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Along with us homeless wanderers, and under the protection
of the Ancient Beauty, he came to the Most Great
Prison and was a confidant and companion, sharing with
us the calamities and tribulations, humble and long-enduring.
Afterward, when the restrictions were somewhat relaxed,
he engaged in trade, and through the bounty of
Bahá'u'lláh was comfortable and at peace. But his body had
become enfeebled from the earlier hardships, and all the
suffering, and his faculties had deteriorated; so that ultimately
he fell ill, beyond hope of a remedy; and not far
from Bahá'u'lláh, and shadowed by His protection, he
hastened away from this least of worlds to the high Heavens,
from this dark place to the land of lights. May God
immerse him in the waters of forgiveness; may He bring
him into the gardens of Paradise, and there keep him safe
forevermore. His pure dust rests in Akká.
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