th, in very truth, prepared for them, in the world to
come, a severe torment."

Nor should, in a review of this nature, reference be omitted to those
princes, ministers and ecclesiastics who have individually been
responsible for the afflictive trials which Baha'u'llah and His followers
have suffered. Fu'ad Pa_sh_a, the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs,
denounced by Him as the "instigator" of His banishment to the Most Great
Prison, who had so assiduously striven with his colleague 'Ali Pa_sh_a, to
excite the fears and suspicions of a despot already predisposed against
the Faith and its Leader, was, about a year after he had succeeded in
executing his design, struck down, while on a trip to Paris, by the
avenging rod of God, and died at Nice (1869). 'Ali Pa_sh_a, the
Sadr-i-'Azam (Prime Minister), denounced in such forceful language in the
Lawh-i-Ra'is, whose downfall the Lawh-i-Fu'ad had unmistakably predicted,
was, a few years after Baha'u'llah's banishment to Akka, dismissed from
office, was shorn of all power, and sank into complete oblivion. The
tyrannical Prince Mas'ud Mirza, the Zillu's-Sultan, Nasiri'd-Din _Sh_ah's
eldest son and ruler over more than two-fifths of his kingdom, stigmatized
by Baha'u'llah as "the Infernal Tree," fell into disgrace, was deprived of
all his governorships, except that of Isfahan, and lost all chances of
future eminence or promotion. The rapacious Prince Jalalu'd-Dawlih,
branded by the Supreme Pen as "the tyrant of Yazd," was, about a year
after the iniquities he had perpetrated, deprived of his post, recalled to
Tihran, and forced to return a part of the property he had stolen from his
victims.

The scheming, the ambitious and profligate Mirza Buzurg _Kh_an, the
Persian Consul General in Ba_gh_dad, was eventually dismissed from office,
"overwhelmed with disaster, filled with remorse and plunged into
confusion." The notorious Mujtahid Siyyid Sadiq-i-Tabataba'i, denounced by
Baha'u'llah as "the Liar of Tihran," the author of the monstrous decree
condemning every male member of the Baha'i community in Persia, young or
old, high or low, to be put to death, and all its women to be deported,
was suddenly taken ill, fell a prey to a disease that ravaged his heart,
his brain and his limbs, and precipitated eventually his death. The
high-handed Subhi Pa_sh_a, who had peremptorily summoned Baha'u'llah to
the government house in Akka, lost the position he occupied, and was
recalled under c