He [Mírzá Muhammad-Qulí, a loyal brother of Baha’u’llah]
kept always to his own way of being. He traveled in the company of Bahá’u’lláh;
from ‘Iráq to Constantinople he was with the convoy and at the halting-places
it was his task to pitch the tents. He served with the greatest diligence, and
did not know the meaning of lethargy or fatigue. In Constantinople as well, and
later in the Land of Mystery, Adrianople, he continued on, in one and the same
invariable condition.
With his peerless Lord, he then was exiled to the Akká
fortress, condemned by order of the Sultán to be imprisoned forever. But he
accepted in the same spirit all that came his way—comfort and torment, hardship
and respite, sickness and health; eloquently, he would return thanks to the
Blessed Beauty for His bounties, uttering praise with a free heart and a face
that shone like the sun. Each morning and evening he waited upon Bahá’u’lláh,
delighting in and sustained by His presence; and mostly, he kept silent.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk; ‘Memorials of the Faithful’)
