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No less a personage than the highly- respected brother- in- law of the Sadr- i- A'zam was commissioned to apprize the Captive of the edict pronounced against Him-- an edict which evinced a virtual coalition of the Turkish and Persian imperial governments against a common adversary, and which in the end brought such tragic consequences upon the Sultanate, the Caliphate and the Qajar dynasty. Refused an audience by Baha'u'llah that envoy had to content himself with a presentation of his puerile observations and trivial arguments to Abdu'l- Baha and Aqay- i- Kalim, who were delegated to see him, and whom he informed that, after three days, he would return to receive the answer to the order he had been bidden to transmit.
(159:2)
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