What of Turkey and Persia?
Already in the lifetime of Baha'u'llah, and later during the ministry of 'Abdu'l-Baha, the first blows of a slow yet steady and relentless retribution were falling alike upon the rulers of the Turkish House of 'Uthman and of the Qajar dynasty in Persia - the archenemies of God's infant Faith. Sultan 'Abdu'l-'Aziz fell from power, and was murdered soon after Baha'u'llah's banishment from Adrianople, while Nasiri'd-Din Shah succumbed to an assassin's pistol, during 'Abdu'l-Baha's incarceration in the fortress-town of 'Akka. It was reserved, however, for the Formative Period of the Faith of God - the Age of the birth and rise of its Administrative Order - which, as stated in a previous communication, is through its unfoldment casting such a turmoil in the world, to witness not only the extinction of both of these dynasties, but also the abolition of the twin institutions of the Sultanate and the Caliphate. (61:1)

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