Did you know that there were more than ten assassination attempts on the life of Baha'u'llah in the course of close to fifty years (1844-92), but instead, God meant for this Manifestation of God to live His life and produce some one hundred volumes of Holy Words for posterity in spite of the most severe tortures, imprisonment, deprivations, and exiles?
The first attempt was actually an order to be shot to death by none other than Muhammad Shah, the weakling and corrupt Qajar King, but as fate had it, the man was dead at the age of 40 before his vile edict was carried out and the order was thus repealed.
Several additional attempts were made by Mirza Buzurg Khan, Persia's ambassador to Iraq as well as Sheikho'l-Araghin a vile and powerful mulla in Iraq and the accomplice they chose to carry out their vile intent, Reza Turk. Reza Turk could not carry this out the first time around when he faced Baha'u'llah face-to-face in the public bath. The second time around, Reza Turk came face-to-face with Baha'u'llah while He was walking in a street in the city of Baghdad with His brother, Kalim. But the soonest, Reza Turk came close to Baha'u'llah, he started trembling and the revolver fell off his hand. Baha'u'llah asked Agha Kalim to hand him the revolver and send him on his way!
The last attempt on His life was by a powerful mulla, Sheikh Mahmood, in Akka where Baha'u'llah was still a prisoner. When the guard came to Baha'u'llah and told Him that He has a visitor (the Sheikh), Baha'u'llah told the guard that he can come back to visit Me after he puts his revolver aside. So the Sheikh came a second time without a revolver believing that He can kill Baha'u'llah with His own bare hands. Baha'u'llah told the guard to tell the man to come back for a visit when he can purify his heart... Awhile later, Sheikh Mahmood had a dream remembering what he had intended in this regard. He then goes to visit Baha'u'llah with a pure heart ... and declares his faith in Baha'u'llah after the encounter!!!
Excerpts from "Baha'u'llah, the Promise of All Ages" by Dr. Hooshidar Motlagh, in Farsi, pp 115 -121
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