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It was in consequence of this final, this clearly- worded and authoritative sentence by the highest exponent of Islamic Law in Egypt, and after prolonged negotiations, resulting at first in the allocation to the Cairo Baha'i community of a cemetery plot forming a part of that set aside for free thinkers, residing in that city, that the Egyptian government consented to grant to that community, as well as to the Baha'is of Isma'iliyyih, two tracts of land to serve as burial grounds for their dead-- an act of historic significance which was greatly welcomed by the members of sore- pressed and long- suffering communities, and which has served to demonstrate still further the independent character of their Faith and enlarge the sphere of the jurisdiction of its representative institutions.
(368:2)
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