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Now all those persons who were with Him with one accord entreated and insisted that they should (be permitted to) accompany Him, and, how much soever the government admonished and forbade them, it was fruitless. Finally one Haji Ja'far by name was moved to lamentation, and with his own hand cut his throat. When the government beheld it thus, it gave permission to all of them to accompany Him, conveyed them from Adrianople to the seashore, and thence transported them to 'Akka. Mirza Yahya they sent in like manner to Famagusta.
(57:1)
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