 In 1868 Bahá 'u'lláh was banished by Sultan <unk> a final time to the Ottoman penal colony of `Akká , in present @-@ day Israel . Towards the end of his life , the strict and harsh confinement was gradually relaxed , and he was allowed to live in a home near `Akká , while still officially a prisoner of that city . He died there in 1892 . Bahá 'ís regard his resting place at Bahjí as the <unk> to which they turn in prayer each day . 
