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"The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens."
Every figure in the library, A-Z, with a representative sentence drawn from one of their stories. A scholarly companion to the flat figures directory — same people, but here you see how the sources actually talk about them.
307 figures · 176 with extractable snippets
“Meanwhile the people were establishing a constitutional government and ‘Abdu’l-Ḥamíd was given no chance to act.” *Source: 'Abdu'l-Bahá, 'Abdu'l-Bahá in London (1912).” — ‘Abdu’l-Ḥamíd’s Committee
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“Then He named the chain: > Abraham was the founder of reality.” — At the Eighth Street Synagogue: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Christ and the Torah
“But being like earth, then we will achieve many things in life. *Source: Hand of the Cause Abu'l-Qásim Faizí August 25, 1974* *Collected from [bahaistories.com](https://bahaistories.com/subject/prayer) (Subject: prayer).*” — ‘Abdu’l-Bahá has explained many things in His writings, in His tablets, in His…
“Another among the prisoners was Abu’l-Qásim of Sulṭán-Ábád, the traveling companion of Áqá Faraj.” — Memorial of Abu’l-Qásim of Sulṭán-Ábád
“And then ‘Abdu’l-Bahá spoke. *Source: Adib Taherzadeh, The Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh v 3, p. 341* *Collected from [bahaistories.com](https://bahaistories.com/subject/silence) (Subject: silence).*” — Again I [Howard Colby Ives] was alone with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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“May Maxwell gives us the original version in a letter she wrote to Agnes Alexander [who later became a Hand of the Cause], on May 7, 1910: My Dearest Agnes, All of your dear letters have been received and . . .” — The story of how Abdu’l-Bahá blessed May and Sutherland Maxwell with a child – Mary (Ruhiyyih Khanum)
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“A Persian believer named Aḥmad of Yazd had, at Bahá’u’lláh’s direction, been in the long process of returning to Persia from Adrianople in the late 1860s.” — The Tablet of Aḥmad: Revealed for a Believer in Distress
“Ahmad Sohrab did the introducing and interpreting.” — On August 20th there arrived at Green Acre a young man, dishevelled, tremulous
“Aḥmad-i-Yazdí was a believer of perhaps sixty years of age, living in Baghdád.” — The Walking Pilgrim and the Tablet of the Nightingale
“Philip Randolph, William Stanley Braithwaite, Franz Boas, James Weldon Johnson, Jane Addams, and Roy Wilkins, to name a few who were not Bahá’ís, and distinguished Bahá’ís such as Alain Locke, Dorothy Baker, Matthew Bullock, Sarah Martin Pereira, and Horace Holley.” — Louis George Gregory
“Albert Hall — a Minneapolis attorney and one of the small group of Bahá'ís who had founded the community in the Twin Cities — and would last only thirty-six hours.” — Minneapolis and St. Paul: The Twin Cities Welcome the Master
“The letter was signed jointly by Alma Knobloch, the German-American believer who had been sent from Washington to Stuttgart in 1907 by the Master's specific instruction, and by Albert Schwarz, the Esslingen schoolteacher who had become, in the years before the war, the most active local teacher of the Faith.” — First News from the German Friends
“He could not, the chronicle says, look at his Prisoner the same way. > 'Alí Khán felt such mortification that he was impelled to relax > the severity of his discipline, as an atonement for his past > behavior.” — The Warden of Máh-Kú: 'Alí Khán's Change of Heart
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“That afternoon He was the principal guest at a luncheon in His honour given by Ali-Kuli Khan, the Persian chargé d’affaires.” — The Place of Honor: Louis Gregory at the Persian Legation Luncheon
“The letter was signed jointly by Alma Knobloch, the German-American believer who had been sent from Washington to Stuttgart in 1907 by the Master's specific instruction, and by Albert Schwarz, the Esslingen schoolteacher who had become, in the years before the war, the most active local teacher of the Faith.” — First News from the German Friends
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“The husband of Amelia Collins, a devoted American Bahá’í, was a very sociable man.” — The husband of Amelia Collins, a devoted American Bahá’í, was a very sociable man
“The chief minister of the realm, Mírzá Taqí Khán the Amír-Nizám — *the Grand Vazír,* in Nabíl’s usual rendering — took the decision to execute the Báb.” — The Volley That Severed the Ropes: The Martyrdom of the Báb
“How else could the Tree of Anísá have been planted here, the flag of the Testament be flown, the intoxicating cup of the Covenant be lifted to these lips?” — 195: O thou exalted bough of the divine Lote-Tree! ...
