Convey this message to each and all the believers in New York: Any person who comes to America from the East, whether Baha’i or non-Baha’i, although he may be one of my relatives, such as Mirza Jalal, Mirza Mohsen and Mirza Hadi (the three sons-in-law of Abdu’l-Baha), who has not in his hand a letter of permission in my handwriting and signature, the believers of God must not at all approach him, but shun him and know that he is a wolf—he has come to scatter the flock; a thief—he has come to rob the house. . . . . .
(Signed) ‘Abdu’l-Baha Abbas
(From a Tablet to Miss Juliet Thompson, New York City,
translated on October 29, 1913; Star of the West, vol. 6, no.12, October 16,
1915)
