prediction, and will, in its own appointed time, as the means for its
solution are providentially created, fulfill the high destiny ordained for
it by Him in His Tablets. Long before its seizure by fanatical enemies,
who had no conceivable claim to it whatever, He had prophesied that "it
shall be so abased in the days to come as to cause tears to flow from
every discerning eye."

The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Ba_gh_dad, deprived of the use of
that sacred property through an adverse decision by a majority of the
court of Appeal, which had reversed the verdict of the lower court and
awarded the property to the _Sh_i'ahs, and aroused by subsequent action of
the _Sh_i'ahs, soon after the execution of the judgment of that court, in
converting the building into waqf property (pious foundation), designating
it "Husayniyyih," with the purpose of consolidating their gain, realized
the futility of the three years of negotiations they had been conducting
with the civil authorities in Ba_gh_dad for the righting of the wrong
inflicted upon them. In their capacity as the national representatives of
the Baha'is of 'Iraq, they, therefore, on September 11, 1928, through the
High Commissioner for 'Iraq and in conformity with the provisions of Art.
22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, approached the League's
Permanent Mandates Commission, charged with the supervision of the
administration of all Mandated Territories, and presented a petition that
was accepted and approved by that body in November, 1928. A memorandum
submitted, in connection with that petition, to that same Commission, by
the Mandatory Power unequivocally stated that the _Sh_i'ahs had "no
conceivable claim whatever" to the House, that the decision of the judge
of the Ja'fariyyih court was "obviously wrong," "unjust" and "undoubtedly
actuated by religious prejudice," that the subsequent ejectment of the
Baha'is was "illegal," that the action of the authorities had been "highly
irregular," and that the verdict of the Court of Appeal was suspected of
not being "uninfluenced by political consideration."

"The Commission," states the Report submitted by it to the Council of the
League, and published in the Minutes of the 14th session of the Permanent
Mandates Commission, held in Geneva in the fall of 1928, and subsequently
translated into Arabic and published in 'Iraq, "draws the Council's
attention to the considerations and conclusions suggested to it by an