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“In all these straits, Áqá Faraj was the companion of Abu’l-Qásim.” — Memorial of Áqá Faraj
“Aqa Husayn-i-Ashchi (Ashchi in Farsi means cook or maker of broth) was Baha'u'llah's cook.” — Aqa Husayn-i-Ashchi
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“Aqa Mirza Muhammad-Taqi Abhari (Ibn-i-Abhar) received many tablets from Baha'u'llah.” — Aqa Mirza Muhammad-Taqi Abhari (Ibn-i-Abhar)
“In the chapter of *Memorials of the Faithful* devoted to Áqá Muḥammad-Báqir and Áqá Muḥammad-Ismá’íl, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá tells the story of two brothers from Káshán whose lives ended together in the early days of the prison at ‘Akká.” — Memorial of Áqá Muḥammad-Báqir and Áqá Muḥammad-Ismá'íl, the Tailor
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“In *Memorials of the Faithful*, 'Abdu'l-Bahá recalls Áqá Riḍáy-i-Shírází among the most steady of the small inner circle of believers who accompanied Bahá'u'lláh through the successive stages of His exile.” — Memorial of Áqá Riḍáy-i-Shírází (the Companion of the Exile)
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“Resting place of Ásíyih Khánumand son Mirza MihdiMany people loved Bahá'u'lláh when He was alive.” — Ásíyih Khánum – Bahá'u'lláh's wife and “companion in every one of His worlds”
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“In the *Epistle to the Son of the Wolf*, the closing major Tablet revealed by Bahá'u'lláh in 1891, a substantial passage is devoted to the spiritual and social significance of trustworthiness — *al-amánah* in the Arabic of the Tablet, often translated *fidelity* or *trust* in the English versions.” — The Epistle's Counsels on Trustworthiness
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“May the spiritually-minded son, Mírzá Badí’u’lláh, God willing, be always safe in the stronghold of God’s care and protection. *Source: Bahíyyih Khánum and others, Bahíyyih Khánum (1982).” — 1: O Leaf of Paradise! ...
“May the spiritually-minded son, Mírzá Badí’u’lláh, God willing, be always safe in the stronghold of God’s care and protection. *Source: Bahíyyih Khánum and others, Bahíyyih Khánum (1982).” — 1: O Leaf of Paradise! ...
“In the second issue of the *Star of the West*, dated the ninth of April, 1910, the editors in Chicago published an extract from a letter sent by Charles Mason Remey from Rangoon, in Burma.” — The Spiritual Field of Japan: Charles Mason Remey's Letter from Asia
“Its rector had invited ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to address the congregation on the morning of the second of June, 1912 — the first time, by long tradition, that a non-Christian had been permitted to speak from the parish’s Sunday pulpit.” — All Offering the Same Melody: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Church of the Ascension
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“Collis Featherstone photographed it for me.” — A gift from Africa for the beloved Guardian
“Corinne True of Chicago contributed a long signed report on the status of the Temple project — the great enterprise, then already seventeen years in the making, of raising the first Mashriqu'l-Adhkár of the Western world on a small property at Wilmette, on the lake shore north of Chicago.” — Corinne True and the Temple Land at Wilmette
“While in the barracks, Bahá’u’lláh set apart a special night and He dedicated it to Darvísh Ṣidq-‘Alí.” — Memorial of Darvísh Ṣidq-‘Alí
“Its first president, David Starr Jordan, had welcomed ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to the campus on the morning of the seventh of October, and the assembly hall was full of students, faculty, and visitors from the surrounding peninsula.” — Two Wings of the Bird of Knowledge: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Stanford
“He would look up, smile, ask a daughter — Ḍíyá’íyyih Khánum perhaps — to chant a prayer.” — A Tie Far Deeper: Young Shoghi Approaches the Master
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“She married the chemist Edward Getsinger; the two travelled together across the United States in the years that followed; she addressed gatherings in city after city; she founded believers in Ithaca, in Washington, in Boston, in San Francisco, in many of the smaller towns between.” — Lua Getsinger: The Mother-Teacher of the West
“In April 1890 a young Cambridge orientalist named Edward Granville Browne, who had been studying the Bábí movement for several years, made his way to 'Akká in Ottoman Palestine and was admitted into the presence of Bahá'u'lláh at the mansion of Bahjí.” — Those Piercing Eyes: Edward Granville Browne in the Presence of Bahá'u'lláh
“Effie Baker (1880-1968) was an Australian photojournalist and the second Australian Bahá’í who accepted the Faith in Similar Camera used by Effi Baker and Labib 1922 while attending a public talk given by Hyde Dunn in Melbourne.” — Muḥammad Labíb
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“When Mírzá Buzurg — the Master's grandfather — died, when the family's wealth was seized, when Bahá'u'lláh was thrown into the Síyáh-Chál and the household reduced to bewildered destitution, Esfandayár had remained.” — The Faithful Servant Esfandayár
