Cyprus is the island of Satan

Shoghi Effendi spoke first and asked me if I was coming from England. I answered, “Bale, Qorban! (Yes, my Beloved!)” He inquired about the unity and activities of the Baha’is in England, and I replied that yes, they were united in London where I had spent much time. Then the Beloved Guardian, Shoghi Effendi, congratulated me on my decision to pioneer to Cyprus and expressed the wish that I start corresponding with the Baha’is of Iran to encourage them to pioneer to this country as well. He said he had encouraged American, British, and Iranian Baha’is to pioneer there. Cyprus was the island where Mirza Yahya Azal, Baha'u'llah's half-brother and a Covenant-Breaker, had been banished by the Turkish government and lived for over forty years, and he explained that the name of the island had been known as the ‘sheytan jazirasi’ (the island of Satan) and wanted to know if I knew that. I replied, “Yes, my beloved.” Then he indicated that now the Baha’is must change it into the ‘island of Rahman’ (the island of the Clement One).

(The Memoirs of Shamsi Sedaghat by Shamsi Sedaghat edited by Hillary Chapman - 2023)

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