The letters to the kings.
From an Ottoman prison Bahá'u'lláh wrote to Napoleon III, Queen Victoria, Tsar Alexander II, Kaiser Wilhelm I, Pope Pius IX, the Sultan and the Sháh, announcing himself and telling them to reduce their armaments, settle disputes collectively, and attend to the poor. Napoleon III is reported to have thrown the tablet aside; he lost his throne in 1870.
Between about 1867 and 1873, from confinement in Adrianople and then in the prison city of Akká, Bahá'u'lláh addressed a series of tablets to the rulers of the world — Napoleon III, Queen Victoria, Tsar Alexander II, Kaiser Wilhelm I, Emperor Franz Joseph, Pope Pius IX, Sultan 'Abdu'l-'Azíz, and Násiri'd-Dín Sháh of Persia — announcing his station and calling on them collectively to reduce armaments, settle disputes by consultation in a general assembly, adopt an auxiliary universal language, and attend to the condition of the poor. Some were delivered; some were ignored. Napoleon III is reported by Bahá'í sources to have thrown the first tablet aside, and Bahá'u'lláh subsequently addressed a second predicting the loss of his empire — he was deposed after Sedan in 1870. Queen Victoria is said to have remarked that if this is of God it will endure. The tablets are read within the faith as the earliest statement of the world-order teachings that Shoghi Effendi later systematised, including collective security and an international tribunal.
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