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“The chapter of *Memorials of the Faithful* devoted to *the Consort of the King of Martyrs* commemorates Fáṭimih Begum, the widow of the believer of Iṣfáhán remembered in Bahá'í history by the title Bahá'u'lláh Himself bestowed on him: *Sulṭánu'sh- Shuhadá,* the King of Martyrs.” — Memorial of the Consort of the King of Martyrs
“*World Order* magazine, in a profile published in the years after his death in 2017, devoted attention to the career of Firuz Kazemzadeh — the Persian-American historian whose six-decade career joined high academic distinction with sustained service to the institutions of the American Bahá'í community.” — Firuz Kazemzadeh: Historian of the Bahá'í Cause
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“To certify the moral fruits of one such universal Educator — Christ — the Master called as His witness an unusual figure: the second-century Greek pagan physician Galen.” — Light Upon Light: The Hotel Plaza Talk on Education
“In the summer of 1920 the *Star of the West* printed an account of pilgrimage by Genevieve Coy, a young American teacher who had travelled to Haifa in the post-war months.” — A Pilgrim's Account of the Master's Last Years: Genevieve Coy in Haifa
“Faríd, and one or two others — made the short journey from Washington, D.C. by riverboat down the Potomac to Mount Vernon, the Virginia plantation that had been the home of George Washington.” — Pilgrimage to Mount Vernon
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“Bahai.org. **Image: **Bahá’i World Centre Archives Tags Baha'i Hájí Áqáy-i-Tabrízí Memorials of the Faithful Facebook X Pinterest LinkedIn You may also like William Sears *Source: Bahá'í Chronicles ([https://bahaichronicles.org/haji-aqay-i-tabrizi/](https://bahaichronicles.org/haji-aqay-i-tabrizi/)).*” — Hájí Áqáy-i-Tabrízí
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“Ḥájí Mírzá Áqásí, the chief minister of Muḥammad Sháh, designed the prison of Máh-Kú with a single intention: to silence the Báb by removing Him from anyone who would listen.” — The Warden Won Over: The Báb's Captivity at Máh-Kú
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“The Sudanese period — which the Master treats at length — was, by ordinary measure, a sentence to be borne. Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥaydar-'Alí transformed it into a teaching mission.” — Memorial of Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥaydar-'Alí (the Angel of Carmel)
“After Haji Mirza Musay-i-Javahari died in 1881, his son, Haji Mirza Musa inherited a portion of the estate.” — Haji Mirza Musay-i-Javahari
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“On September 8, 1889, one of the most prominent of the Bahá’ís, Haji Muhammad Rida Isfahani, was assassinated in broad daylight in the town’s bazaar.” — Haji Muhammad Rida Isfahani
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“The Mutasarrif was given a costly cashmere shawl, the Mufti an illuminated copy of the Qur'an, the head of the horsemen a sword with bejewelled scabbard.” *Source: Hasan Balyuzi, King of Glory, p. 187-188* *Collected from [bahaistories.com](https://bahaistories.com/subject/justice) (Subject: justice).*” — When Bahá’u’lláh along with His family and a number of His companions were…
“Helen Goodall — the matriarch of the Oakland Bahá'í community, mother of Ella Cooper, hostess for many of the early Western travel-teachers passing through California — had made pilgrimage to 'Akká in the spring of 1908.” — Helen Goodall's Pilgrimage Notes
“Hippolyte Dreyfus, who was able to visit Thomas in hospital, relates how the young Englishman spoke to the other patients enthusiastically about the Bahá’í Faith.” — Thomas [Breakwell] wrote to the Master, happily saying that, if he were…
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“Horace Holley , an American who met ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in France, felt the spirit that emanated from Him. “I yielded to a feeling of reverence,” Holley writes, “which contained more than the solution of intellectual or moral problems.” — ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Abbas
“Howard Colby Ives has recalled: ‘To the questioner He responded first with silence an outward silence.” — ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was not afraid of silence; indeed, He knew its virtue
“Howard MacNutt, who would later edit the volume in which this talk was preserved, sat among the listeners as the Master spoke about *imtíyáz* — *distinction.* It is true, He said, that the world prizes distinction of one kind: distinction of wealth, of family, of office, of physical bearing.” — Spiritual Distinction: A Talk in New York
“Bahai.org. **Image: **(c) Baha’i Chronicles Tags Baha'i Husayn Effendi Tabrízí Memorials of the Faithful Facebook X Pinterest LinkedIn You may also like William Sears *Source: Bahá'í Chronicles ([https://bahaichronicles.org/husayn-effendi-tabrizi/](https://bahaichronicles.org/husayn-effendi-tabrizi/)).*” — Husayn Effendi Tabrízí
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“It had been founded by the Dunn family — Hyde Dunn, an English-born Bahá'í pioneer in middle age, and his wife Clara — who had emigrated from California in 1920 on the Master's specific direction.” — Shoghi Effendi's First Letter to Australia
