rnment-house
to procure for him a passport in the name of Mirza 'Aliy-i-Kirman_sh_ahi,
and left Ba_gh_dad, abandoning the writings there, and proceeded in
disguise, accompanied by an Arab Babi, named Zahir, to Mosul, where he
joined the exiles who were on their way to Constantinople.

A constant witness of the ever deepening attachment of the exiles to
Baha'u'llah and of their amazing veneration for Him; fully aware of the
heights to which his Brother's popularity had risen in Ba_gh_dad, in the
course of His journey to Constantinople, and later through His association
with the notables and governors of Adrianople; incensed by the manifold
evidences of the courage, the dignity, and independence which that Brother
had demonstrated in His dealings with the authorities in the capital;
provoked by the numerous Tablets which the Author of a newly-established
Dispensation had been ceaselessly revealing; allowing himself to be duped
by the enticing prospects of unfettered leadership held out to him by
Siyyid Muhammad, the Antichrist of the Baha'i Revelation, even as Muhammad
_Sh_ah had been misled by the Antichrist of the Babi Revelation, Haji
Mirza Aqasi; refusing to be admonished by prominent members of the
community who advised him, in writing, to exercise wisdom and restraint;
forgetful of the kindness and counsels of Baha'u'llah, who, thirteen years
his senior, had watched over his early youth and manhood; emboldened by
the sin-covering eye of his Brother, Who, on so many occasions, had drawn
a veil over his many crimes and follies, this arch-breaker of the Covenant
of the Bab, spurred on by his mounting jealousy and impelled by his
passionate love of leadership, was driven to perpetrate such acts as
defied either concealment or toleration.

Irremediably corrupted through his constant association with Siyyid
Muhammad, that living embodiment of wickedness, cupidity and deceit, he
had already in the absence of Baha'u'llah from Ba_gh_dad, and even after
His return from Sulaymaniyyih, stained the annals of the Faith with acts
of indelible infamy. His corruption, in scores of instances, of the text
of the Bab's writings; the blasphemous addition he made to the formula of
the a_dh_an by the introduction of a passage in which he identified
himself with the Godhead; his insertion of references in those writings to
a succession in which he nominated himself and his descendants as heirs of
the Bab; the vacillation and apathy he had