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Already so conspicuous and towering a figure had, through the accusations levelled against Him, kindled the wrath of Muhammad Shah, who, after having heard what had transpired in Badasht, had ordered His arrest, in a number of farmans addressed to the khans of Mazindaran, and expressed his determination to put Him to death. Haji Mirza Aqasi, previously alienated from the Vazir (Baha'u'llah's father), and infuriated by his own failure to appropriate by fraud an estate that belonged to Baha'u'llah, had sworn eternal enmity to the One Who had so brilliantly succeeded in frustrating his evil designs. The Amir- Nizam, moreover, fully aware of the pervasive influence of so energetic an opponent, had, in the presence of a distinguished gathering, accused Him of having inflicted, as a result of His activities, a loss of no less than five kururs upon the government, and had expressly requested Him, at a critical moment in the fortunes of the Faith, to temporarily transfer His residence to Karbila. Mirza Aqa Khan- i- Nuri, who succeeded the Amir- Nizam, had endeavored, at the very outset of his ministry, to effect a reconciliation between his government and the One Whom he regarded as the most resourceful of the Bab's disciples. Little wonder that when, later, an act of such gravity and temerity was committed, a suspicion as dire as it was unfounded, should at once have crept into the minds of the Shah, his government, his court, and his people against Baha'u'llah. Foremost among them was the mother of the youthful sovereign, who, inflamed with anger, was openly denouncing Him as the would- be murderer of her son.
(70:1)
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