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“He corresponded directly with Bahá'í teachers — most notably with the Russian Jewish poetess Isabel Grinevskaya, who had written a verse drama about the life of the Báb that was performed in St Petersburg in 1903.” — Letters to Tolstoy: The Russian Imperial Bahá'ís
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“Jamál Effendi sailed from Bushire to Bombay.” — From 'Akká to Bombay: Jamál Effendi's Mission to India
“Yet another of the emigrants and settlers was the valiant Jamshíd-i-Gurjí, who came from Georgia, but grew up in the city of Káshán.” — Memorial of Jamshíd-i-Gurjí
“Hull House was the great American settlement house that Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr had founded in 1889 in an old Italianate mansion on Halsted Street, in the heart of the immigrant West Side.” — Hull House: 'Abdu'l-Bahá Visits Jane Addams
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“In the chapter of *Memorials of the Faithful* devoted to Jináb-i-Muníb, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá tells of a man of Káshán whose proper name was Mírzá Áqá but whom the Bahá’í community remembered by his title — *Muníb,* the radiant one.” — Memorial of Jináb-i-Muníb
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“John Robarts visited the believers there, and one gathers that something of a scolding took place.” — 1969: The story of Saskatoon…
“Among the stories He would tell most often, the listeners record, was the story of the Prophet Joseph and His brothers — the long arc that runs from the boy thrown into the well at Dothan to the ruler of Egypt who, years later, recognised His own brothers as they came begging for grain in the famine.” — The Prophet Joseph and His Brothers: A Story of Forgiveness
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“There they will find plenty of land and there are no taxes on it.” *Source: Diary of Juliet Thompson, 13 April, 1912* *Collected from [bahaistories.com](https://bahaistories.com/subject/humor) (Subject: humor).*” — A young single-taxer began to question Him
“In late 1933 the closing volumes of the *Star of the West* and its successor publication, *The Bahá'í World,* carried the news that the American believer Keith Ransom-Kehler had died at Isfahán in Iran on the twenty-third of October.” — Keith Ransom-Kehler in Iran
“The chapter of *Memorials of the Faithful* devoted to *the Consort of the King of Martyrs* commemorates Fáṭimih Begum, the widow of the believer of Iṣfáhán remembered in Bahá'í history by the title Bahá'u'lláh Himself bestowed on him: *Sulṭánu'sh- Shuhadá,* the King of Martyrs.” — Memorial of the Consort of the King of Martyrs
“When the British arrived in Jerusalem at dawn, it had been evacuated by the Turks, and not a sacred place had been desecrated. *Source: Lady Blomfield, The Chosen Highway* *Collected from [bahaistories.com](https://bahaistories.com/subject/prayer) (Subject: prayer).*” — A tale is told of British occupation in Palestine which may one day be related…
“In the autumn of 1904 a young American Bahá'í named Laura Clifford Barney arrived in 'Akká with a long list of questions.” — Nature: The Composition and Decomposition of All Things
“The most consequential of the Russian encounters, however, was the encounter of Count Leo Tolstoy.” — Letters to Tolstoy: The Russian Imperial Bahá'ís
“Among the visitors was a young Hungarian Bahá'í named Leopold Stark.” — Eight Hundred in Budapest: 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Hungary
“Leslie Armstrong was six years old when he died.” — A Shining Light: Leslie Armstrong of Montreal
“The eighteenth place, Nabíl explains, was reserved for one whom the Báb had not yet met but whom He had already recognised: Quddús, the youngest of the Letters of the Living, the one who would later accompany Him on pilgrimage to Mecca and bear the weight of the campaign at Shaykh Ṭabarsí.” — There Remains One More: The Letters of the Living
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“Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání records that Louis Gregory, the most distinguished African-American Bahá’í of his generation, was not on the guest list.” — The Place of Honor: Louis Gregory at the Persian Legation Luncheon
“When the shovel was handed to the Master, Corrine True reportedly suggested to Him to have women participate in the ceremony. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá called on Lua Getsinger to come forward.” — After the talk, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá let the crowd to the nearby ceremonial site where,…
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“The Báb’s residence in Iṣfáhán under the protection of the friendly governor Manúchihr Khán had been ended by Manúchihr Khán’s death in 1847.” — Across the Mountains: The Báb's Journey to Máh-Kú and Chihríq
“In *The Diary of Juliet Thompson* the painter records, with the quietness she reserves for the gravest moments, an evening in the early summer of 1912 when ‘Abdu’l-Bahá visited her close friend Marjorie Morten in the sickroom in which Marjorie was expected to die.” — At the Bedside of Marjorie Morten: Juliet Records a Healing
“In 1929, when Martha Root was visiting Iran, he accompanied her to Adharbayijan and served as her translator.” — Mirza Yusuf Vahid Kashfi
