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Every efeort was made by the clergy, by the Shah of Persia, and by the Ottoman Emperor to oppose Baha'u'llah and His Teachings. Twenty thousand of the early followers-men, women, and children-were brutally killed. Following Baha'u'llah's exile to Baghdad, He was sent to Constantinople, then to Adrianople, and finally to the Turkish penal colony of 'Akka (now a city in northern Israel), where the authorities hoped that He and His Faith would quickly die. During His forty years of imprisonment and exile, though He was constantly persecuted, having been at times scourged, stoned, poisoned, deprived of even the barest necessities of life, He continued to manifest sacrificial love for all peoples:
(1:21)
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