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Another of his slanders was that the Shrine on Mount Carmel was a fortress that I had built strong and impregnable -- this when the building under construction compriseth six rooms-- and that I had named it Medina the Resplendent, while I had named the Holy Tomb[1] Mecca the Glorified. Yet another of his calumnies was that I had established an independent sovereignty, and that-- God forbid! God forbid! God forbid!-- I had summoned all the believers to join me in this massive wrongdoing. How dire, O my Lord, is his slander! [1=at Bahji]
(217:3)
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