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Small wonder that, in the face of so many evidences of deep- seated devotion, sympathy and esteem, so strikingly manifested by high and low alike, from the time Baha'u'llah announced His contemplated journey to the day of His departure from the Najibiyyih Garden-- small wonder that those who had so tirelessly sought to secure the order for His banishment, and had rejoiced at the success of their efforts, should now have bitterly regretted their act. "Such hath been the interposition of God," Abdu'l- Baha, in a letter written by Him from that garden, with reference to these enemies, affirms, "that the joy evinced by them hath been turned to chagrin and sorrow, so much so that the Persian consul- general in Baghdad regrets exceedingly the plans and plots the schemers had devised. Namiq Pasha himself, on the day he called on Him (Baha'u'llah) stated: `Formerly they insisted upon your departure. Now, however, they are even more insistent that you should remain.'"
(150:1)
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