The Súriy-i-Ra'ís (Persian: سورةى رئيس, Suriy-e Ra'is), or "Tablet of the Chief", which addresses Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha, the Ottoman Prime Minister, was written in August 1868, when Baháʼu'lláh and the other Baháʼís were being exiled from Adrianople to Gallipoli to their final destination of the prison city of Acre. The Súriy-i Ra'ís, written in Arabic, was revealed in honour of Muhammad Ismaʻil Kashani, a faithful believer of Baháʼu'lláh. In the tablet, Baháʼu'lláh writes about Âli Pasha's claimed abuse of civil power.