Exile of Akka issues epistle to Napoleon III with prophecy of his downfall

Category
Religion
Place
Global
Date
1870
Reference
[Shoghi Effendi: God Passes By, p. 225]
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"To this man, the last emperor of the French, who, through foreign conquest, had striven to endear his dynasty to the people . . . To such a man the Exile of 'Akká, already thrice banished by Sultan Abdu'l-'Aziz, had transmitted, from behind the walls of the barracks in which He lay imprisoned, an Epistle which bore this indubitably clear arraignment and ominous prophecy: "We testify that that which wakened thee was not their cry [Turks drowned in the Black Sea], but the promptings of thine own passions, for We tested thee, and found thee wanting…. Hadst thou been sincere in thy words, thou wouldst not have cast behind thy back the Book of God [previous Tablet], when it was sent unto thee by Him Who is the Almighty, the All-Wise. . . . For what thou hast done, thy kingdom shall be thrown into confusion, and thine empire shall pass from thine hands, as a punishment for that which thou hast wrought." [Shoghi Effendi: The Promised Day is Come, para. 121] [Napoleon III] was ignominiously defeated in the Battle of Sedan (1870), marking the greatest military capitulation recorded in modern history; lost his kingdom and spent the remaining years of his life in exile."

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