To this sad tale of unbridled cruelty must be added the
devastation caused by the recent floods which have destroyed nearly half of
Nayriz including five hundred houses which belonged to the Baha’is of that
town.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated March 3, 1925 addressed to ‘the
beloved of the Lord and the handmaids of the Merciful throughout the West’;
Baha’i News, no. 6, July-August 1925)