It is a curious fact of history that it was the successive banishments of Bahá’u’lláh by the Ottoman Sultan, which finally led him to the prison city of Akka, that placed Bahá’u’lláh in the Holy Land. I don’t need to explain where the Holy Land is because the reference is so well known. Judaism, Christianity and Islam all hold the land sacred, as does the Baha’i Faith. For a good proportion of the world the Holy Land is a spiritual heartland. This was the land where the Prophet Isaiah had prophesied, In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it…