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Finally, in the very year His royal adversary lost his throne, and at the time of the opening of the first American Baha'i Convention, convened in Chicago for the purpose of creating a permanent national organization for the construction of the Mashriqu'l- Adhkar, Abdu'l- Baha brought His undertaking to a successful conclusion, in spite of the incessant machinations of enemies both within and without. On the 28th of the month of Safar 1327 A.H., the day of the first Naw- Ruz (1909), which He celebrated after His release from His confinement, Abdu'l- Baha had the marble sarcophagus transported with great labor to the vault prepared for it, and in the evening, by the light of a single lamp, He laid within it, with His own hands-- in the presence of believers from the East and from the West and in circumstances at once solemn and moving-- the wooden casket containing the sacred remains of the Bab and His companion.
(276:1)
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