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The scheming, the ambitious and profligate Mirza Buzurg Khan, the Persian Consul General in Baghdad, was eventually dismissed from office, "overwhelmed with disaster, filled with remorse and plunged into confusion." The notorious Mujtahid Siyyid Sadiq- i- Tabataba'i, denounced by Baha'u'llah as "the Liar of Tihran," the author of the monstrous decree condemning every male member of the Baha'i community in Persia, young or old, high or low, to be put to death, and all its women to be deported, was suddenly taken ill, fell a prey to a disease that ravaged his heart, his brain and his limbs, and precipitated eventually his death. The high- handed Subhi Pasha, who had peremptorily summoned Baha'u'llah to the government house in Akka, lost the position he occupied, and was recalled under circumstances highly detrimental to his reputation. Nor were the other governors of the city, who had dealt unjustly with the exalted Prisoner in their charge and His fellow- exiles, spared a like fate. "Every pasha," testifies Nabil in his narrative, "whose conduct in Akka was commendable enjoyed a long term of office, and was bountifully favored by God, whereas every hostile Mutisarrif (governor) was speedily deposed by the Hand of Divine power, even as Abdu'r- Rahman Pasha and Muhammad- Yusuf Pasha who, on the morrow of the very night they had resolved to lay hands on the loved ones of Baha'u'llah, were telegraphically advised of their dismissal. Such was their fate that they were never again given a position." (232:1) Shaykh Muhammad- Baqir, surnamed the "Wolf," who, in the strongly condemnatory Lawh- i- Burhan addressed to him by Baha'u'llah, had been compared to "the last trace of sunlight upon the mountain- top," witnessed the steady decline of his prestige, and died in a miserable state of acute remorse. His accomplice, Mir Muhammad- Husayn, surnamed the "She- Serpent," whom Baha'u'llah described as one "infinitely more wicked than the oppressor of Karbila," was, about that same time, expelled from Isfahan, wandered from village to village, contracted a disease that engendered so foul an odor that even his wife and daughter could not bear to approach him, and died in such ill- favor with the local authorities that no one dared to attend his funeral, his corpse being ignominiously interred by a few porters.
(232:2)
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