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Just at this time mischievous persons - (including) even certain dismissed ministers - endeavored on all sides so to influence this sect that they might perchance alter their course and conduct. From every quarter lying messages and disquieting reports continually followed one another in uninterrupted and constant succession to the effect that the deliberate intention of the court of Persia was the eradication, suppression, annihilation, and destruction of this sect; that correspondence was continually being carried on with the local authorities; and that all (the Babis) in 'Iraq would shortly be delivered over with bound hands to Persia. But the Babis passed the time in calmness and silence, without in any way altering their behavior and conduct.
(51:1)
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