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During the Bab's confinement in the fortress of Chihriq, where He spent almost the whole of the two remaining years of His life, the Lawh- i- Huru'fat (Tablet of the Letters) was revealed, in honor of Dayyan-- a Tablet which, however misconstrued at first as an exposition of the science of divination, was later recognized to have unravelled, on the one hand, the mystery of the Mustaghath, and to have abstrusely alluded, on the other, to the nineteen years which must needs elapse between the Declaration of the Bab and that of Baha'u'llah. It was during these years-- years darkened throughout by the rigors of the Bab's captivity, by the severe indignities inflicted upon Him, and by the news of the disasters that overtook the heroes of Mazindaran and Nayriz-- that He revealed, soon after His return from Tabriz, His denunciatory Tablet to Haji Mirza Aqasi. Couched in bold and moving language, unsparing in its condemnation, this epistle was forwarded to the intrepid Hujjat who, as corroborated by Baha'u'llah, delivered it to that wicked minister.
(27:1)
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