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The fateful decision was eventually arrived at to banish Baha'u'llah to the penal colony of Akka, and Mirza Yahya to Famagusta in Cyprus. This decision was embodied in a strongly worded Farman, issued by Sultan Abdu'l- 'Aziz. The companions of Baha'u'llah, who had arrived in the capital, together with a few who later joined them, as well as Aqa Jan, the notorious mischief- maker, were arrested, interrogated, deprived of their papers and flung into prison. The members of the community in Adrianople were, several times, summoned to the governorate to ascertain their number, while rumors were set afloat that they were to be dispersed and banished to different places or secretly put to death.
(179:1)
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