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Encyclopedia article: Biography of Baha'u'llah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | The Ottomans also sent some Azalis to Akka, and some Baha'is to Cyprus, presumably in hopes they would spy on their enemies for the state (Dahaji, pp. |
 | | Baha'u'llah expressed fury at being sent arbitrarily into solitary confinement at the fortress of the pestilential, remote little declining port city of Akka, and he predicted that political turmoil would consequently beset Istanbul and that God would "take hold" of Sultan `Abdu'l-`Aziz. |
 | | Gradually, Baha'u'llah's uprightness and high ideals changed the minds of officials, and only once, when some of the rougher Baha'is murdered three Azalis who were spying on the Baha'is for the Ottoman state, was this rapprochement interrupted. |
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