It was only when Baha’is started proselytizing, that some at SPC were upset, as, in the words of one early Baha’i student, ‘they had come to the Levant to convert, not to be invited to convert.’

Baha’is [studying in SPC / AUB] from Iran regularly visited Baha’ullah and his son and successor, Abbas Effendi Abdul-Baha (1844-1921); and the proximity of Beirut to Akka made the SPC doubly attractive to Iranian Baha’is, for they could spend their holidays with their religious leader. It was only when Baha’is started proselytizing, that some at SPC were upset, as, in the words of one early Baha’i student, ‘they had come to the Levant to convert, not to be invited to convert.’

(H. E. Chehabi, Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the last 500 years, Centre for Lebanese Studies in association with I.B.Tauris Publishers, p 21)

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