Turkey To the Sultan of Turkey and his Prime Minister ''Ali Pa_sh_a, Baha'u'llah, then (in 1868) confined in a Turkish prison, addressed some of His most solemn, grave warnings.

To the Sultan He wrote from the Barracks at Akka:-- O thou who considerest thyself the greatest of all men ...

erelong thy name shall be forgotten and thou shalt find thyself in great loss.

According to thy opinion, this Quickener of the world and its Peacemaker is culpable and seditious.

What crime have the women, children and suffering babes committed to merit thy wrath, oppression and hate?
You have persecuted a number of souls who have shown no opposition in your country, and who have instigated no revolution against the government; nay, rather, by day and by night they have been peacefully engaged in the mentioning of God.
You have pillaged their properties, and through your tyrannical acts, all that they had was taken from them....