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To Ali Pasha, the Grand Vizir of the Sultan of Turkey He addressed, shortly after His arrival in Akka, a second Tablet, in which He reprimands him for his cruelty "that hath made hell to blaze and the Spirit to lament"; recounts his acts of oppression; condemns him as one of those who, from time immemorial, have denounced the Prophets as stirrers of mischief; prophesies his downfall; expatiates on His own sufferings and those of His fellow- exiles; extolls their fortitude and detachment; predicts that God's "wrathful anger" will seize him and his government, that "sedition will be stirred up" in their midst, and that their "dominions will be disrupted"; and affirms that were he to awake, he would abandon all his possessions, and would "choose to abide in one of the dilapidated rooms of this Most Great Prison." In the Lawh- i- Fu'ad, in the course of His reference to the premature death of the Sultan's Foreign Minister, Fu'ad Pasha, He thus confirms His above- mentioned prediction: "Soon will We dismiss the one (Ali Pasha) who was like unto him and will lay hold on their Chief (Sultan Abdu'l- 'Aziz) who ruleth the land, and I, verily, am the Almighty, the All- Compelling."
(208:3)
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