Another among the prisoners was Abu'l-Qasim of Sultan-Abad, the traveling
companion of Aqa Faraj. These two were unassuming, loyal and staunch. Once
their souls had come alive through the breathings of the Faithful Spirit
they hastened out of Persia to Adrianople, for such was the unabating
cruelty of the malevolent that they could no longer remain in their own
home. On foot, free of every tie, they took to the plains and hills,
seeking their way across trackless waters and desert sands. How many a
night they could not sleep, staying in the open with no place to lay their
heads; with nothing to eat or drink, no bed but the bare earth, no food
but the desert grasses. Somehow they dragged themselves along and managed
to reach Adrianople. It happened that they came during the last days in
that city, and were taken prisoner with the rest, and in the company of
Baha'u'llah they traveled to the Most Great Prison.
Abu'l-Qasim fell violently ill with typhus. He died about the same time as
those two brothers, Muhammad-Baqir and Muhammad-Isma'il, and his pure
remains were buried outside Akka. The Blessed Beauty expressed approval of
him and the friends, all of them, wept over his afflictions and mourned
him. Upon him be the glory of the All-Glorious.