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Sunni Islam has sustained, not through the action of a foreign and invading Power, but at the hands of a dictator, avowedly professing the Faith of Muhammad, a blow more grievous than that which fell, almost simultaneously, upon its sister-sect in Persia. This retributive act, directed against the archenemy of the Faith of Baha'u'llah, recalls a similar disaster precipitated through the action of a Roman emperor, during the latter part of the first century of the Christian era - a disaster that razed to its foundations the Temple of Solomon, destroyed the Holy of Holies, laid waste the city of David, uprooted the Jewish hierarchy in Jerusalem, massacred thousands of the Jewish people - the persecutors of the religion of Jesus Christ - dispersed the remainder over the surface of the earth, and reared a pagan colony on Zion.
(99:1)
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