Bahá'u'lláh Would Not Leave Him Behind

Bahíyyih Khánum, the Greatest Holy Leaf, told Lady Blomfield of the last days in Adrianople:

The Governor was reluctant to tell Bahá’u’lláh that the order had come for still another banishment. He explained this to Sarkar-i-Aqa (‘Abdu’l-Bahá), and we were told that we had three days to prepare for the journey to ‘Akká. Then we learnt that we were all to be separated. Bahá’u’lláh to one place, the Master to another, and the friends to still another place. I well remember, as though it were only yesterday, the fresh misery into which we were plunged; to be separated from our Beloved; and He, what new grief was in store for Him? He accepted all vicissitudes with His calm, beautiful smile, cheering us with wonderful words.

One of the friends, Karbilá’í Ja‘far, in despair at the threatened separation, attempted to kill himself; he was saved, but was too ill to travel. Bahá’u’lláh refused to leave him unless the Governor of Adrianople undertook to have him well cared for, and sent after us when he should be recovered. This was done, and forty days after we arrived at ‘Akká, Karbilá’í Ja‘far joined us.

Source: Lady Blomfield, The Chosen Highway, Part II, ch. IV, “Constantinople and Adrianople” (the account of Bahíyyih Khánum).

Collected from bahaistories.com (Subject: bahaullah-exile).

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