Memorials of the Faithful
Abu’l-Qásim of Sulṭán-Ábád / Áqá Faraj
was the unabating cruelty of the malevolent that they could no longer remain in their own home. On foot, free of every tie, they took to the plains and hills, seeking their way across trackless waters and desert sands. How many a night they could not sleep, staying in the open with no place to lay their heads; with nothing to eat or drink, no bed but the bare earth, no food but the desert grasses. Somehow they dragged themselves along and managed to reach
Adrianople. It happened that they came during the last days in that city, and were taken prisoner with the rest, and in the company of
Bahá’u’lláh they traveled to the
Most Great Prison.
Abu’l-Qásim fell violently ill with typhus. He died about the same time as those two brothers,
Muḥammad-Báqir and Muḥammad-Ismá’íl, and his pure remains were buried outside
‘Akká. The
Blessed Beauty expressed approval of him and the friends, all of them, wept over his afflictions and mourned him. Upon him be the glory of the All-Glorious.
Áqá Faraj
In all these straits, Áqá Faraj was the companion of
Abu’l-Qásim. When, in Persian ‘Iráq, he first heard the uproar caused by the Advent of the Most Great Light, he shook and trembled, clapped his hands, cried out in exultation
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