PERSECUTION INCREASES.

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Bahai House of Worship at Colombia.

    
    In consequence of these declarations of the Bab and the alarming rapidity with which people of all classes, rich and poor, learned and ignorant, were eagerly responding to His teaching, attempts at suppression became more and more ruthless and determined. Houses were pillaged (robbery with violence) and destroyed. Women were seized and carried off. In Tihran, Fars, Mazindaran, and other places great numbers of the believers were put to death. Many were beheaded (execute by cutting off ones head), hanged, blown from the mouths of cannon, burned or chopped to pieces. Despite all attempts at repression (suppression), however, the movement progressed. Nay (or rather), through this very oppression the assurance of the believers increased, for thereby many of the prophecies concerning the coming of the Mihdi were literally fulfilled. Thus in a tradition recorded by Jabir, which the Shi'ihs regard as authentic (genuine), we read :-


    " In him shall be the perfection of Moses, the preciousness of Jesus, and the patience of Job; his saints shall be abased (to lower in rank) in his time, and their heads shall be exchanged as presents, even as the heads of the Turk and the Deylamite (The Deylamites were commonly described, together with the Turks, as the most barbarous and odious enemies of the Muslims,against whom religious war was most meritorious) are exchanged as present; they shall be slain (kill in violence) and burned, and shall be afraid, fearful and dismayed (distressed); the earth shall be died with their blood, and lamentation (sorrow) shall prevail amongst their women; these are my saints indeed." - New History of the Bab.


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