‘Abdu’l-Baha lived in the morgue of the barracks in Akka for two years

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNIOxGkG9LlDsVoCwAzhj7xqQcPW_jT3qQp_ldFMvQnngfGFR6s4kEQjepAzoCno-4q59JbJRVTeBZka9J3C_EGtIS_Jf-1917-MswnWJtpMHeOtYVcOHn4Yij5SnLpQep3lnQcTp6cjU/s1600/North-west+building+of+prison+complex+Akka+1922-1.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1024" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNIOxGkG9LlDsVoCwAzhj7xqQcPW_jT3qQp_ldFMvQnngfGFR6s4kEQjepAzoCno-4q59JbJRVTeBZka9J3C_EGtIS_Jf-1917-MswnWJtpMHeOtYVcOHn4Yij5SnLpQep3lnQcTp6cjU/s320/North-west+building+of+prison+complex+Akka+1922-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">North-west building of prison complex <br />Akka 1922</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">The dear friends in this city <span style="font-size: x-small;">[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 7, 1912] </span>engaged an apartment on the seventh floor of the Schenley Hotel and were exceedingly happy about it, because it looked like that of the Plaza Hotel in Chicago.

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Then during their private interviews, the friends, one by one asked the same question: "Master! how do you like these rooms?" His reply to all was also the same, "Khaili Khoob! Khaili Khoob!"meaning "Very good! Very good!"</span><br /> </span><div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: verdana;">When all had left His presence happy and pleased, He turned His smiling face toward this servant <span style="font-size: x-small;">[Dr.

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Zia Baghdadi]</span> and exclaimed:</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: verdana;">"The friends here are anxious to know if I like these rooms! They do not know what we had to go through in the past.

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Imagine the conditions and surroundings when we were exiled by the Turkish Government and were imprisoned in the barracks of 'Akka; Baha'u'llah occupied one room; His family and several other families were forced to occupy one room.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: verdana;">"Aside from the severe illness that was raging, and the death of many among us prisoners - adults and children - on account of unsanitary surroundings and starvation, I noticed that my own presence in that crowded room was another source of torture to all of them.

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This was due to the fact that parents and children were suppressing and restraining themselves by trying to be quiet and polite in my presence.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: verdana;">"So, in order to give them freedom, I accepted the morgue of the barracks, because that was the only room available, and I lived in it for about two years.

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Now the kind friends here wish to know if I like these magnificent rooms!" </span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /></span> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">(Star of the West [The Baha’i Magazine], vol. 19, no. 5, August 1928)</span></span></div>

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