When the Most Great Light ascended to the Concourse above, Ḥusayn Effendi
remained faithful to Him, steadfast and firm; and as before, he continued
to be a close friend to the friends. Thus he lived for a considerable
period, and felt himself better off than the kings of the earth. He became
the son-in-law of Mírzá Muḥammad-Qulí, brother of the Blessed Beauty, and
remained for a time peaceful and serene. He carefully avoided any occasion
of being seduced into error, for he dreaded that the tempest of
afflictions might mount in fury, surge ever higher, and sweep many a soul
into the fathomless gulf.(69) He would sigh and mourn, for this fear was
with him at all times. At last he could bear the world no longer, and with
his own hands stripped off the garment of life.
Praise be unto him, and salutations, and the mercy of God, and Divine
acceptance. May God pardon him and make him to enter the highest Heaven,
the Paradise that towers above all the rest. His sweet-scented grave is in
Haifa.
JAMSHÍD-I-GURJÍ
Yet another of the emigrants and settlers was the valiant
Jam_sh_íd-i-Gurjí, who came from Georgia, but grew up in the city of
Ká_sh_án. He was a fine youth, faithful, trustworthy, with a high sense of
honor. When he heard of a new Faith dawning, and awoke to the tidings that
on Persia’s horizons the Sun of Truth had risen, he was filled with holy
ecstasy, and he longed and loved. The new fire burned away those veils of
uncertainty and doubt that had closed him round; the light of Truth shed
down its rays, the lamp of guidance burned before him.
He remained in Persia for a time, then left for Rumelia, which was Ottoman
territory, and in the Land of Mystery, Adrianople, won the honor of
entering the presence of Bahá’u’lláh; it was there that his meeting took
place. His joy and fervor were boundless. Later, at Bahá’u’lláh’s command
he made a journey to Constantinople, with Áqá Muḥammad-Báqir and Áqá
‘Abdu’l-_Gh_affár. In that city, the tyrannous imprisoned him and put him
in chains.
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