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“The Sháh, forewarned, wrote again telling him [Shaykh
Ahmad] that evidently it was his duty, his, the King’s, to go out of his way to
come to Yazd to see the illustrious and holy person whose feet were a blessing
to the province upon whose soil they had trodden, but because of political
reasons of high importance he could not, at this moment, leave the capital.
Besides it was necessary, he said, in case of change of residence, to bring
with him a force of at least ten thousand men, and, as the town of Yazd was too
small to support such a large population, the arrival of so many troops would
most certainly occasion a famine. ‘You would not wish such a calamity to occur,
I am quite certain, and I think therefore that, although I am of very small
importance compared to you, you will consent, nevertheless to come to me.’”
(Footnotes, Chapter 1 of the Dawn-Breakers, included by Shoghi Effendi)