“In the August 1915 issue of the *Star of the West* Mary Hanford Ford — a Chicago believer who would later become one of the prominent travel-teachers of the American community — contributed a long article surveying the Bahá'í communities then in existence across the United States.” — Mary Hanford Ford on the Spread of the Cause
“Among the appreciations carried in its pages was a substantial profile of Marzieh Gail — the American Bahá'í translator whose six-decade career rendered into English a substantial portion of the Persian and Arabic Bahá'í Writings.” — Marzieh Gail: A Lifetime of Bahá'í Translation
“Mashhadí Faṭṭáḥ possessed some merchandise; this was all he owned in the world.” — Mashhadí Faṭṭáḥ
“Mashhadí Ḥusayn and Mashhadí Muḥammad were both from the province of Ádhirbáyján.” — Memorial of Mashhadí Ḥusayn and Mashhadí Muḥammad-i-Ádhirbáyjání
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“‘Abdu’l-Bahá arrived at the home of William Sutherland Maxwell and May Maxwell at 716 Pine Avenue West in Montreal in late August 1912, and on September 2 He spoke from their drawing-room to the gathered friends.” — The Garden That Must Be Cultivated: At the Maxwell Home, Montreal
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“Mirzá ‘Abd’u’lláh Faráháni, ‘The Divine Musician’ ** Born ** :1843 Died: ** 1918 Place of Birth: ** Sh iráz, Irán Location of Death: ** Tihrán, Irán Burial Location: ** Tihrán, Irán ** Known simply as Mirzá ‘Abd’u’lláh*, he was one of the believers during the ministry of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.” — Mirzá ‘Abd’u’lláh Faráháni, ‘The Divine Musician’
“The decisive figure in the early development of the Egyptian community was Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl Gulpáygání, the great Bahá'í scholar of his generation.” — The Cairo Community: The Faith Takes Root in Egypt
“In 1913 he became ill and died in Cairo. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá named one of the exterior doors to the Shrine of Bab after Mirza Abu’l-Fadl.” — Mirza Abu’l-Fadl
“Her mother was named Khurshíd; her father, Áqá Mírzá Áqá Ján, was a distinguished resident of the village.” — ‘Alavíyyih Khánum and Mullá ‘Alí Ján
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“But the consuls-general, being cognizant of the truth, continued to act with moderation, until Mírzá Buzurg Khán of Qazvín became consul-general in Baghdád.” — [Pages 41–60]
“He was the brother of Mírzá Muhammad-‘Alí Qazvíní. ** Mírzá Hádí-i-Qazvíní, Letter of the Living** **Born:** Unknown **Death:** Unknown **Place of Birth:** Qazvin, Iran **Location of Death:** Unknown **Burial Location:** No Cemetery details Mírzá Hádí Qazvíní was the fifteenth Letter of the Living.” — Mírzá Hádí-i-Qazvíní
“In Issue 4 of Volume 13 of the *Star of the West,* the editors printed an address by Martha Root in which she remembered Mírzá Ḥaydar-'Alí, the great Bahá'í teacher of nineteenth-century Persia.” — The Angel of the Believers: Mírzá Ḥaydar-'Alí
“Mírzá Ḥusayn-i-Iṣfahání was already, before he was a Bahá’í, celebrated across Persia for the line of his pen.” — The Musk-Scented Pen Sent to Constantinople
“Mehrdad Mike Iman Tags Baha'i Memorials of the Faithful Mírzá Ja‘far-i-Yazdí Facebook X Pinterest LinkedIn You may also like William Sears *Source: Bahá'í Chronicles ([https://bahaichronicles.org/mirza-jafar-i-yazdi/](https://bahaichronicles.org/mirza-jafar-i-yazdi/)).*” — Mírzá Ja‘far-i-Yazdí
“In the long roll of believers from the Khurásán province whom 'Abdu'l-Bahá remembers, Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Furúghí stands as a representative figure of a particular kind of saintliness the Cause produced in great quantity but the world records in small.” — Memorial of Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Furúghí
“Mahmud was almost 49 years old when he died. ** Mirza Mahmud-i-Zargání** **Born:** 1875 **Death:** 1924 **Place of Birth: **Unknown **Location of Death:** Unknown **Burial Location: **No cemetery details Mahmud’s Diary may sound familiar to many and this is the most popular of Mirza Mahmud-i-Zargani’s work.” — Mirza Mahmud-i-Zargání
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“He would speak, and people would weep, and what they wept for was not always something they could name afterwards. *Paraphrased from Mahmúd's Diary: The Diary of Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání (George Ronald, 1998), entries for April 11 and April 14, 1912; see original for full text.*” — First Steps Ashore: The Master Arrives in New York
“Webster, op. cit.31.Mírzá Mihdí, the son of Bahá’u’lláh who, praying one evening on the barracks roof, fell to his death.” — Memorial of Footnotes
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“Mírzá Muhammad could not stay quiet, day or night.” — Mírzá Muhammad
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“Mírzá Muḥammad-Báqir directed the defences in the field; Quddús held the inner spiritual centre.” — Would That My Mother Were With Me: The Martyrdom of Quddús
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“When the Beloved of all mankind ascended to the Kingdom of Splendors, Mírzá Muḥammad-Qulí remained firm in the Covenant, shunning the craft, the malice and hypocrisy which then appeared, devoting himself entirely to God, supplicating and praying.” — Mírzá Muḥammad-Qulí
