reeting of "Allah-u-Abha" superseded the
old salutation of "Allah-u-Akbar," and was simultaneously adopted in
Persia and Adrianople, the first to use it in the former country, at the
suggestion of Nabil, being Mulla Muhammad-i-Furu_gh_i, one of the
defenders of the Fort of _Sh_ay_kh_ Tabarsi. It was in this period that
the phrase "the people of the Bayan," now denoting the followers of Mirza
Yahya, was discarded, and was supplanted by the term "the people of Baha."
It was during those days that Nabil, recently honored with the title of
Nabil-i-'Azam, in a Tablet specifically addressed to him, in which he was
bidden to "deliver the Message" of his Lord "to East and West," arose,
despite intermittent persecutions, to tear asunder the "most grievous
veil," to implant the love of an adored Master in the hearts of His
countrymen, and to champion the Cause which his Beloved had, under such
tragic conditions, proclaimed. It was during those same days that
Baha'u'llah instructed this same Nabil to recite on His behalf the two
newly revealed Tablets of the Pilgrimage, and to perform, in His stead,
the rites prescribed in them, when visiting the Bab's House in _Sh_iraz
and the Most Great House in Ba_gh_dad--an act that marks the inception of
one of the holiest observances, which, in a later period, the
Kitab-i-Aqdas was to formally establish. It was during this period that
the "Prayers of Fasting" were revealed by Baha'u'llah, in anticipation of
the Law which that same Book was soon to promulgate. It was, too, during
the days of Baha'u'llah's banishment to Adrianople that a Tablet was
addressed by Him to Mulla 'Ali-Akbar-i-_Sh_ahmirzadi and
Jamal-i-Burujirdi, two of His well-known followers in Tihran, instructing
them to transfer, with the utmost secrecy, the remains of the Bab from the
Imam-Zadih Ma'sum, where they were concealed, to some other place of
safety--an act which was subsequently proved to have been providential, and
which may be regarded as marking another stage in the long and laborious
transfer of those remains to the heart of Mt. Carmel, and to the spot
which He, in His instructions to 'Abdu'l-Baha, was later to designate. It
was during that period that the Suriy-i-_Gh_usn (Surih of the Branch) was
revealed, in which 'Abdu'l-Baha's future station is foreshadowed, and in
which He is eulogized as the "Branch of Holiness," the "Limb of the Law of
God," the "Trust of God," "sent down in the form of a human temple"--a
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