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It was on the fifth of Naw- Ruz (1863), while Baha'u'llah was celebrating that festival in the Mazra'iy- i- Vashshash, in the outskirts of Baghdad, and had just revealed the "Tablet of the Holy Mariner," whose gloomy prognostications had aroused the grave apprehensions of His Companions, that an emissary of Namiq Pasha arrived and delivered into His hands a communication requesting an interview between Him and the governor.
(147:1)
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