Mírzá Buzurg (Bahá'u'lláh's father)
3 stories in the library.
A life in stories
Bahá'u'lláh's ministry (1853–1892)
The Office He Would Not Take
When Bahá'u'lláh was twenty-two His father, a minister of state, died, and the Government wished Him to take His father's post. He declined, and the Prime Minister said, "Leave Him to Himself."
3 min
The Vazír's Dream of the Ocean
When Bahá'u'lláh was a child, His father, the Vazír Mírzá Buzurg, dreamed of Him swimming in a limitless ocean with a multitude of fishes clinging to His hair. A soothsayer said the ocean was the world of being.
3 min
The Lineage of Bahá'u'lláh
Bahá'u'lláh was born at dawn in Tihrán on 12 November 1817. Shoghi Effendi traces His descent to Abraham, Zoroaster, the last Sasanian king and Jesse, and names the Promised One of each earlier faith whom He fulfils.
5 min