“Inside the precincts of the Sacred Mosque, the Báb sought out Mírzá Muḥíṭ-i-Kirmání, one of the two principal claimants to the succession of Siyyid Káẓim.” — On the Altar of Devotion: The Báb's Pilgrimage to Mecca
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“Mirza Qurban-‘Ali, however, succeeded in inducing him to return to Mandalij and resume the work which he had abandoned.” — Mirza Qurban-‘Ali
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“Mishkín-Qalam means either musk-scented pen, or jet black pen.59.Qur’án 61:4.60.In some of this artist’s productions, the writing was so arranged as to take the forms of birds.” — Memorial of Footnotes
“Moses had been the Center for Israel; Christ had been the Center for the early Christian community; Bahá’u’lláh, He continued, was the Center for this age.” — All Offering the Same Melody: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Church of the Ascension
“One well-known story involves teaching Mountfort Mills how to pray: when ‘Abdu’l- Bahá was in New York, He called to Him an ardent Bahá’í and said, "If you will come to me at dawn tomorrow, I will teach you to pray." Delighted, Mr.” — One well-known story involves teaching Mountfort Mills how to pray: when…
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“Moses, Christ, Muḥammad were > the manifestations of reality.” — At the Eighth Street Synagogue: 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Christ and the Torah
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“Fortunately, Muḥammad Labíb’s name came up while collecting documents for a project on the historical sites where the Báb stayed on His route to exile from Shiráz to Tihrán.” — Muḥammad Labíb
“The arrangement had been made by Ḥájí Mírzá Áqásí, the prime minister of Muḥammad Sháh.” — Across the Mountains: The Báb's Journey to Máh-Kú and Chihríq
“On the morning of the tenth of April, 1911, in the city of Alexandria, the American lawyer was led through the streets by a Persian believer named Muḥammad Yazdí to the residence ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was occupying during His stay in Egypt.” — My Knee Was Bent Reverently: Louis Gregory Meets the Master
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“Mullá Hasan Bajistání was the sixth Letter of the Living. ** Mullá Hasan Bajistání, Letter of the Living** **Born:** Unknown **Death:** Unknown **Place of Birth:** Unknown **Location of Death:** Unknown **Burial Location: **No Cemetery details Mullá Hasan Bajistání was the sixth Letter of the Living.” — Mullá Hasan Bajistání
“God Passes By, p. 130, and The Dawn-Breakers, p. 461.108.“Gate of the Gate”, a title of Mullá Ḥusayn, the first to believe in the Báb.” — Memorial of Footnotes
“Mullá Husayn Bushrú’í was the first to declare his belief in the Báb in Shiraz on May, 23 1844.” — Mullá Husayn Bushrú’í
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“He taught the Bábí Faith especially in Azerbaijan and Qazvin ** Mullá Jalíl-i-Urúmí, Letter of the Living** **Born:** Unknown **Death:** February 2, 1849 **Place of Birth:** Unknown **Location of Death:** Shaykh Tabarsí **Burial Location: **No Cemetery details Mullá Jalíl Urúmí was the eleventh Letter of the Living.” — Mullá Jalíl-i-Urúmí
“He returned to Karbala from Shiraz. ** Mullá Khudá-Bakhsh Qúchání, Letter of the Living** **Born:** Unknown **Death:** Unknown **Place of Birth:** Unknown **Location of Death:** Unknown **Burial Location: **No Cemetery details Mullá Khudá-Bakhsh Qúchání (later named Mullá ‘Alí Rází).” — Mullá Khudá-Bakhsh Qúchání
“Mullá Mahmúd Khú’í was the tenth Letter of the Living. ** Mullá Mahmúd-i-Khú’í (Letter of the Living)** **Born:** Unknown **Death:** February 2, 1849 **Place of Birth:** Unknown **Location of Death:** Unknown **Burial Location: **No Cemetery details Mullá Mahmúd Khú’í was the tenth Letter of the Living.” — Mullá Mahmúd-i-Khú’í
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“The young Crown Prince Náṣiri’d-Dín Mírzá would preside; the *Shaykhu’l-Islám* of the city, the chief jurists of Tabríz, and Mullá Muḥammad-i-Mamaqání would question Him.” — I Am, I Am, I Am: The Báb's Examination at Tabríz
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“Among the great early figures of the Bábí Cause whom 'Abdu'l-Bahá remembers in *Memorials of the Faithful* is Mullá Ṣádiq-i-Muqaddas-i-Khurásání — the Khurásání cleric whose recognition of the Báb in the early days of the Dispensation made him one of the first martyrs-by-suffering of the Faith.” — Memorial of Mullá Ṣádiq-i-Muqaddas-i-Khurásání
“He played an active and prominent role among the Bábís. ** Mullá Yúsuf-i-Ardibílí, Letter of the Living** **Born:** Unknown **Death:** February 2, 1849 **Place of Birth:** Unknown **Location of Death:** Shaykh Tabarsí **Burial Location: **No Cemetery details Mullá Yúsuf Ardibílí was the fourteenth Letter of the Living.” — Mullá Yúsuf-i-Ardibílí
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“In her arduous task she was seconded by the diligent efforts of Munírih Khánum, the Holy Mother, and those of her daughters whose age allowed them to assist in the accomplishment of that stupendous achievement with which the name of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá will for ever remain associated.” — 6: Brethren and fellow-mourners in the Faith ...
