Prisoner and the Kings by William Sears

Author:William Sears
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-61851-062-4
Publisher: Bahai Publishing
Published: 2013-03-04T16:00:00+00:00

The king of Turkey had failed to put his trust in Bahá’u’lláh. No matter how often that assistance had been offered to him, the king had rejected it. The judges, ministers, and leaders of that land, following the lead of their sovereign, were not wise in their judgments. Their downfall and disappearance from living history was even then being fashioned by the Hand of God.

All of them shall be slain except one, who shall reach the plain of ‘Akká.

The Banquet-Hall of God

The arrival of Bahá’u’lláh in ‘Akká began the final phase of His forty-year long ministry, a period of time itself repeatedly emphasized in sacred scripture. Bahá’u’lláh had come to the heart of Judaism and Christianity. Already His exile had taken Him to the “strongholds” of Islam.

It is hard to understand the ignorance of these rulers of Islam, Sulṭán ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz and Náṣiri’d-Dín Sháh, concerning the references so prevalent throughout their own sacred writings, to all these events. Unlike the kings of Christendom, these rulers of Islam, as many of their titles indicated, were an integral part of the religious system. Yet they were oblivious of the traditional prophecies recorded in their own holy books—prophecies that they had brought to a staggering fulfillment by their own cruel acts against Bahá’u’lláh. Their attitude speaks volumes about the sincerity of their belief in their own faith. For example:

Muḥammad, the Prophet of Islam, had referred glowingly to this very prison-city of ‘Akká. He called it “A city to which God hath shown His special mercy.” And in another place He described it as a city “by the shore of the sea whose whiteness is pleasing unto God.”30

From the traditional prophecies so highly honored in the sacred writings of both Turkey and Persia could be found these further astonishing words that ‘Abdu’l-‘Azíz and Náṣiri’d-Dín Sháh might have done well to ponder:

“Blessed the man that hath visited ‘Akká, and blessed he that hath visited the visitor of ‘Akká.”

“He that raiseth therein the call to prayer, his voice will be lifted up unto Paradise.”

“The poor of ‘Akká are the kings of Paradise and the princes thereof.”

“A month in ‘Akká is better than a thousand years elsewhere.”31

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