ort of derangement during the period of his incarceration we have Bahaullah's own confession. Writes he in one of his letters, called Alwah : "On account of the torture of heavy irons and the stink and stench of the prison at Tehran, I got very little sleep. But when I sometimes fell asleep, I felt 8,S if something was dropping from over the head on my bosom, just as a. big water canal falls from the top of a. hill on the land below. A burning,
34 sensation of an intense degree was, then, fel t in all my lim bs, and my tongue, at that time, spoke words which no one has the power to listen to and hear." A few of Bahaullah's wild statemente we reproduce for the indulgence of our readers and the careful consideration of those Bahais who have never had the opportunity of seeing their sealed scripture, the Kitab al-Aqdas.
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"Ye leaders of mankind, listen to the voice of the Lord of the heavens. He is speaking to you from his great prison that there is no god excepting me (i.e, Bahaullah), the mighty and the glorious, the knowing and the wise."
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"He it is (i.e. Bahaullah) who sent Apostles and revealed Books. There is no god but me the mighty, the wise."
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"King of Austria! when you passed through Akka, on your way to the Temple at Jerusalem, the source of the light of Divine unity was imprisoned there, and you made no enquiry concerning him. After that every house was honoured on account of him, and every big gate was flung open upon him."
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"Say, 0 thou king of Berlin, give ear to the voice speaking through this body that there is no God except me, the eternal and the everlasting and without an associate." (,j3 L. I_,......~I l~ )_"~I "'l.... J ~~rl S j) _,.L. 4 JJ.Q.;JI ~}~\ UI "-.II ':J oJl &o~:J1 ~ J-'" &ol9_rJ1 A.! _~)JI "Ruler of America and leaders of the people! listen to the message which the dove is singing, perched on the tree of immortality that there is no God except me, the eternal. the forgiver and the compassionate." Bahaullah, we said, asserted his claim Divinity in quite unmistakable terms:
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The one who is speaking from this great prison is the creator of all things, who condescended to suffer all the troubles in order to infuse life into the world; who created the prophets and apostles by word of his mouth:
37 and directed the Bahais to turn their faces in worship towards him during the life-time and towards his tomb after his death: In his own words:
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The Bahais, it is a matter of fact prostrate before the tomb of Bahaullah at Akka, and kiss it in worshipful reverence, and perform the sacred circuit around it :
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And the places of their pilgrimage are the two houses at Shiraz and Baghdad in which lived Ali Muhammad Bab and Bahaullah respectively during their life- time :
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During his sojourn in America, we read in the well-known Bahai Book, Bada al-Asaar, vol. 1, page 367, Abdul Baha assured the Bahais of that country when he would return to Akka, he would rub his forehead on the door of Bahaullah's tomb, and tear his hair, and .pray for all of them:
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