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“He banished Nabíl-i-Akbar and ruined Nabíl of Qá’in.” — Nabíl of Qá’in
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“Among the Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh's later 'Akká period treated extensively by Adib Taherzadeh in the fourth volume of *The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh* is the *Lawḥ-i-Ḥikmat* — the *Tablet of Wisdom* — addressed by Bahá'u'lláh to Nabíl-i-Akbar of Khurásán, the great learned Bábí scholar then resident in Egypt.” — The Tablet of Wisdom: Bahá'u'lláh on Philosophy
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“But ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, in His Memorials of the Faithful, records what the Ascension meant for one believer who had walked beside Bahá’u’lláh for decades: Nabíl-i-Zarandí, the chronicler of the Dawn-Breakers.” — The Year of Stress: Nabíl's Grief at the Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh
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“The principal Tablets the Guardian enumerates include the following. *The Tablet to Napoleon III* of France — a powerful Tablet addressed to the French Emperor, then at the height of his power and fresh from the Crimean War.” — The Adrianople Revelation: Tablets to the Kings
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“Beside it lay a smaller stone — a piece picked from a Chicago building site, brought to Wilmette by an unassuming believer named Nettie Tobin, who had felt that a stone offered in her own hand might be needed.” — A Stone for the Mother Temple: 'Abdu'l-Bahá at Wilmette
“The brothers were related to Pahlaván Riḍá, a famous figure of the Káshán community.” — Memorial of Áqá Muḥammad-Báqir and Áqá Muḥammad-Ismá'íl, the Tailor
“Paul Haney] had screamed when he saw ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and I thought at the time, that the child had probably been overwhelmed by seeing a greater spirituality in ‘Abdu’l-Bahá than many saw.” — Mr
“‘Abdu’l-Bahá visited Charles Tinsley, a black employee of Phoebe Hearst who probably came into the Faith through Robert Turner, Mrs.” — ‘Abdu’l-Bahá visited Charles Tinsley, a black employee of Phoebe Hearst who…
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“In *The Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh,* Adib Taherzadeh devotes a chapter to the Tablet that Bahá’u’lláh, prisoner in the fortress of ‘Akká, addressed in 1868 to Pope Pius IX in the Vatican.” — A Letter to the Pope: Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet to Pius IX
“Prince Mihdí-Qulí Mírzá, the imperial commander, sent envoys with sworn copies of the Qur’án and personal pledges of safe conduct.” — Would That My Mother Were With Me: The Martyrdom of Quddús
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“Mullá Ṣádiq, with Quddús, was at the centre of one such gathering.” — Memorial of Mullá Ṣádiq-i-Muqaddas-i-Khurásání
“She met, famously, Queen Marie of Romania, who would publish — at Martha's quiet urging — the most public testimony of any European monarch to the Bahá'í Faith.” — Martha Root: The Leading Ambassadress of the Faith
“In *The Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh,* Adib Taherzadeh devotes a chapter to the Tablet that Bahá’u’lláh, then a prisoner in the fortress of ‘Akká, addressed to Queen Victoria of Britain in the early 1870s.” — A Letter to a Queen: Bahá'u'lláh's Tablet to Victoria
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“Rúhíyyih Khánum wrote of "the Bernese Alps, where he had spent so many months of his life walking and climbing." *Source: Rúhíyyih Khánum, The Priceless Pearl, p. 134* *Collected from [bahaistories.com](https://bahaistories.com/subject/balance) (Subject: balance).*” — A number of times during his life, particularly in the years immediately…
“Mary would in 1937 marry Shoghi Effendi and become Rúḥíyyih Khánum.” — May Maxwell: A Mother of the Western Bahá'í Community
“In its issue dated the seventeenth of May 1916 the *Star of the West* carried a short notice introducing one Saichiro Fujita, *a young Bahá'í of Japanese birth* then resident in northern California.” — Saichiro Fujita and the Master's Household
“Among the women remembered in *Memorials of the Faithful* is Sakínih Sulṭán, the mother of the celebrated Iṣfahán martyrs — the *King of Martyrs* (Mírzá Muḥammad-Ḥasan) and the *Beloved of Martyrs* (Mírzá Muḥammad-Ḥusayn) — who together were put to death in Iṣfáhán in 1879 at the instigation of the Iṣfáhání clerics.” — Memorial of Sakínih Sulṭán (the Mother of the Martyrs)
“As the soldiers prepared the ropes in the barrack square, he turned to Sám Khán, the Christian Armenian colonel commanding the firing squad, and pleaded with him to be placed first: > Mírzá Muḥammad-‘Alí begged Sám Khán to be placed in such a manner > that his own body would shield that of the Báb.” — Anís at the Báb's Side: The Martyrdom in Tabríz
“Sarah Ann Ridgway had died in Manchester on the eleventh of May.” — The Silk Weaver of Pendleton: Sarah Ann Ridgway
“On August 16, 1912, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá addressed a summer gathering at Green Acre, the conference centre Sarah Farmer had founded on the banks of the Piscataqua River in Eliot, Maine.” — Four Proofs and a Prayer for Sarah Farmer: Green Acre, 1912
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“Khurshíd Begum, who was given the title of Shamsu’d-Ḍuḥá,105 the Morning Sun, was mother-in-law to the King of Martyrs.” — Memorial of Shamsu’d-Ḍuḥá
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“The opening chapter of Nabíl’s *Dawn-Breakers* introduces the figure who, more than any other, prepared the soil from which the Bábí dispensation would spring: Shaykh Aḥmad-i-Aḥsá'í.” — The Star Above the Horizon: Shaykh Aḥmad-i-Aḥsá'í's Mission
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“Among those most affected was Shaykh Ḥasan-i-Zunúzí.” — The Stranger in Karbilá: Shaykh Ḥasan Recognizes Bahá'u'lláh
