Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥaydar-'Alí
2 stories in the library.
A life in stories
Bahá'u'lláh's ministry (1853–1892)
Memorial of Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥaydar-'Alí (the Angel of Carmel)
'Abdu'l-Bahá's portrait of Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥaydar-'Alí — the great teacher of Iṣfáhán whose lifetime of imprisonment, exile, and patient teaching across three Sudanese cities earned him the title *the Angel of Carmel.*
4 min
The Same Smiling Face: Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥaydar-'Alí in Exile
Ḥájí Mírzá Ḥaydar-'Alí, the beloved teacher of Iṣfáhán, was banished by the authorities to the remote Sudan and held in exile at Khartoum for some nine years. He bore the sentence not as a calamity but as the will of God — turning it into a teaching mission — and 'Abdu'l-Bahá records that he came at last into the presence of Bahá'u'lláh wearing the very same smiling face with which he had first set out upon the road of exile.
5 min