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And finally, he who, from the moment the Divine Covenant was born until the end of his life, showed a hatred more unrelenting than that which animated the afore- mentioned adversaries of Abdu'l- Baha, who plotted more energetically than any one of them against Him, and afflicted his Father's Faith with a shame more grievous than any which its external enemies had inflicted upon it-- such a man, together with the infamous crew of Covenant- breakers whom he had misled and instigated, was condemned to witness, in a growing measure, as had been the case with Mirza Yahya and his henchmen, the frustration of his evil designs, the evaporation of all his hopes, the exposition of his true motives and the complete extinction of his erstwhile honor and glory. His brother, Mirza Diya'u'llah, died prematurely; Mirza Aqa Jan, his dupe, followed that same brother, three years later, to the grave; and Mirza Badi'u'llah, his chief accomplice, betrayed his cause, published a signed denunciation of his evil acts, but rejoined him again, only to be alienated from him in consequence of the scandalous behavior of his own daughter. Mirza Muhammad- 'Ali's half- sister, Furughiyyih, died of cancer, whilst her husband, Siyyid Ali, passed away from a heart attack before his sons could reach him, the eldest being subsequently stricken in the prime of life, by the same malady. Muhammad- Javad- i- Qazvini, a notorious Covenant- breaker, perished miserably. Shu'a'u'llah who, as witnessed by Abdu'l- Baha in His Will, had counted on the murder of the Center of the Covenant, and who had been despatched to the United States by his father to join forces with Ibrahim Khayru'llah, returned crestfallen and empty- handed from his inglorious mission. Jamal- i- Burujirdi, Mirza Muhammad- 'Ali's ablest lieutenant in Persia, fell a prey to a fatal and loathsome disease; Siyyid Mihdiy- i- Dahaji, who, betraying Abdu'l- Baha, joined the Covenant- breakers, died in obscurity and poverty, followed by his wife and his two sons; Mirza Husayn- 'Aliy- i- Jahrumi, Mirza Husayn- i- Shiraziy- i- Khurtumi and Haji Muhammad- Husayn- i- Kashani, who represented the arch- breaker of the Covenant in Persia, India and Egypt, failed utterly in their missions; whilst the greedy and conceited Ibrahim- i- Khayru'llah, who had chosen to uphold the banner of his rebellion in America for no less than twenty years, and who had the temerity to denounce, in writing, Abdu'l- Baha, His "false teachings, His misrepresentations of Bahaism, His dissimulation," and to stigmatize His visit to America as "a death- blow" to the "Cause of God," met his death soon after he had uttered these denunciations, utterly abandoned and despised by the entire body of the members of a community, whose founders he himself had converted to the Faith, and in the very land that bore witness to the multiplying evidences of the established ascendancy of Abdu'l- Baha, Whose authority he had, in his later years, vowed to uproot.
(319:1)
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