Hossein Ali Nouri, nicknamed Bahaullah, lived in Edirne from 1280 to 1285 and was there until his death.
During these years, he formed a Baha’i colony consisting of his family, relatives and friends. Hossein Ali was able to attract a large number of Babians and increase the dimensions of his colony by winning over the Azali.
According to his documents, he had begged Dugobineau (deceased French ambassador to Iran) and written letters to him, asking him to mediate with the Ottoman government, while also requesting the confidentiality of these letters. The leader of the Baha’i sect had several requests, first, that he could return to the Ottomans and be granted citizenship (which was a model of appeal to foreign power in Baha’i political life). Second, he was trying to make Babi appear innocent (Babi had committed many crimes in Osmani).
But Gobino, who knew the Babis and Bahais well, was not deceived by Hossein Ali Noori.
But the most important reasons of the Ottoman government for the exile of the Babis were: the claim of Mahdism and prophethood, the corruptions committed in Edirne, and the difference between the two groups of Azli and Baha’i, while Hossein Ali Nouri had introduced their exile without a reason in his letters. The Ottoman government implemented this policy to cut off the Bahá’ís’ connection with the outside world.