When the quarrel between the two brothers reached a critical stage, the Ottoman government sent Subh-i-Ezel to Cyprus, and Baha Ullah to Acca, then in Syria. According to the accounts of Bahais who first arrived in Acca, the exiles had a very hard lot in the prison, which was within the city walls in these early days, especially as sickness broke out among them. But after they had recovered and were well established in the second storey of the prison, where they had at least eight rooms and a large court, they were able 'to live in some degree of comfort. Although life was certainly difficult at first, yet the exaggerated descriptions of imprisonment ‘‘in dungeons of the fortress”’ by Bahai writers are impossible. After a time Baha Ullah was allowed to live out in the city proper, and finally to have his own house, a palatial dwelling, about two miles from Acca, and to have his own large, beautiful gardens, and favourite seat by a running stream.
(Studies in Bahaism BY S. NEALE ALTER, JANUARY, 1923)
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