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"If you cut us in pieces, men, women and children alike, in the entire district of Abadih," was the memorable message sent by the fearless descendants of some of those martyrs in that turbulent center to the Governor of Fars, who had intended to coerce them into declaring themselves as Muslims, "we will never submit to your wishes"-- a message which, as soon as it was delivered to that defiant governor, induced him to desist from pressing the matter any further.
(372:2)
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