data-textwidth="256.84" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:12;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:106.99px;">that the founder of a world religion had </span><span data-textwidth="273.89" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:13;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:124.04px;">made explicitly clear whom people should </span><span data-textwidth="143.90" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:14;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:141.08px;">follow after His death.</span></p><p></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="256.36" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:15;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:187.05px;">Shortly after the passing of Bahá’u’lláh, </span><span data-textwidth="284.92" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:16;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:204.10px;">‘Abdu’l-Bahá sent this message: "The Sun of </span><span data-textwidth="277.37" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:19;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:221.02px;">Truth, that Most Great Light, hath set upon </span><span data-textwidth="234.28" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:20;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:238.06px;">the horizon of the world to rise with </span><span data-textwidth="272.09" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:21;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:255.11px;">deathless splendour over the Realm of the </span><span data-textwidth="285.89" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:22;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:272.03px;">Limitless. In His Most Holy Book He calleth </span><span data-textwidth="285.89" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:23;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:289.07px;">the firm and steadfast of His friends: 'Be not </span><span data-textwidth="285.53" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:24;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:306.12px;">dismayed, O peoples of the world, when the </span><span data-textwidth="283.12" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:25;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:323.04px;">day-star of My beauty is set, and the heaven </span><span data-textwidth="260.08" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:28;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:340.09px;">of My tabernacle is concealed from your </span><span data-textwidth="285.53" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:29;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:357.13px;">eyes. Arise to further My Cause, and to exalt </span><span data-textwidth="164.91" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:30;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:374.05px;">My Word amongst men.'" </span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s134" data-sgid="Rectangle 3" style="z-index:3;left:21.95px;top:477.30px;width:625.02px;height:27.46px" data-valign="top" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s134_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-1.33px;width:627.42px;height:34.52px;"><div><p para="{al:3,spbf:0.20}"><span data-textwidth="327.65" class="sg nowrap f4" style="z-index:2;font-size:89%; left:290.10px;top:8.14px;">Room where Bahá’u’lláh passed away in 1892</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s136" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:1;left:35.51px;top:-6.47px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s136_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:0.00px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="427.87" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:110.55px;top:42.04px;">The Shrine of Bahá’u’lláh</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s139" data-sgid="Content Placeholder 14" style="z-index:4;left:680.44px;top:88.03px;width:315.45px;height:171.23px" data-valign="top"> <img class="sg" src="B5D53070315x171.png" id="s139_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:315.45px;height:171.23px" > <div id="s139_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:7.42px;top:6.58px;width:302.51px;height:161.08px;"><div><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="278.57" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:2;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:4.97px;">Bahá’u’lláh was buried in a simple room in </span><span data-textwidth="243.52" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:3;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:22.02px;">a house next to the Mansion of Bahjí. </span></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="284.93" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:4;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:45.06px;">This is the holiest place on earth for Bahá'ís, </span><span data-textwidth="243.64" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:5;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:61.98px;">where they turn to in prayer each day. </span></p><p para="{spaf:6.00}"><span data-textwidth="279.17" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:6;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:85.03px;">Pilgrims come from all corners of the globe </span><span data-textwidth="266.80" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:7;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:102.07px;">to pay their respects to Bahá’u’lláh and to </span><span data-textwidth="278.21" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:8;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:119.00px;">rededicate their lives to the noble purposes </span><span data-textwidth="180.99" class="sg nowrap f2" style="z-index:9;font-weight:bold; font-size:78%; left:9.46px;top:136.04px;">that He set before humanity.</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg" id="s138" data-sgid="Picture 2" style="z-index:3;left:121.97px;top:93.79px;width:469.57px;height:387.57px"> <img class="sg" src="218230B9.png" id="s138_i" style="z-index:1;left:0px;top:0px;width:469.57px;height:387.57px" > </div> <div class="sg" id="s137" data-sgid="Rectangle 3" style="z-index:2;left:-36.48px;top:477.30px;width:624.90px;height:27.46px" data-valign="top" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s137_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:-1.07px;width:627.31px;height:34.52px;"><div><p para="{al:3,spbf:0.20}"><span data-textwidth="134.07" class="sg nowrap f8" style="z-index:2;font-size:89%; left:484.15px;top:7.44px;">On grounds of Bahjí</span></p></div></div></div> <div class="sg sgTitle" id="s140" data-sgid="Rectangle 2" style="z-index:1;left:191.44px;top:221.39px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px" data-valign="middle" data-pointer-events="none"> <div id="s140_t" class="sg" style="z-index:2;left:0.00px;top:0.00px;width:648.52px;height:125.08px;"><div><p para="{al:2}"><span data-textwidth="316.37" class="sg nowrap f3" style="z-index:2;font-size:222%; left:166.46px;top:42.23px;">To Be Continued…</span></p></div></div></div>