MEMORIES OF NINE YEARS IN ?AKKá IBD

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Here is the translation of Khátirát-i-Nuh-Sáliy-i-âÇÖAkká, the memoirs of Dr Youness Afroukhteh who served âÇÖAbduâÇÖl-Bahá as His trusted secretary and interpreter from 1900-1909. These were difficult years when the Master was imprisoned in the city of âÇÖAkká, His every move subject to misrepresentation by the Arch-breaker of the Covenant and his associates, and even His life in danger. At the same time the period saw the victories of the construction of the Shrine of the Báb and the House of Worship in âÇÖIshqábád, and the rise of the Cause of BaháâÇÖuâÇÖlláh in the West.áThis important record, published in 1952 on the instructions of Shoghi Effendi, has been described as âÇÖpre-eminent among those works dealing with the history of Covenant-breakingâÇÖ. At the same time it chronicles the daily life in âÇÖAkká of âÇÖAbduâÇÖl-Bahá and of the little band of devoted believers whose chief joy in life was to be of service to Him, it also describes the pilgrimages to âÇÖAkká of many eminent early Western BaháâÇÖ¡s including Thomas Breakwell, Hippolyte Dreyfus, Lua Getsinger and Laura Barney, the compiler of Some Answered Questions.áOver those nine years Jináb-i-Khán (the title by which Dr Youness Afroukhteh was honoured by âÇÖAbduâÇÖl-Bahá) served the Master in âÇÖAkká as secretary, translator, envoy and physician. His account of some of the most significant events of the period, his graphic and stirring pen-portraits of âÇÖAbduâÇÖl-Bahá, and the description of his own emotions - all expressed in a lively and at time mischievous language of humour and wit - make this volume uniquely memorable.