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“O thou who art firm in the Covenant!…” |
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An article in the Broadway Magazine of September,
1906, written by G. A. Dobson and published in New
York, was read. It is entitled, “The Strangest Religion
in New York.” Unquestionably, you get that magazine
and read it. The writer complains of the Ottoman
government and its treatmet towards the Bahai community.
There is no doubt that this article will be
read by His Excellency the Turkish Minister or the
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members of the Legation. The truth is that His Imperial
Majesty the Sultan Abdul Hamid Khan hath
exercised the utmost justice toward Abdul-Baha. Although
the internal and external enemies entered into
an alliance, wrote reports full of pure calumnies and
baseless impositions, became themslves the complainers
and witnesses, a body of examiners came from Constantinople
for the investigation of the true situation
and that committee of commissioners became united
with the outside and inside enemies, ratifying all the
impositions and adding to those some more important
matters, yet His Imperial Majesty Abdul Hamid Khan—may God assist him! —acted with delilberation until it
became known and evident that all these calumnies were
founded upon rancor and hositility. Therefore, he hath
treated us, until the present time, with the utmost justice
and because of this treatment we are exceedingly
happy. If there were any other king beside His Imperial
Majesty Sultan Abdul Hamid Khan, he would
exercise his autority in another way in the face of
these unjust imputations and the conspiracies of the
external and internal foes. Nevertheless, the justice
and equity of the Sultan prevented the attacks of the
enemies and the reports of the people of oppositions
and falsehood from producing any effect. Therefore,
all the friends must pray from their hearts in behalf of
their Imperial Majesties the Padeshah of the Ottomans
and the Shah of Persia. As in these days His
Imperial Majesty Sultan Abdul Hamid Khan is in a
state of illness and indisposition, therefore the believers
of God, in meetings and assemblages, in private and
public, but invoke from the Threshold of Oneness
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swift recovery for him. The friends and strangers must
know and realize that all the believers of God have the
utmost love for His Majesty the Padeshah of the Ottoman
empire and that they are entreating for him protection
and confirmation.
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