“He received a long poem of which 127 of 2000 verses were preserved ** Shaykh Ismail** **Born:** Unknown **Death:** 1887 **Place of Birth:** Unknown **Location of Death:** ‘Akka, Israel **Burial Location: **No Cemetery Details Shaykh Ismail was the leader of the Khaledi Sufis at Sulaymaniyyih.” — Shaykh Ismail
“Furutan, in *Stories of Bahá’u’lláh,* preserves the well-known recollection of Shaykh Maḥmúd-i-‘Arrábí — the Sunní mufti of ‘Akká in the years of Bahá’u’lláh’s arrival.” — The Mufti Who Came to Insult and Stayed to Serve
“Among the great learned figures of the Cause whom 'Abdu'l-Bahá remembers in *Memorials of the Faithful* is Shaykh Muḥammad-'Alíy-i-Qá'iní, known in the Bahá'í records also as Nabíl-i-Akbar of Khurásán.” — Memorial of Shaykh Muḥammad-'Alíy-i-Qá'iní (Nabíl-i-Akbar of Khurásán)
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“Sheikh Muhammad El Damirtchi was a Bahá'í scholar and mystic.” — Sheikh Muhammad El Damirtchi
“Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 189.9.Siyyid Muḥammad, the Antichrist of the Bahá’í Revelation.” — Memorial of Footnotes
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“He became known as Kátib (the Amanuensis). ** Siyyid Husayn Yazdí, Letter of the Living** **Born:** Unknown **Death:** 1852 **Place of Birth:** Unknown **Location of Death:** Unknown **Burial Location: **No Cemetery Details Siyyid Husayn Yazdí was the seventh Letter of the Living.” — Siyyid Husayn Yazdí
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“Mehrdad Mike Iman Tags Baha'i Siyyid Jafar-i-Yazdi Facebook X Pinterest LinkedIn You may also like William Sears *Source: Bahá'í Chronicles ([https://bahaichronicles.org/siyyid-jafar-i-yazdi/](https://bahaichronicles.org/siyyid-jafar-i-yazdi/)).*” — Siyyid Jafar-i-Yazdi
“The summer at Karbilá had been spent, instead, in the gatherings convened by Siyyid Káẓim-i-Rashtí, the second of the two great preparatory teachers of the dawn of the Revelation.” — Return from Karbilá: Bahá'u'lláh's Journey Home to Tihrán
“Siyyid Mirza Husayn-i-Mutavalli was the recipient of the Tablet Shikkar-Shikan-Shavand.” — Siyyid Mirza Husayn-i-Mutavalli
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“In May 1878, his travel teaching took Siyyid Mustafa Rumi to Myanmar (Burma).” — Siyyid Mustafa Rumi
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“Quddús — having travelled to Badasht despite the dangers of his presence in the open — occupied another. Ṭáhirih, the great woman of the new Faith, occupied the third.” — Without Veil at Badasht: Ṭáhirih's Public Declaration
“Táhirih asked to borrow the writings and take them home.” — Táhirih
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“The Hand of the Cause Tarázu'lláh Samandarí undertook his pilgrimage to the Holy Land when he was a youth.” — A youth sees Bahá’u’lláh revealing Verses of God – recalled by Hand of the Cause Tarázu’lláh Samandari
“The Government thought that the tomb of the Báb, an imposing building on Mount Carmel, was a fortification erected with the aid of American money, and that it was being armed and garrisoned secretly.” — Better Conditions
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“His sons accompanied Him, but His wife, the Greatest Holy Leaf, and the rest of the household could not cross to join Him until nine days later, on April 29.” — The Family Arrives in the Garden: Ninth Day of Riḍván
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“Among the latter was Thornton Chase, a Chicago insurance executive of middle years and conventional Protestant background.” — Thornton Chase: The First Westerner to Embrace the Faith
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“Ugo Giachery in Italy, working under wartime and post-war conditions of considerable difficulty.” — He Asked His Father-in-Law to Design It: The Shrine of the Báb
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“If I wait any longer I will catch my death of cold” protested the Arab. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’ named one of the exterior doors to the Shrine of Bab after Ustad Aqa Bala.” — Ustad Aqa Bala
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“I have been able to give Him all I possessed.” ** Ustád Ismá’íl** **Born: **1800s **Death: **1800s** ****Place of Birth:** Tehran, Iran **Location of Death:** ‘Akká, Israel **Burial Location: **No cemetery details Yet another from amongst that blessed company was Ustád Ismá’íl, the builder.” — Ustád Ismá’íl
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“Act not as the people of the Qur’án have acted, for if you do so the fruits of your night will come to naught’.71.The Kitáb-i-Asmá’ is divided into vahíds and chapters, to which these numbers refer.72.By ‘night’ is meant the period between two divine Revelations when the Sun of Truth is not manifest among men.” — “Is there any Remover of difficulties save God? Say: Praised ...”
“Major Wellesley Tudor Pole, the British Bahá'í then serving in the Intelligence section of the British military in Egypt and Palestine, had sent a cable to the American National Spiritual Assembly.” — Major Tudor Pole's Cable from Jerusalem
“The little boy was William Sears, who would be appointed the Hand of the Cause of God 45 years later.” — ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's train passed through the small town of Aitkin, Minnesota,…
“‘Abdu’l-Bahá arrived at the home of William Sutherland Maxwell and May Maxwell at 716 Pine Avenue West in Montreal in late August 1912, and on September 2 He spoke from their drawing-room to the gathered friends.” — The Garden That Must Be Cultivated: At the Maxwell Home, Montreal
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“Another of those who left their homeland to become our neighbors and fellow prisoners was ‘Abdu’l-Ghaffár of Iṣfáhán.” — Memorial of ‘Abdu’l-Ghaffár of Iṣfáhán
“When he was very young, people thought of ‘Abdu’lláh Baghdádí as a libertine, solely devoted to pleasure.” — Memorial of ‘Abdu’lláh Baghdádí
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“Also among the emigrants and near neighbors was Áqá ‘Alí Najaf-Ábádí.” — Memorial of ‘Alí Najaf-Ábádí
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